SV Tasmania Berlin

Origins

SV Tasmania Berlin trace their origins back to SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin, founded in 1900. The club’s name derives from Tasmania 1900’s founders wanting to emigrate to the island state of Tasmania in Australia.^[1] SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin achieved a unique place in German football history by playing a single season in the top flight, the 1965–66 Bundesliga, that set numerous records due to the team’s poor performance.^[1]

By the early 1970s SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin were suffering dire financial issues, so the amateur and youth players of the club decided to establish their own club on 3 February 1973, which they named SV Tasmania 73 Neukölln. Later that year, many club officials and players followed suit to support the new team in Neukölln as Tasmania 1900 was declared bankrupt and was disbanded.

Early years in the West German leagues

Post-unification

Tasmania 73 played the 1997–98 season and 1998–99 season in the NOFV-Oberliga Nord, which at that time was the fourth tier of the German football league system. In December 2000, the club was renamed SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973, after Gropiusstadt, another Ortsteil within the Berlin borough of Neukölln.^[2] After two consecutive relegations and two seasons in the Landesliga ending in promotion at the end of the 2001-02 season, Tasmania-Gropiusstadt played five seasons in the fifth-tier Verbandsliga Berlin, with them finishing second in 2003 [de], 2004 [de], 2006 [de] and the 2006-07 [de] season.

Following a league restructure and two relegations in succession, the club played the 2009–10 season in the eighth-tier Bezirksliga Berlin Staffel 3, finishing second and gaining promotion to the Landesliga Berlin Staffel 2 for the 2010–11 season. In 2011, the club was renamed SV Tasmania Berlin. After finishing first in the 2011–12 Landesliga season the club was promoted once again to the Berlin-Liga. Tasmania won the 2018–2019 season [de] and was promoted to the fifth-tier NOFV-Oberliga Nord for the 2019–2020 season. It then topped the league table for the second consecutive season, although it only played nine games [de] due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In its 2021–2022 season [de] in the Regionalliga Nordost it finished last and was relegated back to the fifth tier. After several seasons in the NOFV-Oberliga Nord it won the league in the 2025-26 season [de] and promotion back to the Regionalliga Nordost.