List of Berliner FC Dynamo seasons

BFC Dynamo is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Berlin. The team currently plays in the fourth tier Regionalliga Nordost. The club was founded from the football department of sports club SC Dynamo Berlin in 1966. This list covers every season played since the first season of SC Dynamo Berlin. It details the club's achievements in league and cup competitions, and the top goal scorers for each season.

Background

Sports club SC Dynamo Berlin was founded on 1 October 1954.^[1] The club entered the 1954-55 DDR-Oberliga after taking over the first team of SG Dynamo Dresden and its place in the league. The team played its first match as SC Dynamo Berlin against BSG Rotation Babelsberg in the 12th matchday on 21 November 1954.^[1] SC Dynamo Berlin captured its first title in the 1959 FDGB-Pokal. However, the team would be overshadowed by local rival ASK Vorwärts Berlin in the 1960s.^[2]

Football club BFC Dynamo was founded on 15 January 1966 from the football department of SC Dynamo Berlin.^[3] The team finished as runners-up in the 1970-71 FDGB-Pokal and qualified for its first UEFA competition. BFC Dynamo reached the semi-finals of the 1970-71 European Cup Winners' Cup before losing to Dynamo Moscow in a penalty shoot-out. The club thus became the first and so-far only football club in Berlin to have reached the semi-finals of one of the two most prestigious UEFA club competitions (the European Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup), as of 2024.

The team of BFC Dynamo at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in 1987.

BFC Dynamo developed a highly successful youth academy during the 1970s. Full-time coaches were available for all youth classes and the club was able to recruit young talents from training centers of SV Dynamo across East Germany.^[4] The youth work laid the groundwork the club's future successes.^[5][4] BFC Dynamo became East German champions for the first time in the 1978-79 DDR-Oberliga. The team then made its first appearance in the European Cup. BFC Dynamo defeated Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough 0-1 at the City Ground in the quarter-finals of the 1979-80 European Cup. The club thus became the first German football club to defeat an English club in England in the European Cup.^[6]

BFC Dynamo came tho dominate the DDR-Oberliga in the 1980s. The club had the best material conditions in the league and the best team by far.^[7] Most of its top performers came through its own youth teams.^[8] The team won ten consecutive league titles until the 1987-88 season. However, BFC Dynamo had less success in the FDGB-Pokal during the period, losing three finals. The team eventually completed the Double in the 1987-88 season. Andreas Thom became the league top goal scorer and the footballer of the year in the 1987-88 season.^[9]

BFC Dynamo was re-branded as FC Berlin on 19 February 1990.^[10] The team finished the 1990-91 NOFV-Oberliga in 11th place and just narrowly failed in the play-offs for the 2. Bundesliga. FC Berlin was qualified for the 1991–92 DFB-Pokal. The team was eliminated in the first round by SC Freiburg.^[11] FC Berlin fell on hard times after German reunification. The team never made it beyond third tier in the German football league system. FC Berlin managed to qualify for the new Regionalliga Nordost in 1994, but struggled in the league.

The club returned to its original club name on 3 May 1999.^[12] BFC Dynamo won the 1998-99 Berlin Cup and qualified for its second appearance in the DFB-Pokal. The difficulties in the Regionalliga Nordost continued. BFC Dynamo was eventually relegated to the NOFV-Oberliga in 2000. For the first time in its history, BFC Dynamo was now a fourth tier team.^[13] BFC Dynamo eventually suffered a financial crisis at the end of the 2000-01 season. Insolvency proceedings were opened against the club on 1 November 2001 and the team was consequently relegated to the fifth tier Verbandsliga Berlin.^[14]

The match between BFC Dynamo and 1. FC Köln in the 2018-19 DFB-Pokal.

BFC Dynamo qualified for the NOFV-Oberliga in the 2003-04 season and successfully brought the insolvency proceedings to a positive conclusion, largely through the efforts of supporters and contributions from the new presidium.^[15][16] The club consolidated in the NOFV-Oberliga and captured another two Berlin Cup titles. The team was undefeated in the 2013-14 NOFV-Oberliga Nord and finally qualified for the Regionalliga Nordost.

BFC Dynamo has since established itself as a strong team in the Regionalliga Nordost and a major competitor in the Berlin Cup. The team eventually won the 2021-22 Regionalliga and claimed its first ever Regionalliga title.^[17] BFC Dynamo saw the biggest increase in membership of any club in Berlin in 2021, apart from Hertha BSC and 1. FC Union Berlin; membership increased by 51 percent in 2021.^[18] In 2024, BFC Dynamo also reported its highest attendance figures since Die Wende, thus setting a new attendance record since 1990.^[19][20]

Seasons

1954–1965

Season	League										FDGB-Pokal	UEFA		Top scorer(s)[a]	Goals
	League (tier)	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos
1954-55[b]	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	12	2	12	50	49	1	26	7th	R16			Johannes Matzen Karl-Heinz Holze	13 12[c]
1955[d]	DDR-Oberliga (1)	13	8	2	3	35	12	13	18	3rd	n/a			Günter Schröter	11
1956	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	7	6	13	37	47	−10	20	13th	R16			Günter Schröter Johannes Matzen	10 10
1957	DDR-Liga (2)	26	19	3	4	80	28	52	41	1st	SF			Dieter Legler Günter Schröter Johannes Matzen	19 16 16
1958	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	10	6	10	37	34	3	26	6th	R2			Hermann Bley	12
1959	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	14	5	7	46	26	20	33	3rd	W			Günter Schröter Ralf Quest	15 11
1960	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	12	8	6	44	27	17	32	2nd	R16			Emil Poklitar Günter Schröter	14 12
1961-62[e]	DDR-Oberliga (1)	39	18	9	12	72	64	8	45	3nd	RU			Emil Poklitar Wilfried Klingbiel Hermann Bley Günter Schröter	15 11 11 11
1962-63	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	8	7	11	37	32	5	23	10th	R16			Günter Schröter	13
1963-64	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	9	6	11	35	34	1	24	8th	QF			Joachim Hall	14
1964-65	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	8	6	12	27	37	−10	23	11th	R2			Joachim Hall	7

1966-1990

Season	League										FDGB-Pokal	UEFA		Top scorer(s)[f]	Goals
	League (tier)	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos
1965-66	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	11	3	12	42	32	10	25	9th	QF			Waldemar Mühlbächer Joachim Hall Erhard Kochale	9
1966-67	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	6	9	11	28	40	−12	21	13th	R16			Erhard Kochale	6
1967-68	DDR-Liga Nord (2)	30	20	7	3	64	24	40	47	1st	R16			Peter Lyszczan	19
1968-69	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	10	5	11	25	36	−11	25	10th	SF			Manfred Becker	9
1969-70	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	10	8	8	29	32	−3	28	6th	R16			Peter Lyszczan	8
1970-71	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	10	5	11	31	29	2	25	9th	RU			Manfred Becker	8
1971-72	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	13	9	4	45	20	25	35	2nd	QF	Cup Winners' Cup	SF	Norbert Johannsen Wolf-Rüdiger Netz Frank Terletzki	16 10 10
1972-73	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	9	8	9	41	42	−1	26	6th	SF	UEFA Cup	R3	Norbert Johannsen	16
1973-74	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	12	3	11	42	41	1	27	6th	SF			Frank Fleischer Reinhard Lauck	8
1974-75	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	10	10	6	47	29	18	30	4th	R16			Norbert Johannsen	10
1975-76	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	17	3	6	67	24	43	37	2nd	QF			Hans-Jürgen Riediger Wolf-Rüdiger Netz	20 15
1976-77	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	14	4	8	43	27	16	32	4th	R16	UEFA Cup	R1	Frank Terletzki Wolf-Rüdiger Netz	9 8
1977-78	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	14	7	5	54	25	29	35	3rd	SF			Wolf-Rüdiger Netz Hans-Jürgen Riediger	16 13
1978-79	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	21	4	1	75	18	57	46	1st	RU	UEFA Cup	R1	Hans-Jürgen Riediger	36
1979-80	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	20	3	3	72	16	56	43	1st	QF	European Cup	QF	Hartmut Pelka Hans-Jürgen Riediger Frank Terletzki	19 16 14
1980-81	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	17	5	4	74	31	43	39	1st	SF	European Cup	R2	Wolf-Rüdiger Netz Bernd Schulz	18 17
1981-82	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	18	5	3	74	27	47	41	1st	RU	European Cup	R2	Hans-Jürgen Riediger Wolf-Rüdiger Netz Rainer Troppa	17 14 13
1982-83	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	20	6	0	72	22	50	46	1st	QF	European Cup	R1	Hans-Jürgen Riediger	18
1983-84	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	17	5	4	66	36	30	39	1st	RU	European Cup	QF	Rainer Ernst Bernd Schulz	27 14
1984-85	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	20	4	2	90	28	62	44	1st	RU	European Cup	R2	Rainer Ernst Frank Pastor Andreas Thom	35 29 23
1985-86	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	12	10	4	46	31	15	34	1st	QF	European Cup	R1	Frank Pastor Andreas Thom	20 16
1986-87	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	19	4	3	59	20	39	42	1st	R2	European Cup	R2	Frank Pastor Christian Backs Andreas Thom	22 13 13
1987-88	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	15	7	4	59	30	29	37	1st	W	European Cup	R1	Andreas Thom Rainer Ernst	24 17
1988-89	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	12	8	6	51	32	19	32	2nd	W	European Cup	R1	Andreas Thom Thomas Doll	20 17
1989-90	DDR-Oberliga (1)	26	9	12	5	38	35	3	30	4th	QF	Cup Winners' Cup	R2	Thomas Doll	12
1990-91	NOFV-Oberliga (1)	26	7	8	11	25	39	−14	22	11th	R2[g]			Thorsten Boer Heiko Bonan	9 8

1991–present

Season	League										Berlin Cup	DFB-Pokal	UEFA		Top scorer(s)[h]	Goals
	League (tier)	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos
1991-92	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (3)	34	25	7	2	97	15	82	57	1st	R3	R1			Ralf Rambow Dirk Rehbein Mario Tolkmitt Mikhail Pronichev[21]	18 17 16 15[21]
1992-93	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (3)	32	20	2	10	94	61	33	42	4th	R16				Dirk Rehbein Bernd Jopek	26 20
1993-94	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (3)	28	18	3	7	53	25	28	39	4th	QF				Mikhail Pronichev Heiko Brestrich	20 16
1994-95	Regionalliga Nordost (3)	34	9	10	15	53	64	−11	28	11th	SF				Michael Steffen Heiko Brestrich	21 13
1995-96	Regionalliga Nordost (3)	34	9	8	17	44	68	−24	35	13th	R1				Mikhail Pronichev	13
1996-97	Regionalliga Nordost (3)	34	7	14	13	29	48	−19	35	13th	R16				Marek Seruga Timo Lesch	8
1997-98	Regionalliga Nordost (3)	34	12	7	15	55	55	0	43	11th	QF				Bernd Jopek Timo Lesch Sebastian Müller	14 12 11
1998-99	Regionalliga Nordost (3)	34	15	8	11	47	38	10	53	8th	W				Heiko Brestrich Ayhan Gezen	15 13
1999-00	Regionalliga Nordost (3)	34	7	7	20	39	56	−17	28	17th	RU	R2			Denis Kozlov	11
2000-01	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (4)	34	27	4	3	92	17	75	85	1st	R16				Denis Kozlov Danut Oprea Dirk Vollmar Silvian Cristescu	38 17 16 14
2001-02	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17th[i]	R16				Tomasz Suwary Piotr Rowicki Sebastian Müller	5 4 4[j]
2002-03	Verbandsliga Berlin (5)	34	21	6	7	63	29	34	69	3rd	R3				Aka Adek Mba Lars Leps	15 14
2003-04	Verbandsliga Berlin (5)	34	26	7	1	91	22	69	85	1st	SF				Danny Kukulies	41[k]
2004-05	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (4)	32	15	11	6	46	28	18	56	8th	R1				Dennis Kutrieb	17
2005-06	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (4)	30	13	5	12	43	21	2	44	6th	SF				Hendryk Lau Danny Kukulies	17 11
2006-07	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (4)	30	8	12	10	42	42	0	36	10th	SF				Christian Ritter Jeff Kayser[l]	8
2007-08	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (4)	28	14	8	6	46	26	20	50	5th	Q				Christian Ritter Christian Rauch	12
2008-09	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (5)	30	16	8	6	54	37	17	56	2nd	R2				Danny Kukulies	12
2009-10	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (5)	30	17	7	6	70	40	30	58	2nd	RU				Firat Karaduman Nico Patschinski Christian Preiß	19 18 15
2010-11	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (5)	30	13	6	11	48	35	13	45	7th	W				Matthias Steinborn	18
2011-12	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (5)	28	8	5	15	35	39	−4	29	13th	SF	R1			Matthias Steinborn	13
2012-13	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (5)	30	15	11	4	59	28	31	56	3rd	W				Christian Preiß Matthias Steinborn Nico Patschinski Jörn Wemmer	13 12 11 10
2013-14	NOFV-Oberliga Nord (5)	30	27	3	0	75	10	65	84	1st	SF	R1			Djibril N'Diaye Christian Preiß	16 15
2014-15	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	28	11	12	5	34	26	8	45	5th	W				Djibril N'Diaye	18
2015-16	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	34	17	5	12	66	48	18	56	4th	QF	R1			Zlatko Muhović Dennis Srbeny	15 13
2016-17	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	34	12	8	14	51	54	−3	44	15th	W				Dennis Srbeny Kai Pröger Thiago Rockenbach	20 14 13
2017-18	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	34	16	6	12	70	50	20	54	4th	W	R1			Rufat Dadashov Matthias Steinborn	29[m] 18
2018-19	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	34	12	6	16	38	61	−23	42	12th	SF	R1			Marc Brašnić	17
2019-20	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	23	10	7	6	39	29	6	37	6th[n]	SF				Mateusz Lewandowski Ronny Garbuschewski Andor Bolyki	11 11 7
2020-21	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	11	5	3	3	26	17	9	20	6th[o]	W				Lucas Brumme Matthias Steinborn	7
2021-22	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	38	25	7	6	84	21	52	82	1st	R2	R1			Christian Beck Andor Bolyki	24[p] 18
2022-23	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	34	15	11	8	58	45	13	56	6th	SF				Christian Beck	23
2023-24	Regionalliga Nordost (4)	34	17	10	7	59	38	21	61	4th	R16				Rufat Dadashov Tobias Stockinger	14 13

Key

Pld – Matches played W – Games won D – Games drawn L – Games lost GF – Goals for GA – Goals against GD - Goal difference Pts – Points Pos – Final position

n/a – Not applicable

R1 – Round 1 R2 – Round 2 R3 – Round 3 R16 – Round of 16 QF – Quarter-finals SF – Semi-finals RU – Runner-up W – Winner

Champions

Runners-up

Promoted

Relegated

Performance chart

Historical chart of the club's league performance.

See also

• History of Berliner FC Dynamo (1954–1978)
• History of Berliner FC Dynamo (1978–1989)
• History of Berliner FC Dynamo (1989–2004)
• History of Berliner FC Dynamo (2004–present)

Explanatory notes

1. Figures include goals in the league, FDGB-Pokal, UEFA-competitions and the 1961-62 IFC Cup.
2. The team began the season as the first team of SG Dynamo Dresden. The team and its place in the DDR-Oberliga was transferred to sports club SC Dynamo Berlin in the middle of the season. The team played its first match for SC Dynamo Berlin in the 12th match day on 21 November 1954. The matches in the sixth, eight and 10th matchdays of the 1954-55 DDR-Oberliga had been postponed and were also played as SC Dynamo Berlin. The team played eight league matches for SG Dynamo Dresden and 18 matches for SC Dynamo Berlin during the league season.
3. The statistics for the season refer to both matches played for SG Dynamo Dresden and SC Dynamo Berlin during the season. The team played eight league and two domestic cup matches (the first to the fifth and the seventh, ninth and 11th matchdays of the 1954-55 DDR-Oberliga, as well as the first two rounds of the 1954-55 FDGB-Pokal) for SG Dynamo Dresden. Of his 13 goals, Matzen scored 10 goals for SC Dynamo Berlin. Of his 12 goals, Holze scored 10 goals for SC Dynamo Berlin.
4. The 1955 DDR-Oberliga was a transitional season, as the league transitioned from a fall-spring to spring-fall schedule. No FDGB-Pokal was held in the 1955 season.
5. The 1960-61 DDR-Oberliga was another transitional season, as the league transitioned from a spring-fall back to a fall-spring schedule.
6. Figures include goals in the league, FDGB-Pokal, UEFA-competitions, the 1990 Intertoto Cup and league play-offs.
7. The FDGB-Pokal was renamed NOFV-Pokal during the season.
8. Figures include goals in the league, Berlin Cup, DFB-Pokal and league play-offs.
9. All results annulled due to the opening of insolvency proceedings against the club on 1 November 2001. BFC Dynamo played 10 matches in the 2001-02 NOFV-Oberliga Nord before insolvency proceedings were opened. The last match played in the league was at home against the reserve team of Hansa Rostock on the 10th matchday on 14 October 2001. BFC Dynamo was in ninth place in the league after the 10th matchday, with 15 points and a goal difference of 14-11.^[22]
10. The goal statistics refer to the 10 matches in the 2001-02 NOFV-Oberliga Nord before the opening of the insolvency proceedings and the four matches in the 2001-02 Berlin Cup.
11. Kukulies scored a massive 33 goals in the 2003-04 Verbandsliga Berlin and 8 goals in the 2003-04 Berlin Cup.^[23][24]
12. Kutrieb started the season playing for Berlin Ankaraspor Kulübü 07. He returned to BFC Dynamo during the winter break. Kutrieb scored 7 goals in 13 matches for BFC Dynamo during the season. He scored 10 goals in total for both teams during the season.
13. Dadashov scored 25 goals in 25 league matches for BFC Dynamo and became the league top goal scorer.^[25]
14. The 2019-20 Regionalliga Nordost was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The final league standing was decided by the quotient rule, which meant the average of points earned per matches played. BFC Dynamo achieved an average of 1.61.
15. Also the 2020-21 Regionalliga Nordost was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The final league standing was again decided by the quotient rule, which meant the average of points earned per matches played. BFC Dynamo achieved an average of 1.64.
16. Beck scored 23 goals in the league and became the league top goal scorer.^[26]