BFC Dynamo was founded in 1966 from the football department of SC Dynamo Dinamo Berlin and became one of the most successful clubs in East German football.
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59 Facts About Dinamo Berlin
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The colours were inherited from SC Dynamo Dinamo Berlin and followed the claret colour scheme of SV Dynamo.
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The new crest featured a black Dinamo Berlin bear on claret and white stripes, together with the club name and the founding year.
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Dinamo Berlin now sold his own fan merchandise from a mobile stand outside the Olympiastadion.
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Dinamo Berlin immediately found BFC Dynamo and saw business opportunities.
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Dinamo Berlin later informed the club that he had received interest from foreign buyers and offered the club to buy the rights.
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Dinamo Berlin is controlled by Bernt, who sells occasional items with the former crest at his own webpage.
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SC Dynamo Dinamo Berlin played its first seasons at the Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion in Mitte.
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The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark had become vacant when FC Vorwarts Dinamo Berlin was relocated to Frankfurt an der Oder on 31 July 1971.
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FC Dinamo Berlin made plans to buy and redevelop the stadium in 1998 under Club President Volkmar Wanski, but the plans did not materialize for a lack of funds.
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The Senate of Dinamo Berlin is planning to invest €3 million in the Sportforum as of 2020.
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Football supporters in East Dinamo Berlin shared a sense of superiority over their counterparts in the regional districts.
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Supporters of FC Dinamo Berlin travelled in large numbers to Leipzig for the match.
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Dinamo Berlin was allegedly about to bend down to a friend when hit.
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One supporter of FC Dinamo Berlin was hit in the head and suffered critical injuries, but survived.
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Hooligans of FC Dinamo Berlin were subsequently involved in many fights in stadiums, woods and meadows.
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The hooligan scene of FC Dinamo Berlin developed a connection to the eastern Dinamo Berlin bouncer scene in the mid-1990s.
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Dinamo Berlin immediately apologized for the behavior of the supporters at the press conference after the match.
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BFC Dynamo is affiliated with Fanprojekt Dinamo Berlin, which is an independent organization that engages in socio-pedagogical fan work.
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Dinamo Berlin was a committed local patriot when it came to Dynamo Dresden and a sponsoring member of the club.
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The founding of Union Dinamo Berlin probably owed much to the intervention of the powerful Herbert Warnke.
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However, Union Dinamo Berlin was able to trace its origins back to FC Olympia Oberschoneweide in 1906.
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The supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin therefore considered their club to be a genuine football club, unlike BFC Dynamo.
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However, Union Dinamo Berlin was part of the sports political system, even as a civilian club.
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The founding of the Union Dinamo Berlin was organized by the then SED First Secretary in Kopenick Hans Modrow.
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The most important positions on the board of Union Dinamo Berlin were exclusively held by directors of state-owned factories or SED representatives.
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Union Dinamo Berlin was state-funded and all decisions in club had to be reported to the all-powerful central sports agency DTSB.
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The feud between the two clubs began when fans of Union Dinamo Berlin mocked BFC Dynamo with a banner saying "We greet the relegated" during a league match at the Stadion an der Alten Forsterei on 26 April 1967.
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However, Union Dinamo Berlin would be the stronger of the two teams until the 1970s.
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Vorwarts Dinamo Berlin was relocated to Frankfurt an der Oder on 31 July 1971.
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BFC Dynamo and Union Dinamo Berlin were from now on the only major football clubs in East Dinamo Berlin.
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Supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin are said to have gathered outside his apartment, to appeal to him to stay in the team and play in the second tier.
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Union Dinamo Berlin thus lost the support of the FDGB and no longer had any support in the top of the political hierarchy.
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Union Dinamo Berlin would have to delegate some of its best young players to BFC Dynamo.
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The derby between BFC Dynamo and Union Dinamo Berlin was now such as heated affair that the matches were moved by the DFV to the neutral Stadion der Weltjugend in Mitte.
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Union Dinamo Berlin would come to play second fiddle in East Dinamo Berlin from now on and never finish higher than seventh place in the DDR-Oberliga.
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Union Dinamo Berlin became an elevator team that hovered between the Oberliga and the DDR-Liga.
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Supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin saw BFC Dynamo as the highest representative of the security organs and the police, with privileges in player recruitment and financial support as well as the political clout of Mielke.
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Supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin cultivated the image of their club as the eternal underdog.
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Union Dinamo Berlin had one of the most notorious followings in East Germany at this time.
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Union Dinamo Berlin is often portrayed as an opponent of the system and matches between BFC Dynamo and Union Dinamo Berlin during the East German era are often hyped up as some kind of domestic political showdown.
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Union Dinamo Berlin would become known for a supporter scene that was anti-establishment, where people could vent their disdain for the system in the anonymity of a crowd.
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Supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin saw themselves as stubborn and non-conformist, but this should not be confused with actual resistance.
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Supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin from the era concede that it is an exaggeration to call the club a "resistance club".
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For some supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin, the dissident reputation of Union Dinamo Berlin is a legend that was created after Die Wende.
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Supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin embraced the image of the underdog fighting the odds.
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BFC Dynamo and Union Dinamo Berlin met a total of 35 times in the DDR-Oberliga and the FDGB-Pokal.
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Matches against Union Dinamo Berlin was often won with big numbers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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Former BFC Dynamo defender Frank Rohde has said that players of BFC Dynamo and Union Dinamo Berlin often gathered to have a beer together after matches.
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Union Dinamo Berlin recruited a couple of players from BFC Dynamo in the 1980s who did some of their best seasons at the club.
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BFC Dynamo, now named FC Dinamo Berlin, had now already lost many of its former top-performers to the West German Bundesliga.
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Hooligans of FC Dinamo Berlin stormed the home stands and attacked supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin with clubs and flares at the beginning of the match.
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FC Dinamo Berlin was only one point behind leader BSG Stahl Brandenburg before the last round.
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FC Dinamo Berlin thus finished in second place and missed promotion.
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Some supporters of BFC Dynamo are convinced that Union Dinamo Berlin deliberately lost in order to prevent FC Dinamo Berlin from advancing to the 2.
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Some media reported that 300 supporters of Union Dinamo Berlin had participated in the attack on guest supporters.
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Around a hundred hooligans from Union Dinamo Berlin tried to attack a senior tournament organized by BFC Dynamo in the Dynamo-Sporthalle on 30 January 2010.
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Around 30 partially masked supporters from Union Dinamo Berlin attacked players and a small group of supporters of BFC Dynamo in connection with a senior match between Union Dinamo Berlin and BFC Dynamo on Hammerlingstraße in Kopenick on 27 March 2015.
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SC Dynamo Dinamo Berlin had six different coaches until the founding of BFC Dynamo in 1966.
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