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| Full name | Sportliche Vereinigung Nord Wedding 1893 e.V. | ||
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| Founded | 1893 | ||
| Ground | Sportanlage Kühnemannstraße | ||
| Capacity | 3,000 | ||
| League | Kreisliga Berlin B, Staffel 2 (X) | ||
| 2015–16 | 12th | ||
SV Nord Wedding 1893 is aGerman association football club that plays in theWedding district of the city ofBerlin.
Their complicated lineage includes a number of clubs and they can trace their roots back to some of the city's earliest football sides.Wedding's predecessors include two clubs which were part of thefounding of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund, en:German Football Association) atLeipzig in 1900 –Rapide 93 Berlin andFavorit 96 Berlin.
On 1 October 1893, a group of 17-year-old school boys formed a club they calledBerliner FC Rapide Niderschönhausen. The team was also known asBerliner Tor- und Fußball Club Rapide orBerliner Fußball und Cricket Club – Berliner Football andHandball Club. This team is recognized as the "founding side" of the present day club. This club's growth was impeded throughout its early history by the lack of a home ground they could claim as their own.
In 1906 another club calledReinickendorfer BC was formed. This side merged withBFC Wedding (1914) to createSC Wedding (1914). BothRapid andWedding played within the various levels of football in Berlin until World War II. After the war the football and handball departments of this group of clubs came together asSportgemeinschaft Schillerpark which was renamedSC Wedding in 1948. Two years later the club reached back to its origins to take on the nameSC Wedding-Rapide 93.
The other thread ofSV Nord Wedding's history begins on 15 October 1896 with the founding ofBerliner Sport Club Favorit. Under theNazi regime German football was re-organized. Politically undesirable blue collar worker's clubs were dissolved, often forced into mergers with other associations. In 1933Favorit became home to the members of worker's league championsPankower 1908 SC. After the war the club was re-formed and played asSG Nordbahn before being re-namedVfL Nord in 1947. The construction of theBerlin Wall in 1961 effectively split up the club by isolating thePankowers in the east, greatly reducing the side's strength. In response, what was left ofNord merged withBFC Nordstern 07 to formSV Nord-Nordstern 1896.
Finally, in 2001,SV Nord-Nordstern andSC Wedding-Rapide came together to formSV Nord Wedding 1893. This successor side currently plays in the tier tenKreisliga Berlin B.
