FC Energie Cottbus is a German football club based in Cottbus, in the Lausitz region of Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Energie Cottbus in what was, at the time, East Germany. The club was quickly buttressed by a wholesale transfer of players from BSG Aktivist Brieske-Ost ordered by East German authorities, who often intervened in the business of the country's sports and football clubs for political reasons. Energie Cottbus is the only club from East Germany currently playing in the Bundesliga. (*)