1949 German championship
Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft
Tournament details
CountryWest Germany
Dates29 May – 10 July
Teams10
Final positions
ChampionsVfR Mannheim
1st German title
Runner-upBorussia Dortmund
Third place1. FC Kaiserslautern
Fourth placeKickers Offenbach
Tournament statistics
Matches played14
Goals scored48 (3.43 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Alfred Boller
Ernst Löttke
(4 goals each)

The 1949 German football championship, the 39th edition of the German football championship, 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 sides' 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:

ClubQualified from
Hamburger SVOberliga Nord champions
FC St. PauliOberliga Nord runners-up
Borussia DortmundOberliga West champions
Rot-Weiss EssenOberliga West runners-up
Berliner SV 92Oberliga Berlin champions
1. FC KaiserslauternOberliga Südwest champions
VfR Wormatia WormsOberliga Südwest runners-up
Kickers OffenbachOberliga Süd champions
VfR MannheimOberliga Süd runners-up
FC Bayern MunichOberliga Süd third place

Competition

First qualifying round

29 May 1949 FC St. Pauli 4 – 1 Rot-Weiss Essen Braunschweig
Boller 14', 54'
Stender 20'
Michael 87'		 Cornelissen 83' Stadium: Eintracht-Stadion
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Boullion (Königsberg)

Second qualifying round

5 June 1949 FC St. Pauli 1 – 1
(a.e.t.)		 Bayern Munich Hanover
Boller 49' Resch 88' Stadium: Eilenriedestadion
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Schumann (Berlin)

Replay

6 June 1949 FC St. Pauli 2 – 0 Bayern Munich Hanover
Woitas 8'
Boller 66'		 Stadium: Eilenriedestadion
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Schumann (Berlin)

Quarter-finals

Berliner SV 920 – 5Borussia Dortmund
Michallek 3', 77'
Erdmann 17'
Preißler 44'
Kasperski 83'
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Schulz (Dresden)
1. FC Kaiserslautern1 – 1
(a.e.t.)		FC St. Pauli
O.Walter 10' Woitas 43'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Bernbeck (Frankfurt)
Kickers Offenbach2 – 2
(a.e.t.)		Wormatia Worms
Maier 71', 73' Müller 35'
Vogt 90'
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Heuck (Kiel)
VfR Mannheim5 – 0Hamburger SV
de la Vigne 20'
Bolleyer 30'
Langlotz 79' (pen.), 90'
Löttke 84'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Trompetter (Cologne)

Replays

1. FC Kaiserslautern4 – 1FC St. Pauli
O.Walter 8'
Baßler 15'
Grewenig 86', 90'		 Appel 4'
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Strobel (Schwabach)
Kickers Offenbach2 – 0Wormatia Worms
Maier 12'
Selbert 70' (o.g.)
Telegrafenkaserne, Karlsruhe
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Imbeck (Hamburg)

Semi-finals

Borussia Dortmund0 – 0
(a.e.t.)		1. FC Kaiserslautern
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Eberle (Stuttgart)
VfR Mannheim2 – 1Kickers Offenbach
Löttke 1'
de la Vigne 8'		 Schreiner 3'
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Kormannshaus (Bad Oeynhausen)

Replay

Borussia Dortmund4 – 11. FC Kaiserslautern
Preißler 22', 60'
Michallek 35'
Erdmann 85'		 Baßler 50'
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Fink (Frankfurt)

Third place play-off

1. FC Kaiserslautern2 – 1
(a.e.t.)		Kickers Offenbach
Grewenig 97'
O.Walter 109'		 Schreiner 120'
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Witthaus (Duisburg)

Final

VfR Mannheim3 – 2
(a.e.t.)		Borussia Dortmund
Löttke 74' 108'
Langlotz 85'		 Erdmann 5' 82'
Attendance: 92,000
Referee: Zacher (Berlin)
VFR MANNHEIM:
GKGermany Hermann Jöckel
DFGermany Kurt Keuerleber
DFGermany Philip Henninger
DFGermany Eugen Rößling
MFGermany Fritz Bolleyer
MFGermany Jakob Müller
MFGermany Rudi Maier
FWGermany Ernst Löttke
FWGermany Ernst Langlotz
FWGermany Rudolf de la Vigne
FWGermany Kurt Stiefvater
Manager:
Germany Hans Schmidt
BORUSSIA DORTMUND:
GKGermany Günther Rau
DFGermany Max Michallek
DFGermany Paul Koschmieder
DFGermany Erwin Halfen
DFGermany Heinrich Ruhmhofer
MFGermany Friedel Ibel
MFGermany Wilhelm Buddenberg
FWGermany Edmund Kasperski
FWGermany Werner Erdmann
FWGermany Erich Schanko
FWGermany Alfred Preißler
Manager:
Austria Eduard Havlicek

References

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