1949 German football championship

1949 German championship final
Event German football championship
VfR Mannheim Borussia Dortmund
3 2
(a.e.t.)
Date 10 July 1949
Venue Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Referee E. Zacher, Berlin
Attendance 92,000

The 1949 German football championship, the 39th edition of the competition, 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.[1][2]

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.

The 1949 championship was the first to see a new trophy for the champions awarded. The pre-Second World War trophy, the Viktoria had disappeared during the final stages of the war and would not resurface until after the German reunification. The new trophy, the Meisterschale, was not ready for the 1948 season but was finished in time to be awarded to the 1949 champions.[3][4]

Qualified teams

The clubs qualified through the 1948–49 Oberliga season:

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
Michallek  3', 77'
Erdmann  17'
Preißler  44'
Kasperski  83'
Olympiastadion, Berlin
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Schulz (Dresden)

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

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

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

Replays

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

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

Semi finals

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

Replay

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

Third Place playoff

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

Final

10 July 1949
VfR Mannheim 3 – 2
(a.e.t.) 		Borussia Dortmund
Löttke  74'  108'
Langlotz  85' 		Erdmann  5'  82'
Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 92,000
Referee: Zacher (Berlin)
VFR MANNHEIM:
GK Germany Hermann Jöckel
DF Germany Kurt Keuerleber
DF Germany Philip Henninger
DF Germany Eugen Rößling
MF Germany Fritz Bolleyer
MF Germany Jakob Müller
MF Germany Rudi Maier
FW Germany Ernst Löttke
FW Germany Ernst Langlotz
FW Germany Rudolf de la Vigne
FW Germany Kurt Stiefvater
Manager:
Germany Hans Schmidt
BORUSSIA DORTMUND:
GK Germany Günther Rau
DF Germany Max Michallek
DF Germany Paul Koschmieder
DF Germany Erwin Halfen
DF Germany Heinrich Ruhmhofer
MF Germany Friedel Ibel
MF Germany Wilhelm Buddenberg
FW Germany Edmund Kasperski
FW Germany Werner Erdmann
FW Germany Erich Schanko
FW Germany Alfred Preißler
Manager:
Austria Eduard Havlicek

References

  1. ↑ (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.com, accessed: 22 December 2015
  2. ↑ VfR Mannheim » Steckbrief (German) Weltfussball.de – VfR Mannheim honours, accessed: 22 December 2015
  3. ↑ Die "Viktoria" (German) DFB website – The "Viktoria", accessed: 30 December 2015
  4. ↑ Meisterschale (German) DFB website, accessed: 30 December 2015

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