Final East German First League Teams: Where Are They Now?

From 1990-91 champions Hansa Rostock, who went straight into Germany's Bundesliga, to 13th placed Energie Cottbus who are no longer even in the 3. Liga, HITC Sevens takes a look at the 14 teams who competed in the DDR-Oberliga, or NOFV-Oberliga, which was the top flight of East German football, in the league's final season prior to German reunification.
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Thank You, Alfie. #ThePeoplesChannel

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Well in lad

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Alfie pin this comment. What a legend.

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You now have to change your legal name to Arthur now haha

[@dylanseah2021]

There should be a standing ovation for your determination and perseverance

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Happy new year Arthur

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Martin Tyler: "HE'S DONE IT! THE GREATEST DAY IN THE HISTORY OF HITC SEVENS!"

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I SWEAR YOU'LL NEVER SEE ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN

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________________ be like Day 79 : Final East German First League teams , where are they n---- Wait a second ----

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I actually did start typing the day before I saw the title

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@@___________________. you're a legend

[@dinglerofl4784]

as i pointed out previosly, half of them dont even exist anymore

[@carltonleboss]

@@___________________. Oh hey Arthur

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Hah.

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

This video is an example of perseverance, and determination, and the art of not giving up. To the person who requested this video for more than two months, you are a role model to all of us!

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🙏🙏🙏

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@@___________________. You are legend

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Cheers lads💪💪💪

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Soy bean

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@@___________________. An underdog story for the ages

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Day 1: What Would East Germany’s National Team Be In 2021?

[@chunkz1187]

They wouldn’t have one, most of the players are considered born in Germany

[@formulaspotlight3432]

Here we go again

[@PatataMaxtex]

@@chunkz1187 I think he means a List of the best players born in the former GDR

[@user-mj9sj1rp6t]

Toni Kroos would be their best player. He was born in Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which was a part of East Germany back then

[@___________________.]

This or the final soviet league idea seem like the next logical step

[@nooftaheri3502]

It has been 79 days OUR BOY HAS DONE IT

[@tjjs7999]

Yessssss

[@aidygooner]

Arthur's prayers has been answered lol

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

It's been 3000 years...

[@Giantzz]

I think you just made this guy's 2021

[@Otto910]

As a German I wanted to thank you Alfie for making quite a few videos about German football. I really appreciate it!

[@AvatarN]

Since this is the people's channel FINALLY ARTHUR HAS GOT WHAT HE ASKED FOR

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Hello fellow avatar fan

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@@bluest.9320 flameo, hotman

[@alameano]

Do one for final seasons of where Soviet Super league teams, Yugoslav league, Czechoslovakia.

[@fridolinfrittenfett6108]

Fun Fact: BSG Chemie Leipzig was founded again by former fans of Sachsen Leipzig and is now also playing in the Regionalliga Nordost. It's a really awesome club with a very left-wing fanbase. They have a huge rivalry with lokomotive leipzig

[@romanovtherm222]

So it is.

[@MrRonald2796]

The DDR Oberliga teams were really done dirty by the DFB when the reunification happened, by only getting two teams in the Bundesliga.

[@jonkernow4477]

Totally agree, but as most top players left for the lights and money in western Germany, the clubs were left to fend for themselves (when the DFB should of helped them) and the collapse of business/industry (fewer sponsors) the clubs would of very quickly been relegated anyway.

[@kalleknall7804]

quality wise 2 was about right...only dresden managed to survive a few years, while rostock were relegated right away. and leipzig when they got promoted a few years later played one of the worst bundesliga seasons ever if they put more than 2 they probably would have been slaughtered anyway

[@jonkernow4477]

@@kalleknall7804 all the best east german players had been poached by then Kalle. Totally unfair, like most east german businesses ruined by the west looking to make a fast buck. With the quality of player left in east Germany you are probably right tho.

[@PatrickvanStokken]

Congrats Arthur! Finally got your video

[@J.Sosa07]

Arthur is having the best 2021 over everyone else so far

[@davidohara284]

Day 24 : What On Earth Is Going On At Bradford City

[@thegloriouspyrocheems2277]

Time to make this happen as well!

[@TMcCarrick]

Out of morbid curiousity I want to know, I hope we don't get a Rangers-esque situation.

[@lakshyavason1326]

ur time wl come

[@davidohara284]

@@thegloriouspyrocheems2277 I hope so friend

[@niklasholzapfel310]

The comment sectio shows how great we are as a community! All are congratulating that one guy :D i am happy about this and for the video!! #thepeoplechannel

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thank you

[@kindmulberry7196]

Wouldn't do that on Football Daily hahag

[@Shore1985]

The reason BFC Dynamo was that successful is because they were massivly supported by the StaSi. Erich Mielke the infamous head of the StaSi was a supporter of the club. Often the best players of other clubs were forced to play for them and when that didnt help sometimes referees would activly favor Dynamo in fear of StaSi-repressions

[@arannyaroy5601]

Day 1 : Rise and fall of Red Star Belgrade.

[@thegloriouspyrocheems2277]

How did Zvezda exactly fall 😂😂😂😂😂

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They really didnt fall

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European Champions 1991. Red Star Belgrade.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

@@arannyaroy5601 zvezda never won an European trophy in the 60s. Or 70s. Or 80s.

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FK Crvena Zvezda(Red Star Belgrade) fell because of bad things that started happaning in their country.

[@arnef.409]

As a german i was completely unaware of Matthias Sammer winning the Ballon D'or

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Not sursprised since that year everyone paid attention to Ronaldo, he won FIFA Player of the Year so people assume he won the Ballon D'or that year too

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Most Succesful European players outside of Europe, for example Gignac winning 7 trophies with Tigres

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Finally!!! This is really a people's channel.

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peoples socialist communist democratic channel.....

[@homerj.simpson7562]

Small correction: The "er" bit in "Chemnitzer FC" merely indicates possession. The city is named Chemnitz and the "er" makes it the "football club of Chemnitz". Also, the far-right elements at Hansa Rostock have diminished considerably. A few years back, a leader of the local branch of a German far right party was spotted in the stands and he was, let's say... asked to leave by the supporters. I wonder how much of a PITA some of the pronounciations are for a non-native speaker though :D Edit: The football history of the city of Leipzig is a huge clusterfuck and might be worth looking at at some point in the future!

[@christianseiffert6866]

Also to mention to the far-right elements at Hansa Rostock changing: they have really some really famous supporters, considered to be more like far-left (e.g. Monchi, lead singer of german punk band FeineSahneFischfilet also as Rapper Materia, who played for the youth teams of Hansa Rostock). Just to bring more (imo) bright moments of eastern germany's fan culture. Also the Carl Zeiss Jena Hooligans are well known to reflect their non-support for neonazi groups in Thüringen.

[@kono5952]

I like how you use the word "clusterfuck"😂😂

[@giancarlotorres3520]

There it is. Respect from that one subscriber for the consistency.

[@grafmitajvar2908]

Thanks for the good video! I'm glad you took a look at East German football, which was once so strong and is often neglected. However, as a Hansa Rostock fan, it bothers me that this club is only reduced to links to neo-Nazis in foreign reports. We certainly had problems here with the large number of Nazis in the 90s, but in the meantime the fan scene has successfully emancipated itself from right-wing influences. Two years ago, right-wing fan clubs left the Rostock fan club community because it had become "too left-wing" for them. Against this background, it is necessary to correct the former perception of this club!

[@gorrgaf]

indeed. rostock and hansa did not overcome the early 90s in the heads of most wessis and the foreign press alike. its a shame

[@ben1468]

Day 1: Every Team from the last Soviet Top League: Where are they now?

[@thargoff]

Hallelujah, hallelujah! :)) Thanks, Alfie! Well researched again, and I believe such videos open you up to other viewers and over 30k viewers in 24 hours is quite good for me. Some small additions: - shout out to Erzgebirge Aue (Wismut Aue) long time DDR-Oberliga team and still going well in 2. Bundesliga! - I believe almost nobody really is sad about Dynamo Berlins fall as they were the Stasi team - as a Hansa fan, although all true, I believe the right wing politics have since been left behind mostly, Rostock is a beautiful city (oldest university in Northern Europe) with a great coast of the Baltic sea, so I believe we can leave it behind a little bit now

[@rudragovenkar2923]

WE HAVE OFFICIALLY ARRIVED IN 2021

[@SiqueScarface]

Today's highest ranking East German team never played DDR-Oberliga at all, while Union Berlin did. The SSV Makranstädt, whose license was bought by RB Leipzig, was named BSG Turbine Makranstädt during the GDR times and never played higher than 3rd tier, which was the Bezirksliga at the time.

[@tomasarroteia7500]

Do: What is happening to Belenenses, they got separated and now are in the low tiers of Portuguese football, one of the 5 Portuguese championship

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

That would be interesting, Mad-Eye

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Do a video on Gretna fc and what happened

[@gudrunbennetrothfuss2131]

Correction on 4:27 : Matthias Sammer first went to VfB Stuttgart, winning a Bundesliga title in 1992 there

[@johannborn7987]

Imagine he would pronounce the all german words and names correct. That would be so shitty and so less charming.

[@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506]

Yeah, that would just be tryhard

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Rott-Weissa Erfört :D

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

IT'S FINALLY DONE. Now my turn: Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 1)

[@debayanbhunia7084]

Ballack

[@cmenomore8119]

@@debayanbhunia7084 No not even close

[@anzacxlag2606]

@@cmenomore8119 Who would you have over him then

[@cmenomore8119]

@@anzacxlag2606 Trautmann Hamann Lehmann Freund and Ziege just to name a few... maybe even Klinsmann had arguably a bigger career in England than Ballack.

[@anzacxlag2606]

@@cmenomore8119 Well you named 2 goalkeepers a wing back and a striker, so any of them could fit in the team as well. I wouldn't put Freund of Hamann over him, both had way less caps for Germany and less silverware. Keep in mind he said best, not best whilst in the premier league/1st division.

[@adzter96]

The Karl Marx team became a far-right team? That was a twist I wasn't expecting.

[@samb3637]

any chance you'd do a video on the mls academies in america building a golden generation? it's crazy that the team is finally good out of nowhere and i'd be curious to see how you cover it. big fan!

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

MLS has moved out if it's retirement league phase, and it's now becoming a good development league.

[@dimitrisqwerty]

THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE

[@oneboi8062]

Did you know: Halle's goal song is from a sextoy ad. Beschte.

[@sheluhcharlemayne]

Suggestion : teams in the inaugural English 1st division where are they now?

[@needfoolthings]

It's 1.FC Magdeburg. Not just FC. That's an important difference.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

It’s not.

[@needfoolthings]

@@SKa-tt9nm it's not what? Not 1.FC? Or not important?

[@fhlostonparaphrase]

Out of curiosity, what exactly does the moniker 1. FC indicate/mean? It seems to have nothing to do with being the first club founded in a city, since 1. FC Köln for example is a rather young club?

[@needfoolthings]

@@fhlostonparaphrase It boils down to a little bragging mixed into claiming the name. Another club will not call themselves 2.FC Köln, right? 1.FC Köln was a merger of two older clubs, and there simply was no FC Köln in 1948. Names are important. There's a TuS Koblenz and a TuS RW Koblenz, RW standing for red and white.

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HES DONE ITTTTTTTT

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

And Solskjær has won it!

[@rossvannoordwyk6088]

Day 1 of Asking for a video about the rise and fall of South African Football

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

I wouldn't be surprised if rugby overtakes soccer as the most popular sport in SA.

[@rossvannoordwyk6088]

@@3dsaulgoodman43 I would say it has, but if you go to the more rural areas of South Africa you can still see the passion they have for the sport... and correct me if I’m wrong but mamelodi sundowns have been doing well in the African “Champions League”?

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

Yes that's true.

[@lalitthapa101]

I think cricket is popular as well in SA afterall theyhave really good players

[@depekthegreat359]

I like all these German teams daily in my life forever and every generations that we would be born,good friends!!!:-D

[@martinfrench4890]

Loved this video, it makes me want your Energie Cottbus video sooner! Would you consider doing one on the nefarious nature of Dynamo Berlin? How they came to power at the behest of the boss of the Stasi, and the naked nature in how they won 10 in a row is fascinating, looking at it with only a shallow knowledge

[@Nujaki]

Just wanted to say keep up tge great content :)

[@simonstein6552]

Union is the whole pride of the East. Establishing in the First League without any big sponsor. Just by hard work and Loyal Players!!!

[@k.i.g39]

At long last 👌

[@___________________.]

Worth the wait

[@DerEchte31er]

Hansa Forever🔵⚪️🔴 #afdfch🔵⚪️🔴

[@ashimkc9531]

Many Many Congratulations to the "__________________" guy i m very happy for u

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Appreciate it

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HITC Sevens and pronouncing German words. Tell me a more Iconic Duo.

[@wasgehtlol7097]

Bro I understand that you’re wary of making these kind of videos as they’re unlikely to get as many views as the more common videos you make. But I just want to say I love these! I’d much rather watch a 20 minute video of you explaining the intricacies of the Cambodian football league or some scandal in the German 4th tier than the 150th video on Liverpool

[@johnbakker4828]

The first two out of the three European finals that East German teams played had less than 5,000 spectators in the stadium, mostly due to travel restrictions put upon East Germans by the DDR government. In the last one, in 1987, there were about 35,000 people to watch Ajax beat Lokomotiv Leipzig in Athens, Greece. Among them were about 600-700 East German fans who after thorough screening by the DDR government were allowed to travel. One of them took advantage of the opportunity and fled.

[@Morgan_Black]

I need a 10-hour-video of Alfie saying "Regionalliga" and "Brandenburg".

[@sfztrsf4776]

Video idea:Final URSS first division teams where are they now

[@fewix5628]

Awesome video! I'd really like to see more videos about German football in general. But anyways, you're doin a really good job! Thank you for all your amazing videos!

[@needfoolthings]

Arthur is a legend. For months I've come only sporadically and even more rarely I read some of the comments. Arthur's idea struck my eyes more than once.

[@lukasu.8378]

Sammer actually transferred to Stuttgart, where he won the Bundesliga in '92, then had a year at Inter Milan, before joining Dortmund.

[@wanabdulazimwanzuki3617]

Hamburg SV last season in Bundesliga 2017/18 players where are they now...

[@gamewithgreg]

7 clubs who changed their name the most times...

[@lalitthapa101]

GUYS WE FINALLY WE DID IT💥💥💥💥 Arthur you deserve it👍👍👍

[@FozzQuaker]

2 Ideas Young Alfred... 1. Final Soviet Top League Teams 2. Final Yugoslav Top League Teams Where are they now???

[@thegloriouspyrocheems2277]

On the serious note, thank you Alfie for yet another amazing video you have made. It really makes me proud to be a part of this channel and congratulations to Arthur on his amazing underdog story of preservance, heroism and not giving up! Well done! What a day!

[@orlandothompson5861]

Day 1: Final West German First League teams, where are they now?

[@geraldclydeabella3350]

You mean 1990-91 Bundesliga

[@rudragovenkar2923]

Finally 😂

[@Cyanova1312]

Schopenhauer is a choice that I support for favourite German philosopher (maybe second to Adorno for me), although I am more inclined towards French and Russian philosophers in general.

[@varolussalsanclar1163]

Hes a good shout but none of them can hold a candle to the almighty Mustache Man.

[@kono5952]

0:32 Why does his great grand dad look like John Terry?

[@dagothher]

most football youtubers: NAH I DONT THINK THAT WAS A GOAL U KNO hitc sevens: i am naming this subscriber after arthur schopenhauer my favourite philosopher

[@matthiascallsen4321]

74.4k views ... "Noone will watch this". Thanks Arthur and thanks Schopenhauer 😎

[@subkultursalbei6782]

Chemie Leipzig has been founded again as a replacement for extinct Sachsen Leipzig, taking over the old Sachsen Leipzig fanbase (and rivalry with Lok Leipzig). Currently, they play in 5th tier NOFV Oberliga Süd

[@nowayyyyyyyyyyyy]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY @______________________ You deserve it bro hardwork pays off my dude

[@JackGillies]

I was excited for this video when it came out but this was a huge let down. Firstly I don't see why you need to bring the 'Neo-Nazi' and Hooligan element into the video as it is a small minority and there is so much more to the clubs than these hooligans who haven't really been a problem since the early 2000's in my opinion its a lazy stereo type of Eastern Germany in general not just football, Secondly some of your pronunciations were shocking Rot Weiß Erfurt has no e on the end and you said Stadt wrong the whole time, Thirdly and don't take this the wrong way the research seemed like it was being read from a wikipedia page there was more relevant information about quite a few of the clubs you could have used instead and there are plenty of books that would have helped also the FC Berlin name was highly unpopular which is why the club kept its BFC Dynamo name afterwards so you owed it to the supporters and finally Chemie Leipzig and Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt are not extinct.... Chemie Leipzig now called BSG Chemie Leipzig play in the Regionalliga Nordost and are basically the continuation of the old club and Eisenhüttenstadt live on as Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl I believe they are in the 7th tier now. Normally I love your videos but this was a huge let down and could have been so much more

[@Ari-us8gt]

Alfie ,you dropped this mate 👑

[@chimaogeibe2921]

Day 31: 7 most overrated players ever; 7 most underrated players ever. P.S. RIP Diego Maradona!🙏🏾❤️

[@leaguesmanoframsgate]

Since Arthur's been done:- Day 1: East African Federation XI? The East African Federation is a proposed unification of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, for those who don't know, and I'm curious as to whether or not they could field a halfway decent side given that they'd have a total population of nearly 200 million people.

[@Ari-us8gt]

Whoever doesn’t watch these weird videos are missing out not gonna lie

[@TomNoer]

My history nerd alarm-bells went off at 7:44 when it came to Lokomotive Leipzig and the Nazi-Era. The name Lokomotive was a name that the club definetly did not carry during the reign of Adolf Hitler. Back in those pre-communist days the team was known as VfB Leipzig (Verein für Bewegungssport Leipzig) which can be roughtly translated to: Society for Exercise Sports Leipzig). The team then went through a number of different names until they ended up with the Soviet-inspired name Lokomotive Leipzig and became associated with the GDR national Railways Deutsche Reichsbahn).

[@theshaman8672]

"I SWEAR YOULL NEVER SEE ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN"

[@PassivesAbseits]

BSG Chemie Leipzig is actually considered to be the true reincarnation of Chemie Leipzig and the follow up club to Sachsen Leipzig. They play in the 4th league. And their whole story just shows how complicated Leipzigs football history is. As in: There where 2 Clubs claiming to step into Sachsens footsteps, who fought each other instead of colaborating. But right now, they are actually carried by their nostalgic fans. Also: VfB Leipzig was Germanys first ever Champion, then got rebranded as Lok by the totalitarian system, then got rerebranded as VfB went bankrupt and got reestablished as Lok Leipzig. The whole " the traditional clubs go bankrupt while reaching for the major leagues" incompetene actually led to RB Leipzig claiming this rather big market for themselves. Would those teams not have been run so poorly...

[@arminxvs3372]

While we are speaking of former countries, here an idea for a new video: Where are the Yougoslav clubs now? Red Star winning CL in 1990 and several clubs being in Europa Cups and now struggling to even qualify for any Tournament.

[@khaitranngoc4176]

Here's a sequel for you: Best 23-man-squad of East Germany players: (1991-Now)

[@e.l.b6435]

Save Ballack

[@subkultursalbei6782]

Apologies, but the university of Erfurt is just the second-oldest university of present-day Germany (the university of Heidelberg is a few years older). Sorry for my German pedantry :D

[@zephyr6138]

ARTHUR'S DONE IT!!!!

[@mrgreatbritain]

Considering you predicted “not many people” would watch this video, you’ve got over 104,000 views! A success you could say. Similar to a lot of other videos on the channel

[@bliz4967]

New viewers are so confused

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

I really enjoy these videos but the BFC Dynamo segment was a bit misleading about the fans' historical politics...

[@two-toneblue4872]

"The People's Channel". Sounds positively... east German.

[@herrseibt8392]

Sachsen Leipzig still exist it. Now its called BSG Chemie Leipzig. It hast eben new founded by money from their fans and play now in the Regionalliga with Lok Leipzig again

[@n00badit99]

DW did an in-depth review about the death of East Germany football, aside of reunification, two top teams joins Bundesliga, 6 teams went to second tier, and the other 6 went to third tier, no wonder the players move to West teams. I mean Erfurt and Halle plays in the UEFA Cup AND relegated to third division in the same season....

[@dieserbene2533]

Sachsen Leipzig does exist. They are playing as BSG Chemie Leipzig in the Regionalliga, so 4th league. They also have a very good fanbase for a team in the 4th division.

[@narchia161]

12:16 It's probably also worth to mention that their fans founded a phoenix club, called "BSG Chemie Leipzig", they're now competing in the Regionalliga Nordost.

[@daveUK1066]

Or the rise and fall of Kaiserslautern?? They were flying high in bundesliga for over 30 years, got into the champions League and were multiple league champions, and now languish in the 3rd Tier

[@mrkipling2201]

I think it’s safe to say that reunification hindered the GDR clubs rather than helped them. I remember Magdeburg, Jena, Lokomotive Leipzig, Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden as regulars in European competitions in the 70’s and 80’s.

[@ethanrants9793]

Can u take a look on Why So many Azerbaijani Clubs folded recently in the 2010s

[@saintroddy]

Arthur is to East German football clubs as Marcus Rashford is to hungry schoolchildren

[@opflug553]

Youngest national leagues. Like the A-League, MLS, and others are fairly recent, who else would be on this list.

[@depekthegreat359]

In this and other worlds,I am a 10th liker of this video and well done to the good friend "The Linear" who had his hardwork and determination being paid off as his requested video has been uploaded finally after like around 3 months of requesting good friend Alfie to only upload the video!!!Congratulations,good friend!!!:-D

[@___________________.]

I just pronounce it blank, but thank you

[@depekthegreat359]

@@___________________. Oh!!!Ok good friend Blank,and you are welcome!!!:-D

[@iuliangheorghe6857]

Final USSR first league teams ! Where are they now? Should be a good video. .

[@suttscraig]

Does anyone else think the cup winners cup should come back I think it’s a great idea for a competition even though it might usually be won by predictable teams

[@howgoodistravel]

Day 1: What would potential 2nd divisions in MLS and the A-League look like?

[@kevinbarnes218]

Oh yes!!

[@jewfierros5800]

Let's go!!!! :)

[@richardmarshall7814]

Great video. More content like this and leave the click bait about GOATS to sub par channels