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1. FC Union Berlin

association football club in Berlin, Germany
Organization association_football_club Q141971
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Summary

  1. FC Union Berlin is an association football club[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of association football club entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,689 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin[3]
  • Country: Germany[4]
  • Home venue: Stadion An der Alten Försterei[5]
  • League or competition: Bundesliga[6]
  • Headquarters location: Berlin[7]
  • Head coach: Steffen Baumgart[8]
  • Commons category: 1. FC Union Berlin[9]
  • Chairperson: Dirk Zingler[10]
  • Has part(s): Geschichte des 1. FC Union Berlin[11]
  • Inception: January 20, 1966[12]
  • Sport: association football[13]
  • Mascot: Ritter Keule[14]
  • Official website: https://www.fc-union-berlin.de/[15], https://www.fc-union-berlin.de/de/[16], https://www.fc-union-berlin.de/en/[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:1. FC Union Berlin[18]
  • Commons gallery: 1. FC Union Berlin[19]
  • Email address: mailto:verein@fc-union-berlin.de[20], mailto:redaktion@fc-union-berlin.de[21]
  • Topic has template: Q25868394[22], Template:Fb team Union Berlin[23]
  • Official name: 1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V.[24]
  • Nickname: Eiserne[25], The Iron Ones[26]
  • Owner of: AFTV[27]
  • Member count: 13,185[28], 27,785[29], 70,671[30]
  • Hashtag: fcunion[31], unionberlin[32]
  • Category for members of a team: Category:1. FC Union Berlin players[33]
  • Official color: red[34], white[35]
  • Privacy policy URL: https://www.fc-union-berlin.de/de/datenschutz/[36], https://www.fc-union-berlin.de/en/privacy-policy/[37], https://www.fc-union-berlin.de/de/datenschutz-LKEp[38]

Why It Matters

  1. FC Union Berlin has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . transfermarkt.com. transfermarkt.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . fc-union-berlin.de. fc-union-berlin.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . fc-union-berlin.de. fc-union-berlin.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . fc-union-berlin.de. Retrieved . fc-union-berlin.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . fc-union-berlin.de. Retrieved . fc-union-berlin.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · Nordprinz · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member count → {'amount': '+13185'}, {'amount': '+27785'}, {'amount': '+70671'}
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Member count: 72,172"
  2. 16w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Website → —
    Topic has template → Q25868394, Template:Fb team Union Berlin
    Aliases → —
    Head coach → Uwe Neuhaus, Norbert Düwel, André Hofschneider +10
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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