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.
Sportfreunde Siegen
The club was founded in 1899 as the football department of a gymnastics club called "Turnverein Jahn von 1879 Siegen", being one of the first clubs in Western Germany to offer organized football to its members. In 1923, it merged with "Sportverein 07 Siegen" to become an independent football club called "Sportfreunde Siegen von 1899".