1949 German football championship

Football tournament season

1949 German championshipDeutsche Fußballmeisterschaft

Tournament details
Country| West Germany
Dates| 29 May – 10 July
Teams| 10
Final positions
Champions| VfR Mannheim
1st German title
Runner-up| Borussia Dortmund
Third place| 1\. FC Kaiserslautern
Fourth place| Kickers Offenbach
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 14
Goals scored| 48 (3.43 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)| Alfred Boller
Ernst Löttke
(4 goals each)

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The 1949 German football championship, the 39th edition of the German football championship, was the culmination of the 1948–49 football season in Germany. VfR Mannheim were crowned champions for the first time after a one-leg knock-out tournament. It was both sides' first appearance in the final.[1][2]

The tournament was expanded so that ten teams were to take part in the final stage which was played as a one-leg knock-out tournament, with the matches played on neutral ground. The five regional Oberliga winners, along with VfR Mannheim and Wormatia Worms, automatically qualified for the quarter finals, while the remaining three teams played qualifying rounds to clinch the eighth place.

The 1949 championship was the first to see a new trophy for the champions awarded. The pre-Second World War trophy, the Viktoria, had disappeared during the final stages of the war and would not resurface until after the German reunification. The new trophy, the Meisterschale, was not ready for the 1948 season but was finished in time to be awarded to the 1949 champions.[3][4]

## Qualified teams

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The clubs qualified through the 1948–49 Oberliga season:

Club | Qualified from

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Hamburger SV | Oberliga Nord champions
FC St. Pauli | Oberliga Nord runners-up
Borussia Dortmund | Oberliga West champions
Rot-Weiss Essen | Oberliga West runners-up
Berliner SV 92 | Oberliga Berlin champions
1\. FC Kaiserslautern | Oberliga Südwest champions
VfR Wormatia Worms | Oberliga Südwest runners-up
Kickers Offenbach | Oberliga Süd champions
VfR Mannheim | Oberliga Süd runners-up
FC Bayern Munich | Oberliga Süd third place

## Competition

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### First qualifying round

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FC St. Pauli v Rot-Weiss Essen 29 May 1949 |  FC St. Pauli | 4 – 1|  Rot-Weiss Essen | Braunschweig

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| Boller  14', 54'
Stender  20'
Michael  87' |  | Cornelissen  83' | Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Boullion (Königsberg)

### Second qualifying round

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FC St. Pauli v Bayern Munich 5 June 1949 |  FC St. Pauli | 1 – 1
(a.e.t.)|  Bayern Munich | Hanover

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| Boller  49' |  | Resch  88' | Stadium: Eilenriedestadion
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Schumann (Berlin)

#### Replay

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FC St. Pauli v Bayern Munich 6 June 1949 |  FC St. Pauli | 2 – 0|  Bayern Munich | Hanover

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| Woitas  8'
Boller  66' |  |  | Stadium: Eilenriedestadion
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Schumann (Berlin)

### Quarter-finals

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12 June 1949

Berliner SV 92| 0 – 5| Borussia Dortmund

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|  | Michallek  3', 77'
Erdmann  17'
Preißler 44'
Kasperski  83'

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Schulz (Dresden)

* * *

12 June 1949

1\. FC Kaiserslautern| 1 – 1
(a.e.t.)| FC St. Pauli

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O.Walter 10' |  | Woitas  43'

Weserstadion, Bremen

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Bernbeck (Frankfurt)

* * *

12 June 1949

Kickers Offenbach| 2 – 2
(a.e.t.)| Wormatia Worms

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Maier  71', 73' |  | Müller  35'
Vogt  90'

Betzenberg, Kaiserslautern

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Heuck (Kiel)

* * *

12 June 1949

VfR Mannheim| 5 – 0| Hamburger SV

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de la Vigne 20'
Bolleyer  30'
Langlotz  79' (pen.), 90'
Löttke  84' |  |

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Trompetter (Cologne)

#### Replays

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19 June 1949

1\. FC Kaiserslautern| 4 – 1| FC St. Pauli

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O.Walter 8'
Baßler  15'
Grewenig  86', 90' |  | Appel 4'

Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Strobel (Schwabach)

* * *

19 June 1949

Kickers Offenbach| 2 – 0| Wormatia Worms

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Maier  12'
Selbert  70' (o.g.) |  |

Telegrafenkaserne, Karlsruhe

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Imbeck (Hamburg)

### Semi-finals

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26 June 1949

Borussia Dortmund| 0 – 0
(a.e.t.)| 1\. FC Kaiserslautern

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Grünwalder Stadion, Munich

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Eberle (Stuttgart)

* * *

26 June 1949

VfR Mannheim| 2 – 1| Kickers Offenbach

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Löttke  1'
de la Vigne 8' |  | Schreiner  3'

Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Kormannshaus (Bad Oeynhausen)

#### Replay

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3 July 1949

Borussia Dortmund| 4 – 1| 1\. FC Kaiserslautern

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Preißler 22', 60'
Michallek  35'
Erdmann  85' |  | Baßler  50'

Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Fink (Frankfurt)

### Third place play-off

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9 July 1949

1\. FC Kaiserslautern| 2 – 1
(a.e.t.)| Kickers Offenbach

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Grewenig  97'
O.Walter 109' |  | Schreiner  120'

Stadion Oberwerth, Koblenz

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Witthaus (Duisburg)

### Final

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10 July 1949

VfR Mannheim| 3 – 2
(a.e.t.)| Borussia Dortmund

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Löttke  74' 108'
Langlotz  85' |  | Erdmann  5' 82'

Neckarstadion, Stuttgart

Attendance: 92,000

Referee: Zacher (Berlin)

| VFR MANNHEIM:

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GK |  |  Hermann Jöckel
DF |  |  Kurt Keuerleber
DF |  |  Philip Henninger
DF |  |  Eugen Rößling
MF |  |  Fritz Bolleyer
MF |  |  Jakob Müller
MF |  |  Rudi Maier
FW |  |  Ernst Löttke
FW |  |  Ernst Langlotz
FW |  |  Rudolf de la Vigne
FW |  |  Kurt Stiefvater
Manager:
Hans Schmidt
| BORUSSIA DORTMUND:

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GK |  |  Günther Rau
DF |  |  Max Michallek
DF |  |  Paul Koschmieder
DF |  |  Erwin Halfen
DF |  |  Heinrich Ruhmhofer
MF |  |  Friedel Ibel
MF |  |  Wilhelm Buddenberg
FW |  |  Edmund Kasperski
FW |  |  Werner Erdmann
FW |  |  Erich Schanko
FW |  |  Alfred Preißler
Manager:
Eduard Havlicek

## References

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1. ^ Stokkermans, Karel; Werner, Andreas (14 April 2024). "(West) Germany - List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
2. ^ VfR Mannheim » Steckbrief (in German) Weltfussball.de – VfR Mannheim honours, accessed: 22 December 2015
3. ^ Die "Viktoria" (in German) DFB website – The "Viktoria", accessed: 30 December 2015
4. ^ Meisterschale (in German) DFB website, accessed: 30 December 2015

## External links

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* 1948-49 at Weltfussball.de
* Germany - Championship 1949 at RSSSF.com
* German championship 1949 at Fussballdaten.de

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