Association of German Football Players
The Association of German Football Players (BDF) was a German football association from Berlin . Founded on November 4, 1890 in Berlin, the BDF was the first football association in Germany at the time. It was dissolved again in 1892.
founding
The BDF was founded on November 4, 1890 and had the following clubs as members: BFC Askania 1890, BFC Borussia 1890, BFC Concordia 1890 and BFC Germania 1888 (the oldest football club in Germany that still exists today). In the first half of 1891 the clubs BFC Hellas 1890, BFC Tasmania 1890 , BFC Teutonia 1891 and BFC Vorwärts 1890 (the later Bundesliga club Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin) joined.
The term "German" was chosen to create a central association for the entire German Empire , with its seat in the capital of Berlin. However, this request could not be implemented by the BDF or by regional associations formed later, so that the association area was limited to the greater Berlin area.
Even at the founding meeting, there were irreconcilable differences among the representatives of the individual clubs present about whether foreign players and officials should be allowed. What was meant were British , mainly English players and officials, against whose admission the BFC Germania 1888 with its chairman Georg Leux in particular resisted. This was also an expression of the Wilhelminian era that had begun at the time and its new nationalistic and national-conservative zeitgeist. It was also believed that football should be adapted to the German mentality. The pro-internationals were defeated in the vote on this question and did not join the BDF, which sealed its rapid decline at the founding assembly. Leux was elected chairman.
First championship held
The BDF probably wore its “1. unofficial German football championship ”, which was not played in the form of point games , but in a qualifying round like a cup competition. Germania won the final against Hellas and thus became the first champion. According to the association, it should have won a second BDF championship. Possibly this is the play-off between the champions of the BDF and the champions of the DFuCB of the season 1891/92 , which Germania won 3-1 against English FC.
Five clubs took part in the first championship and the game result was scored according to points (e.g. corner kick 5, throw-in 3, 20 points = 1 goal). In 1878 the English Football Association ( The Football Association ) standardized the four different sets of rules that had existed until then in a binding set of rules, but in the German Empire the game and counting were different depending on the region. The home-made rules ranged from falling below the playing time of 45 minutes twice to counting corners, bullets (instead of throw-in), kicks, etc. No foreigners were allowed to play.
| Pl. | society |
|---|---|
| 1. | BFC Germania 1888 |
| 2. | BFC Hellas 1890 |
| 3. | BFC Askania 1890 |
| 4th | BFC Forward 1890 |
| 5. | BFC Teutonia 1891 |
resolution
When the club representatives who were defeated at the founding meeting of the BDF and who voted for the admission of foreign players and officials, on 17./18. May 1891 (registered on November 19, 1890 and therefore named as the founding date) founded their own association with the German Football and Cricket Association (DFuCB), the end of the Association of German Football Players was announced. Shortly afterwards, the first signs of disintegration occurred in the BDF: Concordia and Teutonia were the first clubs to leave and, like Vorwärts, joined the DFuCB, Tasmania also declared its exit and Borussia dissolved.
On February 14, 1892, the Association of German Football Players finally dissolved completely, after which Teutonia also joined the DFuCB. The BFC Germania also applied for admission, but due to its rigid stance at the BDF's founding meeting, this request was rejected several times and was only able to join the DFuCB later.
Other football associations at the time
The BDF was followed by a number of Berlin / Brandenburg associations (either as pure football or as sports associations ) to organize championships and game opportunities for the affiliated clubs during the winter months. In addition to the DFuCB, the Thor and Football Association Berlin , the General German Sports Association , the Association of German Ball Game Clubs , the Free Berlin Football Association , the Football and Athletics Association Berlin , the Berlin Ball Game Association , the Association of Berlin Athletics Associations and were founded the Berlin Football Association . In addition, the BTuFC Alemannia 1890 held another championship for the north in the 1897/1898 season .
In total, there were ten football and sports associations that organized championships in Berlin from 1890 to 1911. A number that has not even come close to being reached anywhere else in Germany; in Hamburg-Altona, for example, there were only two associations in total. On the one hand, this was a sign of small business and often chaos in which championships were held. On the other hand, it was also proof of how individual and innovative the forefathers of Berlin football were and how reluctant to get into a straitjacket of statutes, ever new fines (for every possible offense to fill the association coffers) and - not Finally, the interests of the association wanted to be squeezed over those of the member associations.
literature
- 25 years of the German Football Association. DFB (Ed.), Festschrift 1925.
- History of German football. Volume III of the series of publications of the German Football Association. Carl Koppehel, Verlag Wilhelm Limpert, Frankfurt 1954.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Peter Hock: The Dresden Football Club and the beginnings of football in Europe . Arete Verlag, Hildesheim 2016, page 41f.
- ^ Henry Werner: Football in Berlin: Players - Clubs - Emotions 1880 to today , Elsengold Verlag 2016.
- ^ Hans-Peter Hock: The Dresden Football Club and the beginnings of football in Europe . Arete Verlag, Hildesheim 2016, page 42.