1950 German football championship

1950 German championship final
Event German football championship
Date 25 June 1950[1]
Venue Olympiastadion, Berlin[2]
Attendance 95,051[1]
1949
1951

The 46th German football championship was the culmination of the 1949-50 football season in Germany. VfB Stuttgart won their first championship in a one-leg knock-out tournament. It was the third championship after the end of World War II.

VfB Stuttgart appeared in their second final, having lost to FC Schalke 04 in 1935. Losing finalists Kickers Offenbach appeared in a championship final for the first time.

For the first time 16 teams competed for the title, including the runners-up of the Berlin championship. However, East German side Union Oberschöneweide did not receive a travel permit, like SG Planitz two years earlier. Their players nevertheless traveled to Kiel to play Hamburger SV and eventually founded SC Union 06 Berlin. Originally, the first three teams from the DDR-Oberliga had been slated to appear in the championship, but the two football associations eventually could not agree on a mode of play and their places were given to West German Oberliga sides.

Contents

Qualified teams

Club Qualified from
Hamburger SV Oberliga Nord champions
FC St. Pauli, VfL Osnabrück 2nd and 3rd place, Oberliga Nord
Borussia Dortmund Oberliga West champions
Preußen Dellbrück, Rot-Weiss Essen, STV Horst-Emscher 2nd to 4th place, Oberliga West
1. FC Kaiserslautern Oberliga Südwest champions
SSV Reutlingen 05, TuS Koblenz 2nd and 3rd place, Oberliga Südwest
SpVgg Fürth Oberliga Süd champions
VfB Stuttgart, Kickers Offenbach, VfR Mannheim 2nd to 4th place, Oberliga Süd
Tennis Borussia Berlin Stadtliga Berlin champions
Union Oberschöneweide 2nd place, Stadtliga Berlin

First Round

Replay First Round

Second Round

4 June 1950
VfB Stuttgart 5 – 2 1. FC Kaiserslautern Club-Stadion im Zabo, Nuremberg
Attendance: 38,000
Referee: Hamm (Eschweiler)
Schlienz  14'
Bühler  42'
Läpple  52'
Blessing  75'
Baitinger  78'
O.Walter  50'83'

4 June 1950
SpVgg Fürth 2 – 1 FC St. Pauli Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Hoppe (Berlin)
Brenzke  36' (pen.)
Nöth  45'
Zimmermann  48'

4 June 1950
Kickers Offenbach 3 – 2 Hamburger SV Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Witthaus (Duisburg)
Buhtz  61'
Wirsching  81'
Weber  88'
Adamkiewicz  4'
Woitkowiak  6'

4 June 1950
Preußen Dellbrück 2 – 1 VfR Mannheim Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Liebig (Berlin)
Severin  49'
Drost  75'
de la Vigne  63'

Semifinals

11 June 1950
VfB Stuttgart 4 – 1 SpVgg Fürth Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Schmetzer
Bühler  34'57'
Blessing  39'
Läpple  75'
Schade  11'

11 June 1950
Preußen Dellbrück 0 – 0 Kickers Offenbach Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Burmeister (Hamburg)

Replay Semifinals

18 June 1950
Preußen Dellbrück 0 – 3 Kickers Offenbach Niederrheinstadion, Oberhausen
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Heuck (Kiel)
Kaufhold  1'
Baas  73'
Weber  74'

Final

25 June 1950
VfB Stuttgart 2 – 1 Kickers Offenbach Olympiastadion, Berlin
Attendance: 95,051
Referee: Hunting
Läpple  17'
Bühler  27'
Buhtz  47'
VFB STUTTGART
' Otto Schmid
' Josef Ledl
' Richard Steimle
' Erich Retter
' Erwin Läpple
' Robert Schlienz
' Ernst Otterbach
' Karl Barufka
' Otto Baitinger
' Walter Bühler
' Rolf Blessing
Manager:
Georg Wurzer
KICKERS OFFENBACH
' Josef Schepper
' Willi Magel
' Ferdinand Emberger
' Heinrich Baas
' Kurt Schreiner
' Gerhard Kaufhold
' Horst Buhtz
' Albert Wirsching
' Wilhelm Weber
' Anton Picard
' Willi Keim
Manager:
Paul Oßwald

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