1939–40 Gauliga
| Season | 1939–40 |
|---|---|
| Champions | 18 regional winners |
| German champions | Schalke 04 5th German title |
← 1938–39 1940–41 → | |
The 1939–40 Gauliga was the seventh season of the
The league operated in eighteen regional divisions with the league containing 216 clubs all up, 41 more than the previous season. The majority of Gauligas were regionally sub-divided during the season, with finals or final rounds played to determine the champions. The league champions entered the 1940 German football championship, won by FC Schalke 04 who defeated Dresdner SC 1–0 in the final. It was Schalke's fifth national championship, with the club winning six championships all up during the Gauliga era.[1]
The 1939–40 season saw the sixth edition of the Tschammerpokal, now the DFB-Pokal. The 1940 edition was won by Dresdner SC, defeating 1. FC Nürnberg 2–1 on 1 December 1940.[2]
The number of Gauligas, eighteen, remained unchanged compare to the previous season which had seen the addition of the Gauliga Ostmark and Gauliga Sudetenland to the original sixteen.[3][4]
In the part of Czechoslovakia incorporated into Germany in March 1939, the
Champions
The 1939–40 Gauliga champions qualified for the group stage of the German championship. SK Rapid Wien, SV Waldhof Mannheim, Dresdner SC and FC Schalke 04 won their championship groups and advanced to the semi-finals with the latter two reaching the championship final which Schalke won.[9][10][11]
FC Schalke 04 won their seventh consecutive Gauliga title, Fortuna Düsseldorf won their fifth consecutive one, Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz their third consecutive title while Stuttgarter Kickers, Dresdner SC, CSC 03 Kassel and VfL Osnabrück defended their 1938–39 Gauliga title.[10][12][13][14][15][16][17]
| Club | League | No. of clubs |
| SV Waldhof Mannheim | Gauliga Baden | 25 |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | Gauliga Bayern(1939–40 season) | 10 |
Union Oberschöneweide |
Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg | 12 |
| CSC 03 Kassel | Gauliga Hessen | 12 |
SV Jena |
Gauliga Mitte | 8 |
Mülheimer SV |
Gauliga Mittelrhein | 13 |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | Gauliga Niederrhein | 10 |
| VfL Osnabrück | Gauliga Niedersachsen | 12 |
| Eimsbütteler TV | Gauliga Nordmark | 13 |
| SK Rapid Wien | Gauliga Ostmark(1939–40 season) | 8 |
| VfB Königsberg | Gauliga Ostpreußen | 8 |
| VfL Stettin | Gauliga Pommern | 11 |
| Dresdner SC | Gauliga Sachsen | 12 |
| Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz | Gauliga Schlesien | 14 |
NSTG Graslitz |
Gauliga Sudetenland | 12 |
| Kickers Offenbach | Gauliga Südwest |
14 |
| FC Schalke 04 | Gauliga Westfalen | 10 |
| Stuttgarter Kickers | Gauliga Württemberg | 12 |
German championship
References
- ^ "(West) Germany -List of champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "ALLE DFB-POKALSIEGER" [All German Cup winners]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Where's My Country? Austrian clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Where's My Country? Czech clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic - List of League Tables". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ "Where's My Country? Czech clubs in the German football structure 1938-1944". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Poland Final Tables (1st and 2nd level)". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ "Where's My Country? Polish clubs in the German football structure 1940-1944". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ "Gauliga final tables". f-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ a b "Germany 1939–40". claudionicoletti.eu. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "German championship 1940". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Germany 1938–39". claudionicoletti.eu. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Germany 1937–38". claudionicoletti.eu. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Germany 1936–37". claudionicoletti.eu. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Germany 1935–36". claudionicoletti.eu. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Germany 1934–35". claudionicoletti.eu. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Germany 1933–34". claudionicoletti.eu. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
Sources
- kicker-Almanach 1990 (in German) Yearbook of German football, publisher: kicker Sportmagazin, published: 1989, ISBN 3-7679-0297-4
- 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband (in German) 100 Years of the Southern German Football Federation, publisher: SFV, published: 1997
- Die deutschen Gauligen 1933–45 – Heft 1–3 (in German) Tables of the Gauligas 1933–45, publisher: DSFS
External links
- Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (in German) Historic German league tables