SC Union 06 Berlin
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| Full name | Sport-Club Union 06 Berlin e.V. |
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| Founded | 9 June 1950 |
| Ground | Poststadion |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Chairman | Detlef Bucke |
| Manager | Jürgen Beyer |
| League | Bezirksliga Berlin (VIII) |
| 2015–16 | Landesliga Berlin 2 (VII), 14th (relegated) |
SC Union 06 Berlin is a German association football club from the city of Berlin.
Like namesake 1. FC Union Berlin, the club traces its origin back to the SC Union Oberschöneweide, formed in 1906, but the current club SC Union was formed in June 1950. It had its greatest success in the early 1950s when it won the tier one Oberliga Berlin in 1953, having finished runners-up in the previous two seasons. The 1952–53 league championship entitled the club to participate in the 1953 German football championship, where it was knocked-out in the group stage.
In 1976 the club unsuccessfully took part in the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga and, in the following season, participated in the DFB-Pokal.
SC Union 06 Berlin traces its roots back to the F.C. Olympia Oberschöneweide, a club formed in 1906. Renamed to SC Union Oberschöneweide the predecessor club won the Berlin championship in 1920, 1923, 1940 and 1948 as well as the Berlin Cup in 1947 and 1948. Union's greatest success however came in the 1923 German football championship where it reached the final but lost 3–0 to Hamburger SV. After the Second World War the club reformed as SG Oberschöneweide. It took part in the 1948 German football championship but lost to 7–0 FC St. Pauli in the quarter finals.
After a runners-up finish in the Oberliga Berlin in 1950 and qualification to the 1950 German football championship Union was refused permission to travel to Kiel to play Hamburger SV by the Soviet occupation authorities. The team consequently decided to leave East Berlin for the western half of the city. It travelled to Kiel, lost 7–0 to HSV and shortly after formed a new club, the current SC Union 06 Berlin, on 9 June 1950 in West Berlin. SG Oberschöneweide continued to exist in East Berlin and eventually became what is now 1. FC Union Berlin. Another group of Union players formed the BBC Südost, also based in the West, but the latter was disbanded in 1990.
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