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Sport-Club Freiburg e. V. (SC Freiburg, Sport-Club or SCF for short) is a football club from Freiburg im Breisgau. Founded on May 30, 1904, the club has been playing in the Bundesliga again since the 2016/17 season.

In the all-time Bundesliga table, the club occupies 22nd place (as of December 2019). The Sport-Club crest features a griffin's head on the left side and the abbreviation SCF on the right. In July 2019, the club had approximately 20,000 members, making it the largest club in Baden.

SC Freiburg in its present form emerged from a series of mergers. The club's oldest predecessors are Freiburger FV 04, founded in March 1904, and FC Schwalbe Freiburg, founded two months later. On March 3, 1912, the now-renamed SV 04 and FC Schwalbe (successively renamed FC Mars and FC Union) merged for the first time to form SC Freiburg. On December 13, 1919, the club joined the Freiburger Turnerschaft von 1844. In 1924, amid disputes between gymnastic and sports associations, the footballers broke away again to re-form SC Freiburg. During the Nazi era, both clubs were merged once more as part of a nationwide reorganisation of sport. After the Second World War, VfL Freiburg emerged as the successor club, reverting to its old name in 1949. In 1952, the footballers again separated from the parent club to form the SC Freiburg that exists today.

Der Verein trägt seine Heimspiele seit 1954 im Schwarzwaldstadion (24.000 Plätze) aus. Es ist seit 1970 insgesamt fünfmal (zuletzt 2004) umgebaut und mehrfach umbenannt worden. Die Tage der Arena an der Dreisam sind jedoch gezählt. Am 1. Februar 2015 stimmen die Bürger von Freiburg in einem Entscheid mit 58,2 Prozent für den Stadionneubau im Wolfswinkel im Stadtteil Brühl. Im November 2018 beginnen die Bauarbeiten für die neue Heimstatt mit dem Arbeitstitel „SC-Stadion“. Es ist für maximal 34.700 Zuschauer ausgelegt.