BFC Germania 1888
BFC Germania 1888 is a German football club from Berlin. Founded on 15 April 1888, it is the oldest still active football club in the country.
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.