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1. The gruelling final days of East Germany’s Oberliga ...
(Stories)
Uli Hesse on the fraught play-offs to reach the Second Bundesliga in 1991 4 June ~ Twenty-five years ago Hansa Rostock won the last-ever East German cup final, but that wasn’t the end of football in ...
Created on 04 June 2016
2. East Germany 1989-90 ...
(Season in brief)
... the end of the Oberliga. As reunification gathered pace, the collapse of state organisations that sponsored GDR clubs plunged football in eastern Germany into a financial crisis from which it has yet to ...
Created on 20 February 2008
3. Germany – Crisis in the East ...
(Letter from...)
If you want to travel to see a Bundesliga game next season, a map of the old West Germany will do. Paul Joyce reports on a playing and financial crisis in the East Hansa Rostock’s relegation from the ...
Created on 14 July 2005
4. The strange case of Igor Belanov – the least remembered Ballon d’Or winner ...
(Stories)
... view of football in eastern Europe today, it takes some effort to imagine teams from there electrifying the sport and winning admirers across the world. But in the mid 1980s, Dynamo Kiev, together with ...
Created on 31 July 2017
5. Bundesliga 2 – the home of Germany’s champions
(Stories)
... ue and Dynamo Dresden, won the East German league a multitude of times. This amounts to no less than 11 former national champions at that level – more than can be found in Bundesliga 1 (a mere ten).  ...
Created on 05 August 2016
6. “Germany played, France won” and nation celebrates
(Stories)
... something of a lucky charm for them, the hosts are hoping to make it a hat-trick of successes. James Eastham  ...
Created on 08 July 2016
7. When East met West ...
(Europe)
The 1974 World Cup fixture between East and West Germany was a unique encounter during the Cold War era – but meetings were more frequent than the official history suggests. Paul Joyce looks back to the ...
Created on 21 September 2009
8. Tales of the unexpected – Germany's youthful support
(Euro 2008)
... from Munich. If the Nineties saw what was then called the gentrification of the game, I guess we now have to report, at least from Germany, that the age of juvenilisation could be upon us. No, that’s ...
Created on 21 August 2008
9. Germany Euro 2008
(Euro 2008 team guide)
... half. After all, Germany have won at least one major title in every decade since the 1970s. But then again, the Nationalmannschaft haven’t won a single European finals match since 1996. Are there any ...
Created on 04 June 2008
10. Euro scepticism ~ Germany
(Organisation & structure)
... at all?” asked the left-wing newspaper Taz. “They may as well sell the whole circus to south-east Asia and put up giant screens in English stadiums.” The Berlin-based daily Der Tagesspiegel saw the Premier ...
Created on 21 April 2008
11. Germany – Bayern Munich's familiar face
(Letter from...)
... rabbit from their hat – and came up with Klinsmann. It looked like an act of desperation to turn to the man whose past relations with the club have been difficult, to say the least. When Klinsmann left B ...
Created on 21 March 2008
12. How the east will win ...
(Governing bodies)
... “Those tours are a circus. The clubs go there to take your money. Some go east to Asia; some go west to the United States. Then, when the players get called for their national teams, the clubs say they ...
Created on 14 November 2005
13. Germany – The return of Lokomotive Leipzig
(Letter from...)
... he season, more than 5,000 turned up to watch Lok win 17-1; the first away match saw 2,000 squeezed into a ground with a 1,400 capacity; a week later, 3,500 celebrated as 62-year-old ex-East Germany international  ...
Created on 14 December 2004
14. Made in Germany
(WSC)
... ts of east Africa or the Pacific islands – or even Cameroon, which was also grabbed by Germany in its colonial era. Nevertheless, there had been a few men who be­stowed the national team with a more cosm ...
Created on 14 August 2003
15. Middle eastern promise ...
(International football)
... in search of Arabic names and potential recruits. He began the quest in his native Chile, a country boasting the largest community of Pal­estinians outside the Middle East and Deportivo Pal­estino, a Premier ...
Created on 14 April 2003
16. Germany – Transfer record in the Bundesliga
(Letter from...)
... e fails to score at least every ten minutes. If he’s wise, he’ll forget all about learning German. It would be unfair to blame the lack of big names entirely on a sceptical public, however. Despite  ...
Created on 14 September 2001
17. War of the worlds - Germany
(World Cup 2006)
... and Borussia Mönchengladbach are trying to create a spaceship akin to the Schalke thingie. How­ever, questions remain, especially in the eastern parts of Germany. Braun wants at least two host cities  ...
Created on 14 January 1999
18. Leagues apart in Italy & Germany
(Organisation & structure)
... ommittee shied away from the financial risk. Nevertheless, with the exception of two single seasons, Westfalia remained at least at Second Division level until 1979. The briefly heady days of the mid-70s,  ...
Created on 14 February 1998
19. Rising in the east? ...
(Europe)
... commentators were able to announce some rare good news from the east: all professional club teams from the formerly communist part of the country had avoided relegation. Hansa Rostock had successfully ...
Created on 14 November 1997
20. Least said Souness forgotten ...
(Managers)
... Galatasaray victory. Just as surely things started to unravel in a way even the most hardened of cynics could never have predicted. Post-match celebrations in the conservative, Eastern city of Van took ...
Created on 14 September 1996

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