1. FC Saarbrücken
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1. FC Saarbrücken is a German association football club based in the city of Saarbrücken, Saarland. The club began its existence as the football department of Turnverein Malstatt formed in 1903. That department split off in 1907 to form the independent football club FV Malstatt-Burbach and on 1 April 1909 was renamed FV Saarbrücken.HistoryThe club became part of the tier-one Kreisliga Saar in 1919, where it played with moderate success, a second place in the leagues last season, 1922–23 being its best result. From 1923, the club played in the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar – Saar division, winning the title there in 1927–28 but missed out on qualification to the new Gauliga in 1933.Play under the Third ReichThe team made its way to first division play in 1935 in the Gauliga Südwest, one of sixteen regional divisions established in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. A league shuffle saw them in the Gauliga Südwest-Saarpfalz in 1940 and they won the division the next year. In 1943 they again won their division – now called the Gauliga Westmark – and advanced through the playoff rounds to the national final where they were defeated 0:3 by Dresdner SC. The next year they only made it as far as the quarterfinals where they were put out by 1. FC Nuremberg. During the last years of World War II in 1943–1945 the team had played as a combined wartime side (Kriegsspielgemeinschaft Saarbrücken) with SC Altenkessel.
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