Fußball-Club Eintracht Altona was an early German football club from Altona, a then independent city. The short-lived team played a handful of seasons in the highest division of the Hamburger-Altonaer Fussballbund from 1897, until withdrawing from the German football scene one game into the second leg of the 1901/02 season. In its brief existence, the club failed to win any titles and often performed mediocre, until their last played season in which they scored no goals throughout the first leg of the competition. The club remains notable today only as being one of the founding members of the

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(Deutscher Fußball Bund) at the restaurant ''Zum Mariengarten'' in

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during 1900, where they were represented by a former

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, Walter Sommeyer (also written Sommeier). A now defunct team of the same name was established on the outskirts of Hamburg during the 1940s prior to the inception of the

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, and a local league club of the same name was founded in 2010, but was struck out of the league in 2014 as part of disciplinary action.

Results

''* FC Eintracht Altona were awarded last place instead of Britannia Hamburg, who had only played two unofficial games'''', owing to the withdrawal of the team after the first half of the season.'' * Most (confirmed) goals scored in a game: 7 * Most (confirmed) goals conceded in a game: 9

References

* Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag .
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