Viktoria 96 Magdeburg was a German
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playing in the
Cracau district of
Magdeburg
Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river.
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Saxony-Anhalt
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History
The club was founded under the name ''Victoria'' on 26 June 1896 by twelve ninth-graders of Magdeburg's ''Guericke-Realschule''. Soon renamed ''Magdeburger Fußball-Club Viktoria von 1896'', the club played
association football
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exclusively by September 1897. This makes it the city's first football club.
On 12 September 1897, ''Schüler-Victoria'' (Students' Victoria), as the club was also called, played their first competitive association football match against the reserve team of
Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg. The match ended in a clear 6–3 win for Victoria 96. ''Victoria 1896'' became well known among the country's football pioneers and soon began to receive payments to make appearances against other clubs. Victoria was a member of the ''Ring Magdeburger Ballspielvereine'', but this was soon replaced by the ''Verband Magdeburger Ballspielvereine'' (VMBV) that was founded in 1900. On 26 December 1900, ''MFC Victoria 1896'' became a founding member of the Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspielvereine. Alongside local rival ''
Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg'', the club was a
founding member of the
German Football Association
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(Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at
Leipzig
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in 1900. As champions of the VMBV in 1903 the club played in the final round of Germany's national championship, but went out 1–8 to ''
Altonaer FC 1893'' in the first round, in front of 200 spectators at the ''Exerzierweide Altona''.
''Victoria'' repeated their title in the Verband Magdeburger Ballspielvereine champions in 1904, losing 0–1 to