Full name Jahn Cernăuți Ground Jahnplatz Founded 1903 | Dissolved 1940 Ground Capacity 1,000 | |
Jahn Cernăuți was a German football club from Chernivtsi (then in Austria-Hungary, after in Romania, now in Ukraine). Bukovina Club became the champion in 1924, 1925 and 1934, participating in three seasons in Divizia A (First Division of football in Romania). It was abolished before the end of the World War II.
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History
Jahn Cernăuți was founded in the fall of 1903, when German students in Chernivtsi have formed a football team. In 1908, the name was changed to the Association of Chernivtsi DFK (DFK = "Deutscher Fußballklub" German football club). In the spring of 1909, a team broke away from the football club team from Chernivtsi, the new team was called IFC Czernowitz (IFC = "Internationaler Fußballklub" International Football Club).
On 8 September 1910, Chernivtsi DFK merged with the German gymnastic society under the name of "Czernowitzer Turn- und Sportverein Jahn" (Sport and gymnastic society Jahn Chernivtsi), later Jahn Chernivtsi (Cernăuți).
The football team participated in the 1920 Regional Championship of Bucovina. In the 1923–1924 season, becoming Regional Champion, who qualified Jahn Chernivtsi to Romanian Championship final tournament. After Braşovia Braşov did not show off, Jahn promoted to the semifinals where they lost 0–1 to Clubul Atletic Oradea.
The next season, the club become Regional Champion again and qualified again for Romanian Championship final tournament. In the first round they eliminated Şoimii Sibiu. In the quarterfinals, Fulgerul Chişinău defeated the team from Chernivtsi, but after the team from Bessarabia was disqualified and the result was annulled. Jahn Chernivtsi replayed the match with Oltul Slatina (champion of Oltenia), which defeated 4–0. In the semifinals, was defeated by UCAS Petrosani. This was the best performance of the team in the history of Romania League.
The team played in the Regional Championship of Bukovina. The winner of each edition obtained the right to participate in the final tournament of the Romanian Championship.
Every ethnicity had their own team in Chernivtsi: Germans (Jahn Cernăuți), Jews (Maccabi Cernăuți and Hakoah Cernăuți), Polish (Polonia Cernăuți), Ukrainians (Dovbuș Cernăuți), and Romanians (Dragoş Vodă Cernăuţi).
The team founded in 1903, disappeared in 1940, after the Germans moved back in Germany with the start of the World War II and when the Soviets invaded Bukovina. They founded a new team called TSV Jahn Büsnau, a team from Stuttgart region.