1. FC Frankfurt

1. FC Frankfurt originally began as the football department of sports club SV VP Vorwärts Leipzig. The sports club was founded on 2 August 1951 and its first team was admitted to the 1951–52 DDR-Oberliga. One of the characteristics of East German football after World War II, under the Soviet occupation and the socialist East German regime, was the willingness of the authorities to manipulate teams and clubs in various ways for political or other reasons. The first team of SV Vorwärts der KVP Leipzig was relocated to East Berlin in 1953 and continued as SV Vorwärts der KVP Berlin The football team that began the 1952–53 DDR-Oberliga in Leipzig thus finished the season based in East Berlin. The sports club would undergo several name changes in the following years, before it was finally known as ASK Vorwärts Berlin.

The club began a run of success in 1954 which included an FDGB-Pokal (East German Cup) that year, East German championships in 1958, 1960, 1962, and 1965, as well as losing appearances in the 1956 FDGB-Pokal, and the 1957 and 1959 national finals. Their success continued after the team was again renamed as the football department of ASK Vorwärts Berlin was separated from the sports club and reformed as FC Vorwärts Berlin, one of the new centralized football clubs formed to increase the level of performance throughout the country. Vorwärts won another two championships (1966, 1969) and in 1970 again made a losing appearance in the FDGB-Pokal final. Throughout the…

Domestic

East German Champions Winners: 1958, 1960, 1961–62, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1968–69 Runners-up: 1957, 1959, 1969–70, 1982–83 FDGB-Pokal Winners: 1952–54, 1969–70 Runners-up: 1956, 1975–76, 1980–81 DDR-Liga (II) Winners: 1953–54, 1978–79, 1989–90

International

European Cup Quarter-finals: 1969–70 European Cup Winners' Cup Quarter-finals: 1970–71

Regional

Brandenburg-Liga (VI) Winners: 1997, 2003, 2015, 2022 Runners-up: 1996, 2021