Total Football Management (known as Bundesliga Manager 97 in Germany) is the sixth entry in Software 2000's long line of excellent football management. Historical chart of St Pauli league performance after WWII After the war, the club resumed play in the in 1947. A second-place finish in the 1947–48 season led St. Pauli to its first appearance in the national championship rounds. They advanced as far as the semi-finals, where they were knocked out 2–3 by eventual champions. The club continued to play well throughout the early 1950s, but were unable to overtake rivals, finishing in second place in five of the next seven seasons, and going out in the early rounds in each of their championship-round appearances from 1949 to 1951. In the late 1950s and into the early 1960s, St. Pauli were overtaken by rivals such as and, but finished fourth a number of times. Promotion to the Bundesliga [ ] In 1963, the – West Germany's new top-flight professional league – was formed. Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen, and joined the new circuit as the top-finishers from the Oberliga Nord, while St. Pauli found themselves in the second-tier Regionalliga Nord. Nearly a decade-and-a-half of frustration followed. Pauli won their division in 1964, but finished bottom of their group in the promotion play-off round. They took their next Regionalliga Nord title in 1966 and, while they performed far better in the play-offs, still failed to advance to the top-flight, losing out to on goal difference, having conceded two more goals. Division championships in 1972 and 1973, and runner-up finishes in 1971 and 1974, were each followed by promotion-round play-off disappointment. The success of the Bundesliga, and the growth of professional football in West Germany, led to the formation of the in 1974. Pauli was part of the new second-tier professional circuit in the 2. Bundesliga Nord and in 1977, they finally advanced to the top flight as winners of their division. The team survived just one season at the highest level in the Bundesliga. The club's return to the 2. Bundesliga Nord was also short-lived. On the verge on bankruptcy in 1979, they were denied a license for the following season and were sent down to the. Strong performances that set the team atop that division in 1981 and 1983 were marred by poor financial health. By 1984, the club had recovered sufficiently to return to the 2. Bundesliga, overtaking Werder Bremen's amateur side who, despite finishing two points ahead of St. Pauli, were ineligible for promotion. 'Kult' phenomenon [ ]. The Skull and crossbones symbol on a supporter flag. It was in the mid-1980s that St. Pauli's transition from a standard traditional club into a ' club began. The club was also able to turn the location of its ground in the dock area part of town, near Hamburg's famous – centre of the city's night life and its – to its advantage. An alternative fan scene slowly emerged, built around, and the event and party atmosphere of the club's matches. Supporters adopted the as their own unofficial emblem. Pauli became the first team in Germany to officially ban and displays in its stadium in an era when fascist-inspired threatened the game across Europe. In 1981, the team was averaging small crowds of only 1,600 spectators, but by the late 1990s they were frequently selling out their entire 20,000-capacity ground. The skull and crossbones symbol had always been associated with St Pauli (the city quarter) in one way or another. Hamburg fostered the most famous pirate of Germany,, and the symbol had been used by the 1980s squatters at. However, the one who should be credited with finally bringing the symbol to the terraces is probably Doc Mabuse, the singer of a Hamburg punk band. As the legend tells, he first grabbed the flag from a stall while passing drunk through the on his way to the Millerntor-Stadion. In the early 1990s, the media in Germany began to recognize the Kult-image of the club, focusing on the part of the fan-base in TV broadcasts of the matches. By this time, the media also started to establish nicknames like ' Freibeuter der Liga' (' of the League') as well as the satirical ' das Freudenhaus der Liga' ('Brothel of the League', literally 'House of Joy'). Siva puranam in english. Pauli moved in and out of the Bundesliga over the course of the next dozen years: the club was narrowly relegated to the Oberliga in the 1984–85 season, but won the 1985–86 championship and returned to 2. Two increasingly strong years followed, resulting in promotion and three seasons in the Bundesliga, from 1988 to 1991. Four seasons followed in 2. Bundesliga, and then another two in the Bundesliga In 1995 to 1997, before another return to the 2. Into the new millennium [ ]. Former logo Until 2010, the club's most recent appearance in the top-flight had been a single-season cameo in.
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