1945–46 Landesliga Bayern

Landesliga Bayern
Season	1945–46
Champions	1. FC Bamberg
Promoted	1. FC Bamberg
Relegated	none
Matches played	72
← 1944–45 (Gauliga Bayern) 1946–47 →

The 1945–46 season of the Landesliga Bayern, the second highest association football league of the German football league system in Bavaria at the time, was the inaugural season of the league. The first season of the league marked the restart of league football in Bavaria after the end of the Second World War.

History

At the end of the Second World War most of Bavaria was occupied by the US Army and administrated by the Office of Military Government. Within the US occupation zone all football competitions, clubs and matches had to be approved by the Military Government.^[1] In late 1945 the Military Government permitted the formation of the Oberliga Süd as the new first division of football within the US occupation zone. Of the Bavarian clubs, 1. FC Nuremberg, TSV 1860 München, FC Bayern Munich, TSV Schwaben Augsburg, BC Augsburg, FC Schweinfurt 05 and SpVgg Fürth joined this league.^[2] The participation of the Bavarian clubs in the Oberliga rather than a regional Bavarian competition lead to initial conflict between those clubs and the organisation that would later become the Bavarian Football Association.^[3]

Below this, the new Landesliga Bayern was established as the second tier with nine clubs in the league, with the clubs selected through their performance in the Gauliga Bayern which became defunct in 1945. The league officially began operating in the spring of 1946 and, like all regional leagues in Bavaria in that season, were seen as a qualifying competition for a more organised season in 1946–47.^[4] 1. FC Bamberg became the first champion of this league which was operated under the very difficult post-war circumstances. Bamberg earned promotion to the Oberliga while no club was relegated from this league to the Landesliga Bayern. The league was expanded from a single division of nine clubs to two divisions of eleven clubs each. Therefore no club was relegated from the Landesliga.^[5] From the 1948–48 season the league became known as the Bayernliga, the name it carries today.^[6]

1945–46 Standings

Of the nine clubs taking part in the inaugural season of the league 1. FC Bamberg had played in the Gauliga Oberfranken in the heavily disrupted and incomplete 1944–45 season, FC Eintracht Nürnberg had played in the Gauliga Mittelfranken, Jahn Regensburg in the Gauliga Oberpfalz/Niederbayern and Bajuwaren München and Wacker München in the Gauliga München/Oberbayern. Of the other clubs VfR Schweinfurt and Kickers Würzburg had played in the Gauliga Nordbayern in 1943–44, VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee in the Gauliga Südbayern while ASV Nürnberg had not played in the Gauliga since 1937.^[7]


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	1. FC Bamberg (C) (P)	16	12	3	1	54	17	+37	27	Promotion to 1946–47 Oberliga Süd
2	SSV Jahn Regensburg	16	11	3	2	47	28	+19	25
3	FC Wacker München	16	10	4	2	45	18	+27	24
4	VfR Schweinfurt	16	4	6	6	30	33	−3	14
5	SC Bajuwaren München	16	5	2	9	32	33	−1	12
6	ASV Nürnberg	16	4	4	8	30	42	−12	12
7	Kickers Würzburg	16	5	1	10	25	36	−11	11
8	VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee	16	4	2	10	18	40	−22	10
9	FC Eintracht Nürnberg ¹	16	4	1	11	19	53	−34	9

Source: Die Bayernliga 1945–1997
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1) FC Eintracht Nürnberg started season as Eintracht/Franken Nürnberg, a Kriegsgemeinschaft or on-the-field war union, but this temporary merger was dissolved during the season.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

References

↑ 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband, p. 15
↑ 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband, p. 16
↑ 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband, p. 35
↑ 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband, p. 36
↑ 50 Jahre Bayerischer Fussball-Verband, p. 98
↑ 50 Jahre Bayerischer Fussball-Verband, p. 99
↑ The Gauligas 1933–1945 Das Deutsche Fussball-Archiv, accessed: 24 July 2014

Sources

100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband - SFV, (German) publisher: Vindelica Verlag, published: 1996
50 Jahre Bayerischer Fussball-Verband - BFV, (German) publisher: Vindelica Verlag, published: 1995
Die Bayernliga 1945–1997 – DSFS, (German) published: 1998
Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988 (German) History of Southern German football in tables, publisher & author: Ludolf Hyll

External links

Official website of the Bavarian Football Association (German)
Das deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables (German)

Bayernliga

League seasons

Tier–II	1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50

Tier–III	1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94

Tier–IV	1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08

Tier–V	2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

League champions

8 titles	SpVgg Bayreuth

6 titles	1. FC Bamberg FC Wacker München

5 titles	FC Augsburg SSV Jahn Regensburg

4 titles	SpVgg Unterhaching ESV Ingolstadt

3 titles	TSV 1860 München SpVgg Weiden TSV 1860 München II 1. FC Schweinfurt 05

2 titles	BC Augsburg VfL Neustadt FC Penzberg TSV Schwaben Augsburg 1. FC Haßfurt

1 title	FC Bayern Hof 1. FC Amberg ATS Kulmbach VfB Helmbrechts VfB Bayreuth 1. FC Lichtenfels SpVgg Büchenbach TSV Straubing ASV Herzogenaurach Würzburger Kickers MTV Ingolstadt SpVgg Landshut SV Wacker Burghausen SC Weismain SV Lohhof SpVgg Ansbach 1. SC Feucht FC Ingolstadt 04 FC Memmingen FC Ismaning TSV 1860 Rosenheim SV Schalding-Heining BC Aichach Viktoria Aschaffenburg TSV Rain am Lech

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