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.[1]
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, rugby, and cricket, 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 Tuscany.
