1940 German football championship

Football tournament season

1940 German championshipDeutsche Fußballmeisterschaft

Replica of the Viktoria trophy

Tournament details
Country| Germany
Dates| 21 April – 28 July
Teams| 18
Final positions
Champions| Schalke 04
5th German title
Runner-up| Dresdner SC
Third place| Rapid Wien
Fourth place| Waldhof Mannheim
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 55
Goals scored| 253 (4.6 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)| Franz Binder (14 goals)

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The  1940 German football championship, the 33rd edition of the competition, was won by Schalke 04, the club's fifth German championship, by defeating Dresdner SC 1–0 in the final. Both clubs would continue to be strong sides during the Second World War editions of the German championship with Schalke making a losing appearance in the 1941 final before winning again in 1942 while Dresden was crowned German champions in 1943 and 1944.[1][2][3]

Schalke's 16–0 win over CSC 03 Kassel in the group stages was the highest win in the history of the German championship as well as the most goals scored in a game.[4]

Rapid Wien's Franz Binder became the 1940 championships top scorer with 14 goals, a new record that would be broken the following year by Schalke's Hermann Eppenhoff when he scored 15 goals.[5]

The eighteen 1939–40 Gauliga champions, the same number as in 1939,[6] competed in a group stage with the four group winners advancing to the semi-finals. The two semi-final winners then contested the 1940 championship final. The groups were divided into three with four clubs and one with six clubs with the latter, in turn, subdivided into two groups of three teams each and a final of these group winners to determine the overall group champions.[7]

In the following season, the German championship was played with twenty 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.[6]

## Qualified teams

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The teams qualified through the 1939–40 Gauliga season:[7]

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SV Waldhof Mannheim | Gauliga Baden
1\. FC Nürnberg | Gauliga Bayern
Union Oberschöneweide | Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg
CSC 03 Kassel | Gauliga Hessen
SV Jena | Gauliga Mitte
Mülheimer SV | Gauliga Mittelrhein
Fortuna Düsseldorf | Gauliga Niederrhein
VfL Osnabrück | Gauliga Niedersachsen
Eimsbütteler TV | Gauliga Nordmark
SK Rapid Wien | Gauliga Ostmark
VfB Königsberg | Gauliga Ostpreußen
VfL Stettin | Gauliga Pommern
Dresdner SC | Gauliga Sachsen
Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz | Gauliga Schlesien
NSTG Graslitz | Gauliga Sudetenland
Kickers Offenbach | Gauliga Südwest
Schalke 04 | Gauliga Westfalen
Stuttgarter Kickers | Gauliga Württemberg

## Competition

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### Group 1

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#### Group 1A

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Group 1A was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Brandenburg, Ostpreußen and Pommern:[7]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification  |  | OBE | KON | STE

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1  | Union Oberschöneweide | 4  | 3  | 0  | 1  | 13  | 8  | 1.625  | 6  | Advance to group final |  | -- | 6–3 | 3–1
2  | VfB Königsberg | 4  | 3  | 0  | 1  | 13  | 10  | 1.300  | 6  |  |  | 3–1 | -- | 5–2
3  | VfL Stettin | 4  | 0  | 0  | 4  | 5  | 13  | 0.385  | 0  |  | 1–3 | 1–2 | --

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

#### Group 1B

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Group 1B was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Ostmark, Schlesien and Sudetenland:[7]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification  |  | RWI | VRG | GRA

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1  | Rapid Wien | 4  | 3  | 1  | 0  | 19  | 4  | 4.750  | 7  | Advance to group final |  | -- | 3–1 | 7–0
2  | Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz | 4  | 1  | 2  | 1  | 11  | 11  | 1.000  | 4  |  |  | 2–2 | -- | 4–2
3  | NSTG Graslitz | 4  | 0  | 1  | 3  | 7  | 22  | 0.318  | 1  |  | 1–7 | 4–4 | --

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

#### Group 1 final

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Team 1  | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2  | 1st leg  | 2nd leg

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Rapid Wien | 6–3  | Union Oberschöneweide | 3–1 | 3–2

### Group 2

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Group 2 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Mitte, Niedersachsen, Nordmark and Sachsen:[7]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification  |  | DRE | ETV | OSN | SVJ

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1  | Dresdner SC | 6  | 4  | 2  | 0  | 9  | 0  | -- | 10  | Advance to semi-finals |  | -- | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0
2  | Eimsbütteler TV | 6  | 3  | 1  | 2  | 10  | 10  | 1.000  | 7  |  |  | 0–3 | -- | 3–1 | 0–1
3  | VfL Osnabrück | 6  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 11  | 14  | 0.786  | 4  |  | 0–0 | 3–4 | -- | 5–2
4  | 1\. SV Jena | 6  | 1  | 1  | 4  | 7  | 13  | 0.538  | 3  |  | 0–2 | 2–3 | 2–2 | --

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

### Group 3

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Group 3 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Hessen, Mittelrhein, Niederrhein and Westfalen:[7]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification  |  | S04 | F95 | MUS | CSC

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1  | Schalke 04 | 6  | 4  | 2  | 0  | 35  | 5  | 7.000  | 10  | Advance to semi-finals |  | -- | 0–0 | 5–0 | 16–0
2  | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 6  | 3  | 2  | 1  | 21  | 4  | 5.250  | 8  |  |  | 1–1 | -- | 7–1 | 7–0
3  | Mülheimer SV | 6  | 2  | 0  | 4  | 14  | 29  | 0.483  | 4  |  | 2–8 | 2–1 | -- | 4–5
4  | CSC Kassel | 6  | 1  | 0  | 5  | 10  | 42  | 0.238  | 2  |  | 2–5 | 0–5 | 3–5 | --

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

### Group 4

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Group 4 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Bayern, Baden, Südwest and Württemberg:[7]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification  |  | WMA | FCN | SKI | KOF

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1  | Waldhof Mannheim | 6  | 3  | 2  | 1  | 14  | 5  | 2.800  | 8  | Advance to semi-finals |  | -- | 1–1 | 7–2 | 4–0
2  | 1\. FC Nürnberg | 6  | 2  | 2  | 2  | 10  | 4  | 2.500  | 6  |  |  | 0–0 | -- | 1–0 | 8–0
3  | Stuttgarter Kickers | 6  | 3  | 0  | 3  | 9  | 9  | 1.000  | 6  |  | 1–0 | 2–0 | -- | 4–0
4  | Kickers Offenbach | 6  | 2  | 0  | 4  | 3  | 18  | 0.167  | 4  |  | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | --

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

### Semi-finals

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Two of the four clubs in the 1940 semi-finals had reached the same stage in the previous season, Dresdner SC and FC Schalke 04, while Rapid Wien replaced Admira Wien and SV Waldhof Mannheim Hamburger SV in comparison to 1939:[8]

Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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14 July 1940[9]
Schalke 04 | 3–1  | SV Waldhof Mannheim
SK Rapid Wien | 1–2 aet  | Dresdner SC

### Third place play-off

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Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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21 July 1940[10]
SK Rapid Wien | 4–4 aet  | SV Waldhof Mannheim

#### Replay

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Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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28 July 1940
SK Rapid Wien | 5–2  | SV Waldhof Mannheim

### Final

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21 July 1940

Schalke 04| 1 - 0| Dresdner SC

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Kalwitzki 27' | Report |

Olympic Stadium (Berlin)

Attendance: 95,000

Referee: Gustav Stark (München)

| FC GELSENKIRCHEN-SCHALKE 04:

GK |  |  Hans Klodt
DF |  |  Hans Bornemann
DF |  |  Heinz Hinz
MF |  |  Bernhard Füller
MF |  |  Otto Tibulski
MF |  |  Herbert Burdenski
FW |  |  Hermann Eppenhoff
FW |  |  Fritz Szepan
FW |  |  Ernst Kalwitzki
FW |  |  Ernst Kuzorra
FW |  |  Willi Schuh
Manager:
Otto Faist
|  | DRESDNER SC 1898:

GK |  |  Willibald Kreß
DF |  |  Herbert Pohl
DF |  |  Heinz Hempel
MF |  |  Strauch
MF |  |  Walter Dzur
MF |  |  Helmut Schubert
FW |  |  Emanuel Boczek
FW |  |  Heinrich Schaffer
FW |  |  Helmut Schön
FW |  |  Heinz Köpping
FW |  |  Richard Hofmann
Manager:
Georg Köhler

## References

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1. ^ (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.org, accessed: 27 December 2015
2. ^ FC Schalke 04 » Steckbrief (in German) Weltfussball.de – FC Schalke 04 honours, accessed: 27 December 2015
3. ^ Dresdner SC » Steckbrief (in German) Weltfussball.de – Dresdner SC honours, accessed: 27 December 2015
4. ^ Deutsche Meisterschaft » Statistik » Die höchsten Siege (in German) Weltfussball.de, highest wins, accessed: 1 January 2016
5. ^ "Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige" [German championship: Top goal scorer]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
6. ^ a b kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245
7. ^ a b c d e f g German championship 1940 rsssf.org, accessed: 26 December 2015
8. ^ German championship 1939 rsssf.org, accessed: 27 December 2015
9. ^ German championship 1940 – Semifinals (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 27 December 2015
10. ^ German championship 1940 – Third place (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 27 December 2015

### Sources

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

## External links

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* German Championship 1939–40 at weltfussball.de (in German)
* German Championship 1940 at RSSSF

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