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Dynamo Dresden are a German football club, based in Dresden, Saxony.

History

In 1950, Dresden's most popular local club, SG Friedrichstadt, ran afoul of the occupying Soviet authorities as being too bourgeois and not properly representative of East Germany's new socialist society. After their appearance that year against Horch Zwickau in a farcial national final manipulated by the authorities, the club was broken up and its players exiled to other cities with many fleeing to the west. What was left of the club was tacked onto the worker's side BSG VVG Tabak Dresden that April.

Uncertainty and success

Sportvereinigung Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden was established after the war in October 1948 and was groomed as an ideologically safe "replacement" side for the city after the dismantling of SG Friedrichstadt. In July 1950, 17 players from 11 other police-sponsored clubs, most of them from SG Mickten, were delivered to SV DVP Dresden to create a competitive team playing in the green and white of Saxony. The new club soon enjoyed some success; they began to attract a following and inaugurated a new stadium, won the FDGB Pokal (East German Cup) in 1952, and sent their first representatives to the national side.

The club was formally re-established as SG Dynamo Dresden on April 12, 1953 in the cinema Schauburg and changed its colors to wine-red and white. It was part of Sportvereinigung Dynamo, one of a group of multi-sport clubs built on the Soviet model to promote sport for political and nationalistic purposes. Each of these societies was affiliated to or identified with a sector of the national economy or government: in the case of Dynamo that affiliation was with the state security and police forces, including the Stasi (Ministry for State Security).

Erich Mielke, head of the Stasi, was upset that Dresden was represented in the top-flight national league by several good sides while Berlin did not have even one. In late 1954, Dynamo Dresden was packed up and moved off to the capital to become Berliner FC Dynamo. What was left of the team – reserves and younger players – ended up as a 2nd division side which fell to tier III after just one season of play. They made their way back to the 1st division in 1962.

From December 1965 to January 1966, 11 East German clubs including Dresden were separated from their parent sports clubs to be designated as football-only "focus clubs" where the country's best talent would be transferred with the object of developing players for the national team. In 1968, Dynamo Dresden took on the current team colors of black and yellow, the city colours of Dresden. They soon emerged as one of the DDR-Oberliga's best sides, enjoying a run of five championships and two Cup wins in eight years from 1971 to 1978 under trainer Walter Fritzsch. During this time Dresden was the country's most popular side, regularly drawing crowds of 25,000, when most other clubs were attracting less than a third of that.

Second place to the Stasi

Dresden and the rest of the league then came hard up against Stasi-sponsored Dynamo Berlin. After a decade-and-a-half of football that had been relatively free of interference from above, there would not be a real opportunity to challenge for the title on fair terms for a decade as circumstances were manipulated in favour of Mielke's pet side: between 1979 and 1988, Dynamo Berlin won 10 consecutive titles. Dynamo Dresden earned six second-place finishes in that same period and could take some consolation in becoming East Germany's top performing side internationally. Once the hold of the secret police on the nation's football was loosened, Dynamo Dresden started winning titles again, making the double (national and cup titles) in 1989 and 1990.

German reunification and the Bundesliga

After German re-unification in 1990 the club was briefly re-named 1. FC Dynamo Dresden. Following the subsequent merger of the East and West German leagues, they played for four years in the top flight Bundesliga, always finishing in the bottom half of the slate. A last place finish in 1994-95 led to relegation, compounded by financial problems that saw the club's president imprisoned for fraud. The club was denied a license and sent all the way down to Regionalliga Nordost (III). Dynamo then struggled for some time, at one point falling to the Oberliga Nordost-Süd (IV), before clawing its way back to the 2.Bundesliga in 2004, despite on-going financial problems. Dynamo played there for two seasons, but were relegated to the Regionalliga Nord (III) in 2006. The 2006-07 campaign saw the team involved in the race for promotion early on, but a disappointing second half resulted in only a 7th place finish. In the summer of 2007 the club re-adopted its old East German name to play as SG Dynamo Dresden.

Stadium

The club plays its home fixtures at the Rudolf Harbig Stadion opened in 1923.

Famous players

Dynamo Dresden sent 37 players to the East German national team.

Honours

Current squad

For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer 2008.

Managers

Dynamo enjoyed its greatest successes under Walter Fritzsch, capturing the first division DDR-Oberliga title in 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, as well as finishing as vice-champions four times. The team also took the East German Cup (FDGB Pokal) in 1971 and 1977.

  • Ralf Minge 04/1993 - 06/1993
  • Siegfried Held 06/1993 - 11/1994
  • Horst Hrubesch 11/1994 - 02/1995
  • Ralf Minge 02/1995 - 06/1995
  • Hans-Jürgen Kreische 06/1995 - 04/1996
  • Udo Schmuck 04/1996 - 09/1996
  • Hartmut Schade 09/1996 - 03/1998
  • Werner Voigt 04/1998 - 12/1998
  • Damian Halata 12/1998 - 02/1999
  • Rolf Schafstall 02/1999 - 03/1999
  • Colin Bell 04/1999 - 03/2000
  • Cor Pot 03/2000 - 03/2001
  • Meinhard Hemp 03/2001 - 06/2001
  • Christoph Franke 07/2001 - 12/2005
  • Peter Pacult 12/2005 - 09/2006
  • Norbert Meier 09/2006 - 09/2007
  • Eduard Geyer 09/2007 - 06/2008

    • Team trivia

    • Playing internationally, the team was able to knock out such well-known teams as Roma, Juventus, and Benfica, but never reached a European final.
    • Dynamo Dresden won the last two DDR-Oberliga championships before reunification (1989, and 1990), as well as the last East German Cup (1990).

    Dynamo Dresden in Euro competitions

    Season Competition Round Nation Club Score
    1967/1968 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1st round Rangers FC 1:1, 1:2
    1970/1971 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1st round FK Partizan 0:0, 6:0
    2nd round Leeds United 0:1, 2:1
    1971/1972 European Clubs' Champions Cup 1st round Ajax Amsterdam 0:2, 0:0
    1972/1973 UEFA Cup 1st round VÖEST Linz 2:0, 2:2
    2nd round Ruch Chorzów 1:0, 3:0
    Last 16 FC Porto 2:1, 1:0
    Quarter final Liverpool FC 0:2, 0:1
    1973/1974 European Clubs' Champions Cup 1st round Juventus 2:0, 2:3
    Last 16 Bayern München 3:4, 3:3
    1974/1975 UEFA Cup 1st round Randers Freja 1:1, 0:0
    2nd round Dynamo Moscow 1:0, 0:1 (4:3 a.p.)
    Last 16 Hamburger SV 1:4, 2:2
    1975/1976 UEFA Cup 1st round ASA Târgu Mureş 2:2, 4:1
    2nd round Budapest Honvéd FC 2:2, 3:0
    Last 16 Torpedo Moscow 3:0, 1:1
    Quarter final Liverpool FC 0:0, 1:2
    1976/1977 European Clubs' Champions Cup 1st round SL Benfica 2:0, 0:0
    Last 16 Ferencvaros 0:1, 4:0
    Quarter final FC Zürich 1:2, 3:2
    1977/1978 European Clubs' Champions Cup 1st round Halmstads BK 2:0, 1:2
    Last 16 Liverpool FC 1:5, 2:1
    1978/1979 European Clubs' Champions Cup 1st round FK Partizan 0:2, 2:0 (5:4 a.p.)
    Last 16 Bohemians FC 0:0, 6:0
    Quarter final FK Austria Wien 1:3, 1:0
    1979/1980 UEFA Cup 1st round Atlético Madrid 2:1, 3:0
    2nd round VfB Stuttgart 1:1, 0:0
    1980/1981 UEFA Cup 1st round Napredak Krusevac 1:0, 1:0
    2nd round FC Twente 1:1, 0:0
    Last 16 Standard Liège 1:1, 1:4
    1981/1982 UEFA Cup 1st round Zenit Leningrad 2:1, 4:1
    2nd round Feyenoord Rotterdam 1:2, 1:1
    1982/1983 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1st round B93 Kopenhagen 2:0, 1:5
    1984/1985 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1st round Malmö FF 0:2, 4:1
    Last 16 FC Metz 3:1, 0:0
    Quarter final SK Rapid Wien 3:0, 0:5
    1985/1986 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1st round Cercle Brugge 2:3, 2:1
    Last 16 HJK Helsinki 0:1, 7:2
    Quarter final Bayer Uerdingen 2:0, 3:7
    1987/1988 UEFA Cup 1st round Spartak Moscow 0:3, 1:0
    1988/1989 UEFA Cup 1st round Aberdeen FC 0:0, 2:0
    2nd round K.S.V. Waregem 4:1, 1:2
    Last 16 AS Roma 2-0, 2-0
    Quarter final Victoria Bucarest 1:1, 4:0
    Semi-final VfB Stuttgart 0:1, 1:1
    1989/1990 European Clubs' Champions Cup 1st round AEK Athens FC 1:0, 3:5
    1990/1991 European Clubs' Champions Cup 1st round Union Luxembourg 3:1, 3:0
    Lst 16 Malmö FF 1:1, 1:1 (5:4 a.p.)
    Quarter final Red Star Belgrade 0:3, 0:3 (match abandoned)

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    References

    Literature

    • Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
    • Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)
    • eufo.de European football club profiles and current team rosters

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