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.
SpVgg Helios München
SpVgg Helios München, now playing as SV Helios Daglfing München, is a German association football club from the city of Munich, Bavaria. The club was established 1 March 1919 out of the football department of "Turn- und Sportverein Jahn München". In October of that year, the departed footballers of "TSV" were replaced by the arrival of the footballers from the "Münchener Sportclub", who had originally played as "Bayern Munich". In 1923, this group departed in turn, restoring "Bayern" as an independent club, and opening the way for "Helios" to rejoin parent "TSV". The reunion was short-lived and "Helios" again went its own way as a separate side sometime later in the 1920s.