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THE GAME IS ON: BERLIN'S FIRST FOOTBALL CLUB

Today in Berlin: May 5, 1885

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On May 5, 1885 Berlin’s first football club was established in the city. Believe it or not, by a Frankfurter.

Famous though it is, Hertha BFC 92 (now Herta BSC) and FC Olympia Oberschöneweide - now better known as FC Union - Berlin’s best-known football clubs, were not the city’s first.

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