Berliner Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 was a German sports club based in the Tempelhof district of Berlin. Football, rugby, and cricket came to continental Europe in the late 19th century, and these "English games" became immediately popular in many countries. Viktoria was the oldest club in Germany that had teams playing both football and cricket. It was one of the founding members of the German Football Association (DFB) in Leipzig in 1900. The club merged with Lichterfelder FC in 2013 and has continued as FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin. History Early success Viktoria Berlin was one of the first football clubs in Berlin. The club was established as Berliner Thorball- und Fußballclub Viktoria von 1889 on 6 June 1889. The team enjoyed almost immediate success and claimed the city championship in five consecutive seasons from 1893 to 1897. Viktoria Berlin then went on to become a presence on the national championship. The team appeared in the German championship final for three years in a row from 1907 to 1909 and became German champions in 1908. Viktoria Berlin captured a second national title in 1911 and continued to enjoy success in city league until the end of World War I. Viktoria Berlin earned uneven results in the early 1920s before settling firmly into the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg. Play in the Third Reich The club went on to play as Berliner FC Viktoria 89 in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg, one of sixteen premier level divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich in 1933. The team captured the division title that year and advanced to the national playoffs, going out 1–2 to 1. FC Nürnberg in the semi-finals. Renamed BFC Viktoria 89 Berlin in 1936, the club played in the top-flight until being relegated in 1938, making a fleeting re-appearance as part of the combined wartime side (Kriegspielgemindeschaft) KSG Lufthansa/Viktoria 89 Berlin in the abbreviated 1944–45 season. Like most other organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs, the club was dissolved by occupying Allied authorities at the end of World War II as part of the process of de-Nazification. Postwar football The club was re-established in late 1945 as SG Tempelhof and re-claimed their pre-war identity as BFC Viktoria 89 Berlin on 12 July 1947. They played from the late 1940s, through the 1950s, and into the early 1960s in the Oberliga Berlin, affiliated with football in the western half of