german club names be like Borussia Bilz-Gschlachtenbretzingen 67
>>154247179Name 5
Ig you never heard of DJK Flörsheim II where the whole squad has the surname Kurtanovic
ya and?
>>154247275
>>154247317for me? it was Rotation Fockendorf
>>154247275>SV Waldhof Mannheim 07>FC Schweinfurt 05>FC Heidenheim 1846>SV Darmstadt 98>SV Babelsberg 03
>>154247317That's GDR stuff, memes for a reason>>154247351So 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 isSorry to tell you, we're not that exciting
>SV 67 Weinbergbruh these niggas really put 67 in their name
>>154247450Don'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>RobotronK I N OINO
>>154248594those are pokemon gyms, don't lie
>>154247317for me, it's Stadtreinigung Görlitz
>>154247351>Waldhof mentionedMy shitters :)
1. Poopensharten FC
>>154250894is 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
>>154250894
>>1542472751. FKK FreibadEintracht EhebruchHC HodenhagenBorussia BumsbüttelTSV Tittenkofen
>>154247179so, why do they have random numbers anyways? is it their founding year?
>>154253201Yes. The numbers are usually not said out loud - in most situations at least
A brief guide to German club abbreviations>FCFußballclub (football club), obviously. Sometimes FK, written as "Klub" then>SCSportclub, occasionally SK>SVSportverein - sport club>VfLVerein für Leibesübungen - club for physical exercise (usually implies the club has other divisions for other sports)>VfBVerein für Ballspiel/Bewegungsspiel - club for ball games/movement games (same implication as VfL, but more ball game-focused)>FSVFußball- und Sportverein - football and sports club>TSVTurn- und Sportverein - gymnastics and sports club (many football clubs started out as side branches of gymnastics clubs)>TuSTurn- und Sportverein as well>TSGTurn- und Sportgemeinschaft (Gemeinschaft meaning society/association)>SpVggSpielvereinigung or Sportvereinigung - game/sport association>SGSportgemeinschaft - sport "society"/associationTitles>TeutoniaTeutons = ancient connection to Germany>FortunaRoman goddess of fortune, fate, luck, etc., obviously>BorussiaLatin for Prussia, so from places that were part of Prussia. The name "Preußen" also exists, like in Preußen Münster>EintrachtThe word means "concord" or perhaps also "unity", it's somewhat close to the English "United">ArminiaLike Arminius (/Hermann), the ancient Germanic chieftain who defeated the Roman army and became a hero of German nationalism in the 19th century>many regional onesRhenania (from latin Rhenus for the Rhine) in the Rhineland, and so on
>>154253303based informative post anon
>>154253303Oh, I forgot one (there are many, many others, but let's only focus on the ones that are somewhat common)>SSVSport- 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 clubswhile we're at it:>JahnFriedrich 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>DJKDeutsche 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)
>>154247179Problem?
>>154253303>AlemanniaAfter 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?
>>154252892It 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"/associationThese are often used by clubs who fused with other clubs at some point in the past
>>154253599yes
>>154247317Robotron 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>Germanyou mean Sächsisch.
>>154247351KEK
>>154254173The words are actually pretty simple and get used over and over again. They just don't really use spaces. For example,>SportvereinigungIt looks like a difficult word, but "Sport" is a word you probably know from English. "Ver" is normally like the English "-ify", so you're making it into the next word. The next word is "ein", which again, you probably know; it's the number 1. The last "igung" goes with "ver" to -ify something.So: Sportvereinigung => [Sport][one][ify][ing]It's a sport act that makes things into one. Or, to use the actual word that we use in English, a sport union.t. speaks Dutch which is the same
>>154253303>Turn- und Sportverein - gymnastics and sports club (many football clubs started out as side branches of gymnastics clubs)Sounds like all the "Gymnastics and Fencing" clubs we have here.
>>154253303I will provide the English equivalents for you>FCFootball Club>AFCAssociation Football ClubThat's it.
>>154247179club name is a private company lol
>>154247317Engage Robotron, save me from relegation!
>>154247275Eintracht BraunschweigViktoria 01 AschaffenburgSpielvereinigung UnterhachingSG Barockstadt Fulda-LehnerzTSV 1860 München (Teesfau Achtzehnhundertsechzig München, but commonly known as 'Die Sechzger')
>>154264657What about Hotspur, North End, Argyle, Villa, etc?
>>154264851I can do all those if anyone is interested but I would think most people already know. I love that history stuff.
https://fchd.info/indexa-z.htmFor me it's>Abacus>Aspull>Associated Ethyl>Borg Warner>Caterpillar>Chaos United>Chew Magna>Cockermouth>Cuckfield>Cwm>Dykehead>Euroglaze>FC Building Boards>Felling Magpies>Flight Refuelling>Gate 13>Immediate Bristol St George>Indian Queens>John Player>London Samurai Rovers>Number 23 PTC>Over Wallop>Pass Move Grin>Psalter Vigo>Shredded Wheat>Stone Dominoes>Street Work Soccer>Sudanese Youth>Ten-Em-Bee>The 61 FC>The Charcoal>The Famous Grapes>The Windmill>Town Hall Scripts>Westward Ho!>Wonder Vaults
>>154247179Uruguayan clubs be like Juventud
>>154247317Funkwork Kolleda /lifelong/ here
>>154247317German is a made up language
>>154253303Hang on, you’re telling me Borussia Dortmund are filthy Prussians therefore bad guys?
>>154264926There’s more too; town, city, united, rovers
>>154265759Dortmund was part of Prussia (province of Westphalia) when the club was founded, the founders chose to use the Latinized form of Prussia in their name
>>154266099what’s the German word for “cuck”?
>>154266142Hahnrei
>>154266142Hansi Flick
>>154247317> go go agrochemical center briesen!!!
>>154265006In our defence, several of those teams are just what the towns and villages are called. Westward Ho! is a famous trivia answer for being the only place in England with a punctuation mark in its name.>Psalter VigoThis is just hilarious. It must be a Sunday League team.
