1939 German football championship

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{{Infobox football tournament season

| title = German championship

| year = 1939

| other_titles = Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft

| image = Victoria Schalke-Museum.jpg

| image_size = 100px

| caption = Replica of the Viktoria trophy

| country = Germany

| dates = 2 April – 18 June

| num_teams = 18

| winners = Schalke 04
4th German title

| second = Admira Wien

| third = Dresdner SC

| fourth = Hamburger SV

| matches = 55

| goals = 224

| attendance =

| scoring_leader = Ernst Kalwitzki {{nowrap|(11 goals)}}

| prev_season = 1938

| next_season = 1940

}}

The 1939 German football championship, the 32nd edition of the competition, was won by Schalke 04, the club's fourth German championship by defeating Admira Wien 9–0 in the final, with Ernst Kalwitzki scoring five goals. For Admira it was the club's only appearance in the German championship while the 9–0 result was the highest winning margin for any of the finals held between 1903 and 1963, surpassing VfB Leipzig's 7–2 victory over DFC Prag in the inaugural 1903 final. For Schalke, it continued the club's most successful era, having won the 1934, 1935 and 1937 final and going on to win the 1940 and 1942 ones as well.[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duitchamp.html (West) Germany -List of champions] rsssf.org, accessed: 27 December 2015[http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/fc-schalke-04/1/ FC Schalke 04 » Steckbrief] {{in lang|de}} Weltfussball.de – FC Schalke 04 honours, accessed: 27 December 2015

Schalke's Ernst Kalwitzki was the 1939 championships top scorer with eleven goals, having previously finished as the top scorer in 1937.{{cite web |url=http://www.weltfussball.de/torschuetzenkoenige/deutsche-meisterschaft/ |title=Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige |date= |website= Weltfussball.de |publisher= |access-date= 2 January 2016|language=German|trans-title=German championship: Top goal scorer}}

The eighteen 1938–39 Gauliga champions, two more than in 1938 because of the addition of the Gauliga Ostmark after the Anschluss and the Gauliga Sudetenland after the Munich Agreement,kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245 competed in a group stage with the four group winners advancing to the semi-finals. The two semi-final winners then contested the 1939 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 over all group champions.[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duithistpre45.html German championship 1939] rsssf.org, accessed: 26 December 2015

While, in the following season, the German championship was still played with eighteen clubs as well but it gradually expanded 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.

Qualified teams

The teams qualified through the 1938–39 Gauliga season:

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|Club

Qualified from
VfR MannheimGauliga Baden
style="background:#ddd"

| FC Schweinfurt 05

Gauliga Bayern
Blau-Weiß 90 BerlinGauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
style="background:#ddd"

| CSC 03 Kassel

Gauliga Hessen
SV Dessau 05Gauliga Mitte
style="background:#ddd"

| SpVgg Sülz 07

Gauliga Mittelrhein
Fortuna DüsseldorfGauliga Niederrhein
style="background:#ddd"

|VfL Osnabrück

Gauliga Niedersachsen
Hamburger SVGauliga Nordmark
style="background:#ddd"

| Admira Wien

Gauliga Ostmark
Hindenburg AllensteinGauliga Ostpreußen
style="background:#ddd"

| Viktoria Stolp

Gauliga Pommern
Dresdner SCGauliga Sachsen
style="background:#ddd"

| Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz

Gauliga Schlesien
Warnsdorfer FKGauliga Sudetenland
style="background:#ddd"

|Wormatia Worms

Gauliga Südwest
Schalke 04Gauliga Westfalen
style="background:#ddd"

|Stuttgarter Kickers

Gauliga Württemberg

Competition

=Group 1=

Group 1 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Brandenburg, Niedersachsen, Nordmark and Ostpreußen:

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|name_OSN=VfL Osnabrück

|name_HIA=Hindenburg Allenstein

|name_BWB=Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin

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|short_OSN=OSN

|short_HIA=HIA

|short_BWB=BWB

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|match_HSV_HIA=5–2

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|match_OSN_HSV=4–2

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|match_HIA_OSN=3–1

|match_HIA_BWB=1–2

|match_BWB_HSV=3–3

|match_BWB_OSN=1–3

|match_BWB_HIA=0–3

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=Group 2=

==Group 2A==

Group 2A was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Mittelrhein, Niederrhein and Pommern:

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|team1=F95 |team2=S07 |team3=STO

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|win_S07=2 |draw_S07=0 |loss_S07=2 |gf_S07=10|ga_S07=6

|win_STO=1 |draw_STO=0 |loss_STO=3 |gf_STO=1 |ga_STO=8

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|name_S07=SpVgg Sülz

|name_STO=Viktoria Stolp

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|short_S07=S07

|short_STO=STO

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|result1=GF

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|match_F95_S07=3–2

|match_F95_STO=1–0

|match_S07_F95=1–3

|match_S07_STO=5–0

|match_STO_F95=1–0

|match_STO_S07=0–2

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==Group 2B==

Group 2B was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Bayern, Sachsen and Sudetenland:

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|team1=DRE |team2=S05 |team3=WFK

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|win_S05=3 |draw_S05=0 |loss_S05=1 |gf_S05=9 |ga_S05=4

|win_WFK=0 |draw_WFK=0 |loss_WFK=4 |gf_WFK=5 |ga_WFK=16

|name_DRE=Dresdner SC

|name_S05=Schweinfurt 05

|name_WFK=Warnsdorfer FK

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|short_S05=S05

|short_WFK=WFK

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|result1=GF

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|match_DRE_S05=1–0

|match_DRE_WFK=3–1

|match_S05_DRE=1–0

|match_S05_WFK=4–2

|match_WFK_DRE=1–5

|match_WFK_S05=1–4

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==Group 2 final==

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{{TwoLegResult|Dresdner SC||7–4|Fortuna Düsseldorf||4–1|3–3}}

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=Group 3=

Group 3 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Baden, Mitte, Ostmark and Württemberg:

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|team1=AWI |team2=SKI |team3=MAN |team4=SVD

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|win_SKI=3 |draw_SKI=1 |loss_SKI=2 |gf_SKI=13|ga_SKI=13

|win_MAN=2 |draw_MAN=1 |loss_MAN=3 |gf_MAN=12|ga_MAN=16

|win_SVD=2 |draw_SVD=1 |loss_SVD=3 |gf_SVD=6 |ga_SVD=11

|name_AWI=Admira Wien

|name_SKI=Stuttgarter Kickers

|name_MAN=VfR Mannheim

|name_SVD=SV Dessau 05

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|short_SKI=SKI

|short_MAN=MAN

|short_SVD=SVD

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|match_SKI_SVD=3–2

|match_MAN_AWI=3–0

|match_MAN_SKI=1–4

|match_MAN_SVD=0–0

|match_SVD_AWI=1–0

|match_SVD_SKI=1–0

|match_SVD_MAN=1–3

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=Group 4=

Group 4 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Hessen, Schlesien, Südwest and Westfalen:

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|team1=S04 |team2=VRG |team3=W08 |team4=CSC

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|win_VRG=4 |draw_VRG=0 |loss_VRG=2 |gf_VRG=12|ga_VRG=11

|win_W08=3 |draw_W08=0 |loss_W08=3 |gf_W08=12|ga_W08=10

|win_CSC=0 |draw_CSC=0 |loss_CSC=6 |gf_CSC=4 |ga_CSC=19

|name_S04=Schalke 04

|name_VRG=Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz

|name_W08=Wormatia Worms

|name_CSC=CSC Kassel

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|short_VRG=VRG

|short_W08=W08

|short_CSC=CSC

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|match_S04_VRG=4–0

|match_S04_W08=1–2

|match_S04_CSC=6–1

|match_VRG_S04=1–2

|match_VRG_W08=5–3

|match_VRG_CSC=2–0

|match_W08_S04=0–1

|match_W08_VRG=1–2

|match_W08_CSC=3–1

|match_CSC_S04=1–3

|match_CSC_VRG=1–2

|match_CSC_W08=0–3

}}

=Semi-finals=

Two of the four clubs in the 1939 semi-finals had reached the same stage in the previous season, Hamburger SV and FC Schalke 04, while Admira Wien and Dresdner SC replaced Fortuna Düsseldorf and previous season's champions Hannover 96 in comparison to 1938:[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duithistpre45.html German championship 1938] rsssf.org, accessed: 27 December 2015

{{OneLegStart}}

|align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|4 June 1939[http://www.weltfussball.de/spielplan/deutsche-meisterschaft-1939-halbfinale/0/ German championship 1939 – Semifinals] {{in lang|de}} Weltfussball.de, accessed: 28 December 2015

{{OneLegResult|Schalke 04||3–3 aet|Dresdner SC|}}

{{OneLegResult|Admira Wien||4–1|Hamburger SV|}}

|}

==Replay==

{{OneLegStart}}

|align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|11 June 1939

{{OneLegResult|Schalke 04||2–0|Dresdner SC|}}

|}

=Third place play-off=

{{OneLegStart}}

|align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|17 June 1939[http://www.weltfussball.de/spielbericht/deutsche-meisterschaft-1939-3-platz-dresdner-sc-hamburger-sv/ German championship 1939 – Third place] {{in lang|de}} Weltfussball.de, accessed: 28 December 2015

{{OneLegResult|Dresdner SC|| 3–2|Hamburger SV|}}

|}

=Final=

{{OneLegStart}}

|align="center" style="background:#ddffdd" colspan=3|18 June 1939[http://www.weltfussball.de/spielbericht/deutsche-meisterschaft-1939-finale-fc-schalke-04-admira-wien/ German championship 1939 – Final] {{in lang|de}} Weltfussball.de, accessed: 28 December 2015

{{OneLegResult|Schalke 04|| 9–0|Admira Wien|}}

|}

References

{{Reflist}}

=Sources=

  • kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 164 & 177 - German championship