What is the oldest football club in Germany?
BFC Germania 1888
In 1900 the team left to join the VDBV (Verband Deutscher Ballspiel Vereine or Federation of German Ballplay Teams) and in that same year became a founding member of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig. However, with the growth of the game and the arrival on the scene of many new teams Germania became less prominent. By the start of World War I the club had fallen out of Berlin's top flight competition.