Dynamo Dresden

SG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles. After the reunification of Germany, Dynamo played four seasons in the top division Bundesliga (1991–95), The club achieved promotion to the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga for the 2011–12 season.

History

Early years (1950–1954)

The city of Dresden had played a significant part in German football, pre- and during World War II – its local club, Dresdner SC were national champions in 1943 and 1944. However, after the end of the war the Allied occupiers dissolved all sports clubs in an attempt to clear the slate of Nazi Germany. DSC reformed in 1946, now named SG Friedrichstadt, but Dresden was now under Communist rule, and the authorities considered the club too be too bourgeois. After a riot at the final of the 1950 East German championship,...
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