Dresden English Football Club
The Dresden English Football Club, which was founded on 18 March 1874 by people living and working in Dresden Englishmen, was the first football club in Germany.
In April 1874 reported a Leipzig newspaper on the creation of a "society, the Dresden Football Club is called". These deal with a game, " be thrown in the balls with her foot ."
The association, which appears in all the other evidence as " Dresden English Football Club" (DTC), was founded by Englishmen occupationally were staying in the emerging industrial city of Dresden and the exercise of their favorite sport football did not want to do without. It is one of the first football clubs on the continent.
The establishment in the year 70 members met regularly at weekends in the field of Güntzwiesen front of the entrance of the Great Garden, very near the present Glücksgas Stadium, the venue of Dynamo Dresden, to training and playing.
The report of 1874 describes the vision "of some twenty young men in a costume, and indeed to distinguish different colors. A kind of woolen or silken vests, with or without sleeves, short -fitting trousers, which were to see the naked knees, long stockings, very comfortable shoes or lace-up boots are the clothing. "
The first date recorded match against another team can be taken from a report of the later founding vice-president of the DFB Philipp Heineken: " On New Year 1891, tried the English FC ( Berlin) to compete with the Dresden FC and suffered from it a decent setback of 7: 0 "
In the appearing since 1890 sports magazines and sports literature has been regularly reported to the DTC, so that, up to and including 10 March 1894 to reconstruct seven games. The first six games has documented the DFC obtained as well as possibly undocumented until March 10, 1894 all ( Goal of the documented games 34:0 ).
These victories included a game in 1892 against a selection of the newly founded German Football and Cricket Federation. The much heralded by the representatives of the new association game ended in front of several hundred paying spectators, including the British Ambassador and the Prussian Minister of Education, 3-0 for the DTC against the national team, which the journalist Andreas Wittner was the first German national team. The " games and sports ", however, refers in its issue of 10 March 1894, the DFCB selection as the Berlin Federal team.
A report of the General Sports newspaper from Vienna reported: " The Dresden English Football Club, which is about twenty years, until March 10, 1894 has neither a goal nor a game lost. " The reputation of invincibility of D.F.C. was on this day the Berlin Thor and Football Club Victoria 89, who had lost the first leg 5-0, ended. The newspaper reported it was " the glory of the Berlin Victoria been taken - within ten minutes,. Gained within the first half of Victoria 2 Goals, while the English could not do anything final 2 Goals of Victoria against 0 of the English Football Club".
The Vienna General Sport newspaper reported that "no one thought of the possibility of defeat, and when the telegram arrived, at first nobody wanted to believe in this ."
Players were in 1894: Beb ( Captain ), Burchard, Crossley, Graham Atkins, Spencer, Ravenscraft, Johnson, le Maistre, Luxmoore, Young. President was the Reverend of the Presbyterian Church John Davis Bowden (1839-1908), who also presided over the local golf club. Another long-standing member of the team was the captain of the team JW Bell, who appeared as a referee in the games of the New Dresdner football clubs in appearance. By the year 1898, a total of 20 games can prove was the reported inter alia in the English weekly " The Stranger 's Guide to Dresden " ( Hock, 2013, 42). In the spring of 1897 they played again against Victoria Berlin, lost this time but clearly with 0:6.
From the club later, the New Dresdner FC emerged, whose members founded in 1898 the Dresdner SC.
Source
- " When the English still continuously won " (article by Andrew Wittner in the newspaper " Die Welt" of 4 July 2006, page 8)
Hans -Peter Hock, Dresden Fußballarchäologisch. A tribute to the English Football clubs in Germany (Dresden, 2013).