Germania Kattowitz was an ethnically
German association football club playing in what was Kattowitz,
Upper Silesia
Upper Silesia ( pl, Górny Śląsk; szl, Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; cs, Horní Slezsko; german: Oberschlesien; Silesian German: ; la, Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, locate ...
in Germany (now
Katowice,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
) before the First World War and shortly afterwards. It was one of a small number of clubs that made up the Kattowitzer Ballspiel-Verband alongside ''
Preussen Kattowitz'' and ''
Diana Kattowitz''.
[Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ] With ''
FC 1903 Ratibor'', these clubs formed the Upper Silesian division (Bezirk Oberschlesien) of the Southeast German Football Federation in 1906.
In 1908, ''Germania'' was the largest of the three Kattowitz clubs with 90 members. The team finished as vice-champions that year, while the reserve sides captured the 2nd and 3rd class titles. ''Germania'' twice won the Oberschlesien title and subsequently took part in the opening rounds of the German national championship playoffs where they were quickly eliminated.
The last known record of the club is a third-place result in the Südkreis Kattowitz in the 1921–22 season. It is believed ''Germania'' disappeared soon after Upper Silesia became part of Poland in 1922.
Honours
*Upper Silesia (Germany) champions: 1910, 1911
*Upper Silesia (Germany) vice-champions: 1908
References
"Germania's Football Pitch in Katowice" Gazeta Wyborcza
''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first Polish daily newspaper after the era of " real socialism" and one of Poland's newspapers of record, covering the ...
Katowice, 1 April 2005
Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Poland
Defunct football clubs in former German territories
Association football clubs established in 1905
History of Katowice
Sport in Katowice
1905 establishments in Germany
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