Süddeutsche Fußball-Verband

Southern German Football Association

Formation	17 October 1897 19 December 1949 (reformed)
Type	Football association
Headquarters	Brienner Strasse 50
Location	Munich, Bavaria
Membership	3,110,923 (2016)
President	Rainer Koch
Parent organization	German Football Association
Website	suedfv.de

The Southern German Football Association (German: Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband), the SFV, is one of five regional organisations of the German Football Association, the DFB, and covers the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse.

The SFV is in turn subdivided into the Baden Football Association, Bavarian Football Association, Hessian Football Association, South Baden Football Association and Württemberg Football Association.

In 2016, the SFV had 3,110,923 members, 9,825 member clubs and 63,967 teams playing in its league system.

The Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband was formed as the Verband Süddeutscher Fußball-Vereine on 17 October 1897 in Karlsruhe in a meeting of the eight leading football clubs in Southern Germany, these being the Karlsruher FV, Phönix Karlsruhe, Fidelitas Karlsruhe, 1. FC Pforzheim, FC Heilbronn, FG 96 Mannheim, FC Hanau 93, and Germania 94 Frankfurt. The new federation soon began to organise a regional football competition, the Southern German football championship, followed by a league system a few years later.

Originally the VSFV covered the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Alsace-Lorraine, the Prussian Province of Hohenzollern, the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau (southern parts only) and the Prussian Rhine Province (southern parts only). Alsace-Lorraine ceased to be part of Germany and thereby the SFV after the First World War when the territory was returned to France.