SC Germania Hamburg

Sport-Club Germania Hamburg - often referred to as SC Germania 1887 - was a sports club from the northern German metropolis Hamburg. It was created on 29 September 1887 through the merger of the track and field clubs Hohenfelder Sportclub and Wandsbek-Marienthaler Sportclub, which both were founded in 1884. Germania was six times winner of the association football Championship of Hamburg and in 1900 a founding member of the German football association. Germania merged on 2 June 1919 with Hamburger SV von 1888, Northern German champions of that year, to form today's Hamburger SV, six times German champions and European Cup of Champions' winner of 1983. Hamburger SV carries the foundation date of Germania as its foundation date and uses the colours of Germania in its badge.

Hans Nobiling, a player of Germania, emigrated in the late 19th century to Brazil where he was instrumental in founding two of the four oldest football clubs of the country, which became in 1938 part of São Paulo FC, three times world cup winner, and EC Pinheiros, considered as the maybe biggest sports club of the southern hemisphere, both clubs winning a total of four State Championships of São Paulo

In the beginning the newly formed SC Germania remained focused on track and field and reportedly achieved some notoriety. In 1891, after a number of expatriate Englishmen joined the club, Germania incorporated the increasingly fashionable sport of association football in its activities. Germania was soon in a position to field two teams. The first ground in that era was a meadow, rented from a farmer in Wandsbek, just of town. An outbreak of cholera in Hamburg in 1892, occasioning about 8,000 fatalities, led to a temporary shutdown of activities.

On 20 Oktober 1894 the Hamburg-Altonaer Fußball-Bund, the "Football Association of Hamburg and Altona" - Altona was Prussian city, immediately to the west of Hamburg, that like Wandsbek should be merged with Hamburg in 1937 - was founded and as the third German football association outside the imperial capital Berlin after the short-lived south-west German Süd-Westdeutsche Fußball-Union. The team of SC Germania, dominated by foreigners, mostly Britons, secured itself in 1896 and 1897 the first two championships of the association - undefeated on both occasions. In that period the Heiligengeistfeld and the Exerzierweide in Altona, the latter was also venue of the first national German championship final in 1903, found use as homegrounds.

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