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Berliner FC Dynamo:A predecessor club to the current-day BFC Dynamo was established as SpVgg Dynamo Berlin on March 27, 1953 and then renamed as SC Dynamo Berlin on October 1, 1954. The team was promoted to the DDR-Liga (II) in 1957 and captured the division championship that year to immediately advance to the DDR Oberliga. Dynamo enjoyed some success in the late 50s and early 60s with a number of top-three finishes and an East German Cup win in 1959. The club was re-established on January 15, 1966 as BFC Dynamo Berlin when the football department was spun off as part of a general re-organization of football in the country. Dynamo Berlin quickly returned to first division play after a single season absence and would soon become infamous.Playing in the DDR-Oberliga BFC won ten consecutive titles from 1979 to 1988.After German re-unification in 1990 the club was re-named FC Berlin, but in 1999, they again took up the name BFC Dynamo. The club quickly fell to tier III play and since the 2000-01 season has toiled in IV or V division leagues. The team went bankrupt in 2001-02 but with the support from their fans they managed the insolvency proceedings and made a recommencement. Actually BFC Dynamo play in the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (since the season 2008/09 and the creation of the new nationwide 3th league in Germany the 5th Divison).Stadiums:The home of the club is the stadium at the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen built in 1970. It has a capacity of 10,000 spectators (~2,000 seats) and is part of a larger sports complex opened in 1986 with facilities for speed skating, athletics, and cycling. When opened it offered the world's first covered indoor speed skating oval. The football stadium was renovated in 2005-06 to include fences and player tunnels required to meet security standards. Dynamo plaid until 1990 mostly in the larger, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark.Honours:Dynamo Berlin was East Germany's most successful club capturing 10 national titles, and is second in the country only to Bayern Munich who have 20 national titles to their credit. Those 10 titles came consecutively - a feat no other team in Germany has matched at the top level of competition.* East German champions (DDR-Oberliga): 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 * East German Cup (FDGB Pokal): 1959, 1988, 1989 * Supercup: 1989 * Paul Rusch Cup: 1999 * Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV) champions: 2001 * Berlin champions 2004