Union versus BFC Dynamo, Tennis Borussia and Hertha BSC: Union’s supporters have long cultivated fierce rivalries within Berlin, above all with the “Stasi club” BFC Dynamo and, in the 1990s, with the “class enemy” Tennis Borussia from Charlottenburg. Less well known are some of the details and, above all, the very special relationship with a third Berlin club: Hertha. For many old Union supporters, the main enemy still comes from the East.
In the 2019/20 season, of course, the clubs no longer met at eye level, BFC being in the Regionalliga and Union in the Bundesliga. In the GDR period it was different and BFC regularly shredded Union. What fewer people remember today is that from 1976 to 1989 there were no true home matches between the two.
For “security reasons”, all local derbies were moved to the Stadion der Weltjugend in central Berlin. The exception was the cup quarter-final in December 1988, but even there it did not help Union much. They lost 2–0 before 20,000 at the Alte Försterei.
