SV Yeşilyurt

SV Yeşilyurt

Full name	Sportverein Yeşilyurt Berlin e. V.
Founded	1973
Dissolved	2007
Ground	Hanne-Sobek-Sportanlage
Capacity	3,000
League	defunct
Home colours Away colours

SV Yeşilyurt was a German football club from the district of Wedding in Berlin.

History

The club has its origins in an ethnically-Turkish recreational football club formed in 1973. Less than ten years later the association registered with Berlin's football federation and began a climb that would see them rival Türkiyemspor Berlin as the city's most prominent side within the Turkish community.

The club spent the 90s moving up and down between the Berzirksliga Berlin (VII) and the Landesliga Berlin (VI) before being promoted on the strength of a 2001 Landesliga championship to the Verbandsliga Berlin (V). Two seasons later they claimed the title there and advanced to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV).

Yeşilyurt enjoyed its most successful season to date in 2001 when they captured the Atatürk Cup in a tournament staged for Turkish clubs in Germany and then emerged as the winners of the Berlin cup competition, known at the time as the Paul Rusch Cup. Their Rusch Cup victory put them through to the opening round of the DFB-Pokal where they went out 4–2 to then Bundesliga side SC Freiburg.

On 16 November 2007 the club withdrew its team from the Oberliga for merging with Berlin AK 07. A new club, SK Yesilyurt 07, was formed, competing in the Kreisliga C, Staffel 4 (XI), the lowest tier in the Berlin league system, in 2008–09. They finished the league as eighth.

Honours

The club's honours:

• Berzirksliga Berlin (VII)
  • Champions: 1999
• Landesliga Berlin (VI)
  • Champions: 2001
• Verbandsliga Berlin (V)
  • Champions: 2003
• Berliner Landespokal
  • Winners: 2001
  • Runners-up: 2004

Team trivia

• The name Yeşilyurt – meaning "green homeland" – was chosen for city districts of the same name in Izmir and Istanbul, Turkey where many of the club's original members came from.

External links

• Abseits Guide to German Soccer