{{refimprove|date=December 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = BSC Kickers 1900 | image = BSC Kickers 1900 logo.png | fullname = Berliner Sportclub Kickers 1900 e.V. | nickname = | founded = 1900 | ground = | capacity = | chairman = | manager = | league = Kreisliga A Staffel 3 (IX) | season = 2015–16 | position = 7th | pattern_la1=|pattern_b1=|pattern_ra1= | leftarm1=FFFFFF|body1=FFFFFF|rightarm1=FFFFFF|shorts1=008000|socks1=008000 | pattern_la2=|pattern_b2=|pattern_ra2= | leftarm2=008000|body2=008000|rightarm2=008000|shorts2=008000|socks2=008000| }}
'''BSC Kickers 1900''' is a German football club from the Schöneberg district of south central Berlin. The roots of the club are in the establishment of ''Berliner Thor- und Fußball Club Elf'' on 1 November 1900. This was followed by a series of mergers that led to the formation of ''Schöneberger FC Kickers 1900'' in 1923 and the club's advance to first division play in the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg (I).
== History ==
=== Early mergers === From 1904 to 1906, predecessor ''BTuFC Elf'' was part of the Märkischen Meisterschaft, one of two competing top-flight city leagues, where they earned only lower table finishes. On 1 January 1912, they merged with ''Berliner Fußballclub Hubertus 05'' (established 23 September 1905) to form ''Berliner Sport-Club Hubertuself''. A subsequent merger with ''Ballspielverein Sportlust-Borussia 1899 Schöneberg'' in 1923 created ''Kickers''. ''BSV'' was the product of an earlier 1920 union between ''TuFC Sportlust 1904'' and ''Schöneberger FC Borussia'' which had been formed 1 March 1899 as ''Berliner TuFC Borussia''.
=== Success through the 1920s === ''Schöneberger Kickers'' were a competitive side in the early 1920s, and after a second-place finish in Staffel B of the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg in 1925–26, followed up with a first-place result the next season. They lost the divisional final to Hertha BSC, but still advanced to the national level playoff. They beat Duisburger SV (5–4) in an eighth-final match-up, before being convincingly put out in the quarterfinals by defending national champions SpVgg Fürth (0–9). The team also took part in the 1927 Berliner Landespokal (Berlin Cup) where the advanced out of the quarterfinal by beating BV Luckenwalde (2–1) before being eliminated in the semifinals by BFC Viktoria 1889 (1–3).
The following season ''Kickers'' adopted the name ''Berliner Sport-Club 1900 Kickers''. Their play slipped and after a 10th-place finish in 1931, the team was bankrupted and out of first division play. A new club called ''Berliner SC Grün-Weiß-Rot'' was quickly formed (1 July 1931) out of the ashes of the old, and it took on the name ''Kickers'' on 1 January 1934. The club remained an anonymous side in lower-tier city play over the next decade-and-half.
=== Postwar play === After World War II, occupying Allied authorities disbanded organizations throughout the country, including sports and football clubs. The former membership of ''Kickers'' became part of the community-based ''Sportgruppe Schöneberg Nord'' which took up play in the postwar Stadtliga Berlin in 1945–46 and the Amateurliga Berlin (II) in 1946–47. By 1949, ''SG'' re-adopted its historical identity as ''Kickers'' and in 1953 advanced to the Oberliga Berlin (I) for a single season on the strength of a second place Amateurliga result.
Following the formation of the top-flight Bundesliga in 1963, the Amateurliga became a third-tier circuit. Another second-place finish there in 1966 saw ''Kickers'' promoted to the Regionalliga Berlin (II) where they would remain for four seasons until being sent down in 1970.<ref>Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. {{ISBN|978-3-89784-147-5}}.</ref> They made single-season appearances in Oberliga (IV) and Landesliga (V) in 1974 and 1996 respectively, but have since slipped to obscurity, descending through Bezirksliga to play most of the past four decades in the Kreisliga. ''Kickers'' are today part of the Kreisliga A (IX).
<!-- == Berliner Fußballclub Hubertus 05 == 1895 Berliner Thor- und Fussball-Bund 6th
== BTuFC Bor. Schöneberg == 1906 2.Verband Brandenburgischer Ballspielvereine 8th
== Berliner SC Kickers == 1904-05 Märkischen Meisterschaft (I) 8th as Berliner TuFC Elf 1905–06 Märkischen Meisterschaft (I) 7th ... 1923–24 Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/St. A (I) 3rd as Schöneberger Kickers 1924–25 Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/St. A (I) 5th 1925–26 Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/St. B (I) 2nd 1926–27 Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/St. B (I) 1st 1927–28 Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/St. B (I) 3rd as Berliner SC 1900 Kickers 1928–29 Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/St. A (I) 6th 1929–30 Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/St. A (I) 8th 1930–31 Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg/St. A (I) 10th ↓ ... 1946–47 Stadtliga Berlin/St. A 6th as SG Schöneberg Nord 1947–48 Amateurliga Berlin/St. C (II) 4th 1948–49 Amateurliga Berlin Südwestkreis/St. A (II) 5th 1949–50 Amateurliga Berlin/St. B (II) 11th ↓ as Berliner SC 1900 Kickers 1950–51 ??? ↑ 1951–52 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 4th 1952–53 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 2nd ↑ 1953–54 Oberliga Berlin (I) 12th ↓ 1954–55 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 7th 1955–56 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 3rd 1956–57 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 9th 1957–58 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 6th 1958–59 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 7th 1959–60 Amateurligar Berlin (II) 3rd ↑ 1960–61 Oberliga Berlin (I) 10th ↓ 1961–62 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 4th 1962–63 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 6th 1963–64 Amateurliga Berlin (III) 9th 1964–65 Amateurliga Berlin (III) 8th 1965–66 Amateurliga Berlin (III) 2nd ↑ 1966–67 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 14th 1967–68 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 14th 1968–69 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 8th 1969–70 Regionalliga Berlin (II) 12th ↓ 1970–71 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 15th 1971–72 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 14th 1972–73 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 13th 1973–74 Amateurliga Berlin (II) 6th 1974–75 Amateurliga Berlin (III) 14th ↓ -->
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Official website|https://www.kickers1900.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
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