Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg
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| Full name | Magdeburger Fussball und Cricket Club Viktoria 1897 |
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| Nickname(s) | Cricketer, Kricketer |
| Founded | 16 June 1897 |
| Ground | Cricketer Sportpark (1922–1936) |
| Capacity | 40,000 |
| League | Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspielvereine |
Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg was a German association football club playing in the Cracau district of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.
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 alongside football and rugby becoming popular in continental Europe at the time. Interest in football grew quickly and in 1900 Cricket Viktoria, along with local rival SV Viktoria 96 Magdeburg, became founding members of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association).
Cricket Viktoria never developed any sort of national presence in the period leading up to World War II. CV played in the Gau Mittelelbe, a league of the Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspielvereine (VMBV) where they won several regional titles in the 1910s and 20s, but were unable to advance out of league play and on to the German national playoff rounds. In 1921 the football department of MTV 1848 Magdeburg joined the club.
German football was re-organized in 1933 under the Third Reich into sixteen top flight Gauligen. At the time Cricket Viktoria played in the second division Bezirksklasse Magdeburg-Anhalt and on the strength of a first-place finish there earned promotion to the Gauliga Mitte. They played at the top flight until a last place finish and relegation in 1942 after the club had been weakened by the draft of many its players into the army. The team's best results were second-place finishes in 1936 and 1938.
Like most organizations in Germany, including football and sports clubs, Cricket Viktoria was disbanded in 1945 by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany at the end of World War II. Late in the year the formation of new clubs was permitted and many former players joined SG (Sportgruppe) Magdeburg-Altstadt. Others, such as future star Ernst "Anti" Kümmel joined SG Sudenburg, which would soon become 1. FC Magdeburg.
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