>>154247179
Name 5

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Ig you never heard of DJK Flörsheim II where the whole squad has the surname Kurtanovic

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ya and?

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>>154247275

>>154247317
for me? it was Rotation Fockendorf

>>154247275
>SV Waldhof Mannheim 07
>FC Schweinfurt 05
>FC Heidenheim 1846
>SV Darmstadt 98
>SV Babelsberg 03

>>154247317
That's GDR stuff, memes for a reason
>>154247351
So four normal formats (normal abbreviation + city name + founding year hint) and ... Waldhof as part of Waldhof Mannheim, simply a name of a part of the city of Mannheim from which the club is
Sorry to tell you, we're not that exciting

>SV 67 Weinberg


bruh these niggas really put 67 in their name

>>154247450
Don't forget they're from the town of AURAch

Meanwhile, here football clubs be all:

>Bright Cerulean Football Club
>Lucky Mile
>Supreme Football Club
>Islands
>Double Flower
>Spark Ornament
>Leaper
>Kowloon Cricket Club

>>154247317
>Robotron
K I N O
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>>154248594
those are pokemon gyms, don't lie

>>154247317
for me, it's Stadtreinigung Görlitz

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>>154247351
>Waldhof mentioned
My shitters :)

1. Poopensharten FC

>>154250894
is this true???

Annual reminder that West Germans made fun of how much of a one-horse race the East German league was

for it's sportgemeinschaft sonnenhof grossaspach

>no Helmut Kickers

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>>154250894

>>154247275
1. FKK Freibad
Eintracht Ehebruch
HC Hodenhagen
Borussia Bumsbüttel
TSV Tittenkofen

>>154247179
so, why do they have random numbers anyways? is it their founding year?

>>154253201
Yes. The numbers are usually not said out loud - in most situations at least

A brief guide to German club abbreviations

>FC
Fußballclub (football club), obviously. Sometimes FK, written as "Klub" then
>SC
Sportclub, occasionally SK
>SV
Sportverein - sport club
>VfL
Verein für Leibesübungen - club for physical exercise (usually implies the club has other divisions for other sports)
>VfB
Verein für Ballspiel/Bewegungsspiel - club for ball games/movement games (same implication as VfL, but more ball game-focused)
>FSV
Fußball- und Sportverein - football and sports club
>TSV
Turn- und Sportverein - gymnastics and sports club (many football clubs started out as side branches of gymnastics clubs)
>TuS
Turn- und Sportverein as well
>TSG
Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft (Gemeinschaft meaning society/association)
>SpVgg
Spielvereinigung or Sportvereinigung - game/sport association
>SG
Sportgemeinschaft - sport "society"/association

Titles
>Teutonia
Teutons = ancient connection to Germany
>Fortuna
Roman goddess of fortune, fate, luck, etc., obviously
>Borussia
Latin for Prussia, so from places that were part of Prussia. The name "Preußen" also exists, like in Preußen Münster
>Eintracht
The word means "concord" or perhaps also "unity", it's somewhat close to the English "United"
>Arminia
Like Arminius (/Hermann), the ancient Germanic chieftain who defeated the Roman army and became a hero of German nationalism in the 19th century
>many regional ones
Rhenania (from latin Rhenus for the Rhine) in the Rhineland, and so on

>>154253303
based informative post anon

>>154253303
Oh, I forgot one (there are many, many others, but let's only focus on the ones that are somewhat common)

>SSV
Sport- und Spielverein/-vereinigung (sports and games club) / Sport- und Schwimmverein (sports and swimming club). The two clubs SSV Ulm and SSV Jahn Regensburg have roots in swimming clubs

while we're at it:
>Jahn
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was a German author and educator in the first half of the 19th century. He pioneered a fitness/gymnastics movement that had a large influence on German nationalism. He invented most modern gymnastics disciplines and is often called "Turnvater" (father of gymnastics). Many sport clubs saw themselves as followers of his tradition and thus used his name
>DJK
Deutsche Jugendkraft - German Youth Power (this one is pretty common for amateur clubs with multiple departments. It means being a member of an originally Catholic movement and network for sports, but that's not super important in club politics anymore nowadays)

>>154247179
Problem?

>>154253303
>Alemannia
After the German tribes of the Alemanni (or Alamanni) who lived in what's now South-western Germany and are the namesakes of the Alemannic dialects spoken there. But "Alemannia" later only got used as a synonym for Germany among sports clubs. The most famous example, Alemannia Aachen, is particularly funny: they chose Alemannia to signify their German character (Aachen is right at the border) and also went for a neat alliteration. But the only thing the actual Alemanni did in the region is getting decisively defeated by the (also Germanic) Franks, the tribe Aachen is most closely connected to, in 496

Where’s Poopensharten 33?

>>154252892
It was only a period between 1979 and 1989. It wasn't a standard.

>>154253303
>SpVgg
>Spielvereinigung or Sportvereinigung - game/sport association
>SG
>Sportgemeinschaft - sport "society"/association
These are often used by clubs who fused with other clubs at some point in the past

>>154253599
yes

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>>154247317
Robotron Sommerda

how can you guys understand german?
it's like I'd come up to them and say "hey dude there's no way to understand any of this! help me here!"
am I right??

>>154254173
>German
you mean Sächsisch.

>>154247351
KEK