Cricket in Germany

However, in recent years the popularity of the game has increased due to an influx of migrants and refugees from cricket-playing countries [4] The national organisation for the game is currently the German Cricket Federation (Deutscher Cricket Bund, DCB), founded in 1988.

Bundesliga Ost: Verbandsliga Ost: Britannia, BFC Viktoria 1889, Reinickendorfer Füchse (RFCC), AC Berlin, Dresden, HCCW, Bautzen, USG CCC and Berlin CC field a team in the Verbandsliga too.

Clubs which cannot join a league (mostly due to lack of available members) may still take part in independently arranged friendly matches.

The size of the field also varies, from a good club size (English standard) to double hockey pitches which the club hires, and unusual fields such as that at Göttingen, which is large, but has a bank that rises up to 4 metres above the level of the square.

At the end of the regional season, national play-offs are held: the northern league champions (NDCV (North), NRCU (North Rhine Westphalia), BCV (Berlin)) play against each other, and the southern teams (HCV (Hesse), BWCV (Baden Württemberg), BYCV (Bavaria)) do likewise.