FC Germania Helsinki

Germania

Full name	FC Germania Helsinki
Founded	17.11.2017
Chairman	Tim Becker
League	Vitonen
2022	1

FC Germania Helsinki (FCGH) is a sports club from Greater Helsinki, Finland, playing association football.

History

The 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

Season Level Division Section Administration Position Movements 2019 Tier 7 Kutonen (Sixth Division) 5 SPL Helsinki and Uusimaa 2nd Promoted 2020 Tier 6 Vitonen (Fifth Division) 5 SPL Helsinki and Uusimaa 4th 2021 5 SPL Helsinki and Uusimaa 5th 2022 5 SPL Helsinki and Uusimaa 1st Promoted 3 seasons in Vitonen 1 season in Kutonen

Notable club members

• 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

• Football Association of Finland
• Germans in Finland

Links and References

• 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

1. 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.
2. "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.
3. Original foundation document (17.11.2017), accessed 19.5.2021
4. Information Service of the Finnish Register of Associations, accessed 19.05.2021
5. Football Association of Finland, accessed 19.05.2021
6. "Deutsche Institutionen in Finnland" (in German). Deutsche Botschaft Helsinki. 2017-11-22. Archived from the original on 2020-09-28. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
7. "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
8. 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
9. Suomen Palloliitto, accessed 14.05.2021
10. Suomen Palloliitto, accessed 18.05.2021
11. Suomen Palloliitto, accessed 20.05.2021
12. "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.
13. "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.
14. Team photo, accessed 20.05.2021
15. Reibetanz, Thomas (2020-09-04), "Ex-Ifa-Spieler gründet Fußballverein in Helsinki", Freie Presse (in German), p. 16, retrieved 2020-11-21
16. "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.
17. 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…
18. 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.