The DDR-Oberliga was the top-level association football league in East Germany.
Cricket in Germany has a history going back to 1858, when a group of people from England and the United States founded the first German cricket club in Berlin. Several more teams were later founded in Berlin and the rest of Germany, as well as a national federation. Cricket lingered on over the following century, with occasional visits of German players to England and British and other foreign teams touring in Germany, but only when it got a foothold in the German universities in the 1980s did the number of German cricket clubs and players start to grow again.
Ice hockey in Germany is one of the more popular sports, and ranks behind Handball and football in spectator favour and meaning. Ice hockey is organized today in Germany by the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, the highest professional league, and by the Deutschen Eishockey-Bund ice hockey federation, which is the sport's federation in Germany and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
Berliner FC Alemannia 1890 is a German football club based in northern Berlin. The club was founded in 1890 as Berliner Thor- und Fussball Club Allemannia 1890. In 1994, the club saw an influx of members from SC Wacker 04 Berlin, which had folded, and took the name BFC Alemannia 90 Wacker. However, in 2013 they returned to their original name.
Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V., known simply as Dresdner SC, is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900. The origins of the club go back still further to the predecessor side Dresden English Football Club formed in 1874 by expatriate Englishmen as Germany's first football club and possibly the earliest in continental Europe: Dresdener SC was organized by one-time German members of the EFC.
SV Nord Wedding 1893 is a German association football club that plays in the Wedding district of the city of Berlin.
Berliner Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 was a German sports club based in the Tempelhof district of Berlin. Football, rugby, and cricket came to continental Europe in the late 19th century, and these "English games" became immediately popular in many countries. Viktoria was the oldest club in Germany that had teams playing both football and cricket. It was one of the founding members of the German Football Association (DFB) in Leipzig in 1900. The club merged with Lichterfelder FC in 2013 and has continued as FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin.
The DFB was formed 28 January 1900 in Leipzig. The commonly accepted number of founding clubs represented at the inaugural meeting is 86, but this number is uncertain. The vote held to establish the association was 64–22 in favour. Some delegates present represented more than one club, but may have voted only once. Other delegates present did not carry their club's authority to cast a ballot.
Berliner SV 1892 is a German association football club from the district of Wilmersdorf, Berlin. BSV is one of the country's oldest clubs and was a founding member of the DFB in 1900. The club also operates a rugby union department, Berliner SV 92 Rugby, which, in 1948, reached the German rugby union championship final.
BFC Germania 1888 is a German football club from Berlin. Founded on 15 April 1888, it is the oldest active football club in the country.
1. Bockenheimer FC was a German association football club from Frankfurt's western city district of Bockenheim. It was active between 1899 and 1901.
Football in Berlin, the capital of Germany, has a long history. The city contributed 24 of the 86 founders of the DFB, the German Football Association. The DFB Cup Final has been held every year at the Olympiastadion since 1985.
Werner Voigt was a German football coach and player.
The Brandenburg football championship was the name of highest association football competition in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, including Berlin, established in 1898. The competition was organized by various regional football associations between 1898 and 1933. The last incarnation of the competition was the VBB-Oberliga. The competition was disbanded in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis to power.
Berliner Fußball-Club vom Jahre 1893 was a German association football club from the city of Berlin. The club is notable as one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association at Leipzig in 1900. It was one of the predecessors of current day club Nordring Berlin.
Rapide Berlin was an early German association football club from the city of Berlin. One of the founding members of the DFB at Leipzig in 1900, the club is part of the tradition of current-day side SV Nord Wedding.
Charlottenburger Sport Verein Olympia 1897 is a German association football club from the district of Charlottenburg in the city of Berlin, formed following a 1992 merger with BFC Olympia 1953 Berlin. One of the city's earliest football clubs, SC des Westens 97 Berlin, is now part of CSV Olympia.
BTuFC Toscana Berlin was an early German association football club from the city of Berlin. The club is notable as one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association at Leipzig in 1900.
The Ascherslebener Sport Club 1898 was a short-lived German association football club in the town of Aschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt. Established in 1898, little is known about the club and it is notable only as one of the founding members of the DFB at Leipzig on January 28, 1900. It was represented by Gustav Oehmichen at the foundation meeting.
