The German Football League published the fixture list for the 2023/24 Bundesliga season on Friday, with VfB kicking off their campaign at home to VfL Bochum.

In August 1965, a change in sports policy between DTSB and the Socialist Unity Party (SED) focused on raising the levels of football in the GDR. Part of the new plan: the founding of independent football clubs from existing sports clubs. The football section of the Turn- und Sportclub Berlin with its men’s and youth teams formed the basis of the now independent club in the Oberschöneweide industrial area. The TSC was the only one of the ten newly founded clubs to play in the second division.

The German Football League (DFL) published the fixture list for the 2023/24 Bundesliga campaign on Friday morning. Niko Kovac’s team get their season under way with a home match against top-flight newcomers 1. FC Heidenheim on Saturday 19/Sunday 20 August, before travelling to 1. FC Köln a week later in their first away game.

“You see the other results today (relegation-threatened Southampton and Bournemouth both won), the topsy-turvy nature of the Premier League.

The wall was commissioned to commemorate the founding of the 1000th official BVB fan club in autumn 2022. For the same reason, a special exhibit on fan clubs had already been put together at the BORUSSEUM. “Reaching that milestone made us very proud. But we are also very grateful for the great voluntary commitment of more than 65,000 fan club members,” explains Björn Hegemann, head of the fan relations department. “We want to give something back to the fan clubs and that’s how the idea came about to represent all the fan clubs on a huge wall in the stadium. We would like to say a big thank you to all the fan clubs with this.”

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