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 Nordstern 1896 München
FC Nordstern 1896 München was a short-lived German association football club in Munich, Bavaria. Both "Nordstern" and "1. Münchner FC 1896" laid claim to being the oldest football clubs in the city. Alongside "FC Bavaria 1899 München", these clubs were notable as founding members of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund) at Leipzig in 1900.