1937 German football championship
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| Event | German football championship | ||||||
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| Date | 20 June 1937 | ||||||
| Venue | Olympiastadion, Berlin | ||||||
| Referee | Alfred Birlem | ||||||
| Attendance | 100,000 | ||||||
The 1937 German football championship, the 30th edition of the competition, was won by FC Schalke 04, the club's third German championship, by defeating 1. FC Nuremberg 2–0 in the final. For Schalke it was the half-way point of the club's most successful era, having won the 1934, 1935 final before the 1937 title and going on to win the 1939, 1940 and 1942 ones as well, winning six national championships all up during this time. 1. FC Nuremberg, the defending champions who had eliminated Schalke in the semi-finals in the previous season, already had six titles to their name at the time and would go on to win three more between 1948 and 1968 for a total of nine. The two clubs, Germany's most successful teams in the pre-Bundesliga era, had previously met in the 1934 final which Schalke had won 2–1 but would never encounter each other again in a championship final after 1937.[1][2][3]
Karl Mayer of SV Werder Bremen and Ernst Kalwitzki of FC Schalke 04 where the joint top scorers of the 1937 championship with ten goals each. Kalwitzki would finish as the competitions top scorer twice more, in 1939 and 1943.[4]
It was the first-ever German championship final to be played in the Olympiastadion in Berlin, build for the 1936 Summer Olympics.[5]
FC Schalke 04 completed the 1936–37 season unbeaten, finishing the Gauliga Westfalen with 17 wins and one draw. The club than went on to win seven out of eight games in the championship and draw one, against SV Werder Bremen, to complete the league season with a record of 24 wins and two draws.[6][7][8] After the German championship win Schalke went on to win the 1937 Tschammerpokal, the German Cup as well, by defeating Fortuna Düsseldorf 2–1 in the final.[9]
The sixteen 1936–37 Gauliga champions competed in a group stage of four groups of four teams each, with the group winners advancing to the semi-finals. The two semi-final winners then contested the 1937 championship final.[7]
Contents
Qualified teams
The teams qualified through the 1936–37 Gauliga season:[7]
Group 1
Group 1 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Nordmark, Ostpreußen, Sachsen and Schlesien:[7]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamburger SV (Q) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 4 | +23 | 12 | Qualified to semi-finals |
| 2 | BC Hartha | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 17 | −4 | 5 | |
| 3 | Hindenburg Allenstein | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 21 | −11 | 4 | |
| 4 | Beuthener SuSV 09 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 20 | −8 | 3 |
Group 2
Group 2 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Brandenburg, Niedersachsen, Pommern and Westfalen:[7]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FC Schalke 04 (Q) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 5 | +26 | 11 | Qualified to semi-finals |
| 2 | SV Werder Bremen | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 10 | +10 | 9 | |
| 3 | Hertha BSC | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 13 | −1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Viktoria Stolp | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 36 | −35 | 0 |
Group 3
Group 3 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Hessen, Mitte, Südwest and Württemberg:[7]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VfB Stuttgart (Q) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 9 | Qualified to semi-finals |
| 2 | Wormatia Worms | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 9 | |
| 3 | SV Dessau 05 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 4 | |
| 4 | SV Kassel | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 18 | −11 | 2 |
Group 4
Group 4 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Bayern, Baden, Mittelrhein and Niederrhein:[7]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. FC Nuremberg (Q) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 4 | +14 | 11 | Qualified to semi-finals |
| 2 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 6 | |
| 3 | SV Waldhof Mannheim | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | −8 | 5 | |
| 4 | VfR Köln | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 2 |
Semi-finals
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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| 6 June 1937[10] | ||
| FC Schalke 04 | 4–2 | VfB Stuttgart |
| 1. FC Nuremberg | 3–2 | Hamburger SV |
Third place
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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| 20 June 1937[11] | ||
| VfB Stuttgart | 1–0 | Hamburger SV |
Final
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 June 1937[12] | ||
| FC Schalke 04 | 2–0 | 1. FC Nuremberg |
References
- ↑ (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.com, accessed: 29 December 2015
- ↑ FC Schalke 04 » Steckbrief (German) Weltfussball.de – FC Schalke 04 honours, accessed: 29 December 2015
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- ↑ Das Deutsche Fussball-Archiv (German) Historic German league tables, accessed: 29 December 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 German championship 1937 rsssf.com, accessed: 29 December 2015
- ↑ Germany 1936–37 www.claudionicoletti.eu, accessed: 29 December 2015
- ↑ DFB-Pokal 1937 » Spielplan (German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 December 2015
- ↑ German championship 1938 – Semifinals (German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 December 2015
- ↑ German championship 1937 – Third place (German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 December 2015
- ↑ German championship 1937 – Final (German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 December 2015
Sources
- kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 164 & 177 - German championship
External links
- German Championship 1936–37 at weltfussball.de (German)
- German Championship 1937 at RSSSF
