DFC Germania Prague

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The German Football Club Germania Prague (DFC Germania) was a football club of the German population group in Prague , which, like all of Bohemia, was part of the Habsburg monarchy Austria-Hungary when the club was founded.

Club history

Germania was one of many clubs in what was later to become Czechoslovakia - today's Czech Republic - that were founded by residents of German origin and were intended to play a role in the early history of football there, but also in the neighboring German Empire. In addition to local rivals DFC Prague , Germania was a founding member of the German Football Association on January 28, 1900 in Leipzig .

The association emerged from two "wild" student clubs called "Unitas" and "Urania", founded in 1898, which merged on June 22nd, 1899 to form DFC Germania Prague. Since an application for permission to operate had previously been made on June 9, 1899, which was also approved, Germania was an officially registered, ie "official" club. The main initiators of this "nationally based" association were Josef Sedlak and Heinrich Nonner .

The club colors were black and white, the club was the Café Weinberg in the district of Königliche Weinberge (Královske Vinohrady), where the Teutonic sports field was also located: on a terraced area called "Canal Garden" ("Kanalka"), which is also shared by other clubs made the soccer game possible, DFC Germania occupied one of the terraces and, with the help of a carpenter friend, built a fenced-in soccer field with a spacious clubhouse.

In terms of football, the new club quickly caught up with the leading teams of DFC Prague and the regatta football department. After the Association of Prague German Football Associations was founded on November 7, 1900 , which the "Germanic peoples" joined shortly afterwards, a championship operation became possible among the German clubs in Prague. At least once, namely in 1901, Germania secured the title of Moldau city, which was in 1902, is rather confusing: As Prague champions, the DFC took part in the final round of the German championship , in which it reached the final; however, he should not have played a single game in the Prague game operation in the 1901/02 season. There was no champion that year, according to the few sparse sources, at the top were three teams with equal points, including DFC Germania, but not DFC Prague.

On March 15, 1903, the DFC Germania Prague disappeared from the football map again. Financial problems were the cause of the club's dissolution, caused by the loss of the sports field on which the Georgskirche was built. Another contributory factor was the fluctuation in the top management of the club, which consisted of officials from the Post Office and the Reichsbahn, who were frequently transferred. The players were distributed among the other Prague clubs, including Ladislaus Kurpiel , who in the period before the First World War, as a member of DFC Prague, became one of the best "middle and centrehalves" of the Danube Monarchy and eight times Austrian national player - participation in the Olympic Playing in Stockholm in 1912 - advanced.

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