1943–44 Gauliga

Gauliga
Season 1943–44
Champions 31 regional winners
German champions Dresdner SC
The initial 16 districts of the Gauliga from 1933 to 1938

The 1943–44 Gauliga was the eleventh season of the Gauliga, the first tier of the football league system in Germany from 1933 to 1945. It was the fifth season of the league held during the Second World War and the last completed one.

The league operated in thirty-one regional divisions, two more than in the previous season, with the league containing 358 clubs all up, 60 more than the previous season. The league champions entered the 1944 German football championship, won by Dresdner SC who defeated Luftwaffe team LSV Hamburg 4–0 in the final. It was Dresden's second national championship, having won the competition in the previous season as well.[1]

The number of Gauligas, thirty-one, increased by two compare to the previous season because of the splitting off of the Gauliga Osthannover from the Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig and the creation of the Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren.[2][3]

The 1943–44 season saw the continued participation of military and police teams, especially in the eastern regions. Gauliga champions like LSV Hamburg, LSV Danzig, LSV Mölders Krakau and LSV Rerick were associated with the German air force, the Luftwaffe, LSV standing for Luftwaffen Sportverein while MSV Brünn, WSV Celle and HSV Groß-Born were clubs of the Wehrmacht.[4]

In the part of Czechoslovakia annexed into Germany in March 1939, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a separate Czech league continued to exist which was not part of the Gauliga system or the German championship.[5][3]

Champions

Map of Nazi Germany showing its expansion 1938 -1945

The 1943–44 Gauliga champions qualified for the knock-out stages of the German championship. HSV Groß-Born and 1. FC Nürnberg were knocked-out in the semi-finals while LSV Hamburg and Dresdner SC contested the final which the latter won.[2][4][6]

FC Schalke 04 won their eleventh consecutive Gauliga title, VfB Königsberg and Kickers Offenbach their fifth, Germania Königshütte and First Vienna FC their third while SDW Posen, SpVgg Wilhelmshaven, Eintracht Braunschweig, Holstein Kiel, Dresdner SC, 1. FC Nürnberg, VfR Mannheim, SV Dessau 05, TuS Neuendorf and FC Mühlhausen 93 defended their 1942–43 Gauliga title.[7]

Club League No. of clubs
VfR Mannheim Gauliga Baden 19
MSV Brünn Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren 14
Hertha BSC Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg 10
LSV Danzig Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen 10
First Vienna FC Gauliga Donau-Alpenland
(1943–44 season)
10
FC Mühlhausen 93 Gauliga Elsaß 10
LSV Mölders Krakau Gauliga Generalgouvernement 4
LSV Hamburg Gauliga Hamburg 10
Kickers Offenbach Gauliga Hessen-Nassau 10
KSG VfL 99 Köln/SpVgg Sülz 07 Gauliga Köln-Aachen 10
Borussia Fulda Gauliga Kurhessen 8
LSV Rerick Gauliga Mecklenburg 10
SV Dessau 05 Gauliga Mitte 10
TuS Neuendorf Gauliga Moselland 13
KSG Duisburg Gauliga Niederrhein 10
STC Hirschberg Gauliga Niederschlesien 36
1. FC Nürnberg Gauliga Nordbayern
(1943–44 season)
10
Germania Königshütte Gauliga Oberschlesien 10
WSV Celle Gauliga Osthannover# 8
VfB Königsberg Gauliga Ostpreußen 7
HSV Groß-Born Gauliga Pommern 12
Dresdner SC Gauliga Sachsen 10
Holstein Kiel Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein 10
FC Bayern Munich Gauliga Südbayern
(1943–44 season)
10
NSTG Brux Gauliga Sudetenland 13
Eintracht Braunschweig Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig 10
SDW Posen Gauliga Wartheland 10
SpVgg Wilhelmshaven Gauliga Weser-Ems 24
FC Schalke 04 Gauliga Westfalen 10
KSG Saarbrücken Gauliga Westmark 10
SV Göppingen Gauliga Württemberg 10

References

  1. "(West) Germany -List of champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Gauliga final tables". f-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Where's My Country? Czech clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Germany 1943–44". claudionicoletti.eu. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  5. "Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic - List of League Tables". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  6. "German championship 1944". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  7. kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245

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