BFC Dynamo

Background: SC Dynamo Berlin (1954–1966)

BFC Dynamo started as a football department of sports club SC Dynamo Berlin. SC Dynamo Berlin was founded on 1 October 1954 as one of the new elite sports clubs in East Germany. The sports club was affiliated to sports association SV Dynamo.

The new sports club SC Dynamo Berlin became a center of excellence (German: Leistungsschwerpunkte) of sports association SV Dynamo. In order to establish a competitive side in Berlin, the team of SG Dynamo Dresden and its place in the DDR-Oberliga was transferred to the new sports club SC Dynamo Berlin. The relocation was designed to give the capital a team that could rival teams from West Berlin, such as Hertha BSC, which were still popular in East Berlin. Among the players delegated from SG Dynamo Dresden were Johannes Matzen, Herbert Schoen and Günter Schröter. The team played its first match as SC Dynamo Berlin on 21 November 1954 against BSG Rotation Babelsberg in the 1954-55 DDR-Oberliga. Most players of the former SG Dynamo Dresden team had aged by the late 1950s. The team was now instead shaped by a new generation of players, including Martin Skaba, Werner Heine, Waldemar Mühlbächer, Hermann Bley and Konrad Dorner. SC Dynamo Berlin won its first trophy in the 1959 FDGB-Pokal. However, the team was not allowed to participate in the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup. The East German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR) (DFV) decided that local rival and…

BFC Dynamo was the most successful club in the DDR-Oberliga. The club won ten consecutive championships, which is a feat no other team in East Germany has matched. The DDR-Oberliga was rebranded as the NOFV-Oberliga from the 1990–91 season. The league was then replaced by the Bundesliga as the highest competition from the 1991–92 season, as East Germany had joined West Germany to form the reunited Germany.

Domestic

East German Champions Winners: (10) 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88 (record) Runners-up: (4) 1960, 1971–72, 1975–76, 1988–89 FDGB-Pokal Winners: (3) 1959, 1987–88, 1988–89 Runners-up: (6) 1961–62, 1970–71, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1984–85 DFV-Supercup Winners: 1989 Fuwo-Pokal (de) Runners-up: 1972 DDR-Liga (II) Winners: 1957, DDR-Liga Nord (II) Winners: 1967–68 DDR-Liga B (II) Winners: 1971–72 Runners-up: 1974–75 DDR-Liga A (II) Winners: 1985–86

International

European Cup Quarter-finals: 1979–80, 1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup Semi-finals: 1971–72

Double

DDR-Oberliga and FDGB-Pokal Winners: 1988

Regional

Bezirksliga Berlin (III) Winners: 1966–67, 1983–84 Regionalliga Nordost (IV) Winners: 2021–22 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (III–V) Winners: (3) 1991–92, 2000–01, 2013–14 Runners-up: 2008–09, 2009–10 Berlin-Liga (V) Winners: 2003–04 Berlin Cup (III–VII) Winners: (8) 1998–99, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21, 2024–25 Runners-up: 1999–00, 2009–10, 2025–26