1942 German football championship

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1942 German championship
Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft
Victoria Schalke-Museum.jpg
Replica of the Viktoria trophy
CountryGermany
Dates10 May – 4 July
Teams25
ChampionsSchalke 04
6th German title
Runners-upFirst Vienna
Third placeBlau-Weiß 90 Berlin
Fourth placeKickers Offenbach
Matches played26
Goals scored120 (4.62 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Fritz Szepan (8 goals)
← 1941
1943 →

The 1942 German football championship, the 35th edition of the competition, was won by Schalke 04, the club's sixth championship, won by defeating First Vienna FC in the final. It marked the third and last occasion of a club from Vienna (German: Wien) in the final, Rapid Wien having won the competition in the previous season while Admira Wien had made a losing appearance in the 1939 final.[1] It was the last time that Schalke was awarded the Viktoria, the annual trophy for the German champions from 1903 to 1944 as the trophy disappeared during the final stages of the Second World War.[2]

Schalke's Fritz Szepan was the 1942 championships top scorer with eight goals.[3]

The 1942 championship marked the last highlight of the golden era of Schalke 04 which had reached the semi-finals of each edition of the national championship from 1932 to 1942 and won the competition in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940 and 1942 while losing the final in 1933, 1938 and 1941. By appearing in the 1942 final Schalke also equaled Hertha BSC's record of six consecutive final appearances which the latter had set from 1926 to 1931. Schalke would however not win another German championship until 1958.[1][4]

The twenty-five 1941–42 Gauliga champions, five more than in the previous season,[5] competed in a single-leg knock out competition to determine the national champion.[6] In the following season, the German championship was played with twenty nine clubs. From there it gradually expanded further 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.[5]

Qualified teams[]

The teams qualified through the 1941–42 Gauliga season:[6]

Club Qualified from
SV Waldhof Mannheim Gauliga Baden
FC Schweinfurt 05 Gauliga Bayern
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen
SG SS Straßburg Gauliga Elsaß
Gauliga Generalgouvernement
Kickers Offenbach Gauliga Hessen-Nassau
Borussia Fulda Gauliga Kurhessen
SV Dessau 05 Gauliga Mitte
VfL 99 Köln Gauliga Mittelrhein
FV Stadt Düdelingen Gauliga Moselland
Sportfreunde Hamborn Gauliga Niederrhein
Werder Bremen Gauliga Niedersachsen
Gauliga Niederschlesien
Eimsbütteler TV Gauliga Nordmark
Germania Königshütte Gauliga Oberschlesien
First Vienna Gauliga Ostmark
VfB Königsberg Gauliga Ostpreußen
LSV Pütnitz Gauliga Pommern
SC Planitz Gauliga Sachsen
Gauliga Sudetenland
Gauliga Wartheland
Schalke 04 Gauliga Westfalen
1. FC Kaiserslautern Gauliga Westmark
Stuttgarter Kickers Gauliga Württemberg

Competition[]

Qualifying round[]

Team 1  Score  Team 2
10 May 1942[7]
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin 3–1 LSV Pütnitz
Borussia Fulda 0–2 SV Dessau 05
Sportfreunde Hamborn 1–1 Werder Bremen
1–7 VfB Königsberg
1. FC Kaiserslautern 7–1 SV Waldhof Mannheim
0–1 First Vienna FC
SC Planitz 5–2
SG SS Straßburg 2–0 Stuttgarter Kickers
FV Stadt Düdelingen 0–2 Schalke 04

Replay[]

Team 1  Score  Team 2
17 May 1942
Werder Bremen 5–1 Sportfreunde Hamborn

Round of 16[]

Team 1  Score  Team 2
24 May 1942[8]
SV Dessau 05 0–3 Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin
Schalke 04 9–3 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Kickers Offenbach 3–1 VfL 99 Köln
SC Planitz 2–1
SG SS Strassburg 2–1 FC Schweinfurt 05
VfB Königsberg 8–1
First Vienna FC 1–0 Germania Königshütte
Werder Bremen 4–2 Eimsbütteler TV

Quarter-finals[]

Team 1  Score  Team 2
7 June1942[9]
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin 2–1 VfB Königsberg
Schalke 04 6–0 SG SS Straßburg
Kickers Offenbach 4–3 Werder Bremen
First Vienna FC 3–2 SC Planitz

Semi-finals[]

Team 1  Score  Team 2
21 June 1942[10]
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin 2–3 First Vienna FC
Schalke 04 6–0 Kickers Offenbach

Third place play-off[]

Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin4 – 0Kickers Offenbach
Herberger 18'
Lay 55'
Hientz 64'
Kraetke 83'
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Rättig

Final[]

Schalke 042 – 0First Vienna FC
Kalwitzki 12'
Szepan 42'		 Report
Olympic Stadium (Berlin)
Attendance: 90,000
Referee: Bouillon (Königsberg)
FC GELSENKIRCHEN-SCHALKE 04:
GK Germany Heinz Flotho
DF Germany
DF Germany
MF Germany
MF Germany Otto Tibulski
MF Germany Herbert Burdenski
FW Germany Ernst Kalwitzki
FW Germany Fritz Szepan
FW Germany Hermann Eppenhoff
FW Germany Ernst Kuzorra
FW Germany Adolf Urban
Manager:
Germany
VIENNA:
GK Germany Stefan Ploc
DF Germany Otto Kaller
DF Germany Willibald Schmaus
MF Germany
MF Germany Ernst Sabeditsch
MF Germany
FW Germany Karl Bortoli
FW Germany Karl Decker
FW Germany
FW Germany
FW Germany Franz Erdl
Manager:
Germany Fritz Gschweidl

References[]

  1. ^ a b (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.com, accessed: 26 December 2015
  2. ^ POKALE AUF REISEN: VIKTORIA UND CO. WANDERN INS FUSSBALLMUSEUM (in German) DFB website, accessed: 27 December 2015
  3. ^ "Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige" [German championship: Top goal scorer]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  4. ^ FC Schalke 04 » Steckbrief (in German) Weltfussball.de – FC Schalke 04 honours, accessed: 26 December 2015
  5. ^ a b kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245
  6. ^ a b German championship 1942 rsssf.com, accessed: 26 December 2015
  7. ^ German championship 1942 – Qualifying (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015
  8. ^ German championship 1942 – Round of sixteen (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015
  9. ^ German championship 1942 – Quarter finals (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015
  10. ^ German championship 1942 – Semifinals (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 26 December 2015

Sources[]

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

External links[]

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