1939–40 Gauliga Bayern

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Main article: 1939–40 Gauliga
Gauliga Bayern
Season1939–40
Champions1. FC Nürnberg
Relegatednone
German championship1. FC Nürnberg
The initial 16 districts of the Gauliga with Bayern in green

The 1939–40 Gauliga Bayern was the seventh season of the league, one of the 18 Gauligas in Germany at the time. It was the first tier of the football league system in Bavaria (German:Bayern) from 1933 to 1945.

For 1. FC Nürnberg it was the fifth of seven Gauliga championships the club would win in the era from 1933 to 1944.[1] The club qualified for the 1940 German football championship, where it was knocked out after finishing second in its group, behind group winner SV Waldhof Mannheim, and ahead of Stuttgarter Kickers and Kickers Offenbach.[2][3]

The sixth edition of the Tschammerpokal, now the DFB-Pokal, saw holders 1. FC Nürnberg defeated 2–1 after extra time in the final by Dresdner SC.[4][5]

Table[]

The 1939–40 season saw two new clubs in the league, VfR 07 Schweinfurt and .

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 1. FC Nürnberg (C) 18 13 3 2 56 13 +43 29 Qualification to German championship
2 BC Augsburg 18 12 4 2 49 16 +33 28
3 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 18 12 1 5 49 17 +32 25
4 18 12 1 5 46 31 +15 25
5 SpVgg Fürth 18 8 3 7 35 25 +10 19
6 SSV Jahn Regensburg 18 7 3 8 40 44 −4 17
7 TSV 1860 München 18 7 2 9 34 36 −2 16
8 FC Bayern Munich 18 3 4 11 21 32 −11 10
9 VfR 07 Schweinfurt 18 3 3 12 23 59 −36 9
10 18 0 2 16 13 93 −80 2
Source: claudionicoletti.eu
Rules for classification: 1) Points
(C) Champion

References[]

  1. ^ kicker, page: 245
  2. ^ "(West) Germany -List of champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  3. ^ "German championship 1940". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  4. ^ "ALLE DFB-POKALSIEGER" [All German Cup winners]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  5. ^ "DFB-Pokal 1940 » Spielplan" [German Cup 1940 – Fixtures]. weltfussball.de (in German). Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 9 February 2016.

Sources[]

  • kicker-Almanach 1990 [Yearbook of German football] (in German). Kicker (sports magazine). 1990. ISBN 3-7679-0297-4.
  • Die deutschen Gauligen 1933–45 [Tables of the Gauligas 1933–45] (in German). DSFS.
  • 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband [100 Years of the Southern German Football Association] (in German). Munich: Southern German Football Association. 1997.

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