1944–45 Gauliga

Gauliga
Season	1944–45
Champions	not completed
German champions	not held
← 1943–44 1945–46 (Oberliga) →

The initial 16 districts of the Gauliga from 1933 to 1938

The 1944–45 Gauliga was the twelfth and final season of the Gauliga, the first tier of the football league system in Germany from 1933 to 1945. It was the sixth season of the league held during the Second World War but was not completed as Nazi Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945.

The league operated in a large number of regional divisions, the effects of the war having forced a further regionalisation. The league champions would have qualified for the 1945 German football championship but the competition was not held, with the next edition being in 1948.^[1]

The effects of the war led to the cancellation of all Gauliga competition and various stages from September 1944 onwards. In Southern Germany competitions continued up to almost the end of the war. Only the Gauliga Hamburg had an official champion recorded with Hamburger SV winning the competition.^[2]^[3]^[4]

The last recorded official Gauliga game was Munich derby between FC Bayern and 1860 Munich on 23 April 1945, ending 3–2.^[5]

League football soon resumed in post-war Germany in mostly regional competitions. In the American occupation zone, in Southern Germany the tier one Oberliga Süd kicked off with the approval of the US occupation authorities on 4 November 1945.^[6]

References

↑ "(West) Germany -List of champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
↑ "Gauliga final tables". f-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 17 January 2016.
↑ "Germany 1944–45". claudionicoletti.eu. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
↑ kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245
↑ "Soccer in the Third Reich: 1933-1945". abseits-soccer.com. The Abseits Guide to German Soccer. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
↑ 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball Verband, page: 71

Sources

kicker-Almanach 1990 (German) Yearbook of German football, publisher: kicker Sportmagazin, published: 1989, ISBN 3-7679-0297-4
100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband (German) 100 Years of the Southern German Football Federation, publisher: SFV, published: 1997
Die deutschen Gauligen 1933–45 – Heft 1–3 (German) Tables of the Gauligas 1933–45, publisher: DSFS

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (German) Historic German league tables

Gauliga

Original Gauligen	Gauliga Baden Gauliga Bayern Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg Gauliga Hessen Gauliga Mitte Gauliga Mittelrhein Gauliga Niederrhein Gauliga Niedersachsen Gauliga Nordmark Gauliga Ostpreußen Gauliga Pommern Gauliga Sachsen Gauliga Schlesien Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen Gauliga Westfalen Gauliga Württemberg

Gauligen formed after 1939	Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig Gauliga Hamburg Gauliga Hessen-Nassau Gauliga Köln-Aachen Gauliga Mecklenburg Gauliga Moselland Gauliga Niederschlesien Gauliga Oberschlesien Gauliga Osthannover Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein Gauliga Weser-Ems Gauliga Westmark

Gauligen in occupied territories	Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen Gauliga Elsaß Gauliga Generalgouvernement Gauliga Sudetenland Gauliga Ostmark Gauliga Wartheland

Seasons	1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45

League system: German football league system Cup competition: Tschammerpokal

1944–45 in European football

« 1943–44 1945–46 »

Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Bohemia and Moravia Bulgaria '44 '45 Croatia Cyprus Denmark Estonia '44 '45 Faroe Islands Finland '44 '45 Germany Hungary '44 '45 Iceland '44 '45 Italy Latvia '44 '45 Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Portugal Republic of Ireland Slovakia Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia

Domestic cups	Cyprus France Luxembourg Malta Northern Ireland Norway '45 Portugal Republic of Ireland Soviet Union '44 '45 Spain Sweden '44 '45 Switzerland

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