Berliner AK 07

Berliner AK 07
Full name Berliner Athletik Klub 07 e.V.
Founded 15 December 1907
Ground Poststadion
Capacity 10,000
Chairman Mehmet Ali Han
Manager Steffen Baumgart
League Regionalliga Nordost (IV)
2016–17 Regionalliga Nordost, 6th
Website Club website

Berliner AK 07 is a German football club based in Berlin. The club was founded in 1907 and has since evolved into a multi-cultural German-Turkish association with temporary ties to professional football in Turkey.

History

Berlin Ankaraspor Kulübü 07 logo during the cooperation with Ankaraspor

The association was established on 15 December 1907 in the Wedding district of Berlin as an athletics club interested primarily in running. A football department was formed in 1908 which has since remained a largely anonymous side playing in lower tier city competition. In the early 90s AK 07 played in the sixth division Landesliga Berlin and advanced to the Verbandsliga Berlin (V) on the strength of a 1995 championship there. A 1999 Verbandsliga title saw the club further promoted to the NOFV-Oberliga Nord (IV).

AK 07 merged with BSV Mitte in 2004: Mitte had earlier been formed out of the merger of the ethnically Turkish sides BFC Güneyspor and Fenerbahçe Berlin. The restructured association formed a co-operative relationship with Turkish first division club Ankaraspor in June 2006 which focuses on player development in Germany.

On 6 July 2006 the club adopted the name Berlin Ankaraspor Kulübü 07 and selected Ahmet Gökcek, son of the mayor of Ankara, as chairman. With the name change the club also abandoned its traditional colours of red and white to don the blue and white kit of Ankaraspor, but later reverted to its old name and colors.

The club won promotion to the Regionalliga Nord in 2011 and achieved a German Cup upset when it defeated Bundesliga side 1899 Hoffenheim 4–0 in 2012.[1]

Since 2012 the club plays in the Regionalliga Nordost.[2][3]

Stadium

Berliner AK 07 played its home fixtures in the Sportanlage Lüderitzstraße (capacity 3,000) with an interlude (2000–2003) spent at the Hanne-Sobek-Sportanlage. The team has moved to the 20,000 seat Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district at the start of the 2006–07 season and currently play at the Poststadion.

Current squad

As of 13 February 2018[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Nico Wiesner
3 Germany DF Can Coskun
4 Cameroon DF Cedric Mvondo
6 Germany MF Serkan Tokgöz
7 Germany MF Orhan Yildirim
8 Germany MF Tunay Deniz
9 Germany MF Ozan Pekdemir
10 Germany MF Enes Küc
11 Sierra Leone FW Abu-Bakarr Kargbo
12 Slovakia DF Ľubomír Korijkov
14 Germany DF Oliver Hofmann
15 Germany DF Florijon Belegu
17 Turkey MF Ömer Akyörük
No. Position Player
17 Turkey FW Hayrullah Alici
18 Netherlands DF Tim Linthorst
20 Slovakia MF David Danko
22 Germany GK Phillip Amelung
23 Germany FW Felix Brügmann
24 Croatia MF Lovro Šindik
27 Germany MF Fatlum Elezi
31 Germany DF Pierre Becken
33 Czech Republic GK Jakub Jakubov
42 Germany MF Seref Özcan
48 Germany DF Youssef Sakran
— Germany GK Daniel Bittner

Honours

The club's honours:

References

  1. ↑ BAK 07: Einst Berliner Filiale von Ankaraspor (in German) Weltfussball.de, published: 19 August 2012, accessed: 19 August 2012
  2. ↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  3. ↑ Berliner AK 07 at Fussball.de (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  4. ↑ "Kaderansicht" (in German). Berliner AK 07. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
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