{{short description|German association football club}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox football club | nickname = The Prussians | ground = Preussen-Stadion an der Malteserstraße | capacity = 5,000 | pattern_la1 = | pattern_la2 = | pattern_b2 = | pattern_ra1 = | pattern_ra2 = | leftarm1 = ffffff | leftarm2 = ffffff | body1 = ffffff | body2 = ffffff | rightarm1 = ffffff | rightarm2 = ffffff | shorts1 = 000000 | shorts2 = ffffff | socks1 = 000000 | socks2 = ffffff | clubname = BFC Preussen | image = BFC Preussen Logo.png | fullname = Berliner Fußballclub Preussen e.V. | founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1894|5|1}} | chairman = Karl-Heinz Ulbrich | manager = Thomas Häßler | league = Regionalliga Nordost (IV) | season = 2025–26 | position = Regionalliga Nordost, 8th of 18 | pattern_b1 = | }}'''BFC Preussen''' is a German football club from Berlin. The team is part of a sports club which also has departments for handball, volleyball, athletics, gymnastics, and ice hockey. ''Preussen'' was one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900. == History == The club was formed as ''BFC Friedrich Wilhelm'' on 1 May 1894 by a number of players who had left ''Hevellia Berlin''. It was named in honour of Crown Prince Wilhelm, an early and enthusiastic supporter of the new game of football who donated the Kronprinzenpokal (en: Crown Prince's Cup), the German game's earliest prize. In 1895, the club was renamed ''Preußen'' for the Kingdom of Prussia, and went on to success playing in the Verband Deutscher Ballspiel Vereine (Federation of German Ballgame Teams). The team lost the league final in 1898 before going on to win three consecutive titles in 1899–1901, and then repeating as champions in 1910 and 1912. While ''Preußen'' remained a prominent side playing in the Verbandsliga Berlin-Brandenburg and Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg through to the early 1930s, they earned just mid-table results.
In 1933, German football was re-organized under the Third Reich into sixteen regional first division Gauligen. However, an uncharacteristically poor finish to the 1932–33 season that saw ''Preußen'' finish in last place put the club out of top-flight football. In the aftermath of World War II occupying Allied authorities banned organizations throughout Germany, including sports and football clubs, as part of the process of denazification. The club was dissolved, then re-established in 1949.
By the 1970s, ''Preussen'' had settled into third-tier competition in the Amateurliga Berlin (III). A short-lived breakthrough to the Regionalliga Berlin (II) lasted two seasons from 1972 to 1974 before the team briefly crashed to the Landesliga Berlin (IV) in 1974–75. The team's quick return to the third tier Amateur Oberliga Berlin was marked by five exceptional seasons in which they earned three first and two second-place finishes. They narrowly missed promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in 1980 when they lost the playoff to ''SC Göttingen 05'' (0–1 and 1–1). ''Preußen'' played out the balance of the 1970s and on into the early 1990s in the third division.
The team soon found itself in the fifth tier Verbandsliga Berlin and slipped as low as the Landesliga Berlin-1 (VI) in 1999–2000. In 2011–12, they were demoted from the Berlin-Liga (VI) after an 18th-place result. After three seasons in the Landesliga they were promoted back to the Berlin-Liga by winning the 2014–15 Landesliga Berlin 1.
==Current squad== {{Updated|5 February 2026}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kicker.de/bfc-preussen/kader/regionalliga-nordost/2025-26|title=Kader 2025/26|website=kicker.de|access-date=9 October 2025}}</ref> {{Fs start}} {{Fs player|no= 4|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Adrian Kireski}} {{Fs player|no= 5|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Leo Sommerfeld}} {{Fs player|no= 6|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=Niklas Brandt}} {{Fs player|no= 7|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=Philip Fontein}} {{Fs player|no= 8|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Oliver Maric}} {{Fs player|no= 9|nat=GER|pos=FW|name=Philipp Kühn}} {{Fs player|no=10|nat=GER|pos=FW|name=Luca Butkovic}} {{Fs player|no=11|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=Alexander Dikarev}} {{Fs player|no=14|nat=GHA|pos=MF|name=Fritz Schröder}} {{Fs player|no=15|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=Jasin Abou-Chaker}} {{Fs player|no=16|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Reda Ouakil}} {{Fs player|no=17|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Chadi Ramadan}} {{Fs player|no=18|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=Oluwaseunnla Adekunle}} {{Fs mid}} {{Fs player|no=19|nat=GER|pos=GK|name=Steffen Westphal}} {{Fs player|no=21|nat=SEY|pos=DF|name=Charmaine Häusl}} {{Fs player|no=27|nat=GER|pos=GK|name=Karl Albers}} {{Fs player|no=28|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Jerome Kortebusch}} {{Fs player|no=29|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=Patrick Breitkreuz}} {{Fs player|no=30|nat=GER|pos=FW|name=Nikolas Frank}} {{Fs player|no=31|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=Ole Hoch}} {{Fs player|no=39|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Lenny Stein}} {{Fs player|no=77|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Ben Meyer}} {{Fs player|no=-|nat=GER|pos=DF|name=Julius Götze}} {{Fs player|no=-|nat=PLE|pos=FW|name=Dawoud Iraqi}} {{Fs player|no=-|nat=MAD|pos=FW|name=Kanto Fitiavana Voahariniaina}} {{Fs end}}
== International players == * {{flagicon|GER|empire}} Rudolf Droz, German international * {{flagicon|GER|empire}} {{flagicon|ENG}} Edwin Dutton, former German international<ref>[http://www.iffhs.de/?29da14a95814689b5528db14a85fdcdc3bfcdc0aec70aeeda0ae01 Stats for the Hungary -Germany international 4 April 1909] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526113022/http://www.iffhs.de/?29da14a95814689b5528db14a85fdcdc3bfcdc0aec70aeeda0ae01 |date=26 May 2011 }} www.iffhs.de, accessed: 18 August 2008</ref> * {{flagicon|GER|empire}} Alfred "Puttchen" Gelbhaar, German international * {{flagicon|GER|empire}} Erich Massini, German international * {{Flagicon|PHI}} {{Flagicon|GER}} Oliver Pötschke, Filipino international<ref>[http://ergebnisdienst.fussball.de/torjaeger/1-2-herren-berlin-liga/berlin/berlin-ligen/herren/spieljahr1112/berlin/M66S1112W661111Atorjaeger] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113130257/http://ergebnisdienst.fussball.de/torjaeger/1-2-herren-berlin-liga/berlin/berlin-ligen/herren/spieljahr1112/berlin/M66S1112W661111Atorjaeger |date=13 November 2011 }} {{in lang|de}}</ref><ref>{{NFT player|id=45163|name=Oliver Pötschke}}</ref> * {{flagicon|GER|empire}} Otto Thiel, German international * {{flagicon|GER|empire}} Gustav Unfried, German international * {{flagicon|GER|empire}} Otto Völker, German international
== Honours == The club's honours: * '''Brandenburg football championship''' ** Champions: 1899, 1900, 1901, 1910, 1912 * '''Oberliga Berlin''' (III) ** Champions: 1972, 1977, 1980, 1981 * '''Verbandsliga Berlin''' (V) ** Champions: 2005 * '''Berliner Landespokal''' ** Winners 1979, 1980, 1981, 2016 ** Runners-up 1988
== Recent seasons == {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Division ! Position ! Points ! Goal difference |- style="text-align:center;" | 2000–01 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=5| Verbandsliga Berlin (V) | 2nd | 83 | +55 |- style="text-align:center;" | 2001–02 | 8th | 58 | +7 |- style="text-align:center;" | 2002–03 | 5th | 56 | +14 |- style="text-align:center;" | 2003–04 | 3rd | 62 | +19 |- style="text-align:center;" | 2004–05 | 1st Promoted to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord | 79 | +41 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2005–06 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=4| NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV) || 11th || 38 || +1 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2006–07 || 8th || 39 || −6 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2007–08 || 13th || 20 || −44 |- style="text-align:center;" | 2008–09 | 15th Relegated to the Berlin-Liga | 28 | −19 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2009–10 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=3| Berlin-Liga (VI) || 12th || 49 || +17 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2010–11 || 15th || 37 || −11 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2011–12 || 18th Relegated to the Landesliga || 32 || −28 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2012–13 | style="text-align:left;"| Landesliga Berlin 2 (VII) || 10th || 39 || +17 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2013–14 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=2| Landesliga Berlin 1 (VII) || 3rd || 68 || +52 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2014–15 || 1st Promoted to the Berlin-Liga || 73 || +81 |- style="text-align:center;" || 2015–16 | style="text-align:left;"| Berlin-Liga (VI) || 5th || || |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.bfc-preussen.de/ Official website (club)] * [http://www.bfc-preussen-fussball.de/ Official team site (football)] * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051224021411/http://abseits-soccer.com/clubs/preuberlin.html Abseits Guide to German Soccer]}}
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