Dresden English football club was very in former times a soccer association, which was created 1874 by Englishmen working living in Dresden and.
In April 1874 a Leipziger newspaper reported on the establishment of a “society, which calls itself Dresden football club”. This is occupied with a play, “with that balls with the foot to be away-hurled”.
The association, which emerges in all other proofs than “Dresden English football club” (D.F.C.), was created by Englishmen, that were occupationally in the rising industrial city Dresden and did not want without the practice of its favourite sport football not to do. This concerns one of the first football clubs on the continent.
In the year of the foundation over 70 members regularly Dresden, to training and play met on weekend on a meadow before the entrance of the large garden, close by the today's Rudolf Harbig stadium, the play place of direct current generator.
The report from 1874 describes the sight “from some twenty young men in a Costüm, for distinction in different colors. A kind of wollener or seidener Unterjacken, with and without sleeve, briefly fitting leg dresses, which let the naked knee see, long socks, very comfortable shoes or tying boot form the clothing.”
First so far documented play against another crew can a report of the later establishment vice-president of the DFB Philipp Heineken be taken: “At the New Year's Day 1891 the English F.C tried. (Berlin) with the Dresden to measure and suffered F.C from the same a decent Schlappe of 7:0.”
In the sport magazines appearing since 1890 and the sport literature regularly also on the D.F.C one reported, so that itself to including 10. March of 1894 seven plays to reconstruct leave. The first six documented plays have the D.F.C as also possibly undokumentierte to 10. March 1894 all together (gate relationship of the documented plays 34:0) won.
To these victories also a play belonged 1892 against a selection to again created German football and Cricket federation. The play announced largely by the representatives of the new federation ended before several hundred paying spectators, under it the English Ambassadorand the Prussian Secretary of cultural affairs, with 3:0 for the D.F.C against the selection crew, which the journalist Andreas Wittner calls first German national team. The “plays and sport” however designates in his expenditure of 10. March 1894 the DFCB selection as a citizen of Berlin federal crew.
A report of the general sport newspaper from Vienna reported: “The Dresden English football club, which exists about twenty years, has to 10. March 1894 neither a Goal still another play lost.” The call of the Unbesiegbarkeit of the D.F.C was terminated on this day by the citizens of Berlin Thor and football club Victoria 89, which had lost the first leg still 5:0. The newspaper reports it “this fame by the citizens of Berlin Victoria was taken - within ten minutes; within the first half Victoria achieved 2 Goals, while the Englishmen could not make anything. Final result 2 Goals of the Victoria against 0 of the English football club”.
It reported the Viennese general sport newspaper that “nobody thought of the possibility of a defeat and, when the telegram arrived at the beginning of nobody in these wanted to believe”.
Players were 1894: Tremble (Captain), Burchard, Crossley, Graham, Atkins, Spencer, Ravenscraft, Johnson, le Maistre, lux moorlands, Young. President was Rev. Bowden.
From the association later the “new Dresden FC” followed, whose members 1898 created the Dresden sports club.