FC Germania Helsinki (FCGH) is a sports club from Greater Helsinki, Finland, playing association football.
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| Full name | FC Germania Helsinki |
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| Founded | 17.11.2017 |
| Chairman |  Tim Becker |
| League | Vitonen |
| 2022 | 1 |
History
editThe club was formed by German-speaking immigrants in 2015[1][2] and formally established in 2017.[3] It has been a Registered association and member of the Football Association of Finland since 2018.[4][5] FC Germania is listed among the official German institutions in Finland.[6] The sports club has about 60 members,[7] among them many immigrants from the German speaking area and Finns with family ties to Germany, Austria or Switzerland.[8]
Germania's first men's team plays in Vitonen.[9] The second men's team, called FC Germania/Akademie, plays in Kutonen[10] and there is another men's team, called FC Germania Hki 2015, playing in Helsinki's hobby league.[11] A youth section was established in 2021 with a mixed team at preschool age training at the German School Helsinki.[12] During the winter saison 2018–19 even a women's team, called FCGH Ladies, was playing.[13][14]
The Club Chairman is the lawyer Tim Becker, who was born in the former GDR and has been living in Vantaa since 2007.[15][16] The German professional player Thomas Dähne, who won both the Finnish League and Finnish League Cup in 2017, has been an honorary member since the club's foundation.[17][18]
Season to season
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Notable club members
edit- Benjamin Bachler, former Austrian professional player
- Thomas Dähne, German professional player
- Mia Heikkinen, musician
- Ewald Kibler, former Austrian professional player
- Torsten Tiebout, musician
See also
editLinks and References
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- Official Website
- Club profile Archived 2021-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, Suomen Palloliitto
- Interwiew with two executive committee members, Finntastic.de
- Interwiew with two players from 1st squad, Fussballbotschafter.de
Footnotes
edit- ^ Schwarz, René (2018-09-07). "Der FC Germania Helsinki – mehr als nur ein Fußballclub" (in German). finntouch.de. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ "FC Germania Helsinki – Ein Einwanderer-Fußballverein in Helsinki mit großen Ambitionen" (in German). finntastic.de. 2021-04-13. Archived from the original on 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ^ Original foundation document (17.11.2017), accessed 19.5.2021
- ^ Information Service of the Finnish Register of Associations, accessed 19.05.2021
- ^ Football Association of Finland, accessed 19.05.2021
- ^ "Deutsche Institutionen in Finnland" (in German). Deutsche Botschaft Helsinki. 2017-11-22. Archived from the original on 2020-09-28. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ "Verein FC Germania Helsinki ry", Definitiv : Magazin der AHK Finnland (in German), vol. 1, Helsinki: Deutsch-Finnische Handelskammer e.V., p. 7, 2020, ISSN 2242-816X
- ^ Grübl, Jens (2018), "Deutscher Fußball mitten in Finnland", Silta-Brücke : Zeitschrift für finnisch-deutsche Zusammenarbeit (in German), vol. 103, Helsinki: Verband der Finnisch-Deutschen Vereine e.V., p. 13, ISSN 0781-5824
- ^ Suomen Palloliitto, accessed 14.05.2021
- ^ Suomen Palloliitto, accessed 18.05.2021
- ^ Suomen Palloliitto, accessed 20.05.2021
- ^ "FC Germania Helsinki – Ein Einwanderer-Fußballverein in Helsinki mit großen Ambitionen" (in German). finntastic.de. 2021-04-13. Archived from the original on 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
Eigentlich wollten wir bereits im Januar in der Deutschen Schule Helsinki mit dem Training starten, am 10. April konnten wir nun endlich draußen mit dem Kindertraining loslegen.
- ^ "FC Germania Helsinki – Ein Einwanderer-Fußballverein in Helsinki mit großen Ambitionen" (in German). finntastic.de. 2021-04-13. Archived from the original on 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
Die FCGH Ladies siegten beim FC Germania Cup 2018 mit 4:0.
- ^ Team photo, accessed 20.05.2021
- ^ Reibetanz, Thomas (2020-09-04), "Ex-Ifa-Spieler gründet Fußballverein in Helsinki", Freie Presse (in German), p. 16, retrieved 2020-11-21
- ^ "Finnland auf dem Weg in die Normalität – Interview mit Tim Becker aus Helsinki". Radio SAW (in German). 2020-06-10. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ Nehmer, Marco (2020-08-20), "Germania Helsinki will bald sein Ehrenmitglied besuchen", Kieler Nachrichten (in German), p. 18, retrieved 2020-11-21,
Dähne ist Ehrenmitglied des Vereins…
- ^ Schwarz, René (2018-09-07). "Der FC Germania Helsinki – mehr als nur ein Fußballclub" (in German). finntouch.de. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
Dort wurden sie sogar vom damaligen deutschen HJK-Torwart Thomas Dähne angesprochen, der fortan einige Male die Spiele der „Germanier" besuchte und sogar bei der Vereinsgründung anwesend war.
