1. Bockenheimer FC 1899
The first Bockenheimer FC 1899 is a former football club from the Bockenheim.
The club was founded in 1899 and thus became one of a number of football clubs that have emerged in the years 1899 and 1900 in the Main metropolis. These include, among others, the two previous associations of concord, Victoria 1899, Frankfurt Kickers, as well as the FSV Frankfurt. As for many other Frankfurt footballer also the venue for the Bockenheimer was the so-called " dog meadow " north of downtown Frankfurt, where they parallel to Miquelstraße staked out its own field on the southern edge of the three existing courses ( the Germania, the Victoria and Kickers ). The Bockenheimer occurred in the light blue sweater with yellow sash and yellow Beekeeper characters - the coat of arms Bock home - on the chest and white pants.
In January 1900, the German Football Association was the first wide -reaching umbrella organization, was one of the first FC Bock home as one of 86 clubs of the founding members. In the same year the Bockenheimer joined the recently founded the first local football association, the Frankfurt Association Federation, at which fought out his first championship round in the fall of 1900. The first FC finished here, although only the third and final place, but was nevertheless for the final round of the Association of Southern German football clubs qualified to the Süddeutsche Championship, where the Frankfurt clubs were, however, a chance.
The Bockenheimer FC went through his games against teams outside the city a name. Thus, for example, found instead the first documented game, which was founded in 1901 Offenbacher Kickers against FC Bock home in 1899 and ended 2:1 for the leather townspeople.
After some players had been drafted in the fall of 1901, the army, the club disbanded at the beginning of the third year of its existence. From the games of the FAB- round 1901/ 02 he was only three and did not start to play back from 1 December 1901. Is still for October 20th, 1901, a friendly match against Victoria documented ( 0-2). The remaining players were distributed to other clubs in the district or have been co-founder of the same. The FV Amicitia 1901 Bock Home (founded on 11 November 1901), the FC Germania 1901 Bock Home, Bockenheimer FVgg 1901 and FC Helvetia in 1902, the forerunner of the later nationally successful and still existing club Rot-Weiss Frankfurt were all written in the Between 1901 and 1902. One of the founders of the Bockenheimer FC, Justus giant, in the 1920s, was chairman of the SC Rot-Weiß.
To raise its own gaming operations beyond the existing, football associations, founded the Bockenheimer clubs in the spring of their own association, the Bockenheimer Football Association, but there was only a short time.