Münchner FC 1896 was a German association football club in Munich, Bavaria whose origins were in the formation on 5 September 1896 of the club Terra Pila (Latin: earth + ball)[1] by a group of students playing football on the city's Theresienwiese, which is today the official ground of the Munich Oktoberfest.
Alongside FC Bavaria 1899 München, these clubs are notable as founding members of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1900.
FC was split in two in 1898 when a number of members whose enthusiasm was for climbing left to form the Bergaffen or Mountain Monkeys.
This team provided the opposition in the first ever match played by FC Bayern Munich in March 1900, who won the game 5:2.
FC continued to play in local and regional football competition until 1910 when for some reason not explained in the club chronicle they abandoned the game.