Altonaer FC von 1893
"Altona" is one of Germany's oldest football clubs: they were part of the Altona-Hamburg football league formed in 1894, as well as one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1900. In 1903 at their home ground, they hosted the first-ever German national championship final played between "VfB Leipzig" and "DFC Prague". The match was refereed by "AFC" player Franz Behr, who also served as the vice-chairman of the newly formed DFB until 1904. The club rescued the match by providing a new ball when the original one proved to be unsuitable for play. The hosts of the country's first title match never won or even played in a national final, being able to advance only as far as the semi-finals in 1903 and 1909, and the quarter-finals in 1914.
SC Germania Hamburg
On 20 Oktober 1894 the "Hamburg-Altonaer Fußball-Bund", the "Football Association of Hamburg and Altona" - Altona was Prussian city, immediately to the west of Hamburg, that like Wandsbek should be merged with Hamburg in 1937 - was founded and as the third German football association outside the imperial capital Berlin after the short-lived south-west German "Süd-Westdeutsche Fußball-Union". The team of SC Germania, dominated by foreigners, mostly Britons, secured itself in 1896 and 1897 the first two championships of the association - undefeated on both occasions. In that period the "Heiligengeistfeld" and the "Exerzierweide" in Altona, the latter was also venue of the first national German championship final in 1903, found use as homegrounds.
SC Germania, like "Hamburger FC 1888" were amongst the 86 clubs who founded on 28 January 1900 the national German football association Deutscher Fussball-Bund. Both, like all clubs, from the Hamburg-Altona association and Bremen, were represented at the assembly in Leipzig by Walter Sommermeier.