1934–35 Gauliga

Gauliga
Season 1934–35
Champions 16 regional winners
German champions FC Schalke 04
The initial 16 districts of the Gauliga in 1933

The 1934–35 Gauliga was the second season of the Gauliga, the first tier of the football league system in Germany from 1933 to 1945.

The league operated in sixteen regional divisions, of which two, the Gauliga Ostpreußen and Gauliga Pommern, were sub-divided into two regional groups again, with the league containing 172 clubs all up, six less than the previous season. The league champions entered the 1935 German football championship, won by FC Schalke 04 who defeated VfB Stuttgart 6–4 in the final. It was Schalke's second national championship and the club would go on to win six all up during the Gauliga era of German football from 1933 to 1945.[1]

No club remained unbeaten during the league season but five teams finished with just one defeat, those being Yorck Boyen Insterburg, Stettiner SC, Eimsbütteler TV, SV Werder Bremen and FC Hanau 93. At the other end of the table two clubs finished the season without a win, Viktoria Recklinghausen and Germania Karlsdorf. Hannover 96 scored the most amount of goals of any Gauliga club with 80 while Bremer SV conceded the most with 84. VfL 06 Benrath and Eimsbütteler TV achieved the highest points totals with 32 each while Viktoria Recklinghausen, Komet Stettin and FC Mannheim-Lindenhof earned the least with four points each to their name.[2]

The 1934–35 season saw the introduction of a cup competition, the Tschammerpokal, now the DFB-Pokal. The inaugural 1935 edition was won by 1. FC Nürnberg, defeating German champion FC Schalke 04 2–0 on 8 December 1935,[3] preventing Schalke from winning the double, something the club would achieve two years later in 1937 as the only club in the pre-Bundesliga era.[4]

Champions

The 1934–35 Gauliga champions qualified for the group stage of the German championship. VfL 06 Benrath, PSV Chemnitz, VfB Stuttgart and FC Schalke 04 won their championship groups and advanced to the semi-finals with the latter two reaching the championship final which Schalke won.[5][2][6]

FC Schalke 04, VfL 06 Benrath and Eimsbütteler TV won back-to-back Gauliga titles while the other 13 champions all won their first.[2][7]

Club League No. of clubs
VfR Mannheim Gauliga Baden 10
SpVgg Fürth Gauliga Bayern
(1934–35 season)		11
Hertha BSC Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg 11
FC Hanau 93 Gauliga Hessen 10
SV Jena Gauliga Mitte 10
VfR Köln Gauliga Mittelrhein 10
VfL 06 Benrath Gauliga Niederrhein 11
Hannover 96 Gauliga Niedersachsen 10
Eimsbütteler TV Gauliga Nordmark 10
Yorck Boyen Insterburg Gauliga Ostpreußen 14
SC Stettin Gauliga Pommern 14
PSV Chemnitz Gauliga Sachsen 10
Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz Gauliga Schlesien 10
Phönix Ludwigshafen Gauliga Südwest 11
FC Schalke 04 Gauliga Westfalen 10
VfB Stuttgart Gauliga Württemberg 10

References

  1. ↑ "(West) Germany -List of champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Germany 1934–35". claudionicoletti.eu. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "ALLE DFB-POKALSIEGER" [All German Cup winners]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "DOUBLEGEWINNER" [Double winners]. dfb.de (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Gauliga final tables". f-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "German championship 1935". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "Germany 1933–34". claudionicoletti.eu. Retrieved 15 January 2016.

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