1. Bockenheimer FC 1899
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| Full name | Erster Bockenheimer Fussball Club 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| League | defunct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1. Bockenheimer FC was a German football club from the western city district of Bockenheim in Frankfurt, Hesse.
[edit] History
Formed in 1899, 1. BFC had only a short existence playing in the FAB (Frankfurter Associations Bund or Frankfurt Associations Federation). The history of both the team and the league are uncertain. Bockenheim joined founders Frankfurter FC Germania 1894, Frankfurter FC Victoria 1899 and Frankfurter FC in the league's second year of play.
FAB disappeared by mid-1905 as Frankfurter sides drifted away to compete in the larger SFV (Süddeutscher Fussball Verband or South German Football League). 1. Bockenheim also vanished with little note, although the club is recognized as one of the founding members of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in 1900 at Leipzig alongside the other FAB clubs.
The memory of the short-lived Bockenheimer side is also preserved in the chronicles of present-day clubs Viktoria Frankfurt and Kickers Offenbach who both remember 1. BFC as the team they defeated in the first matches they ever played. Bockenheim fell 1:4 to Viktoria on March 19, 1899 and 1:2 to Offenbach on July 7, 1901.
