Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V., known simply as Dresdner SC, is a German multisport club playing in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

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. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the

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(Deutscher Fussball Bund) in 1900. The origins of the club go back still further to the predecessor side '' Dresden English Football Club'' formed in 1874 by expatriate Englishmen as Germany's first football club and possibly the earliest in continental Europe: ''Dresdener SC'' was organized by one-time German members of the ''EFC''.

History

On 30 April 1898, former members of the Dresden English Football Club and of the Neue Dresdner FC (founded in 1893 by former DEFC members and now SpVgg Dresden-Löbtau 1893) founded the Dresdner Sport-Club. Until sports historian Andreas Wittner uncovered the earlier history of the DFC, it was thought to have been founded only in 1890. Early on, ''DSC'' made regular appearances in regional finals and captured several titles. They were a dominant side in the Mitteldeutsche Verbandsliga: from 1925 to 1930 they lost only two of the ninety games they played.

The 30s and 40s

''Dresdner's'' performance slipped for a time, but the club re-emerged as a strong side in the

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, one of sixteen top flight divisions established in the re-organization of German football under the

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. They captured the Tschammerpokal – the predecessor of today's

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in 1940 and 1941, and followed up with national titles in 1943 and 1944. The club won all 23 games they played during the 1942/43 season, scoring 152 goals and conceding only 16. Their 4:0 win over ''Luftwaffen SV Hamburg'' in Berlin's Olympiastadion made them the last holders of the Viktoria trophy, symbolic of German football supremacy since it was first awarded to ''

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