1949 German football championship

1949 German championship final
Event German football championship
(a.e.t.)
Date 10 July 1949
Venue Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Referee E.Zacher, Berlin
Attendance 92,000
1948
1950

The 45th 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 side's first appearance in the final.

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.

Contents

Qualified teams

Club Qualified from
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

Qualifying Round

First Round

Second Round

Second Round Replay

Quarter finals

12 June 1949
Berliner SV 92 0 – 5 Borussia Dortmund Olympiastadion, Berlin
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Schulz (Dresden)
Michallek  3'77'
Erdmann  17'
Preißler  44'
Kasperski  83'

12 June 1949
1. FC Kaiserslautern 1 – 1
(a.e.t.)
FC St. Pauli Weserstadion, Bremen
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Bernbeck (Frankfurt)
O.Walter  10' Woitas  43'

12 June 1949
Kickers Offenbach 2 – 2
(a.e.t.)
Wormatia Worms Betzenberg, Kaiserslautern
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Heuck (Kiel)
Maier  71'73' Müller  35'
Vogt  90'

12 June 1949
VfR Mannheim 5 – 0 Hamburger SV Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Trompetter (Cologne)
de la Vigne  20'
Bolleyer  30'
Langlotz  79' (pen.)90'
Löttke  84'

Replays

19 June 1949
1. FC Kaiserslautern 4 – 1 FC St. Pauli Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Strobel (Schwabach)
O.Walter  8'
Baßler  15'
Grewenig  86'90'
Appel  4'

19 June 1949
Kickers Offenbach 2 – 0 Wormatia Worms Telegrafenkaserne, Karlsruhe
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Imbeck (Hamburg)
Maier  12'
Selbert  70' (o.g.)

Semi finals

26 June 1949
Borussia Dortmund 0 – 0
(a.e.t.)
1. FC Kaiserslautern Grünwalder Stadion, Munich
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Eberle (Stuttgart)

26 June 1949
VfR Mannheim 2 – 1 Kickers Offenbach Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Kormannshaus (Bad Oeynhausen)
Löttke  1'
de la Vigne  8'
Schreiner  3'

Replay

3 July 1949
Borussia Dortmund 4 – 1 1. FC Kaiserslautern Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Fink (Frankfurt)
Preißler  22'60'
Michallek  35'
Erdmann  85'
Baßler  50'

Third Place playoff

9 July 1949
1. FC Kaiserslautern 2 – 1
(a.e.t.)
Kickers Offenbach Stadion Oberwerth, Koblenz
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Witthaus (Duisburg)
Grewenig  97'
O.Walter  109'
Schreiner  120'

Final

10 July 1949
VfR Mannheim 3 – 2
(a.e.t.)
Borussia Dortmund Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 92,000
Referee: Zacher (Berlin)
Löttke  74'  108'
Langlotz  85'
Erdmann  5'  82'
VFR MANNHEIM:
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:
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:
Viktor Havlicek

References