The DFB was formed January 28, 1900 in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

. The commonly accepted number of founding clubs represented at the inaugural meeting is 86, but this number is uncertain. The vote held to establish the association was 62:22 in favour (84 votes). Some delegates present represented more than one club, but may have voted only once. Other delegates present did not carry their club's authority to cast a ballot.

Founding associations are believed to include the following:

1. Altonaer FC von 1893
   Altonaer FC Hamburg
   Altonaer FC von 1893 is a German association football club based in the Altona district of the city of Hamburg. The football team is a department of a larger sports club which also offers handball, karate, table tennis and volleyball.-History:...
   
   
2. FC Eintracht Altona
   FC Eintracht Altona
   Fußball-Club Eintracht Altona was an early German football club from Altona, a then independent city.The short-lived team played a handful of seasons in the Hamburger-Altoner Fussballbund beginning in 1897 until disappearing from the German football scene after withdrawing from play part way...
   
   
3. Ascherslebener SC 1898
4. Akademischer BC 1897 Charlottenburg
   Akademischer BC 1897 Charlottenburg
   Akademischer Ballspiel-Club 1897 Charlottenburg was a German association football club based in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. Founded on 31 May 1897, it is notable as one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900.Akademischer BC was established as a...
   
   
5. Akademischer SC 1893 Berlin
   Akademischer SC 1893 Berlin
   Akademischer Sport-Club 1893 Berlin was a German association football club based in Berlin and is notable as one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900....
   
   
6. BTuFC Alemannia 90
   Alemannia Wacker Berlin
   BFC Alemannia 90 Wacker is a German football club based in northern Berlin. Today's club has its origins in the predecessor sides BFC 90 Alemannia and SC Wacker 04 Berlin.- Alemannia 90 Berlin :...
   
   
7. Berliner FC 1893
8. BTuFC Britannia 1892
   Berliner SV
   Berliner SV 1892 is a German association football club from the district of Wilmersdorf, Berlin. BSV 1892 is one of the country's oldest clubs and was a founding member of the DFB in 1900....
   
   
9. BFC Burgund 1896 Berlin
10. BFC Concordia 1895 Berlin
    FC Concordia Wilhelmsruh
    FC Concordia Wilhelmsruh is a German association football club based in Berlin. The club was founded on 29 June 1895 as Concordia Berlin and was one of the founding members of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900...
    
    
11. BFuCC Deutschland Berlin
12. BSC Favorit 1896 Berlin
    VfL Nord Berlin
    VfL Nord Berlin was a German association football club from the city of Berlin. It was formed on 21 May 1947 in the aftermath of World War II as the successor to Berliner Fußball-Club Favorit which was established 15 October 1896 and was one of the founding clubs of the DFB at Leipzig in 1900.-BFC...
    
    
13. BFC Fortuna 1894 Berlin
    BFC Fortuna 1894 Berlin
    Fortuna Berlin was a German association football club established on 1 November 1894 in Berlin out of the memberships of the clubs Semnonia Berlin and Berliner FC Hercynia...
    
    
14. BFC Frankfurt 1885 Berlin
15. Friedenau SC Excelsior Berlin
16. BFC Germania 1888 Berlin
    BFC Germania
    BFC Germania 1888 is a German association football club from Berlin. Founded on 15 April 1888, it is the oldest still active football club in the country.-History:...
    
    
17. BFC Hertha 1892 Berlin
    Hertha BSC Berlin
    Hertha Berliner Sport-Club von 1892, commonly known as Hertha BSC or Hertha Berlin, is a German association football club based in Berlin. A founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900, the club has a long history as Berlin's best-supported side...
    
    
18. BFC Columbia 1896 Berlin
19. Berliner Sport-Club Komet
    SC Komet Berlin
    SC Komet Berlin was a German sports club from the city of Berlin.Komet was active from the late 1890s through to the late 1930s with its athletics department and association football club figuring on the German sports scene....
    
    
20. BFC Phönix Berlin
21. BFC Preussen 1894 Berlin
    BFC Preussen
    BFC Preussen is a German football club from Berlin. The team is part of a sports club which also has departments for handball, volleyball, athletics, gymnastics, and ice hockey...
    
    
22. BFuCC Rapide 1893 Berlin
    SV Nord Wedding
    SV Nord Wedding 1893 is a German association football club that plays in Berlin.- History :Their complicated lineage includes a number of clubs and they can trace their roots back to some of the city's earliest football sides...
    
    
23. BFC Stern 1889 Berlin
24. BFC Tasmania 1890 Berlin
    Tasmania 1900 Berlin
    SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin was a German association football club based in the Berlin district of Neukölln.- Tasmania 1900 :The team was founded on 2 June 1900 as Rixdorfer TuFC Tasmania 1900, changing its name when Rixdorf was re-named Neukölln in 1912...
    
    
25. BTuFC Toscana Berlin
26. BTuFC Union 1892 Berlin
27. BTuFC Viktoria 1889 Berlin
    Viktoria 89 Berlin
    Berliner Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 is a German sports club based in the Tempelhof district of Berlin. Football, rugby, and cricket came to continental Europe in the late 19th century, and these "English games" became immediately popular in many countries. Viktoria is the oldest club in Germany...
    
    
28. BFC Vorwärts 1890 Berlin
29. 1. Bockenheimer FC 1899
    1. Bockenheimer FC 1899
    1. Bockenheimer FC was a German association football club from the western city district of Bockenheim.-History:Formed in 1899, 1. BFC had only a short existence playing in the FAB...
    
    
30. FC Brunsviga 1896 Braunschweig
    FC Brunsviga 1896 Braunschweig
    FC Brunsviga Braunschweig was a German association football club from the city of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The short-lived club was founded in 1896 by students of the local teacher's college and was disbanded sometime in 1901...
    
    
31. FuCC Eintracht 1895 Braunschweig
    Eintracht Braunschweig
    Eintracht Braunschweig is a German association football club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga in 1963 and won the national title in 1967.-History:...
    
    
32. FC Germania Braunschweig
    Rot-Weiss Braunschweig
    VfB Rot-Weiß 04 Braunschweig is a German association football club from the city of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony and is part of a larger sports club with departments for women's and youth football, gymnastics, handball, table tennis, tennis, and darts....
    
    
33. ASC 1898 Bremen
    ASC 1898 Bremen
    ASC Bremen or Allgemeinen Bremer Sportclub von 1898 was a German association football club based in the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Founded in 1898 the club played briefly in the Verband Bremer Ballspiel Vereine fielding both first and second division sides...
    
    
34. Bremer SC 1891 (represented by Hamburg's Walter Sommermeier)
35. Club SuS 1896 Bremen
    Club SuS 1896 Bremen
    Club Spiel und Sport Bremen was a German association football club established on 10 July 1896 at the Restaurant Wartburghalle in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen....
    
    
36. SC Germania 1899 Bremen
    SC Germania 1899 Bremen
    Sportclub Germania Bremen was a German association football club based in the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Established in 1899, the club was one of several short-lived Bremen-based clubs that bore the name Germania around the turn of the century...
    
    
37. SC Hansa 1898 Bremen
    SC Hansa 1898 Bremen
    Sportclub Hansa Bremen was a German association football club based in the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Established in 1898, the team played in the Verband Bremer Ballspiel Vereine and was a founding member of the DFB at Leipzig in 1900. The club disappeared from the German football scene after just...
    
    
38. KSV Simson Bremen
    KSV Simson Bremen
    KSV Simson Bremen was a German association football club based in the Hanseatic city of Bremen. The team was part of the Verband Bremer Ballspiel Vereine and was a founding member of the DFB at Leipzig in 1900. The club played a single season in the VBBV before withdrawing from competition....
    
    
39. FV Werder 1899 Bremen (represented by Hamburg's Walter Sommermeier)
40. FC Bremerhaven-Lehe
    FC Bremerhaven
    FC Bremerhaven is a German association football club located in Bremerhaven, Bremen.-History:The club was founded 1 June 1899 and soon merged with VfB 1899 Lehe to become FC Bremerhaven-Lehe which was represented at the founding of the German Football Association at Leipzig in 1900...
    
     (represented by Hamburg's Walter Sommermeier)
41. SV Blitz 1897 Breslau
    VfR Schlesien Breslau
    SV Blitz Breslau was a German football club playing in Breslau, Lower Silesia in what was then part of Germany but is today Wrocław, Poland. The club was established on 1 April 1897 by former members of the cycling club Radverein Blitz Breslau...
    
    
42. Britannia Chemnitz
43. Dresdner FC 1893
44. Dresdner SC 1898
    Dresdner SC
    Dresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900...
    
    
45. SC Erfurt 1895
    FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt
    FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt is a German association football club based in Erfurt, Thuringia.-Foundation to World War II:The club has roots that go back to a cricket club founded in 1895. As they broadened their interests they came to be called Sport Club Erfurt...
    
    
46. Frankfurter FC 1899
    Eintracht Frankfurt
    Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...
    
    
47. Frankfurter FC Germania 1894
    Frankfurter FC Germania 1894
    VfL Germania 1894 is a German association football club from the city of Frankfurt am Main. The club is notable as one of the Founding Clubs of the DFB in Leipzig in 1900.-History:...
    
    
48. Frankfurter FC Viktoria 1899
    Eintracht Frankfurt
    Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...
    
    
49. Freiburger FC 1897
    Freiburger FC
    Freiburger FC is a German association football club based in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg. Freiburger FC was a founding Clubs of the DFB in 1900.-History:...
    
    
50. Hallescher FC 1896
    VfL Halle 1896
    VfL Halle is a German association football club from the city of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The oldest club in the city of Halle was founded as Hallescher Fußballclub von 1896 on 16 July 1896...
    
    
51. Hamburger FC 1888
    Hamburger SV
    Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department...
    
    
52. SC Germania 1887 zu Hamburg
    Hamburger SV
    Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department...
    
    
53. FC Hammonia 1896 Hamburg
54. FC St. Georg 1895 Hamburg
55. FC Victoria 1895 Hamburg
    SC Victoria Hamburg
    SC Victoria Hamburg is a German association football club from the city of Hamburg. The football team is part of a larger sports club that has departments for badminton, handball, hockey, athletics, tennis, table tennis , gymnastics, baseball , and softball .-History:The club was founded 5 May 1895...
    
    
56. FC Association 1893 Hamburg
    FC Association 1893 Hamburg
    Fußball Club Association Hamburg was a German football club established in 1893 in Hamburg. The team played as part of the Hamburger-Altonaer Fußball Bund between 1896 and 1900 and was a founding member of the DFB at Leipzig in 1900. The short-lived club disappeared soon afterwards....
    
    
57. 1. Hanauer FC 1893
    FC Hanau 93
    FC Hanau 93 is a German association football club based in Hanau, Hesse.-Early history:Founded in 1893, the club is Hesse's oldest. In its first year, the club was winless in a half dozen matches, but the next season emerged as south German champion and earned an appearance in a national...
    
    
58. Hanauer FG 1899
59. FC Viktoria 1894 Hanau
    TSV Hanau
    TSV 1860 Hanau is a German association football club from the city of Hanau, Hesse near Frankfurt.-History:The predecessor club Hanauer Tabakverein was established as a gymnastics association in 1840 but was broken up just ten years later when several of its members found themselves facing courts...
    
    
60. Deutscher FV 1878 Hannover
    Deutscher FV 1878 Hannover
    DSV 78 Hannover, founded as DFV Hannover in 1878, is Germany's oldest rugby club. The club played in the 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga under the name DSV 78/08 Ricklingen, having formed an on-the-field union with SV 08 Ricklingen, another club from Hannover....
    
    
61. Karlsruher FV 1891
    Karlsruher FV
    Karlsruher FV is a German association football club that plays in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. Established on 17 November 1891, KFV was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900. The team went on to capture the national championship in 1910 with a 1–0 victory over Holstein Kiel...
    
    
62. Phönix 1894 Karlsruhe
63. Karlsruher FC Südstadt
    FC Südstadt Karlsruhe
    Post Südstadt Karlsruhe is a German sports club from the city of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg that was formed in 2001 through the merger of Karlsruhe VfB Südstadt and Postsportverein Karlsruhe...
    
    
64. Leipziger BC 1893
    Leipziger BC 1893
    Leipziger Ballspiel-Club was a German association football club from Leipzig, Saxony. Founded on 6 March 1893 in the Keglerheim as a football and cricket club at the instigation of a group of three Englishmen, it is notable as a founding member of the German Football Association at Leipzig in...
    
    
65. FC Lipsia 1893 Leipzig
    Olympia Leipzig
    SG Olympia Leipzig is a German association football club based in Leipzig, Saxony.-History:The club was founded 10 June 1896 as FV Olympia and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900...
    
    
66. FC Olympia 1896 Leipzig
    Olympia Leipzig
    SG Olympia Leipzig is a German association football club based in Leipzig, Saxony.-History:The club was founded 10 June 1896 as FV Olympia and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900...
    
    
67. VfB Sportbrüder 1893 Leipzig
    Sportbrüder Leipzig
    Sportbrüder Leipzig was a German association football club from the city of Leipzig, Saxony.-History:Founded in November 1893 as Sport Club Sportbrüder Leipzig it was one of Germany's earliest football clubs and a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900.Sportbrüder merged...
    
    
68. FC Wacker 1895 Leipzig
    Wacker Leipzig
    SC Wacker Leipzig was a German association football club playing in Leipzig, Saxony. The club was formed 24 February 1895 out of the merger of the school clubs Concordia Leipzig and Saxonia Leipzig...
    
    
69. FuCC Victoria 1896 Magdeburg
    SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg
    Viktoria 96 Magdeburg was a German football club playing in the Cracau district of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club was founded under the name Victoria on 26 June 1896 by twelve ninth-graders of Magdeburg's Guericke-Realschule. Soon renamed Magdeburger Fußball-Club Viktoria von 1896, the...
    
    
70. FuCC Cricket-Viktoria 1897 Magdeburg
    Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg
    Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg was a German association football club playing in the Cracau district of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club was established in 1897 out of the merger of FuCC Regatta Magdeburg und FC Gut Stoss Magdeburg and was originally a cricket team, one of the English sports...
    
    
71. Mannheimer FC Viktoria 1897
    VfR Mannheim
    VfR Mannheim is a German association football club based in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg formed in 1911 out of the fusion of Mannheimer FG 1896, Mannheimer FG 1897 Union, and FC Viktoria 1897 Mannheim...
    
    
72. Mannheimer FG 1896
    VfR Mannheim
    VfR Mannheim is a German association football club based in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg formed in 1911 out of the fusion of Mannheimer FG 1896, Mannheimer FG 1897 Union, and FC Viktoria 1897 Mannheim...
    
    
73. Mannheimer FG Union 1897
    VfR Mannheim
    VfR Mannheim is a German association football club based in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg formed in 1911 out of the fusion of Mannheimer FG 1896, Mannheimer FG 1897 Union, and FC Viktoria 1897 Mannheim...
    
    
74. Mannheimer FG Germania 1897
    Mannheimer FG Germania 1897
    Mannheimer Fußballgesellschaft Germania was an early German association football club, founded in 1897 in the city of Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg....
    
    
75. Mannheimer FV 1898
    Mannheimer FV 1898
    Mannheimer Fußballverein was an early German association football club, founded in 1898 in the city of Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg.FV was one of five founding members of the Mannheimer Fußball-Bund established in 1899. The club went on to also become a founding member of the DFB at Leipzig in 1900....
    
    
76. Mittweidaer BC
    Mittweidaer BC
    Mittweidaer Ballspielclub was a German association football club from the town of Mittweida, Saxony.-History:Established in 1896, the club is notable as a founding member of the DFB at Leipzig in 1900. The team played as an anonymous local side throughout its history...
    
    
77. FC Germania 1899 Mühlhausen
    FC Germania 1899 Mühlhausen
    SV 1899 Mühlhausen is a German sportsclub from Mühlhausen, Thuringia. The team is actif in athletics, volleyball, football, wrestling, boxing, gymnastics, badminton, darts, capoeira and sports for the disabled.-Football:...
    
    
78. FC Bavaria 1899 München
    FC Bavaria 1899 München
    FC Bavaria München was a short-lived German association football club from Munich, Bavaria. Alongside FC Nordstern 1896 München and 1. Münchner FC 1896, Bavaria was notable as one of the founding members of the German Football Association at Leipzig in 1900.Established on 1 November 1899, in...
    
    
79. 1. Münchner FC 1896
    1. Münchner FC 1896
    1. Münchner FC 1896 was a German association football club in Munich, Bavaria whose origins were in the formation on 5 September 1896 of the club Terra Pila by a group of students playing football on the city's Theresienwiese, which is today the official ground of the Munich Oktoberfest. Both 1...
    
    
80. FC Nordstern 1896 München
    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...
    
    
81. SC Naumburg
    SC Naumburg
    Naumburg SC was a German association football club that played in Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt. The club was founded 29 September 1899 and was the first formed in the city...
    
    
82. VfB 1893 Pankow
    VfB-Einheit zu Pankow
    VfB Einheit zu Pankow is a German association football club from the Pankow district of Berlin.-History:Founded in 1893 as VfB Pankow, the club's initial interests were in cricket and tennis. Within a few years English expatriates introduced football, which soon displaced cricket...
    
    
83. 1. FC 1896 Pforzheim
    1. FC Pforzheim
    1. FC Pforzheim was a German association football club playing in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club was established on 5 May 1896 and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900. In 2010 it merged with VfR Pforzheim to 1. CfR Pforzheim.-Early success:The club...
    
    
84. Pforzheimer FC Frankonia
85. Deutscher FC 1892 Prag
    DFC Prag
    The Deutscher Fussball Club Prag was a German association football club that played in the city of Prague in what is today the Czech Republic, but was at the time of the club's founding on 25 May 1896, part of Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
    
    
86. Deutscher FC Germania 1898 Prag
    DFC Germania Prag
    DFC Germania Prag was a German association football club from the city of Prague in what is today the Czech Republic, consisting of ethnic Germans At the time of the club's founding in 1899, Prague was part of Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire....
    
    
87. Straßburger FV 1890

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