BTuFC Toscana Berlin was an early German association football club from the city of

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. The club is notable as one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball Bund, en:German Football Association) at

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in 1900.

History

Through most of the 1890s there were several competing football circuits in the city of Berlin. Little is known of ''Toscana'' beyond its occasional appearances in the Deutscher Fussball- und Cricket Bund, which was active from late 1891 through to 1901. The team earned a third-place result in second division play there in 1896, and then played a partial season in the league's first division in 1898, followed by another campaign there in 1900.Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag The club's full name was ''Berliner Thorball -und Fußball Club Toscana'' and, like many other clubs of the era built around enthusiasm for the new English sports of football,

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, and

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, ''Toscana'' also fielded a cricket side. The term ''thorball'' was used at the time as the German language equivalent for cricket, while ''Toscana'' or ''Toskana'' is German for the Italian region of

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References

Defunct football clubs in Germany

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