{{short description, German football club
SV Lipsia 1893 Eutritzsch is a
German association football club based in the
Eutritzsch
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
district of Leipzig and is notable as one of the
founding clubs of the
German Football Association
The German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund ; DFB ) is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of t ...
(Deutscher Fussball Bund) in that city in 1900. Lipsia is the Latin name for Leipzig.
The team was established on February 1, 1893, by a group of apprentices from a local company as the ''Lipsia Football Club'' in the
Gohlis
Gohlis is an area in the north of the city of Leipzig, Germany. Once a village outside the city, it is known as the place where Friedrich Schiller wrote the first version of his ''Ode to Joy'' in 1785.
It urbanised during the ''Gründerzeit'' per ...
restaurant Zur Mühle, making it the earliest football club in
Saxony. Their first games were played on the parade ground in Gohlis. In 1897, Lipsia joined the newly formed
Verband Leipziger Ballspiel-Vereine (Leipzig Ball Game Association). ''FC'' was able to lease a piece of land in 1913 from the Eutritzsch Church and convert it into a football field. The membership of the club grew steadily after
World War I and after
World War II, ''Lipsia's'' grounds were moved to
Thaerstrasse, where they are still found today.
In the aftermath of the war, most organizations were dissolved as part of the process of
de-Nazification. ''Lipsia'' was not re-established until 1959 as ''BSG Eutritzsch Einheit'' and took part as an unheralded local side in the separate football competition established in Soviet-occupied East Germany. In 1989, now playing as ''BSG Baufa Eutritzsch'' won its first honours as the city champion of Leipzig and advanced to district level competition. class. After German reunification, the team was known as ''SSV Baufa Eutritzsch'' and in 1990 were promoted to the Leipzig district league.
Sport in Leipzig
Association football clubs established in 1893
1893 establishments in Germany
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