1943–44 Gauliga Donau-Alpenland Explained

Competition:	Gauliga Donau-Alpenland
Season:	1943–44
Winners:	First Vienna FC
Continentalcup1:	German championship
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:	First Vienna FC
Prevseason:	1942–43
Nextseason:	1944–45

See main article: 1943–44 Gauliga. The 1943–44 Gauliga Donau-Alpenland was the sixth season of the Gauliga Donau-Alpenland, formerly the Gauliga Ostmark, the first tier of football in German-annexed Austria from 1938 to 1945.^[1]

First Vienna FC won the championship and qualified for the 1944 German football championship, reaching the quarter-finals where it lost 3–2 to eventual winners Dresdner SC.^{[2] [3]}

The Gauliga Ostmark and Gauliga Donau-Alpenland titles from 1938 to 1944, excluding the 1944–45 season which was not completed, are recognised as official Austrian football championships by the Austrian Bundesliga.^[4]

Table

The 1943–44 season saw two new clubs in the league, LSV Markersdorf an der Pielach and SK Amateure Steyr. Steyr withdrew from the league on 20 April 1944, had its record expunged and was relegated.

External links

• Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables

Notes and References

1. Web site: Where's My Country? Austrian clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944 . Rsssf.com . 18 January 2016.
2. Web site: Germany 1943–44 . claudionicoletti.eu . 17 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304211020/http://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1940-41/frg-1943-44/ . 4 March 2016 . dead .
3. Web site: German championship 1944 . Rsssf.com . 17 January 2016.
4. Web site: Österreichs Meister. bundesliga.at. Austrian Football Bundesliga. 19 January 2016. de. Austrian championship. https://web.archive.org/web/20130628054111/http://www.bundesliga.at/index.php?id=95. 2013-06-28. dead.