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SV Babelsberg 03
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| SV Babelsberg 03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sport Verein Babelsberg 03 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Nulldrei (Zero-Three) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1948 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 9,254 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Ralf Hechel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Rastislav Hodul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV), 3rd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SV Babelsberg 03 is a German football club based in Potsdam-Babelsberg, on the outskirts of Berlin. The team was founded as SG Karl-Marx Babelsberg in 1948 as a successor to the pre-war side SpVgg Potsdam 03/SC Nowawes.
Nowawes earned promotion in 1935 to the first tier Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. The club was relegated after just three seasons of play at that level never finishing better than eighth in their ten team division. The club returned to the Gauliga as SpVgg Potsdam in 1943 and earned third and fourth place finishes in the two years before the end of World War II. In 1949, they merged with another local club SG Drewitz and the following year were re-named BSG Motor Babelsberg.
The side was a perennial II division team in East Germany's DDR-Liga. After German reunification in 1990 the club took on its current name and played as a IV or V division side through the early '90's. By 1997-98 they had worked their way up to the Regionaliga Nord (III). The team's budget increased ten-fold in the period 1996-99 and in 2001-2002 they advanced to 2.Bundesliga. This was in spite of the suicide of the team's sponsor and his wife. Babelsberg's turn in the II division was a short one. They finished last and by 2003-04 had fallen all they way back to Oberliga Nordost, Nord (IV) where they toil today.
The club declared bankruptcy in 2003 but managed to continue playing through the adoption of a creditor supported bankruptcy plan.
| German NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) Football Clubs (2006-07) |
| Berlin AK 07 | Berliner FC Dynamo | BFC Preussen | Türkiyemspor Berlin | FC Schönberg 95 | FV Motor Eberswalde | Germania Schöneiche | Hansa Rostock II | Lichterfelder FC | Ludwigsfelder FC | MSV Neuruppin | SV Babelsberg 03 | SV Yesilyurt | Tennis Borussia Berlin | Torgelower SV Greif | TSG Neustrelitz |