FC Sankt Pauli is a German sports club located in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg. Although best known for its football team, the club also has sections of rugby, football, baseball, bowling, chess, cycling, handball and table tennis. The St. Pauli finished 9 th in the 2007-08 season in the Bundesliga.
The club was founded in 1899 as an informal group of football enthusiasts within the Hamburg-St. Pauli Turn-Verein 1862. This team did not play his first game until 1907. Officially established on May 15, 1910, the club played as "St Pauli TV" in the Groß-Hamburg Kreisliga (Alsterkreis) until 1924 when it formed a separate football team called FC St Pauli.
St. Pauli began the transition from a traditional club into a "Kult".
The club was also changed the location of their land at the pier of St. Pauli, Hamburg near Reeperbahn.
The center of nightlife in the city and Chinatown were there.
spontaneously emerged from communist and socialist idealist by leaning the club and the atmosphere of its parties.
The fans took the skull and crossbones as their own unofficial emblem.
The St. Pauli became the first team in Germany to officially ban the right and nationalist activities in a time when fascism inspired football hooliganism.
In 1981, the team had an average of only 1,600 spectators, before the end of the 90 that average increased to 20,000 spectators per game.
The St. Pauli began a period of ups and downs in the Bundesliga which amounted to several times during a dozen years.
returned to the Bundesliga in 1988 for a stay of three years, followed by another two seasons in second in 1995.
FC. St Pauli enjoys a certain fame for the left leaning character of its supporters: most Fans' defined themselves as racist, the fascist and sexist , and this on occasion brought them into conflict with neo-Nazis and hooligans.
The organization has an open stance against racism, fascism, sexism, and homophobia and has incorporated this position in its constitution.
team supporters traditionally participate in demonstrations in the district of St. Pauli, including those on low income housing as Hafenstraße and Bambule.
The center of activity of the fans is the St. Pauli Fanladen.
In 2002, advertising for men's magazine Maxim were removed from the stadium in response to protests by supporters of the paintings sexist women in the ads.
Matches in St. Pauli Stadion Millerntor make an average attendance than any other team in the German third division, and often exceed assists for second division teams.
A recent study estimated that the team has about 11 millions of fans all over Germany.
The St. Pauli is also a worldwide symbol for punk and related subcultures.
Pride club is to have the largest number of football fans all over the German.
St. Pauli gegen Rechts! (St. Pauli against the Nazis)
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