The Deutscher Fussball-Bund (DFB), the German Football Association, is the governing body for association football in Germany, founded in 1900 in Leipzig and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, one of the largest single-sport national federations in the world by membership. It oversees the German men's and women's national football teams, both multiple FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship winners, and organizes the DFB-Pokal, the country's primary domestic football cup competition.
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Body TypeDachverband (national umbrella federation of 27 regional football associations) 1 HeadquartersFrankfurt am Main, Germany 1 Body Type
Body Type (category)National Governing Body 1 FAQs
Who took part in founding the Deutscher Fußball-Bund?
Representatives of 86 regional associations and clubs met at the Leipziger Mariengarten on 28 January 1900.
According to the DFB's own history page, the DFB was founded on 28 January 1900 in Leipzig. The founding took place at the Leipziger Mariengarten, where representatives of 86 regional associations and clubs came together to create a central organisation for German football. So the national body began as a meeting of existing regional associations and clubs rather than as a single club's project.
Where was the first DFB office?
In 1910 the first office was in the home of the first full-time manager, Walter Sanß, in Dortmund.
The DFB's own history page records that in 1910 its first office opened in the home of its first full-time manager, Walter Sanß, in Dortmund. Before the office moved to its present location in Frankfurt, it was also based in Kiel, Berlin and Stuttgart.
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1. Deutscher Fußball-Bund (Wikipedia, German)
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ist der Dachverband von 27 Fußballverbänden in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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Kennedyallee 274, 60528 Frankfurt am Main
View the Source2. Historie: Chronik zu 125 Jahren DFB (DFB)
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Der DFB wird am 28. Januar 1900 in Leipzig gegründet.
German Football Association (Wikipedia)
Associated With: UEFA, Lead, sentence 2
A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA
Associated With: FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), Lead, sentence 2
A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA
Governs: Association Football, Lead paragraph
is the governing body of football, futsal, and beach soccer in Germany
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