SV Tasmania Berlin is a German football club based in the Ortsteil (locality) of Neukölln of the borough of the same name in Berlin, Germany. It was established in 1973 as a phoenix club by members of SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin, a club based in the same district that became bankrupt and was dissolved that same year. After five seasons playing in local leagues in West Berlin, it was promoted to the fourth tier of what was then the West German Deutsche Fußball Liga at the end of the 1977-1978 season. As of May 2026 it is the champion of the fifth-tier NOFV-Oberliga Nord, gaining promotion to the Regionalliga Nordost in the fourth tier.
History 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. 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.
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. 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 , , and the 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 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 due to the pandemic. In its 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 and promotion back to the Regionalliga Nordost.
Stadium SV Tasmania Berlin's home matches are played at the 3,000-capacity in Berlin-Neukölln, directly adjacent to Tempelhofer Feld, the site of the former Berlin Tempelhof Airport.
League positions since 1978 As a new club, Tasmania 73 Neukölln played the 1973-74 season in the seventh tier of West German league football, in a West Berlin local league. The team won three promotions in five years, being promoted to the Landesliga Berlin, in the fourth and lowest tier of West German national competition, at the end of the 1977-1978 season. Since then, apart from being in the eighth tier in its first season under its current name, it has played between the seventh and third tiers of national West German and (since the integration of the East German football league system in the 1991-1992 season) unified German football.
+As Tasmania 73 Neukölln Year Division (Tier) Position 1978–1979 Landesliga Berlin (IV) 5th 1979–1980 Landesliga Berlin (IV) 6th 1980–1981 Landesliga Berlin (IV) 2nd 1981–1982 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 9th 1982–1983 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 14th 1983–1984 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 13th 1984–1985 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 7th 1985–1986 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 8th 1986–1987 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 3rd 1987–1988 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 6th 1988–1989 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 9th 1989–1990 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 10th 1990–1991 Amateur-Oberliga Berlin (III) 16th 1991–1992 Landesliga Berlin (IV) 3rd 1992–1993 Verbandsliga Berlin (IV) 5th 1993–1994 Verbandsliga Berlin (IV) 18th 1994–1995 Landesliga Berlin (VI) 8th 1995–1996 Landesliga Berlin (VI) 2nd 1996–1997 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) 1st 1997–1998 Oberliga Nord (IV) 6th 1998–1999 Oberliga Nord (IV) 16th 1999–2000 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) 19th
+As Tasmania Gropiusstadt 1973 Year Division (tier) Position 2000–2001 Landesliga Berlin (VI) 12th 2001–2002 Landesliga Berlin (VI) 2nd 2002–2003 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) 2nd 2003–2004 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) 2nd 2004–2005 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) 10th 2005–2006 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) 2nd 2006–2007 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) 2nd 2007–2008 Verbandsliga Berlin (V) 18th 2008–2009 Landesliga Berlin (VII) 15th
+As Tasmania Berlin Year Division (tier) Position 2009–2010 Bezirksliga Berlin (VIII) 2nd 2010–2011 Landesliga Berlin (VII) 4th 2011–2012 Landesliga Berlin (VII) 1st 2012–2013 Berlin-Liga (VI) 15th 2013–2014 Berlin-Liga (VI) 2nd 2014–2015 Berlin-Liga (VI) 3rd 2015–2016 Berlin-Liga (VI) 4th 2016–2017 Berlin-Liga (VI) 4th 2017–2018 Berlin-Liga (VI) 8th 2018–2019 Berlin-Liga (VI) 1st 2019–2020 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 10th 2020–2021 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 1st 2021–2022 Regionalliga Nordost (IV) 20th 2022–2023 OFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 12th 2023–2024 OFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 8th 2024–2025 OFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 10th 2025–2026 NOFV-Oberliga Nord (V) 1st
Current squad
Honours The club's honours: NOFV-Oberliga Champions: 2021, 2026 Verbandsliga Berlin Champions: 1997, 2019 Berliner Landespokal Runners-up: 2014, 2015
Further reading
References
External links SV Tasmania Berlin