Fußballnationalmannschaft der DDR
In 1949, the communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was founded. In 1952 the "Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR" (DFV) was established and the East Germany national football team took to the field. They were the only team to beat the 1974 FIFA World Cup winning West Germans in the only meeting of the two sides of the divided nation. East Germany won the gold medal at the 1976 Olympics. After German reunification in 1990, the eastern football competition was reintegrated into the DFB.