Number three in the city: at times Tennis Borussia Berlin and Blau-Weiss 90 threatened to push the club down to third place in Berlin. In 1986/87 Hertha BSC won the Oberliga Berlin but failed in the promotion playoffs. A year later, on June 19, 1988, Berlin returned to the 2. Bundesliga and, just in time for German reunification and backed by money from film-rights trader UFA Sports, launched their most successful post-war era apart from the 1970s.