    1. fuÃball-club kaiserslautern e. v., also known as 1. fck, fck or simply 1. fc kaiserslautern (), is a german association football club based in kaiserslautern, rhineland-palatinate. on 2 june 1900, germania 1896 and fg kaiserslautern merged to create fc 1900. in 1909, the club went on to join fc palatia (founded in 1901) and fc bavaria (founded in 1902) to form fv 1900 kaiserslautern. in 1929 they merged with sv phÃ¶nix to become fv phÃ¶nix-kaiserslautern before finally taking on their current name three years later. kaiserslautern have won four german championships, two dfb-pokals, and one dfl-supercup. since 1920, kaiserslautern's stadium is the fritz-walter-stadion. ==history== ===early years to world war ii=== two of the clubs predecessors, bavaria and fc 1900, were part of the new westkreis-liga (i) when this league was formed in 1908, with the later taking out the first league title there. from 1909 onwards, the new fv kaiserslautern performed well in this league, finishing runners-up in 1910 and 1912. the team passed largely unremarked through the following years, it reached the tier-one kreisliga saar in 1919, the kreisliga pfalz in 1920 and the bezirksliga rhein-saar in 1931 and spent the rest of the 30's bouncing up and down between the bezirksliga and the upper level gauliga sÃ¼dwest, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of german football under the third reich. the club's performance was indifferent in the years leading up to world war ii, but i
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