1. Munich FC 1896

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The first Munich FC 1896 is a former football club based in Munich . Contrary to the year mentioned in the club name, it was not founded until 1899, but saw itself as the successor to what is believed to be the city's first football club, Terra Pila , which was founded on September 5, 1896 . 1. Münchner FC 1896 - not to be confused with 1. FC Munich of the 1930s - was one of the 86 founding clubs of the German Football Association in January 1900 , but stopped playing in 1910.

Anton Hübel, called “Haxentoni”,
was one of the founders of “Terra Pila”.
Members of "Terra Pila"
with bat and soccer ball
on the Theresienwiese around 1896/98.

In Munich the soccer game became popular relatively late. While the first German football associations had already formed in Berlin (1890) and Hamburg / Altona (1894) and held championship rounds, the first football club in the Bavarian metropolis did not appear publicly until 1896. On September 5, 1896, some high school students and students, including Anton Hübel (1878–1954), probably called "Haxentoni" because of his long legs, and the German-American Fred Dunn, founded an "association for lawn sports" and gave it the Latin name "Terra Pila “(lat. Earth and ball ). It was preferred to play on the Theresienwiese , where the Oktoberfest has been taking place since 1810 . It is no longer possible to determine when this club began playing football; According to the founding statutes, the “promotion and dissemination of lawn games, especially the German ball and fistball game ” was named as the purpose of the association. An early team photo, however, shows a bat as well as a soccer ball, and soccer also established itself as the main activity of the club. Also in 1896, another football club, FC Nordstern, was founded in 1896 , possibly before “Terra Pila”, because FC Nordstern called itself “Munich's oldest football club” on its stationery; proof of this is not possible due to a lack of sources. As with Terra Pila, the members of FC Nordstern were mostly students. In the following year, 1897, another team was formed with the football department at MTV Munich 1879 , which practiced the sport regularly. At that time, however, there was still no question of organized gaming.

Terra Pila disbanded in 1898 or 1899. Some of the team's players had moved to other parts of the city, others, including co-founder Anton Hübel, were now mainly dedicated to mountain sports and soon afterwards founded an association called “Die Bergaffen”. Some of the Terra Pila players who wanted to continue playing football joined the football department of MTV Munich in 1879, while others founded a successor club in 1896 with the 1st Munich Football Club. Around the turn of the century, the number of soccer teams in Munich increased: in 1899, in addition to the 1st Munich FC 1896 with FC Bavaria 1899 and the soccer department in TV Munich 1860, two more were added; on February 27, 1900, FC Bayern Munich was named Spin-off from eleven players from MTV Munich founded in 1879. 1. Munich FC 1896 were opponents in FC Bayern's first game in March 1900, which took place in March 1900 on the municipal playground on Schyrenwiese and which Bayern won 5-2. Even for the later "Löwen", the football team of TV 1860, the club was the opponent in the first public football game, they were defeated by 1. Munich FC 1896 on July 27, 1902 2: 4.

With the increasing number of clubs in Munich, organized games gradually got going. In 1902 and 1903, on the initiative of FC Bayern, city ​​championships were held for the first time , in which, in addition to the organizer, who won both times, the 1st Munich FC 1896, FC Bavaria 1899 and MTV 1879 took part. These "championships" were of an unofficial nature, because the Association of South German Football Associations had existed in southern Germany since 1897 , but at that time it was only organizing a national final round, so that the clubs were dependent on their own initiative for regular local games . As a result, on October 2, 1904, a local association was formed with the Munich Football Association (MFB), which from then on wanted to organize the championship rounds.

Little is known about the performance of 1. Munich FC 1896 in these years. In the "city championship" 1902/03 they lost to FC Bavaria with 0:16. When the South German Football Association started a league game in Bavaria for the first time in 1905/06 and six teams from Munich and MTV Augsburg competed against each other in the Südkreis, A-Klasse Südbayern , the 1st Munich FC 1896 was as little in the top division as in the subsequent seasons. Like the other two clubs from Munich that are on the list of 86 founding clubs of the German Football Association , 1. FC 1896 only existed for a few years: FC Nordstern dissolved in February 1902, FC Bavaria only existed until 1907 as an independent club and then went on as a football department in the gymnastics community Munich AV, and the 1. Munich FC 1896 finally forced, according to the club's history, unspecified "adverse circumstances" to stop the game. However, the members of the association continued to socialize from 1911 and bowling evenings were held regularly until the 1960s.

References and comments

  1. ↑ quoted from Angermair, p. 13
  2. ↑ According to the Munich association “Alpenklub Berggeist” , the association founded by Anton Gründler on January 4, 1900 was called “Alpenkränzchen Berggeist”.
  3. ↑ according to Schulze-Marmeling, p. 26
  4. ↑ All information on the dissolution or the whereabouts of the clubs according to Angermair, p. 13ff.

literature

  • Elisabeth Angermair: The beginnings of the soccer game in Munich . In: City Archives Munich (Ed.): Football in Munich. From Theresienwiese to the Allianz Arena . MünchenVerlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-937090-12-6 , pp. 10–37
  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The Bavarians. The story of a record champion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-669-0 (here in particular p. 19f.)