BFC Dynamo was founded in 1966 from the football department of SC Dynamo Berlin and became one of the most successful clubs in East German football.
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BFC Dynamo was founded in 1966 from the football department of SC Dynamo Berlin and became one of the most successful clubs in East German football.
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BFC Dynamo has been playing in claret and white since its founding, with the exception of a period in the 1990s.
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BFC Dynamo abandoned its East German crest when it was rebranded as FC Berlin on 19 February 1990.
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BFC Dynamo reclaimed its East German crest when the club reverted to its original name on 3 May 1999.
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BFC Dynamo continued to use the disputed crest on its kits and webpage.
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BFC Dynamo was among the clubs to do so, in an attempt to distance the club from the Stasi.
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BFC Dynamo now sold his own fan merchandise from a mobile stand outside the Olympiastadion.
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BFC Dynamo thus reclaimed its East German crest, but the rights to the crest now belonged to Mager.
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BFC Dynamo contacted Mager for a co-operation, but an agreement could not be reached.
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BFC Dynamo later informed the club that he had received interest from foreign buyers and offered the club to buy the rights.
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BFC Dynamo continued to use the crest and would at times be given ten percent of the revenues from their sales.
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BFC Dynamo is controlled by Bernt, who sells occasional items with the former crest at his own webpage.
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BFC Dynamo sells its official fan merchandise with the new crest at its official fan shop.
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BFC Dynamo submitted an application to the DFL and the DFB on 9 August 2004 to receive three stars for it ten titles in the DDR-Oberliga.
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BFC Dynamo received support from Dynamo Dresden and Magdeburg in its attempts to achieve recognition for East German titles.
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The DFB eventually declared itself responsible and recommended BFC Dynamo to submit a formal application for a new title symbol in accordance with a relevant paragraph.
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The DFB announced that the application of BFC Dynamo was going to be negotiated in a meeting with the DFB presidium.
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However, BFC Dynamo took matters in its own hands and unilaterally emblazoned its shirts with three stars.
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The claim by BFC Dynamo was controversial because the club had been the favorite club of Erich Mielke and had a connection to the Stasi during the East German era.
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New regulation meant that BFC Dynamo was finally allowed to emblazon its shirts with a championship star.
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BFC Dynamo has since then used the championship star in accordance with DFB graphic standards, displaying a star inscribed with the number ten for its ten East German titles.
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Long-time home and training area of BFC Dynamo is the Sportforum Hohenschonhausen in Alt-Hohenschonhausen in Berlin.
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SC BFC Dynamo Berlin played its first seasons at the Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion in Mitte.
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The capacity of the football stadium in the BFC Dynamo-Sportforum was gradually expanded during the 1960s.
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BFC Dynamo eventually moved its home matches parmanentely to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in the mid-1970s.
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Permanent training camp for BFC Dynamo was built in Uckley in the Zernsdorf district of Konigs Wusterhausen in Bezirk Potsdam in the late 1960s.
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BFC Dynamo hosted teams such as FC Dynamo Moscow, Red Star Belgrade, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, AS Roma and FC Aberdeen at the stadium in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Supporters of BFC Dynamo equipped the stadium with buckets seats during the summer of 2002.
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BFC Dynamo made new plans for a modern football stadium in the Sportforum Hohenschonhausen in 2006 under Club President Mario Weinkauf.
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Active supporters of BFC Dynamo have traditionally been found on the Nordwall stand and in the Block D of the back strait at the Stadion im Sportforum.
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BFC Dynamo moved its home matches to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark following its advance to the Regionalliga Nordost in 2014.
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Active supporters of BFC Dynamo are found on the grandstand and on the back strait, which is the side opposite the grandstand.
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BFC Dynamo officially announced on 21 March 2021 that it has now returned to the Sportforum, as the operating permit for the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion expired on 31 December 2020.
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BFC Dynamo is planned to become one of the main tentants of the new stadium.
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Fans of BFC Dynamo were the first to sew their embroidered fan club badges on their jackets.
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Some fans of BFC Dynamo found delight in the unpopularity of their club and took pride in the hatred they met.
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BFC Dynamo came to be associated with areas such as Prenzlauer Berg, Pankow, Weißensee, Hohenschonhausen and certain cafes and restaurants in vicinity of Alexanderplatz.
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The supporter scene of BFC Dynamo was still young at the time, while clubs such Union Berlin and BSG Chemie Leipzig had large followings.
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Supporters of BFC Dynamo responded to the hostile environment, and learned to compensate their smaller numbers, by being more aggressive and better organized.
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Supporter scene of BFC Dynamo came to be increasingly associated with skinheads and far-right tendencies from the mid-1980s.
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BFC Dynamo was allegedly about to bend down to a friend when hit.
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Supporters of BFC Dynamo directed far-right chants and others provocations against Berlin Turkspor 1965 during the match.
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BFC Dynamo immediately apologized for the behavior of the supporters at the press conference after the match.
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Older supporters of BFC Dynamo openly expressed their contempt for the far-right supporters that had visited the match.
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BFC Dynamo had the highest number of violent supporters in Germany in 2005.
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Banners in solidarity with the supporters of BFC Dynamo were displayed in 17 football stadiums across Germany during the following matchdays.
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The players of BFC Dynamo wore the motto "No power of violence" on their shirts in the following match against BFC Preussen away on 17 May 2006.
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BFC Dynamo has often attracted hooligans from outside, and hooligans who are otherwise not involved in the supporter scene, to high-profile matches.
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Match stewards and players of BFC Dynamo threw themselves in to restrain supporters and prevent further riots.
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The ultras of BFC Dynamo have initiated campaigns such as "Brown is not Claret" and have engaged in football tournaments for refugees.
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Fraktion H maintains a friendship with the supporters of Eintracht Trier, while members of Ultras BFC Dynamo have contacts with the ultras of Swedish side GAIS.
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BFC Dynamo is affiliated with Fanprojekt Berlin, which is an independent organization that engages in socio-pedagogical fan work.
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BFC Dynamo engages in active fan work and has taken measures to control violent elements, to exclude known violators and to distance itself from radical supporters.
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BFC Dynamo had 100 Category C-supporters and 190 Category-B supporters in 2019.
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Younger hooligans of BFC Dynamo have contacts with supporter group Kaliber 030 at Hertha.
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Supporters of BFC Dynamo attempted to travel in numbers to the return leg against VfB Oldenburg in the promotion play-offs for the 3.
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Around 1,300 supporters of BFC Dynamo was eventually admitted to the Marschweg-Stadion, where they marked their presence with a banner, a scarf choreography and flares.
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One of the most well-known books in Germany about the supporter scene of BFC Dynamo is "Der BFC war schuld am Mauerbau" by German author Andreas Glaser.
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Mielke should have added that "since BFC Dynamo is SV Dynamo, the title stays in the family, so to speak, and that is good too".
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BFC Dynamo would come to benefit from a nationwide scouting system, supported by numerous training centers of SV Dynamo across East Germany.
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BFC Dynamo Dresden had been the dominant team in East German football until then.
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BFC Dynamo continued to lead the league for the rest of the season.
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However, BFC Dynamo was more associated with the Stasi, while Dynamo Dresden was more associated with the Volkspolizei.
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BFC Dynamo was known as the favourite club of the head of the Stasi Erich Mielke.
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BFC Dynamo was a committed local patriot when it came to Dynamo Dresden and a sponsoring member of the club.
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Resentment in Dresden over the rise of BFC Dynamo was worsened when three top players of Dynamo Dresden, Gerd Weber, Peter Kotte and Matthias Muller, were arrested on suspicion of planning to defect to West Germany in 1981.
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Supporters of BFC Dynamo Dresden saw the lifetime bans on Weber, Kotte and Muller as "an order from Erich Mielke" designed to weaken BFC Dynamo Dresden.
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BFC Dynamo dominated the DDR-Oberliga and won numerous concesutive titles, while Dynamo Dresden had major success in the FDGB-Pokal.
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BFC Dynamo was met by immense hostility during away matches in Dresden.
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BFC Dynamo was supported by the Stasi, while Union Berlin was supported by the FDGB.
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BFC Dynamo immediately bounced back and managed to establish itself in the DDR-Oberliga.
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BFC Dynamo now had access to two thirds of all training centers in East Berlin.
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BFC Dynamo established itself as one of the top teams in the DDR-Oberliga from the mid-1970s.
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BFC Dynamo would be disliked all over East Germany for its successes and its connection to the Stasi.
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Derbies at the Stadion der Weltjugend usually ended with a couple of hundred supporters of BFC Dynamo chasing the supporters of Union Berlin along Chausseestraße down towards the Friedrichsstrasse S-Bahn station.
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The political favoritism of BFC Dynamo greatly contributed to the enthusiasm of the supporters of Union Berlin.
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BFC Dynamo was more strongly represented in some parts, and Union Berlin was more strongly represented in other parts.
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BFC Dynamo was the local team if you grew up in Prenzlauer Berg.
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BFC Dynamo recruited some of the best players of Union Berlin, such as Reinard Lauck in 1973, Detlef Helms in 1977 and Waldemar Ksienzyk in 1984.
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BFC Dynamo, now named FC Berlin, had now already lost many of its former top-performers to the West German Bundesliga.
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Some supporters of BFC Dynamo are convinced that Union Berlin deliberately lost in order to prevent FC Berlin from advancing to the 2.
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BFC Dynamo met the reserve team of Union Berlin six times in the NOFV-Oberliga Nord and Regionalliga Nordost between 2010 and 2015.
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BFC Dynamo helped football club FC Berlin 23 from neighbouring Storkower Straße in September 2021 and saved more than 40 to 50 children from the club, which was about to be dissolved.
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BFC Dynamo had a very successful youth academy during the East German era.
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BFC Dynamo was initially assigned Bezirk Cottbus and one third of all training centers in East Berlin.
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In total, BFC Dynamo had access to 38 training centers across East Germany for the recruitment of talents.
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Several former players of SC Dynamo Berlin and BFC Dynamo became youth trainers in the club after ending their playing careers, such as Herbert Schoen, Gunter Schroter, Hermann Bley, Martin Skaba, Peter Rohde, Werner Voigt, Hartmut Pelka and Hans-Jurgen Riediger.
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Only a fifth of the players who won the ten championships with BFC Dynamo were older than 18 years when they joined the club.
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