From BZ/dpa
With the debacle in the Berlin State Cup, BFC Dynamo gambled away a great opportunity for a lot of money and advertising. However, the club’s ambitions remain unaffected.
The debacle of BFC dynamo in the semi-finals of the Berlin State Cup, far-reaching consequences will follow into the coming season in the football regional league. “The chance was there to play in the DFB Cup next season,” said the BFC spokesman Martin Richter the dpa, one day after the 1: 5 embarrassment at the Berlin league club Sparta Lichtenberg, who play two classes lower.
“A sold-out sports forum would have been good advertising,” said Richter. If they reached the final on June 3rd, the team of coach Heiner Backhaus played against the upper league team TuS Makkabi, who surprised the regional league team Viktoria Berlin 3-2 in the first semi-final on Easter Sunday.
200,000 euros are missing
In addition to the advertising factor, the ambitious record champions of the GDR are missing around 200,000 euros, which every club from the German Football Association (DFB) collects for reaching the first main round. Money that the club will lack. “In the coming season, the champions of the Regionalliga Nordost will not have to play any relegation games in order to be promoted to the third division,” said Richter.
After the BFC Dynamo failed in the relegation at VfB Oldenburg last season, the current season is not quite as successful. Seven games before the end of the season, the defending champions, who are fifth, are eleven points behind Rot-Weiss Erfurt.
Thanks to the cup win and the current table situation, the club from Hohenschönhausen can now start planning for the coming season early on, which should end with promotion to the third division. Richter has not yet been able to say whether there will be consequences for this – possibly even in the short term. The spokesman referred to their own website, where possible news will be published.