Union Berlin has already reached the Bundesliga

Well, RB Leipzig can’t count because the club has been founded after the reunification

To be honest, even the West Germany clubs can't compete in the Bayernliga.

The point you're trying to make around 9:00 is kind of misleading: In the 2014 world cup team, Kroos was the only one born in East Germany, meaning he is the only east german to win the world cup, ever. There were more people born in Poland in that squad...

Although Italy it's unified from 1861, the italian football league mirrors the same situation: with all the economical power moved from south to north, when football born here the teams founded from Rome to Palermo didn't got much success or titles: we waited something like 80 years to see Napoli win a title (from Campania); other clubs like Bari, Catania, Lecce or Avellino rarely appeared in Serie A, and if we count the clubs that took part at least 1 time in the major league that belong to south Italy we see only 14 teams on 67 (which is the 20%). The reality is that there's still no interest in bringing some wellness in this area and we still wait to economic benefits, that clearly could improve the sport (and in this case) football system.

Seems like the East Germans were treated like East Germans instead of getting treated like Germans.

THE problem here was to relegate everybody but two teams. WTF?

As an Englishman I found this fascinating. I always wondered why the bundesliga lacked clubs from the east.

Union Berlin is a former eastern club who now plays in the Bundesliga. They are actually pretty compelling at the moment.

Good video, very interesting to learn about the history of German Football!

Also Energie Cottbus, who spent 4 seasons (if I'm not mistaken) in 1. Bundesliga.

it gets better and better, but in little steps. the 3.Liga is stacked with East German Teams now .. Halle, and Magdeburg are fighting for the 2.Bundesliga, and so on .. i live in between of both Cities, and the Season Magdeburg was in 2.Bundesliga? the whole Region went crazy ..

Union Berlin is a very respectable club

There is a former GDR club in the Bundesliga now as Union Berlin got promoted this summer.

Love the use of So Here We Are by Bloc Party in the intro, great video overall!

the magnitude of work done by this channel is tremendous the linkage between history, politics ... etc with sports is something very few people consider well done!

I blame David Hasselhoff.

Thank you for your videos that provide narrative to the Bundesliga and German football in general. As an American who is a big fan of the league, it's difficult to find English speaking media that goes over the history of German football compared of course to available media of the EPL, La Liga, and Serie A. Keep coming with the good shit!

I love the reportage, footage, history throwback, highlights split. Good quality, fascinating to watch. Nice quality. Greetings from Russia. Love your work.

Fantastic video. One of the best i've seen on YT

Great video! Fascinating Football history

I loved the kind of club names in GDR(1st 2nd tier). Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl, Rotation Berlin, Aktivist Schwarze Pumpe etc..

Very eye-opening and informative. Thank you.

Hey....this was a terrific story....very interesting - thank-you!

Interesting piece !!! 👍👍👍

No. RB Leipzig is NOT an "Ost-Klub".

Great, great channel, super interesting reportages... kudos!

Great video but RB Leipzig are everything except an East German team

The main conclusion from this video: Bring back the short shorts!

Es ist komisch, wenn ein Deutscher einen Beitrag auf Englisch verfasst.

Great Video , great Channel einfach grandios . Grüße aus Deutschland

I think Poland was the same situation like East Germany. Simple remedy for those teams is time. Working with kids, youth, learning from best clubs at west. Put efforts on community around city where the club is situated. Well, I lie to myself, in Poland we cannot make good clubs, people only focus on money jhere, but I wish all good to deutche freunden and hope you will be great cuz I remember watching with my father RUN on rtl and I remember watching Hansa Rostock is bundesliga. Great video. I subscribe this channel :)

I’ve always been fascinated by big East German clubs not reaching their potential. Being from Scotland I always knew about Dynamo Dresdenand Hansa Rostock. Are these clubs growing their way to the top?

Dynamo Dresden has been promoted all the way to bundesliga 2 since this video was made

Bloc party in the backround lol I love it

A very good report

This is one of the better and largely successful attempts to explain the development of football after reunification. However portraying RB Leipzig as a positive example is a big blunder and factually totally incorrect. If anything Red Bull abused the (from a capitalist point of view) cheap opportunities to manufacture a money making machine in the former GDR. I am not an "Ossi" but after the initial enthusiasm about reunification West German arrogance took over and any East German accomplishments were brushed aside. Perhaps there were not too many of those but a reunited Germany had a golden opportunity to (literally) make the best of 2 worlds, not only in football but in society as a whole. However rich West Germany simply saw an easy possibility to become even richer. Child care, women's rights, affordable housing and a general sense of community was left on the wayside. Only now, more than 30 years later some recognize what was lost.

In Leipzig gibt es nur Lok und Chemie! (In Leipzig only Lok and Chemie - Those are the two former big teams from Leipzig who have a great history and tradition)

This was really interesting. Thanks.

You guys need to KEEP THIS SHIT UP! What Copa90's been doing as of late is a crime to football on YT! You and the 2 HITC channels are the best!

I remembered when I was young waiting to for the whole week to your program called FOOTBALL MADE IN GERMANY

Michael Ballack was born in Görlitz not in Karl-Mar-Stadt

Fantastich content :) well done guys

Congratulations. Very good documentary.I also want to add that the fall of East German clubs had many reasons. One of the reasons was the huge difference between the economies and the mentality of doing things between East and West. In 1990 the organization and the ways things were done in sports, state and economy in the east must have been VERY ALIEN to the West German state. The East german secret police(STASI), the east german army, the east german factories had sport teams. After reunification and disapearence of East german police and army why would Bundesnachrichtendienst(german secret service) take dynamo teams or why would Bundeswehr take football teams( ASG Vorwärts Leipzig, ASG Vorwärts Berlin etc)? In democracy no one could force them to do it. Like no one could force private business men from the West to take football teams of East German factories that were closing down. Market economy works different from State economy. Anyway Im happy that RB Leipzig and Union Berlin are doing well in German first League and hope that other teams will join soon. It seems that little by little we learn market economy here in the east but we still have a long way to go. 40-50 years of Communism are not easy to brush aside.

I love the content of this video...Felt kinda bad for the former East German players but overall this is a good video

Der Wahnsinn! I had no idea how badly the East German clubs got screwed by West Germany. A similar conversation occurs from time to time in the UK. The discussion is of the Scottish clubs and English clubs joining together into one league system but most people (in Scotland anyway) are 100% against it because it would threaten the very existence of some clubs.

Really enjoyed this video

Great video, it's interesting what you learn about society and life through football. Great to learn about Germany and the impact of the fall of the wall. I looked at the German political election results in 2017 after watching this video, and wasn't surprised to see the AfD party getting significantly higher votes in the east of the country than the west. The issues the football clubs faced in East Germany are similar to its economic issues in general of the region. Hope things improve step by step!

The grass is not always greener on the other side.

I love how dw has a channel dedicated to football only.

This channel is better than Copa 90

Good video. I knew nothing those developments. It would be good to see East German clubs make a come back.

Union Berlin was a GDR-Club. It is in the Bundesliga

Andy Thom! Andy Thom! Andy, Andy Thom! He gets the ball and he scores a goal, Andy, Andy Thom! I loved Thom when he was with Celtic. Great player! Hail Hail! 🍀🍀🍀

I used to watch Soccer Made in Germany with host Toby Charles on the U.S. PBS stations (probably 1979-80 or so). Remember Lokomotiv Leipzig, Carl Zeiss Jena, and Dynamo Dresden. Never really thought about what happened to them after those times. Interesting video to say the least.

I live in GDR, my Football Club was in the second devision and bis were somewhere in 10. Devision or something

Glad to know some German Football History Nice Video Thanks 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

If a team from the East builds a team from the right principles and eventually gains enough promotions to the Bundesliga it would be respected

Great video

This really opened my eyes.

whats ed sheeran doing playing for germany

I do not follow football at all, and this video was really interesting to watch.

It's because reunification itself has mostly failed. The "shock therapy" of the GDR has been quite traumatic on most of the former East.

This is interesting, I didn't know that the former GDR had established clubs and successful ones at that, but yet many have never made it to the "modern" Bundesliga. I may advertise myself as a Gooner (Arsenal supporter), but when it comes to German Football I am Grun-Weiss VfL Wolfsburg all the way!!! ....and this coming after I bought a 1998-99 Wolfsburg jersey back in 2010 and finding out later they were once Deutscher Meister 2009 (to us Americans, Champions!!!) currently owning a 2002 New Beetle GLS and have been a VW enthusiast since 1998, having also owned a 1999 Beetle I got then brand new BITD. And since I will be getting ESPN+ added to my TV package I will definitely be looking forward to returning to my beloved original international football home, the Bundesliga, and yes, I WILL catch a bit of that Berlin Derby now that both Hertha and Union are finally in top flight together. Hey, the Bundesliga are more than just Bayern and Dortmund, we all know that, and its up to the two Berlin clubs, RB Leipzig and rest of the East to now prove it to the rest of the world!!!

Ich würde diesen Channel ja feiern, da die gut recherchiert und geschnitten sind, aber der extreme deutsche Akzent geht so verdammt auf die Nerven.

My wife is German, and I still have a soft spot for the DDR. Beyond football, the administrative West have done more damage to the former East than most people realise

What a great video

Dumb question but what's the name of the song at the beginning of the video? It's a proper earworm

Wasn't Dynamo Berlin the "Stasi Team"?

4:20 "RED BULL Leipzig" hahaha

I don't even watch football, but I watched this video for the history. Superb video.

Fun fact for you; Uwe Rosler was the last player to score a goal in a game at the Dell in Southampton (you know, the club that bought Kevin Keegan from Hamburg, are in the premiership and have Austrian, Ralph Hasenhttl as manager)....Uwe is a legend in Southampton too.

It's quite symptomatic of how the whole reunification went. The reunification was basically East Germany accepting the West Germany's capitalist system. Logically, people, factories and football clubs weren't able to compete in such environment - people lost their jobs, factories closed and football clubs got relegated. In Germany, you call this process of deregulation and privatisation "Reunification", in my coutry we called it "running down the West". Today, 30 years after the Iron Curtain fell, we're all unified, but still not equal. If you ever wondered why is AfD so popular in eastern Germany (or far-right in the eastern block generally), start looking here for reasons.

Red Bull Leipzig isn't an eastern football Club

Awesome and extremely interesting story.

As an American I want to really get into bundesliga especially since both sides of my family are from Germany and I still have family there but I'm not sure what team to support

What about Union Berlin?

No matter what happens, I'll always love Bundes liga

9:40 "now its fantastic to live there" except for saxony, we dont talk about saxony xD

I am a Hibs fan and we had a player from East Germany. Matthias Jack was a CDM and he was born in Leipzig. He played for both Lok and Chemie before the wall came down he was also capped 8 or 9 times for the DDR national team, After the wall fell he moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf then us then he went back to another old East German club Erzgebirge Aue. So Hibs have the East German connection

Union?

0:28 Uwe rösler deutsche suuuperman, shalalalalalalala, uwe rösler han kan viiiinna han, shalalalalalalalalala, uuuuuuwwwweeeeeee röööösler!

No mention of Energie Cottbus? Where are they now? (This from a UK Nantes, Atalanta, De Graafschaap, Naval, Eibar and PASOK result watcher....😉)

What's the song right from the beginning? Does anyone know?

Boah die deutschen Akzente tun echt weh in den Ohren 😀

I think it would be better if you speak german and have subtitles ^^

What's the electronic song that plays in the background from 7:13 to 8:03?

The audio guy needs to work on his art: having the different pieces of BGM come and go so frequently like that was quite distracting imo.

It´s a shame, how the merge of the leagues was managed.

Hopefully rb leipzig drop right back down to the 20th division and never come back. I would be glad if any other east german team took their place

1:33 "there are seven?!" - Chandler Bing

This has been my dream to learn about the Germany football system

Wismut AUE! atm second most succesful team of the former East. ;)

What do you mean no East German club is a part of Bundesliga? What is Union Berlin then?

What is the name of the song around the 7:00 mark?

I am a really recent football fan from America, I don't know why the hell I'm watching this, but this is interesting as hell. I'm just learning about relegation and all that fun stuff. It's neat that things are being explained like this.

Hallo Flom South Korea !!!

Yes, because the money is in the west .

9:35 born in Hamburg though 🤷🏻‍♂️

1:55 that was my first game in the stadium