Hertha BSC

Early years

The club was formed in 1892 as BFC Hertha 92, taking its name from a steamship with a blue and white smokestack; one of the four young men who founded the club had taken a day trip on this ship with his father. The name Hertha is a variation on Nerthus, referring to a fertility goddess from Germanic mythology. The ship itself was named for the ship's owner's daughter. Hertha performed consistently well on the field, including a win in the first Berlin championship final in 1905. In May 1910, Hertha won a friendly match against Southend United, which was considered significant at the time, as England was where the game originated and English clubs dominated the sport. However, their on-field success was not matched financially, and in 1920 the staunchly working-class Hertha merged with the well-heeled club Berliner Sport-Club to form Hertha Berliner Sport-Club. The new team continued to enjoy considerable success in the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg. The team played its way to the German championship final in six consecutive seasons from 1926 to 1931, but was only able to win the title in 1930 and 1931, with BSC leaving to become an independent club again after the combined side's first championship. Hertha was the Germany's second most successful team during the inter-war years, after FC Nürnberg.

Play under the Third Reich

German football was re-organized under the Third Reich in 1933 into 16 top-flight divisions, which saw Hertha playing in the…

Domestic

German Champions: Winners: 1930, 1931 Runners-up: 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1974–75 2. Bundesliga: Winners: 1989–90, 2010–11, 2012–13 Runners-up: 1981–82 DFB-Ligapokal: Winners: 2001, 2002 Runners-up: 2000 DFB-Pokal: Runners-up: 1976–77, 1978–79, 1992–93 1 Note 1: Reserve Team

International

UEFA Cup: Semi-finals: 1978–79

Tournaments

Nova Supersports Cup: Runners-up: 1999

Regional

Berlin/Brandenburg Champions (−1933): Winners (12): 1906, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933 Runners-up: 1914, 1916 Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg: Winners: 1935, 1937, 1944 Runners-up: 1934, 1938, 1939, 1941 Oberliga Berlin (1945–63): Winners: 1957, 1961, 1963 Runners-up: 1960, 1962 Regionalliga Berlin: (II) Winners: 1966, 1967, 1968 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin: (III) Winners: 1949, 1987, 1988 Runners-up: 1954 Berlin Cup: (Tiers III–VII) Winners (13): 1920, 1924, 1928, 1929, 1943, 1958, 1959, 1966, 1967, 1976, 1987, 1992, 2004 Runners-up: 2006

Youth

German Under 19 Championship Winners: 2018 Runners-up: 2022 German Under 17 Championship Winners: 2000, 2003, 2005, 2012 Runners-up: 1991, 2013 Under 19 Bundesliga North/Northeast Winners: 2005, 2006, 2018, 2022, 2023 Runners-up: 2003, 2004, 2012, 2017 Under 17 Bundesliga North/Northeast Winners: 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2020, 2022 Runners-up: 2011, 2014, 2018, 2019 Under 19 DFB-Pokal (de) Winners: 2004, 2015 Runners-up: 2010, 2012, 2016 Under 17 NOFV-Pokal (de) Winners: (4)…