Dynamo Dresden
Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V. (usually just called SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden) is a professional association football club from Dresden, Saxony, Germany. They currently play in the 2. Bundesliga.
The club was founded on 12 April 1953 as a club affiliated with the East German police.[1] They became one of the most successful clubs in East Germany, winning 8 DDR-Oberliga titles.[2] After the German reunification, they played in the Bundesliga for a few seasons, but they have drifted between the 2. Bundesliga and the Regionalliga Nordost.[3]
Their main rivals are Berliner FC Dynamo, Lokomotive Leipzig, Chemnitzer, Sachsen Leipzig, Erzgebirge Aue and Dresdner. Also, their main colours are yellow and black (previously the colours were green and white).[1]
Honours
- DDR-Oberliga: 8
- FDGB-Pokal: 7 (Record, shared with 1. FC Magdeburg)
- Deutschland Cup: 1
- 1990
- UEFA Cup
- Semi-final 1989
- NOFV-Oberliga: 1
- Winners 2002
- 3rd Liga: 2
- Regionalliga Nord: 1 (As third tier)
- Runner-ups 2003-04 (promoted)
- Saxony Cup: 3
- Winners 2003, 2007, 2009
- Sachsenliga: 1
- Winners 2009
- GDR Junior Champion: 2
- 1982, 1985
- Junge Welt Junior Cup: 2
- 1976, 1985
- Indoor-Regio-Cup: 1
- 2007
Dynamo Dresden Media
Dynamo face Bayern Munich in the 1973–74 European Cup
The championship-winning squad of 1975–76
Matthias Sammer lifts the FDGB-Pokal trophy in 1990
Dynamo v. VfB Stuttgart in the semi-final of the 1988–89 UEFA Cup
Matthias Maucksch made 118 Bundesliga appearances for Dynamo, more than any other player, and was manager of the club from 2009 to 2011.
Volker Oppitz was a key player in Dynamo's rise from the Oberliga to the 2. Bundesliga
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Die Fünfziger: Gründerjahre". Dynamo Dresden (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ↑ "Erfolge". Dynamo Dresden (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ↑ "SAISON – ARCHIV". Dynamo Dresden (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
Other websites
- Official team site (in German)
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)
- Sport 1 News topic page Dynamo Dresden Archived 2013-09-09 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- Spiegel News topic page Dynamo Dresden (in German)
- Facebook (in German)