DFC Germania Prag
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| Full name | Deutscher Fussball Club 1899 Prag | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| - | defunct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DFC Germania Prag was an ethnically German football club from the city of Prague in what is today the Czech Republic, but was at the time of the club's founding in 1899 part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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[edit] History
Germania was one of many clubs formed by players of German origin in what would become Czechoslovakia and which would play a role in the early development of the sport there and in Germany. Alongside DFC Prag it was a founding member of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1900.
Early in its history the club played in the VDPF (Verband der Deutschen Prager Fussballvereine or Federation of German Football Teams in Prague) and captured the league title in 1902. The next season, in one of a series of quirks of history that eventually led DFC Prag to the first-ever German national final, that club was selected as the league's representative in the German championship round despite being tied with Germania and a third club in the still incomplete VDPF championship.
In 1903 Germania abandoned Prag for the bordertown of Graslitz to become DFC Graslitz. When Germany joined FIFA (French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association or International Federation of Association Football) in 1904, Czech teams were no longer eligible for play in the DFB. FIFA also rebuffed attempts to create ethnic German and Slavic football associations within the borders of the fractious Autro-Hungarian empire, preferring to stay clear of politics.
After the annexation of the Sudetenland by the Third Reich in 1938 the club joined the Gauliga Sudetenland, a top-flight division established to accommodate clubs in the region within the league structure of German football. Re-organized as NSTG Graslitz (Nationalsozialistische Turngemeinde Graslitz or National Socialist Gymnastics Organization of Graslitz) in 1939 the team captured the divisional title in 1940 and went on to make an appearance in the preliminary round of play for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup, being put out 0:4 by eventual cup winner Dresdner SC. Graslitz played only a partial season in 1940-41 and was then out of the Gauliga until returning for a single season in 1943-44. The team folded after the liberation of Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II.
[edit] Honours
- VDPF champions: 1902
- Gauliga Sudetenland champions: 1940
[edit] External links
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German football league tables (German)
