BFC Fortuna 1894 Berlin

Football club infobox
clubname = Fortuna Berlin


fullname = Berliner Fußball Club Fortuna 1894 e.V.
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founded = November 1, 1894
ground = Tempelhofer Feld
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season = -
position = defunct
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Fortuna Berlin ("Berliner Fussball Club Fortuna 1894 ") was a German football club established on November 1 1894 in Berlin out of the memberships of the failed clubs "Semnonia Berlin" and "Berliner FC Hercynia". The short-lived side is notable as one of the founding clubs of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) in Leipzig in 1900. The club colours were black and blue and the footballers played in a kit of white shirts and black shorts at their home pitch at Tempelhofer Feld.

The club was a founding member of the VBB (Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine or Federation of Berlin Ballplays Teams) and also played in the VDBV (Verband Deutscher Ballspiel Vereine or Federation of German Ballplay Teams) as a first division side from 1898 and 1904 before slipping to lower tier competition. "BFCF" also spent at least one season (1909) in second division play in the Berliner Ballspiel Bund. In 1910, the team advanced to the final of the Berliner Pokal (Berlin Cup) where they lost 1:4 to "Weißensee 1900"

Throughout its existence the club was a lower table side with their best result being a second place finish in 1898. In 1914, "Fortuna" merged with "Britannia Berlin" to form present-day side "Berliner SV".

References

* DFB Yearbook 1904-05
* Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9.