713 Opportunities: Migration clubs on the Germany map - Kicker

That football clubs like to exchange your coaches? Nothing new. Players come and go. Even club logos are modernized every few years. But one remains: the club name. Normally.

EYÜPSPOR Werdohl made an exception in the summer of 2020. And did not want to mean Eyüpspor anymore. The club from the Märkische Sauerland named himself before the start of the season. And because everyone's initially known a spell inherit the premiere. 5: 1 ended the kick-off in the district league A against the SV Hellas Lüdenscheid. That this would be related to the new name, no one believes in charcoal nobody. And yet he brought with him a certain departure mood.

"On the square you always started with 0: 1," says Mikail Kocak, the 2nd club chairman, overlooking the old club name, "You just know that. You have to hang up as a foreign team." EYÜP Sultan, then the mosque is called Werdohl, under its patronage of the club initially operated. "Last year there was a change in the board," says Kocak. "Many young people came to it. So we wanted to start at zero and underlay that with a new name."

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The election fell on TSV, commonly known as a gymnastics and sports club. This association was aware of this association. As neutral as possible, the name should be, even so that the sponsorship will be sweeped. Without foreign sound, the easier work. Nevertheless, the TSV has nothing to do with bars and stretch rods. Like 26 other clubs in German football, are now registered as Turkish sports club in the register. Overall, there are 331 clubs, which shows a We research, with terms of Akdeniz to Zonguldak , in their name to Turkey (see scroll and zoomable card).

Only a "migrant" association in East Germany: But the SV Hellas 09 Oranienbaum has other reasons. Kicker / Datawrapper

The German club landscape is international than she seems at first glance. 34 nations have immortalized in the name, from Afghanistan to the US, from Nordmasedonia to Peru. South America and Africa are even represented as whole continents, there are 29 international teams as well as several ethnic groups such as Aramaese, Jesides, Mesopotamier and Tamils. But no other group is only approximately approaching the tremendous number of Turkish clubs. Two-strongest factions are the 53 Greek clubs, Croatian club names are available 51 (to the Croatian map). The Kurds set their own nation, they appeared in the statistics with 42 clubs at fourth centrally. If you compute all nations and ethnic groups, 713 of 16 819 clubs participating in the DFB game mode make a migration reference on behalf. About 4.2 percent.

As these clubs are distributed in Germany, they also provide information about migration movements. So on the Kicker club card just a single migrant club in East Germany has settled: the SV Hellas 09 Oranienbaum. However, the Club of Saxony-Anhalt was not founded in 1909 by Greek immigrants. Rather, the enthusiasm for the antiquity and the Olympic Games of modern times are reflected in the club name. Immigrant clubs in the field of the former GDR do not exist for the name. The guest workers there were about Vietnam or Mozambique. Unlike Turks, Greeks (to the Greek club card) or Italian, they did not bring a sports club culture from their homeland.

"If you wanted to stay under yourself, you could start your own association"

According to the Federal Statistical Office, 95.2 percent of people lived in 2019 with a migrant background in West Germany and Berlin. The number is reflected on the football card. And because Polish guest workers often settle in NRW decades ago, there are now six of the Swiss Twelve Polish clubs throughout Germany. More than every fourth migrant overall lived in 2019 in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Clear geographic focus: football clubs with Greece cover in Germany Kicker / Datawrapper

Integration not only happens through the integration into international, intercultural teams, of which there are countless. "Clear that people in a new home want to stay under themselves - but only in the first step," says Michael Krüger, Professor of Sports History at the University of Münster. "In the second step, they would like to compete against other clubs together in an ordered competition. That's the first stage of integration. Later, they threw through." The fact that immigrant associations in the DFB system at all are already a sign that integration works. "If you wanted to stay completely among yourself, you could also start your own bandage," says Kruger.

Especially since you did not have it easy for a long time. The Deutsche Sportbund wrote in a declaration of funds in 1981 that the membership of migrants and migrants in German association is basically desirable. An too high number would overwrite them. Immigrants were welcome if they did not change the structure and character of the clubs. Fortunately, these times are over.

With a relevant name you get hard on sponsors

Before the rise of TurkGücü Munich in Professional football, Türkiyemspor Berlin carried the unofficial title as nationwide most successful immigrant club. "Türkiyem" means as much as "my Turkey". The club rose so far that he had to make use of an exceptional permit in 1991. His squad in the third-class Berlin Oberliga contained exactly two Germans, but in the 2nd league, however, were just two foreigners in the team at this time. Only shortly before the last match day, the approval of the DFB doodled for the leadership. "The last game was against Tennis Borussia," remembers Mehmet Matur. "We were so busy in the head with everything that we waiver." 0: 5 ended the game, Türkiyemspor slipped on the 2nd place and remained third-class. The club is currently playing in the sixth-class Berlin league.

In the south at home: the Croatian football in Germany Kicker / Datawrapper

Matur was at that time club functional, today he is responsible for integration work as a presidential member of the Berlin Football Association. "In the new country, one looks in his environment first: Who lives here with the same background as you yourself? Then you build contacts, closes together. So it ran in Greeks, Yugoslavs, Turks." Among each other, one feels more comfortable.

The immigrants founded cultural associations, also asked football teams. Your origin sometimes grabbed the name: Istanbul, Izmir, Hatay. Mostly these teams died from players from Ebendies region. And Matur understands the motive that led the TSV Werdohl for renaming: With a relevant name you get hard on sponsors. If at all, then only within the community. Also, a negative image is easily recognizable to Turkish name, says Matur.

"20 years ago, they would have mentioned differently"

Werdohl is not the only case lately, as the view to Berlin shows. The Neuköllner Club Galatasaray is now called Rixdorfer SV, Samsunspor became FC Kreuzberg, but does not participate in the game at the moment. In general, he would not necessarily recommend migrant clubs to change to a neutral name, says Matur. A relevant name also bring advantages: identification, cohesion, solidarity. However, during start-ups, he is increasingly observing that they immediately accept a German name. That makes it easier to deal with offices and associations, he says and calls Sport Union Berlin as an example: "20 years ago, those who had been mentioned differently. Sports Gücü or something."

After two wins at the start of the season, the Turkish SV had to cope with a setback in the third party. 1: 2 lost the club in the chalkatal against the TSV Lüdenscheid.

TSV? Right. Even the opponent has nothing with gymnastics at the hat. It was a little derby, so to speak.

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