Oldest football clubs
Dresden English Football Club was founded on 18 March 1874 and was the first association football club in Germany, and likely the first outside Great Britain. In 1874, over 70 members participated, primarily Englishmen working in Dresden, watched by hundreds of spectators. Another German club, 1860 Munich did not play football until 1899, although it has its origins in a gymnastics and fitness club formed in 1848 and reestablished in the year indicated by its name.
FC Polonia Berlin
FC Polonia Berlin is a football club founded by Poles living in Berlin and Germans of Polish descent. The club was founded in 2012, but it refers to the tradition of the "Polski Klub Sportowy Berlin" founded in 1911 and merged in 1951 with "BSG Handelsorganisation Berlin" at "BSG Empor Berlin" (East Berlin). PKS Berlin (or "PKS Zryw Berlin") was in the 3rd division of the GDR. Polonia Berlin plays in Kreisliga C (eleventh-tier). The name Polonia is used by other Polish-centred clubs in Germany (for example "Polonia Hamburg") and abroad.