1937–38 Eintracht Frankfurt season

Eintracht Frankfurt
1937–38 season
Chairman
Manager	Paul Oßwald
	1st / Champions
German Championship round	2nd / Runners-Up
Tschammerpokal	1st Round
Top goalscorer	League: Albert Wirsching (25); All: Albert Wirsching (30)
Highest home attendance	18,000 3 October 1937 v FSV Frankfurt (league)
Lowest home attendance	2,000 30 January 1938 v 1. FC Kaiserslautern (league)
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The 1937–38 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 38th season in the club's football history.

In the club played in the Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 5th season in the Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen. The season ended up with Eintracht finishing as champions in the Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen. In the German Championship round finished as runners-up.

Matches[]

Legend[]

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Friendlies[]

15 August 1937 (1937-08-15)	Schwaben Augsburg	3–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	showGermany
		Report

22 August 1937 (1937-08-22)	Schweinfurt 05	2–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	showSchweinfurt, Germany
		Report		Attendance: 5,000

5 September 1937 (1937-09-05) Inauguration match for the new Riederwaldstadion stand	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–5	Fortuna Düsseldorf	showFrankfurt, Germany
	50'	Report	Schubart 5' Zwolanowski Kobierski	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 10,000

10 October 1937 (1937-10-10)	SpVgg Leipzig	4–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	showLeipzig, Germany
	Klus	Report

14 November 1937 (1937-11-14)	Eintracht Braunschweig	3–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	showGermany
	Ender	Report	60'	Referee: Meyer

21 November 1937 (1937-11-21)	SpVgg Fürth	3–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	showFürth, Germany
	Fiederer 14', 88' Popp 76'	Report	Feix 13' (o.g.) Wirsching 21', 78'	Stadium: Sportpark Ronhof Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Reichel

28 November 1937 (1937-11-28)	FSV Frankfurt	0–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	showGermany
		Report	Ehmer

5 December 1937 (1937-12-05)	SA-Gruppe Westmark	3–7	Eintracht Frankfurt	showKoblenz, Germany
		Report	Wirsching

6 March 1938 (1938-03-06)	Eintracht Frankfurt	6–0	BSG IG Farben	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Ehmer 19', 57' 29' Möbs 47'	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion

7 April 1938 (1938-04-07)	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–1		showFrankfurt, Germany
	Möbs 75'	Report	Seibert 40' (pen.)	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 1,500

17 April 1938 (1938-04-17)	Berliner SV 92	4–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	showBerlin, Germany
	Ballendat Hewerer Kurzke	Report		Stadium: Poststadion Attendance: 8,000

18 April 1938 (1938-04-18)	Hertha BSC	4–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	showBerlin, Germany
	Schulz 6' Dreher Schneider	Report	20', 35' Wirsching	Stadium: Sportplatz am Gesundbrunnen Attendance: 8,000

19 June 1938 (1938-06-19)	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	1. FC Pforzheim	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Wirsching	Report	Wenz 83'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 1,000

4 June 1938 (1938-06-04)	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	Hertha BSC	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Wirsching	Report	Schulze Wilhelm	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 2,000

12 June 1938 (1938-06-12)	Hannover 96	4–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	showHanover, Germany
	Meng Malecki	Report	pen.'

19 June 1938 (1938-06-19)	1. FC Pforzheim	4–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	showPforzheim, Germany
	Rau 35' (pen.) Ehmer o.g.' Fischer	Report	Wirsching

Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen[]

League fixtures and results[]

12 September 1937 (1937-09-12) 1	FK Pirmasens	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	showPirmasens, Germany
	Wagner 16'	Report	pen.' 76'	Referee: Dinger

19 September 1937 (1937-09-19) 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	Kickers Offenbach	showGermany
	Wirsching 84'	Report		Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Becker

26 September 1937 (1937-09-26) 3	Opel Rüsselsheim	0–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	showRüsselsheim, Germany
		Report	Wirsching	Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Walter

3 October 1937 (1937-10-03) 4	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	FSV Frankfurt	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Wirsching 11', 35'	Report	Schuchardt 35' Armbruster 84' (pen.)	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Hermann

17 October 1937 (1937-10-17) 5	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–0	Wormatia Worms	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Wirsching	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Unversehrt

24 October 1937 (1937-10-24) 6	SV Wiesbaden	0–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	showWiesbaden, Germany
		Report	Wirsching 60'	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Welsch

7 November 1937 (1937-11-07) 7	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	Borussia Neunkirchen	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Wirsching 51'	Report	Fuhrmann 11'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Heß

12 December 1937 (1937-12-12) 8	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–3	FV Saarbrücken	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Wirsching	Report	Resch Sold pen.'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Unverfehrt

19 December 1937 (1937-12-19) 9	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–0	FK Pirmasens	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Wirsching	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Bühler

26 December 1937 (1937-12-26) 10	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	showKaiserslautern, Germany
	Brill	Report	5' Wirsching Gramlich	Stadium: Betzenberg Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Becker

2 January 1938 (1938-01-02) 11	Kickers Offenbach	4–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	showBieber, Germany
	Staab 60', 69', 80' Simon 87'	Report	16' 41'	Stadium: Stadion am Bieberer Berg Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Heß

16 January 1938 (1938-01-16) 12	FSV Frankfurt	2–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Schuchardt 12' Armbruster Heldmann	Report	88' Wirsching 65', 78' 79', 81'	Stadium: Stadion am Bornheimer Hang Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Flächsenhar

30 January 1938 (1938-01-30) 13	Eintracht Frankfurt	7–1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Wirsching 14' 77' 29' 82' (pen.) 89'	Report	Maier 40'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Walter

6 February 1938 (1938-02-06) 14	Wormatia Worms	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	showWorms, Germany
	Eckert 35' Busam 61'	Report		Stadium: Wormatia-Stadion Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Weingärtner

13 February 1938 (1938-02-13) 15	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–2	SV Wiesbaden	showFrankfurt, Germany
	84' Wirsching 47'	Report	Schulmeyer 39' Fuchs pen.'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Best

13 March 1938 (1938-03-13) 16	Eintracht Frankfurt	8–1	Opel Rüsselsheim	showFrankfurt, Germany
	4' 42' 10' Wirsching 35' 62'	Report	Herberich	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Multer

20 March 1938 (1938-03-20) 17	Borussia Neunkirchen	3–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	showNeunkirchen, Germany
	Petri 40' Kiefer 52' Leibenguth 61'	Report		Stadium: Ellenfeld Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Groß

27 March 1938 (1938-03-27) 18	FV Saarbrücken	2–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	showSaarbrücken, Germany
	Benzmüller 4', 63'	Report	Wirsching 31', 88' 41', 83'	Stadium: Ludwigsparkstadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Hermann

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Eintracht Frankfurt	18	13	2	3	58	25	+33	28	Qualification to Qualifier to the championship
2	Borussia Neunkirchen	18	11	5	2	40	19	+21	27
3	Wormatia Worms	18	9	4	5	41	32	+9	22
4	Kickers Offenbach	18	8	5	5	47	27	+20	21
5	FSV Frankfurt	18	7	3	8	33	33	0	17
6	FK Pirmasens	18	6	4	8	27	28	−1	16
7	SV Wiesbaden	18	6	4	8	30	37	−7	16
8	FV Saarbrücken	18	5	2	11	33	48	−15	12
9	1. FC Kaiserslautern	18	3	6	9	24	49	−25	12	Relegation to the second tier
10	Opel Rüsselsheim	18	2	5	11	16	51	−35	9	Relegation to the second tier

Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points

Results summary[]

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
18	13	2	3	58	25	+33	28	7	2	0	36	10	+26	6	0	3	22	15	+7

Source: Bundesliga

Results by round[]

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Ground	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A
Result	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	L	W
Position	3	3	1	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1

Source:^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

German championship round (Group 1)[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification	HSV	SGE	SSC	YBI
1	Hamburger SV	6	5	1	21	5	4.200	10	Advance to semi-finals	—	5–0	2–0	3–1
2	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	5	1	24	13	1.846	10		3–2	—	5–0	5–0
3	Stettiner SC	6	2	4	12	18	0.667	4		1–3	5–6	—	1–0
4	Yorck Boyen Insterburg	6	0	6	4	25	0.160	0		0–6	1–5	2–5	—

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio.

3 April 1938 (1938-04-03) 1	Yorck Boyen Insterburg	1–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	showInsterburg, Germany
	Schulz 29'	Report	17', 47', 50' Wirsching 36' 75'	Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Peters

15 April 1938 (1938-04-15) 2	Stettiner SC	5–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	showStettin, Germany
	Bonsack 27' Schmoll 50' Palinski 65', 73' Liedtke 67'	Report	7', 62' 43', 56' Wirsching 54' 60'	Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Jaehnichen

24 April 1938 (1938-04-24) 3	Hamburger SV	5–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	showHamburg, Germany
	Carstens 10', 41' F Dörfel 36' Noack 47' Höffmann	Report		Stadium: Stadion Hoheluft Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Broden

30 April 1938 (1938-04-30) 4	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–0	Stettiner SC	showFrankfurt, Germany
	12', 71' (pen.) 47', 69' 75'	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Pfeiffer

8 May 1938 (1938-05-08) 5	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–0	Yorck Boyen Insterburg	showFrankfurt, Germany
	Möbs 29' 36' Wirsching 49', 61'	Report		Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Markert

22 May 1938 (1938-05-22) 6	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–2	Hamburger SV	showFrankfurt, Germany
	4' Wirsching 69' 85'	Report	Carstens 16' Höffmann 66'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Stöckmann

Tschammerpokal[]

29 August 1937 (1937-08-29) 1st Round	SpVgg Sülz 07	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	showCologne, Germany
	Siegfried 4' Schmaus 21'	Report		Stadium: Müngersdorfer Stadion Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Schwarz

Squad[]

Squad and statistics[]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total				German Championship round		Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK			7	0	7	0	0	0	0	0
	GK			15	0	11	0	4	0	0	0
	GK		Ludwig Schmitt	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0
	DF		Karl Ehmer	9	1	7	0	1	1	1	0
	DF			21	1	14	0	6	1	1	0
	DF		Hans Stubb	19	0	15	0	4	0	0	0
	MF			1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	MF			21	0	18	0	2	0	1	0
	MF		Rudolf Gramlich	22	1	17	1	4	0	1	0
	MF		Hermann Lindemann	24	0	18	0	6	0	0	0
	MF			3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
	FW			17	14	11	11	6	3	0	0
	FW			6	0	5	0	0	0	1	0
	FW			1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	FW			6	1	5	1	0	0	1	0
	FW			5	1	4	1	0	0	1	0
	FW			1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	FW			17	4	11	3	6	1	0	0
	FW		August Möbs	6	1	1	0	5	1	0	0
	FW			22	16	17	11	5	5	0	0
	FW			24	12	18	5	5	7	1	0
	FW		Albert Wirsching	25	30	18	25	6	5	1	0

Transfers[]

In:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW		(from Darmstadt)
—	MF	[[\|Germany]]	(from Eintracht Frankfurt reserves)
—	FW	[[\|Germany]]	(from unknown)
—	GK	[[\|Germany]]	(from unknown)

Out:


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW		Bisswurm (to unknown)
—	FW		(to unknown)
—	MF		(to Swabia)
—	FW	[[\|Germany]]	(to SV 1920 Groß-Karben)
—	FW	[[\|Germany]]	(to unknown)

Notes[]

Sources[]

Matheja, Ulrich (2011). Unsere Eintracht - Eintracht Frankfurt - Die Chronik. . ISBN 978-3-89533-750-5.

External links[]

Official English Eintracht website Archived 2 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
German archive site (in German)