St. Pauli vs. Hamburg: worlds apart in Germany's second city derby
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That being said, the rivalry didn’t really exist in the clubs' early years. Yes, they wanted to beat each other, but from the creation of Hamburger SV in 1919 out of a merger between three other clubs, they were the dominant force in the area. Prior to the creation of the Bundesliga in 1963 – of which HSV were founding members – there were more seasons where they won their league (either city or later regional) than they didn’t.
The fact the first seven encounters with Pauli – themselves officially created in 1924 after splitting from athletics club Hamburg-St. Pauli Turnverein – all took place in a city league of eight teams meant that all fixtures were local derbies. And given that HSV won the first seven encounters by an aggregate score of 43-6, there was little in the way of sporting rivalry.
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