FC Kaiserslautern is a German football club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. On June 2, 1900 Germania 1896 and FG Kaiserslautern merged to create FC 1900. That club went on to join FC Palatia (1901) and FC Bavaria (1902) in 1909 to form FV 1900 Kaiserslautern.