German football club

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Parque Central in Montevideo (1900)
Montevideo AC at game against Argentinos Quilmes (1908)

German Football Club , also known as Deutscher FK - in later years Sport Club Teutonia (also Sportivo Teutonia ) and Centro Atlético Montevideo - was a sports club in Uruguay founded in 1896 by Germans abroad and emigrants . In 1900 he became a co-founder of the Uruguayan Football Association and participated in the first championship. After 1909 nothing is known about the association.

history

Deutscher Fußball Klub was founded in 1896 by residents of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo of German origin, such as locally known athletes of the time e e.g. Strauchs, Leopold, Schubert, Ludeke, Sturzenegger as well as gymnasts from the Sociedad de Gimnasia y Esgrima L'Avenir and rowers from the Montevideo Rowing Club . He is after the Albion Football Club and Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club (CURCC) founded in 1891 , from which the later World Cup winner CA Peñarol emerged , and before the Uruguay Athletic Club founded in 1898the third oldest football club in Uruguay. The DFK football team first attracted attention in 1898, when they delivered strong performances in games against Uruguay Athletic and the CURCC.

Together with Albion, CURCC and Uruguay Athletic, he was a founding member of the Uruguay Association Football League in 1900 , which was renamed Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol in 1915 . In addition, German , as the club was commonly called, was a participant in the first nine championships in Uruguay.

In 1900 the German tram company Transátlantica made part of the Parque Central of Montevideo available to the club as a sports field. Next to it was a so-called international square that was used, for example, by British seafarers during their stay in Montevideo, and from which later, with the inclusion of the DFK site, the Parque Central stadium of today's top club Nacional developed.

The DFK played its first game here on May 25, 1900 against CURCC. Only two days later Nacional played the first game in its club history against the DFK in Parque Central - the teams parted with a 1-1 draw.

After the civil war of 1904, Deutscher changed his statutes and opened membership to Uruguayans who were not of German origin. This was accompanied by a change of name to Sport Club Teutonia . Occasionally this name appears in lists as Sportivo Teutonia .

In the following years a strong Creole influence developed in the club. In 1906 this led to the association being renamed Centro Atlético Montevideo . The club participated in the championship under this name until 1909. Nothing is known about the further development of the club.

It is said that the club competed in all white, with the shirt having thin, sky-blue vertical stripes.

Placements in the championship

Placement and number of participants are given:

  • 1900: 4, from 4
  • 1901: 4th of 5
  • 1902: 3rd of 6th
  • 1903: 3rd of 7th
  • 1904: no championship
  • 1905: 4th of 5
  • 1906: 4th of 6th
  • 1907: 5th of 6th
  • 1908: 8th of 10th
  • 1909: 9th of 10th

Balance: 101 games, GUV: 28-13-60, goals: 114: 236

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