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Sportbrüder Leipzig
Summary
SC Sportbrüder Leipzig was a German association football club from the city of Leipzig, Saxony and was notable as a predecessor side of VfB Leipzig, one of the founding member of the DFB (Deutsche Fußball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1900. Established on 11 November, 1893, by 17-year-olds Johannes Kirmse and Albert Rößler, it was one of the earliest football clubs in the city, formed the same year as Leipzig BC 1893 and FC Lipsia 1893, and just one year after VfK Südwest Leipzig. These four clubs and Abteilung Bewegungsspiele der Leipziger Finkenschaft shared the Exerzierplatz, a former military parade ground in the city's Rosental neighbourhood as their ground until its closure in 1899.
The footballers were originally part of ATV Leipzig 1845, which also included athletics and cycling departments. SC became independent of the parent club on 26 May, 1896, being spurred on by a loss to Leizpig BC and the demanding training schedule being enforced by the athletics association. Initially the squad consisted almost exclusively of students under 20 years old from a local Realschule.
At a 1898 meeting at the restaurant Zum Mariengarten - the same location where the German Football Association would later be founded - Sportbrüder Leipzig merged with VfB Leipzig to form VfB Sportbrüder 1893 Leipzig which struggled through the next two seasons being able to earn only consecutive fourth place finishes. After 2 November 1900, the combined side was known simply as VfB Leipzig and would go on to win the country's first football championship in 1903 in a decisive 7:2 victory over DFC Prag
The traditions of the Sportbrüder side were carried forward within VfB through to the end of World War II. A complex series of successor sides emerged within East German competition after end of the war in 1945 with more than one team laying claim to the traditions of the club.
The athletic department of Sportbrüder organized the country's first marathon on 5 September 1897 from Paunsdorf to Bennewitz and back, for which eighteen participants signed up.
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