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Sport-Club Freiburg e. V. (SC Freiburg, Sport-Club or
Sport-Club Freiburg e.
SCF for short) is a football club from Freiburg im Breisgau. It was founded on May 30, 1904 and has been back in the Bundesliga since the 2016/17 season.
In the all-time Bundesliga table, the club ranks
In the all-time Bundesliga table, the club ranks 22nd as of December 2019.
22nd as of December 2019. The crest contains a griffin’s head on the left and the initials SCF on the right. In July 2019 the club had around 20,000 members, making it the largest club in Baden.
SC Freiburg emerged in its present form from
SC Freiburg emerged in its present form from a series of mergers.
a series of mergers. The oldest predecessor clubs were Freiburger FV 04, founded in March 1904, and FC Schwalbe Freiburg, founded two months later. On March 3, 1912, FV 04, by then renamed SV 04, and FC Schwalbe, by then renamed first FC Mars and then FC Union, merged for the first time to form SC Freiburg.
On December 13, 1919 the club joined Freiburger Turnerschaft von 1844. Because of the dispute between gymnastics and sports associations, the footballers left again in 1924 and once more formed SC Freiburg.
During the Nazi reorganisation of organised sport, the two clubs were merged again. After the Second World War the first successor club of the gymnastics association was VfL Freiburg, which took back the old name in 1949. In 1952 the footballers again split from the parent club and formed the present-day SC Freiburg.
The club has played its home matches at
The club has played its home matches at the Schwarzwaldstadion, with a capacity of 24,000, since 1954.
the Schwarzwaldstadion, with a capacity of 24,000, since 1954. Since 1970 it has been rebuilt five times in total, most recently in 2004, and has been renamed several times. The days of the ground on the Dreisam are numbered, however. On February 1, 2015, the citizens of Freiburg voted by 58.2 percent in favour of building a new stadium in Wolfswinkel in the Brühl district.
Construction on the new home, provisionally called the SC Stadium, began in November 2018. It is designed to hold up to 34,700 spectators.