1940 German football championship explained

German championship
Year:1940
Other Titles:Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft
Country:Germany
Dates:21 April – 28 July
Num Teams:18
Winners:Schalke 04
5th German title
Second:Dresdner SC
Third:Rapid Wien
Fourth:Waldhof Mannheim
Matches:55
Goals:253
Prev Season:1939
Next Season:1941

The 1940 German football championship, the 33rd edition of the competition, was won by Schalke 04, the club's fifth German championship, by defeating Dresdner SC 1–0 in the final. Both clubs would continue to be strong sides during the Second World War editions of the German championship with Schalke making a losing appearance in the 1941 final before winning again in 1942 while Dresden was crowned German champions in 1943 and 1944.[1] [2] [3]

Schalke's 16–0 win over CSC 03 Kassel in the group stages was the highest win in the history of the German championship as well as the most goals scored in a game.[4]

Rapid Wien's Franz Binder became the 1940 championships top scorer with 14 goals, a new record that would be broken the following year by Schalke's Hermann Eppenhoff when he scored 15 goals.[5]

The eighteen 1939–40 Gauliga champions, the same number as in 1939,[6] competed in a group stage with the four group winners advancing to the semi-finals. The two semi-final winners then contested the 1940 championship final. The groups were divided into three with four clubs and one with six clubs with the latter, in turn, subdivided into two groups of three teams each and a final of these group winners to determine the overall group champions.[7]

In the following season, the German championship was played with twenty clubs. From there it gradually expanded further through a combination of territorial expansion of Nazi Germany and the sub-dividing of the Gauligas in later years, reaching a strength of thirty-one in its last completed season, 1943–44.[6]

Qualified teams

The teams qualified through the 1939–40 Gauliga season:[7]

Club Qualified from
SV Waldhof MannheimGauliga Baden
1. FC NürnbergGauliga Bayern
Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
CSC 03 KasselGauliga Hessen
SV JenaGauliga Mitte
Mülheimer SVGauliga Mittelrhein
Gauliga Niederrhein
VfL OsnabrückGauliga Niedersachsen
Eimsbütteler TVGauliga Nordmark
SK Rapid WienGauliga Ostmark
VfB KönigsbergGauliga Ostpreußen
VfL StettinGauliga Pommern
Dresdner SCGauliga Sachsen
Vorwärts-Rasensport GleiwitzGauliga Schlesien
NSTG GraslitzGauliga Sudetenland
Gauliga Südwest
Gauliga Westfalen
Gauliga Württemberg

Competition

Group 1

Group 1A

Group 1A was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Brandenburg, Ostpreußen and Pommern:[7]

Group 1B

Group 1B was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Ostmark, Schlesien and Sudetenland:[7]

Group 1 final

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Group 2

Group 2 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Mitte, Niedersachsen, Nordmark and Sachsen:[7]

Group 3

Group 3 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Hessen, Mittelrhein, Niederrhein and Westfalen:[7]

Group 4

Group 4 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Bayern, Baden, Südwest and Württemberg:[7]

Semi-finals

Two of the four clubs in the 1940 semi-finals had reached the same stage in the previous season, Dresdner SC and FC Schalke 04, while Rapid Wien replaced Admira Wien and SV Waldhof Mannheim Hamburger SV in comparison to 1939:[8] |align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|14 July 1940[9] |}

Third place play-off

|align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|21 July 1940[10] |}

Replay

|align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|28 July 1940|}

Final

FC GELSENKIRCHEN-SCHALKE 04:
GK Hans Klodt
DF Hans Bornemann
DF Heinz Hinz
MF Bernhard Füller
MF Otto Tibulski
MF Herbert Burdenski
FW Hermann Eppenhoff
FW Fritz Szepan
FW Ernst Kalwitzki
FW Ernst Kuzorra
FW Willi Schuh
Manager:
Otto Faist
DRESDNER SC 1898:
GK Willibald Kreß
DF Herbert Pohl
DF Heinz Hempel
MF Strauch
MF Walter Dzur
MF Helmut Schubert
FW Emanuel Boczek
FW Heinrich Schaffer
FW Helmut Schön
FW Heinz Köpping
FW Richard Hofmann
Manager:
Georg Köhler

References

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duitchamp.html (West) Germany -List of champions
  2. http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/fc-schalke-04/1/ FC Schalke 04 » Steckbrief
  3. http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/dresdner-sc/1/ Dresdner SC » Steckbrief
  4. http://www.weltfussball.de/statistik/deutsche-meisterschaft/3/ Deutsche Meisterschaft » Statistik » Die höchsten Siege
  5. Web site: Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige . Weltfussball.de . 2 January 2016. de. German championship: Top goal scorer.
  6. kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245
  7. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duithistpre45.html German championship 1940
  8. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duithistpre45.html German championship 1939
  9. http://www.weltfussball.de/spielplan/deutsche-meisterschaft-1940-halbfinale/0/ German championship 1940 – Semifinals
  10. http://www.weltfussball.de/spielplan/deutsche-meisterschaft-1940-3-platz/0/ German championship 1940 – Third place