FC St. Pauli

Early years

The club began its existence in 1899 as a loose, informal group of football enthusiasts within the Hamburg-St.Pauli Turnverein 1862. This group did not play its first match until 1907, when they faced a similar side assembled from the local Aegir swimming club. Officially established on 15 May 1910, the club played as St. Pauli TV in the Kreisliga Groß-Hamburg (Alsterkreis) until 1924, when a separate football side called St. Pauli was formed. The team played as an undistinguished lower-to-mid table side until making their first appearance in 1934 in the top-flight Gauliga Nordmark, 1 of 16 premier level divisions created in the re-organization of German football that took place under the Third Reich. They were immediately relegated, but returned to the top flight in 1936. Relegated again in 1940, St. Pauli re-appeared in the Gauliga Hamburg in 1942, and played there until the end of World War II.

Post-war football

After the war, the club resumed play in the Oberliga Nord in 1947. A second-place finish in the 1947–48 season led St. Pauli to its first appearance in the national championship rounds. They advanced as far as the semi-finals, where they were knocked out 2–3 by eventual champions 1. FC Nürnberg. The club continued to play well throughout the early 1950s, but were unable to overtake rivals Hamburger SV, finishing in second place in five of the next seven seasons, and going out in the early rounds in each of their championship-round…

League

2. Bundesliga (II) Champions: 1976–77 (Nord), 2023–24 Runners-up : 1987–88, 1994–95, 2009–10 Regionalliga Nord (II) Champions : 1963–64, 1965–66, 1971–72, 1972–73 Regionalliga Nord (III) Champions : 2007 Oberliga Nord (III) Champions : 1981, 1983, 1986 Stadtliga Hamburg (I) Champions : 1947

Cup

Hamburger Pokal Winners: 1986, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008

Reserve team

Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (IV) Champions: 1995, 1999, 2003 Oberliga Hamburg (V) Champions: 2011 Hamburger Pokal Winners: 1998, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010