by Sanguine »
08 Mar 2021 16:30
When down a bit of a rabbit run when reading about Schalke and how their awful season compares to Bundesliga's worst. Pretty much every 'worst' record for the league is held by the Tasmania Berlin side of 1965-66. Fewest wins (2), most defeats (28), fewest goals scored (15), most goals conceded (108), biggest home defeat (0-9) and most consecutive games without a win (31) - and others.
Thing is, they were never supposed to be there - the club had finished third in the Regionalliga Berlin (in the 60s everything below Bundesliga was regionalised). Hertha Berlin had been relegated and cold-war politics determined that a club from Berlin had to be found a place in the Bundesliga. The winners of their regional league, Tennis Borussia Berlin, had lost to Bayern Munich (promoted that year) in the play-offs. Second-placed Spandauer FC refused promotion on the grounds of unpreparedness, but Tasmania took a gamble - and went on to set a plethora of terrible records.