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| Full name | Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e. V. | |||
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| Nicknames | SGD, Dynamo | |||
| Founded | 12 April 1953; 72 years ago (1953-04-12) | |||
| Ground | Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion | |||
| Capacity | 32,085 | |||
| President | Holger Scholze | |||
| Sporting director | Ralf Becker | |||
| Head coach | Thomas Stamm | |||
| League | 2. Bundesliga | |||
| 2024–25 | 3. Liga, 2nd of 20 (promoted) | |||
| Website | dynamo-dresden.de | |||
 Current season | ||||
Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known asSG Dynamo Dresden orDynamo Dresden, is a Germanassociation football club based inDresden,Saxony.[1] They were founded on 12 April 1953 as a club affiliated with the East Germanpolice[2] and became one of the most popular and successful clubs inEast German football, winning eightleague titles.[3] The club is known for its dedicated fan culture ofDynamo Ultras, and elaboratechoreographs.
After thereunification of Germany, Dynamo played four seasons in the top division,Bundesliga, from 1991 to 1995,[3][4] but have since drifted between the second and fourth tiers.[5] The club competes in the2. Bundesliga, the second division of German Football following promotion in the 2024–25 season.
The club's traditional uniform colours are gold and black, derived from the official city flag and thecoat of arms of the city of Dresden.[6]
The city ofDresden played a significant part in German football before and during World War II. Local football teamDresdner SC won thenational championships in 1943 and 1944. Theoccupying Allied authorities dissolved organizations across Germany, including sports clubs like Dresdner SC, after the war as part of the process ofdenazification. Dresdner SC was reestablished in 1946 asSG Friedrichstadt. However, the eastern part of Germany, including Dresden, was under Soviet control, and the sports club was considered toobourgeois by authorities.[7]
SG Friedrichstadt metZSG Horst Zwickau at theHeinz-Steyer-Stadion in Dresden on 16 April 1950. The match would practically decide which of the two teams that would win the East German championship in the1949–50 season.[vague] The match was attended by 60,000 spectators at the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion.[8] TheSED First SecretaryWalter Ulbricht and his entourage were also present.[9] ZSG Horch Zwickau had been founded only one year earlier and embodied the form of organization that the SED and the state leadership wanted to promote for the sports movement they propagated.[9] ZSG Horch Zwickau won the match 1–5 and became East German champions. The match was characterized by a very physical play from ZSG Horch Zwickau and several controversial referee decisions in favor of ZSG Horch Zwickau. The players of SG Friedrichstadt left the pitch without greeting their opponents and thousands of angry Dresden spectators invaded the pitch.[8][10] East German sports authorities took these events as a pretext to dissolve SG Friedrichstadt and delegate the players to BSG VVB Tabak Dresden.[2]
The city needed a new, ideologically safe representative in theDDR-Oberliga. BSG VVB Tabak Dresden was planned to take over the place of SG Friedrichstadt in the DDR-Oberliga. However, most players from the former team of SG Friedrichstadt, including player-coachHelmut Schön, did not agree with the move to BSG VVB Tabak Dresden and left Dresden to joinHertha BSC or other clubs under theGerman Football Association (DFB).[8] To save the place in the DDR-Oberliga for Dresden, the place was instead given to SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden.
SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden played in the lower-tier Stadtliga Dresden at the time of the dissolution of SG Fredrichsstadt.[11][12][13] SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden was thus able to enter DDR-Oberliga without having to progress through divisions.[10] To keep its place in theDDR-Oberliga, the team of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden would be reinforced with players from all over the country.[11]
SV Deutsche Volkzpolizei Dresden was originally founded as SG Volkspolizei Dresden in 1948.[14][12] The head of the VolkspolizeiKurt Fischer ordered the founding of a centralsports association for all sports communities of the Volkspolizei around East Germany on 20 June 1950. The new sports association was named SV Deutsche Volkspolizei.[15] SG Volkspolizei Dresden was thus incorporated into the new sports association and renamed SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden.[14] The order from Fischer also contained the passage that the best football players in the sports communities of the Volkspolizei should be concentrated in the now first-tier SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden.[15]
The 40 best players of the various Volkspolizei teams in East Germany were then brought together for a training session inForst in July 1950. CoachesFritz Sack [de] andPaul Döring [de] picked out 17 players from 11 different cities who were delegated to Dresden to form the team.[16][17][8][14][2][nb 1]SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam lost its five top performers to Dresden, includingHerbert Schoen,Johannes Matzen andGünter Schröter, and was severely weakened.[10][19] SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden quickly established itself as a force[tone] in East German football. The team won its first title in the 1951–52 FDGB-Pokal.[2]
The new sports association SV Dynamo was founded on 27 March 1953. SV Dynamo was formed from SV Deutsche Volkspolizei and the sports communities of theSecretariat of State Security, commonly known as the Stasi. The president of SV Dynamo wasErich Mielke, at the time deputy head of the Stasi.[20] SV Deutsche Volkspolizei was incorporated into SV Dynamo and reformed as Dynamo Dresden on 12 April 1953. The official founding date of Dynamo Dresden has since been 12 April 1953. Shortly after this, the club claimed itsfirstleague title.[2]
However, success proved to be the club's undoing. The team Dynamo Dresden was relocated to Berlin in November 1954 to play for the newsports clubSC Dynamo Berlin in the DDR-Oberliga.[2][21] The remainder of Dynamo Dresden was left to regroup in the second-tierDDR-Liga, taking over the place in the DDR-Liga, as well as points and goals, from dissolved SC DHFK Leipzig.[2] Political factors and pressure from Erich Mielke were probably[according to whom?] the main reasons behind the relocation of Dynamo Dresden to Berlin.[22][21] The relocation was meant to provide the capital with a competitive team that could rivalHertha BSC,Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin andTennis Borussia Berlin, which were still popular in East Berlin and drew football fans to West Berlin.[23][22][21]
Dynamo Dresden was left with a team composed of youth and reserve players and had dropped to the fourth tier by 1957, playing in the localBezirksliga.[24][2] Dynamo Dresden began to climb the divisions, though,[2][25] and by 1962 they were back in theDDR-Oberliga,[25] and although thisfirst season ended in relegation, they bounced back[tone] immediately.[25] They recovered equally well from another relegation in1968,[25] and remained in the Oberliga from1969 until its dissolution in1991. This relegation came after a fourth-place finish in1967, which enabled Dynamo's first foray[tone] intoEuropean football – they entered the1967–68 Fairs Cup, where they were eliminated by Scottish sideRangers in the first round.[25]
East German football was reorganized during the1965–66 season. Ten football departments were separated from their sports clubs to create ten dedicatedfootball clubs (German:Fußballclub) (FC). The best talents in the country were meant to be concentrated in the new dedicated football clubs, with the object to bring stability to the game at the top level and to develop players forthe national team.[21] It had long been planned to merge Dynamo Dresden with the football department of sports club SC Einheit Dresden, to concentrate the best footballer in the regional district in one club. This had been done in Leipzig. However, a tug of war developed between Erich Mielke and theSED First Secretary inBezirk DresdenWerner Krolikowski. Erich Mielke did not want to give up Dynamo Dresden, while Krolikowski advocated for the establishment of a civil football club. The stalemate continued for one and a half years. The football department of SC Einheit Dresden was reorganized as FSV Lokomotive Dresden on 12 January 1966.[26] Dynamo Dresden was then declared a regional district center of excellence (German:Leistungszentrum) in Bezirk Dresden by the regional district board (German:Bezirksvorstandes) of theDTSB on 5 August 1968.[27][26] The club could now draw on the best players in the whole regional district.[27]
Dynamo Dresden would enjoy the same funding and the same privileges as a designated football club, although it retained its designation as a "Sports Community" (German:Sportgemeinschaft) (SG).[28] Without this support, the club's future success would have been hard to achieve.[29]
During the 1970s, Dynamo established themselves as one of the top teams in East Germany, under the management ofWalter Fritzsch. They won five league titles (1971,1973,1976,1977 and1978),[3] and two cups, (1971 and1977).[3] They battled with1. FC Magdeburg for domination of the league, and became the most popular team in the country, regularly drawing crowds of 25,000, around three times what other clubs were attracting.[21] They also began to establish themselves as a presence inEuropean football – they played in European competition every year during the 1970s, and eliminated some big names – beatingFC Porto,Juventus[30] andBenfica on their way to four quarter-final finishes.[31] During this time Dynamo came up againstWest German opposition for the first time, losing againstBayern Munich 7–6 on aggregate in the last 16 of the1973–74 European Cup.[30] Dynamo Dresden lost the first leg 4–3 away in Munich and managed a 3–3 draw home at the Dynamo-Stadion. The Stasi had tapped the salon at the Interhotel Newa in Dresden where the Bayern Munich team held their final meeting before the second leg. A message with information about the line-up of Bayern Munich was quickly sent by motorcycle to the coach of Dynamo Dresden Walter Fritzsch in preparation for the match.[32] On three occasions they were eliminated by English sideLiverpool, twice in theUEFA Cup and once in theEuropean Cup,[31] and each time Liverpool went on to win the competition. On three other occasions in the 1970s, Dynamo were eliminated by the team that eventually won the tournament — Leeds United in the 1970–71 Fairs Cup, Ajax in the 1971–72 European Cup, and Bayern Munich in the 1973–74 European Cup. In 1973,Hans-Jürgen Kreische was the first Dynamo Dresden player to be namedEast German Footballer of the Year, and was followed byHans-Jürgen Dörner in 1977.[33] Kreische was the league's leading goalscorer on four occasions,[34] and was named inEast Germany's squad for the1974 World Cup, along with teammateSiegmar Wätzlich.[35]
BFC Dynamo stood out among other clubs within SV Dynamo. The club was located at the frontline of the Cold War and was a representative of the capital of East Germany. This meant that the club had to be well-equipped.[36] BFC Dynamo was considered the favorite club of the president of SV Dynamo and the head of the Stasi Erich Mielke.[37][38] Under the patronage of Erich Mielke and the Stasi, BFC Dynamo would get access to the best training facilities, equipment, coaching staff and talents.[39][40][21]
East German football had generally been set up in favour of the designatedfootball clubs (FC), who had access to talents within designated areas.[21] Dynamo Dresden was a center of excellence in Bezirk Dresden, which meant that the club had privileged access to talents in the whole regional district.[27] However, BFC Dynamo would be able to draw on talents from all parts of East Germany, except Bezirk Dresden.[21][41][37] The club benefited from a nationwide scouting network, supported by numerous training centers (TZ) of SV Dynamo.[42] BFC Dynamo would have the best material conditions in the league and the best team by far.[43] BFC Dynamo won ten consecutive titles, from1979 to1988. Of all clubs, Dynamo Dresden was the most affected by their success, finishing runners-up on six occasions.[5]
However, Dynamo Dresden also had its patrons. According toHans-Jürgen Dörner, the club was helped to remain a top club by three local politicians. One of them wasHans Modrow, the long-timeSED First Secretary inBezirk Dresden.[44] Another one wasManfred Scheler [de], the head of the District Council in Bezirk Dresden. Scheler was a devoted fan, who was active in using his connections to provide players with shortage goods and services, such as a car, an apartment or a plumber.[44] A third wasLieutenant generalWilli Nyffenegger [de], the long-time head of the regional district authority of theVolkspolizei in Bezirk Dresden.[44] The club also benefited from support from StasiMajor generalHorst Böhm [de], the head of the regional district administration of the Stasi in Bezirk Dresden.[44][45][46] Böhm took involvement in the appointment and dismissal of trainers and the contracts of players.[44][45] He was also a sponsoring member of the club.[47] According to Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Horst Böhm put local patriotism first in the rivalry with BFC Dynamo. The rivalry between fans of the two Dynamo clubs also spread to units within theStasi Guards Regiment "Felix E. Dzerzhinsky".[45] Another keen supporter was the long time SED Second Secretary in Bezirk Dresden Lothar Stammnitz.[48][46]
Walter Fritzsch had retired in 1978, and was succeeded byGerhard Prautzsch,[5] who was in turn followed by former playersKlaus Sammer (1983–86),Eduard Geyer (1986–90) andReinhard Häfner (1990–91).[5] The star[tone] players of the 1970 were replaced by a new generation, includingTorsten Gütschow,Ulf Kirsten,Matthias Sammer, andAndreas Trautmann, although the club lost three key players in 1981:Gerd Weber, who along with teammatesPeter Kotte andMatthias Müller had been offered a lucrative contract with1. FC Köln, intended toflee to the West while inUdine for anational team match against Italy in April 1981.[49] TheStasi somehow got wind of this plan, and, in January 1981, the three players were arrested atSchönefeld Airport, from where the national team was about depart forArgentina, and banned for life from theDDR-Oberliga.[49] Extensive activities in preparation for the escape were what put the Stasi on Weber's trail.[50] Weber was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Kotte and Müller, who had decided to stay in Dresden, were nonetheless punished for their knowledge of Weber's plans.[49][51] Former SED First Secretary in Bezirk DresdenHans Modrow believes the measures against the three were "probably cautious overall", given the completely different consequences for other East German citizens in similar contexts. After all, the three were also members of the armed organs (German:Bewaffnete Organe der DDR) with ranks.[52] Weber's escape helpers from Dresden - a technologist, a civil engineer and a waitress - received even harsher punishments.[50] Dynamo Dresden won theFDGB-Pokal three times (1982 and1984,1985).[3]
During the 1980s, the club continued its regular participation in European football, generally earning respectable results.[vague][31] In the1985–86 Cup Winners' Cup, however, they were on the receiving end of a shocking[tone] defeat againstBayer Uerdingen ofWest Germany: having won the first leg 2–0, they were 3–1 up at half-time in the second leg, when goalkeeperBernd Jakubowski was injured by Uerdingen'sWolfgang Funkel. DebutantJens Ramme was introduced, and proceeded to[tone] let in six goals, as the team lost 7–3.[53] In addition to this, strikerFrank Lippmann took the opportunity of the match inKrefeld to escape to the west.[54] Dynamo recorded their best ever European performance in the1988–89 UEFA Cup, beatingAS Roma on the way to a semi-final defeat against VfB Stuttgart.[53] Their last European campaign was the1990–91 European Cup, which ended in defeat to eventual winnersRed Star Belgrade. Dynamo's fans rioted at the second leg, which resulted in the club being banned from Europe for the following season.[4]
The head of the Volkspolizei in Bezirk Dresden was also the head of the branch of SV Dynamo in Bezirk Dresden.[55] The official sponsor (German:Trägerbetrieb) of Dynamo Dresden was the Volkspolizei. Players of Dynamo Dresden were formal employees of the Volkspolizei.[56] Many players then underwent their military service with the Stasi Guards Regiment "Felix E. Dzerzhinsky" and became formal employees of the Stasi.[57] 18 of the 72 players who had played at least once for Dynamo Dresden between 1978 and 1989 had been listed as unofficial collaborators (IM) of the Stasi.[58][55]
West German chancellorHelmut Kohl privately attended the match between Dynamo Dresden andFC Carl Zeiss Jena in the1987–88 DDR-Oberliga on 28 May 1988, during a private trip to East Germany with his wife Hannelore and son Peter.[vague][59] Dynamo Dresden ended the ten-year long dominance of BFC Dynamo and captured[tone] the league title in the1988–89 season. The title was celebrated after a 5–0 win against1. FC Union Berlin in front of 27,000 spectators at theDynamo-Stadion in the last match day on 3 June 1989. Dynamo Dresden won the league title also in the1989–90 season, adding acup win, to complete adouble.[4] TheBerlin Wall opened on 9 November 1989. The Stasi then lost its influence over football mid-season. BFC Dynamo stood at fourth place in the league after the first half of the season, and only finished the 1989–90 season in fourth place.[20] With the fall of the Berlin Wall, many of the top[according to whom?] players in East Germany took the opportunity to head west. BFC Dynamo was the first team to lose a top[according to whom?] player. The team had lost its top[according to whom?] strikerAndreas Thom already during the winter break, and would lose more top[according to whom?] players during the summer. Dynamo Dresden lost two star[tone] players during the summer of 1990:Ulf Kirsten andMatthias Sammer joiningBayer Leverkusen andVfB Stuttgart respectively. WithGerman reunification looming,[tone] many clubs in the East changed their name to shed their Soviet image, and Dynamo Dresden changed fromSG to the more traditional1. FC.[4] The DDR-Oberliga also changed name for its final season: the league, now called theNOFV-Oberliga, was used to determine which places the East German clubs would take in the unifiedGerman league. Dynamo Dresden finished second, behindHansa Rostock, thus qualifying for theBundesliga.[4]
Having been among the top clubs in the East, Dynamo found life in theBundesliga much harder,[tone] struggling both financially and on the pitch. They spent four years at this level,[5] during which they were in a near-constant battle against relegation. Their highest placing was 13th in1993–94, but thefollowing year they succumbed[tone] to the drop, finishing in last place,[4] having gone through three managers (Sigfried Held,Horst Hrubesch andRalf Minge) during the season.[5] To add to this, the club had accumulated debts of more than 10 millionDM, and were denied a license to play in the2. Bundesliga, and had to drop down to the third tierRegionalliga Nordost.[4] Rolf-Jürgen Otto, the club's president was jailed for havingembezzled around 3 million DM from the club.[4]
While many of the stars[tone] of the 1980s had moved west, some remained for Dynamo's Bundesliga tenure, includingTorsten Gütschow andHans-Uwe Pilz, while the club was able to attract players from other Eastern clubs, includingOlaf Marschall,René Müller andHeiko Scholz. The fall of the wall brought the influx of Dynamo's first foreign players, and the club saw internationals fromAustralia (Mark Schwarzer),Poland (Piotr Nowak),Russia (Stanislav Cherchesov) andSweden (Johnny Ekström), among others.
Dynamo sought to regroup in theRegionalliga, and again looked to former players to manage the team, being led byHans-Jürgen Kreische (1995–96),Udo Schmuck (1996) andHartmut Schade (1996–1998), but did not seriously challenge for promotion. In1998, they finished second in the table, but with 60 points: 32 behind championsTennis Borussia Berlin.1999–2000 saw a restructuring of the Regionalliga: the four leagues were to be reduced to two, and Dynamo would have to finish in the top 7 to avoid relegation. Having finished 11th in the previous season they turned toColin Bell,[4] an English coach who had had some success with youth football in Germany, but he left in March 2000 after poor results and a player revolt.[60]Cor Pot, aDutchman, was brought in to replace him,[60] and he turned the team around,[tone][vague] but it was too late – they finished in eighth place, and were relegated to the fourth-tierOberliga Nordost-Süd.[60] By this point Dynamo were not even the top team in Dresden:Dresdner SC had returned after reunification, and finished as runners-up in theRegionalliga Nordost in 2000.
Optimism was high,[according to whom?] though, after the way the last season had ended, and the slogan "Wir kommen wieder" (we're coming back), was adopted. However, the Oberliga was now highly competitive withVfB Leipzig,1. FC Magdeburg andFSV Zwickau also having been relegated, and Dynamo couldn't[tone] match the consistency of their main promotion rivals Magdeburg and Leipzig. A 2–1 defeat against Magdeburg in February ended their promotion chances, and Pot resigned.[60] With nothing to play for, Dynamo slumped[tone]to fifth place.[60] Forthe following season,Christoph Franke was brought in as manager,[60] and led the club to promotion – they won the league[60] with only two defeats, and beatHertha BSC's reserve team in a playoff to earn their place in theRegionalliga Nord.[60] Dynamo's youth system was particularly successful[according to whom?] during this period, with players includingLars Jungnickel,Silvio Schröter,Maik Wagefeld andDaniel Ziebig going on to play at a higher level.
Dynamo finished a respectable[according to whom?] 7th in theirfirst season back in the third tier, andfollowed that with another promotion,[60] finishing second behindRot-Weiß Essen. Life in the2. Bundesliga began brightly, with a 3–1 win againstMSV Duisburg, but by the halfway point oftheir first season they were facing relegation, with only 18 points. They recovered strongly in the second half of the season though, and finished in 8th place, thanks in part to signings such asAnsgar Brinkmann,Joshua Kennedy andKlemen Lavric. The2005–06 season began in a similar way, as Dynamo climbed to third place with a 2–1 win over1860 Munich in theAllianz Arena,[60] but this was followed by thirteen matches without a win, resulting in the dismissal of Christoph Franke. Austrian managerPeter Pacult was brought in,[60] with results improving temporarily, but Dynamo still failed to avoid relegation, finishing 15th.[60]
Dynamo were back in theRegionalliga with the immediate aim of promotion, yet, despite a successful start,Peter Pacult left the club after six matches for a chance to manage his former club,Rapid Vienna.[60] He was replaced byNorbert Meier,[60] but Dynamo could not keep up their promotion bid, and finished seventh, due in part to poor away form. Another re-organisation of the league structure was looming,[tone] and Dynamo knew they'd have to finish in the top-10 to qualify for the new national3. Liga. A number of former star[tone] players returned, includingLars Jungnickel,Marek Penksa andMaik Wagefeld,[60] but results were not consistent, and Meier was sacked, replaced by former coachEduard Geyer.[60] Dynamo secured qualification on the last day, finishing eighth,[60] but Geyer was dismissed due to disagreements with the board.[60] In 2007, the club reverted to the nameSG Dynamo Dresden.[60]
The club turned toRuud Kaiser, aDutchman with a good reputation[according to whom?] at youth level, as Geyer's replacement.[60] They played in the first ever match of the third Liga, beatingRot-Weiß Erfurt 1–0 with a goal fromHalil Savran,[60] but results were not consistent, and theycould only finish in mid-table.[60] The2009–10 season began badly,[according to whom?] and, with Dynamo in relegation trouble,[tone] Kaiser was sacked and replaced byMatthias Maucksch, a former player who had had some success withthe reserve team.[60] Maucksch managed to drag[tone] the team away from relegation, and finished the season in 12th place. Maucksch led the team to contention for a playoff place during the2010–11 season, but was sacked in April after a run of five games without a win, and was replaced byRalf Loose.[61] Loose ended the season unbeaten and secured third place, and a playoff againstVfL Osnabrück which Dynamo won4–2 on aggregate to earn promotion to the2. Bundesliga.[62]
Dynamo Dresden performed well[according to whom?] intheir first season back in the league. Consistently holding a position in the middle of the standings, the team was never in danger of being relegated. After securing a highly memorable[according to whom?] 4–3 victory after being down three goals againstBayer Leverkusen in the first round of the2011–12 DFB-Pokal season, Dynamo was excluded from the 2012/2013 DFB-Pokal due to fan excesses and abuse of fireworks[vague] during the second round match against Borussia Dortmund (0–2) in a first trial.[vague] The sentence was later turned into oneGame behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, leading to what was purported[by whom?] to be the first sold-out ghost game in history.[63][64] The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo andRalf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat toVfL Bochum with the team in 15th place.[vague][65] He was replaced byPeter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years.[66] Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival, but the team still finished the league as 16th.[67] Due to this, Dynamo had to enter relegation play-offs again after just two seasons, incidentally meetingVfL Osnabrück once more, with their roles now reversed. Dynamo emerged victorious[tone] with2–1 on aggregate and remained in the second tier for the2013–14 season. Pacult was sacked in August 2013 after a poor start and replaced withOlaf Janßen.[68] Jansen was unable to save the club from the drop to the3. Liga after they lost 3–2 at home to relegation rivalsArminia Bielefeld to drop[vague] into 17th place,[69] a result which ultimately cost Jansen his job.[70] Dynamo had drawn half of their matches, winning just five all season.[71]
Under their new coachStefan Böger, the club completely overhauled the squad with the intent of returning to the 2. Bundesliga as soon as possible. In August 2014, the team knocked Bundesliga giants[tone]FC Schalke 04 out of the first round of theDFB-Pokal, beating them with 2–1.[vague][72] The team advanced to the third round after beatingVfL Bochum 2–1,[73] but were ultimately knocked out byBorussia Dortmund.[74] Böger was sacked in February 2015,[75] with assistant coachPeter Németh taking over for the remainder for the season. The team finished 6th in the2014–15 season.[76] Under new managerUwe Neuhaus, Dynamo went on to havea hugely successful season,[according to whom?] and officially returned to second-level competition after a 2–2 draw at an away match againstFC Magdeburg on 16 April 2016.[77]
When they were founded asSG Volkspolizei, the club was sponsored by theEast German police force, and in 1953, when they becameDynamo Dresden they were part of theSV Dynamo, the sport organization of the security agencies.[20] Dynamo were the most powerful of all the sports societies, and this conferred certain advantages on the club.[vague][21][78] While many former security service clubs have struggled to shed their negative image,[according to whom?] particularlyBFC Dynamo, Dynamo Dresden remain popular and well-supported,[according to whom?] having come to represent[vague] their home city.
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Dynamo plays at theRudolf-Harbig-Stadion,[79] which was opened in 1923, and also originally named theRudolf-Harbig-Stadion after local track and field athleteRudolf Harbig. The stadium was renamedDynamo-Stadion by the East German authorities in 1971, but reverted to its former name after the reunification. With an original capacity of 24,000 spectators, the stadium was rebuilt in the beginning of the 1990s, in line withDFB andFIFA regulations, and was thoroughly modernised between June 2007 and December 2009. The modernized stadium opened on 15 September 2009 with afriendly match againstSchalke 04 and has a capacity of 32,066 spectators.[contradictory][80]
Dynamo were one ofEast Germany's best-supported clubs, regularly drawing crowds of around 25,000 during their most successful period. Since reunification attendance levels have fluctuated along with the team's fortunes, while they were still one of the most well-supported teams in the lower leagues, drawing an average of around 10–15,000 fans in the3. Liga. Following their2011 advance to the2nd League, they were again drawing crowds of 25,000. The2013–14 season average attendance reached 27,004.[81] Dynamo's supporters have very close relations withFK Sarajevo fans,Horde zla.[82][83] In December 2020, Dynamo fans bought 72,000 tickets for the cup match at home to Darmstadt, even though it was played in an empty stadium – to show support for the struggling club.[84]
Dynamo Dresden have a particularly fractious relationship withBFC Dynamo,[according to whom?] who took over the first team and the place in the DDR-Oberliga from Dynamo Dresden in 1954, then as a football section ofSC Dynamo Berlin. BFC Dynamo were their main obstacle[tone] to success in the 1980s,[21] but the two clubs rarely meet these days.[vague]1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig were traditionally Dynamo's main rivals in the battle forSaxon dominance,[tone] although this rivalry extends to other clubs, includingChemnitzer FC, formerlyFC Sachsen Leipzig,Erzgebirge Aue, and, most recently, upstart[tone]RB Leipzig, though the clubs' disparate financial capabilities have so far prevented them from ever playing in the same division, their only official encounter thus far being a first-round match in the2016–17 DFB-Pokal season, in which Dresden celebrated a victory.[85]
Dynamo's most noteworthy[according to whom?] rival in their home city areDresdner SC, although they are perpetually ill-matched, as Dresdner SC are mired[tone] in local football leagues. Another club,SC Borea Dresden were formed out ofSG Dynamo Dresden-Heide, a formerfeeder club for Dynamo, but there is no longer an official connection.
When they were formed asSG Volkspolizei Dresden, the club wore green and white, the colours of the former province ofSaxony.[2] Green and white were the colours of theVolkspolizei.[15] When the team became part ofSV Dynamo they adopted the sports society'swine red colour scheme.[2] In 1968, the club was declared a regional center of excellence inBezirk Dresden and adopted its current colours of yellow and black, the city colours ofDresden.[25]
The club's original crest was built around the shield of theVolkspolizei, to whom they were affiliated. In 1953 they adopted theD logo of SV Dynamo, which was retained untilreunification, when its wine red background was replaced with Saxon green. They reverted to the red background in the early 2000s.
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Theclub's reserve team,Dynamo Dresden II, played until 2015 in the tier fiveNOFV-Oberliga Süd. It has played at this level since 2009 with a fourth place in 2012 as its best result.[87][88] In March 2015, the club announced that it would withdraw the reserve team from league competition and instead enter it in a friendlies competition with the reserve teams ofChemnitzer FC,Hallescher FC,Sparta Prague,FC Slovan Liberec andFK Teplice.[89] However, though the competition's name Future League would suggest a more organized and concrete structure,[according to whom?] this has so far led to little more than an incoherent[vague] series of friendly matches between amateur teams, with the idea appearing[to whom?] to have been largely abandoned by the participating clubs,[90] despite some declarations of intent.[91]
The team also made a losing appearance in the 1995Saxony Cup final[92] and won the competition in 2009.[93]
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| Head coach |  Thomas Stamm |
| Assistant head coach |  Heiko Scholz |
| Assistant coach | Manuel Klökler Valentin Vochatzer |
| Goalkeeping coach |  David Yelldell |
| Conditioning coach & Athletic coach | Matthias Grahé |
| Match analyst | Valentin Vochatzer |
| Managing director | Thomas Brendel |
| Sports coordinator | Christian Knoll |
| Advisor of management | Ulf Kirsten |
| Scout | Hans-Jürgen Kreische Felix Schimmel |
| Doctor | Dr. Michael Bata |
| Physiotherapist | Tony Fischer Laura Seifert José Portela |
| Medical Director | Henrik Lange |
| Press officer | Christoph Antal |
| Team manager | Justin Löwe |
| Marketing staff | Sebastian Schmidt |
| Supporter Liaison Officer | Marek Lange |
| Head of Media and Communications | Ronny Zimmermann |
| Kit manager | Tom Teichert-Tölg |
| Stadium Announcer | Peter Hauskeller |
| Academy manager | Marco Hartmann |
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Dynamo enjoyed[tone] its greatest successes under Walter Fritzsch, capturing[tone] the first division DDR-Oberliga title in 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, as well as finishing as vice-champions four times. The team also took the East German Cup (FDGB Pokal) in 1971 and 1977.
As one of the leading clubs inEast Germany, Dynamo Dresden provided 36DDR internationals,[94] including the country's second most-capped player,Hans-Jürgen Dörner, and its joint second top scorer,Hans-Jürgen Kreische.[95] Twelve Dynamo players wonOlympic medals, including six gold medallists in1976.[citation needed] AfterGerman reunification a number of Dynamo players went on to represent theGermany national team, includingJens Jeremies,Ulf Kirsten,Olaf Marschall andAlexander Zickler.
Five Dynamo Dresden players were namedEast German Footballer of the Year: Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Hans-Jürgen Kreische,Andreas Trautmann, Ulf Kirsten andTorsten Gütschow. Dörner won the award three times, and the latter three players were its last three winners.[33] Kreische and Gütschow were the leading scorers in theDDR-Oberliga seven times between them.[34]
Perhaps the most notable[according to whom?] Dynamo Dresden player isMatthias Sammer. He played for the club from 1985 to 1990, during which he won 23 caps for East Germany.[citation needed] He later made 51 appearances for Germany, winning theEuropean Championship in1996 and played at club level forVfB Stuttgart,Internazionale andBorussia Dortmund.[citation needed] With the latter, he won twoGerman titles, theUEFA Champions League and theIntercontinental Cup, and was namedEuropean Footballer of the Year in 1996.
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| Season | Competition | Round | Nation | Club | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967–68 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1st round |  | Rangers | 1–1, 1–2 |
| 1970–71 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1st round |  | Partizan | 0–0, 6–0 |
| 2nd round |  | Leeds United | 0–1, 2–1 | ||
| 1971–72 | European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1st round |  | Ajax Amsterdam | 0–2, 0–0 |
| 1972–73 | UEFA Cup | 1st round |  | VÖEST Linz | 2–0, 2–2 |
| 2nd round |  | Ruch Chorzów | 1–0, 3–0 | ||
| Last 16 |  | FC Porto | 2–1, 1–0 | ||
| Quarter–finals | | Liverpool | 0–2, 0–1 | ||
| 1973–74 | European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1st round |  | Juventus | 2–0, 2–3 |
| Last 16 | | Bayern Munich | 3–4, 3–3 | ||
| 1974–75 | UEFA Cup | 1st round |  | Randers Freja | 1–1, 0–0 |
| 2nd round |  | Dynamo Moscow | 1–0, 0–1 (4–3 a.p.) | ||
| Last 16 | | Hamburger SV | 1–4, 2–2 | ||
| 1975–76 | UEFA Cup | 1st round |  | ASA Târgu Mureș | 2–2, 4–1 |
| 2nd round |  | Budapest Honvéd | 2–2, 3–0 | ||
| Last 16 | | Torpedo Moscow | 3–0, 1–1 | ||
| Quarter–finals | | Liverpool | 0–0, 1–2 | ||
| 1976–77 | European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1st round | | Benfica | 2–0, 0–0 |
| Last 16 | | Ferencváros | 0–1, 4–0 | ||
| Quarter–finals | | Zürich | 1–2, 3–2 | ||
| 1977–78 | European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1st round |  | Halmstads BK | 2–0, 1–2 |
| Last 16 | | Liverpool | 1–5, 2–1 | ||
| 1978–79 | European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1st round | | Partizan | 0–2, 2–0 (5–4 a.p.) |
| Last 16 |  | Bohemian | 0–0, 6–0 | ||
| Quarter–finals | | Austria Wien | 1–3, 1–0 | ||
| 1979–80 | UEFA Cup | 1st round |  | Atlético Madrid | 2–1, 3–0 |
| 2nd round | | VfB Stuttgart | 1–1, 0–0 | ||
| 1980–81 | UEFA Cup | 1st round | | Napredak Kruševac | 1–0, 1–0 |
| 2nd round | | Twente | 1–1, 0–0 | ||
| Last 16 |  | Standard Liège | 1–1, 1–4 | ||
| 1981–82 | UEFA Cup | 1st round | | Zenit Leningrad | 2–1, 4–1 |
| 2nd round | | Feyenoord | 1–2, 1–1 | ||
| 1982–83 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1st round | | B93 Kopenhagen | 3–2, 1–2 |
| 1984–85 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1st round | | Malmö FF | 0–2, 4–1 |
| Last 16 |  | Metz | 3–1, 0–0 | ||
| Quarter–finals | | Rapid Wien | 3–0, 0–5 | ||
| 1985–86 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1st round | | Cercle Brugge | 2–3, 2–1 |
| Last 16 |  | HJK Helsinki | 0–1, 7–2 | ||
| Quarter–finals | | Bayer Uerdingen | 2–0, 3–7 | ||
| 1987–88 | UEFA Cup | 1st round | | Spartak Moscow | 0–3, 1–0 |
| 1988–89 | UEFA Cup | 1st round | | Aberdeen | 0–0, 2–0 |
| 2nd round | | Waregem | 4–1, 1–2 | ||
| Last 16 | | Roma | 2–0, 2–0 | ||
| Quarter–finals | | Victoria Bucuresti | 1–1, 4–0 | ||
| Semi–finals | | VfB Stuttgart | 0–1, 1–1 | ||
| 1989–90 | European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1st round |  | AEK Athens | 1–0, 3–5 |
| 1990–91 | European Champion Clubs' Cup | 1st round |  | Union Luxembourg | 3–1, 3–0 |
| Last 16 | | Malmö FF | 1–1, 1–1 (5–4 a.p.) | ||
| Quarter–finals | | Red Star Belgrade | 0–3, 0–3 (match abandoned) |
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| Competition | Record | ||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |
| European Cup | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 040.00 |
| UEFA Cup | 48 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 043.75 |
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 050.00 |
| Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 033.33 |
| Total | 98 | 42 | 26 | 30 | 042.86 |
Seit ungefähr drei Wochen befinden sich 22 Anwärter auf einen platz in der Dresdner Volkspolizei-Elf zu einen Vorbereitungslehrhang in Forst, der von den Trainern Dörng und Sack geleitert wird.
Mit Beschluss des DTSB-Bezirksvorstandes vom 5. August 1968 wird Dynamo zum Fußball-Leistungszentrum im Berizk Dresden, das damit in der gesamten Region auf Spielersuche gehen kann.
Der BFC Dynamo Berlin besaß das einmalige Privileg im Fußball der DDR, die besten Spieler und Talente nach Ostberlin zu delegieren. Allein für den Erfolg von Fußballverein BFC Dyamo Berlin wurden über 33 Trainingszentren des SV Dynamo errichtet, in denen junge begabte Fußballspieler ausgebildet wurden. Zuden bestand eine Partnerschat mit dem Bezirk Cottbus.
Bei Meisterfeiern war zumindest die Dresdner Stasispitze stets awesend, 1978 und 1989 auch Stasi-Chef Mielke als 1. Vorsitzender der Sportvereinigung Dynamo. Anfang der achtziger Jahre, die große Ära der Mannschaft war vorbei, wurde das Dresdner MfS – and dessen Spitze mittlerweile der von Honecker ungewöhnlich schnell zum Generalmajor beförderte Horst Böhm stand – neben seiner Sicherungs- und Aufklärungsarbeit, die von den Spielern auch bei den Auslandseinsätzen registriert wurde, als Sponsor aktiver.[…] Wenn es um ihren Fußball ging, wurde Dresdner Stasi, Polizei und SED zu reinen Lokalpatrioten. Von einer aus Berlin durchgestellten Linie konnten die Spieler da nichts erkennen. Häfner: »Eher im Gegenteil, würde ich fast sagen. Also allein, wenn ich an die Feierlichkeit denke, als wir gegen den BFC gewonnen hatten, als ich da den Böhm gesehen habe und die Seite von der Partei … Das war der größte Sieg, gerade gegen den ›großen Bruder‹. Da kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, daß, was den Fußball angeht, hier intern groß mit Berlin zusammengearbeitet wurde. Es waren Lokalpatrioten. Also die führenden Leute, gerade wie Böhm und Nyffenegger (Chef der Bezirksbehörde der Volkspolizei – d.A.). Modrow weniger, da war es mehr der Stammnitz (Lothar Stammnitz war 2. Sekretär der SED-Bezirksleitung und für Sport verantwortlich – d.A.), der war ganz verrückt. Jedes Jahr mußten wir – vor der Saison, nach der Halbserie – eine Art Rechenschaftsbericht ablegen, da gab es immer ein Essen, wir mußten unsere Bekenntnisse abgeben, dass wir kämpfen für den Bezirk Dresden.«
Der damalige SED-Bezirkschef in Dresden, Hans Modrow, ist heute noch der Ansicht, dass "die Maßnahmen angesichts ganz anderer Konsequenzen in ähnlichen Zusammenhängen der Abwerbung von DDR-Bürgern insgesamt wohl zurückhaltend geprägt" gewesen sind. Es habe sich schließlich um Angehörige eines bewaffneten Organs mit Dienstgraden gehandelt, so erklärt Modrow, inzwischen Ehrenvorsitzender der PDS und Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments.
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