1934–35 Gauliga

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.

Gauliga
Season1934–35
Champions16 regional winners
German championsSchalke 04
2nd German title
The initial 16 districts of the Gauliga in 1933

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 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]

ClubLeagueNo. of clubs
VfR MannheimGauliga Baden10
SpVgg FürthGauliga Bayern
(1934–35 season)		11
Hertha BSCGauliga Berlin-Brandenburg11
FC Hanau 93Gauliga Hessen10
SV JenaGauliga Mitte10
VfR KölnGauliga Mittelrhein10
VfL 06 BenrathGauliga Niederrhein11
Hannover 96Gauliga Niedersachsen10
Eimsbütteler TVGauliga Nordmark10
Yorck Boyen InsterburgGauliga Ostpreußen14
SC StettinGauliga Pommern14
PSV ChemnitzGauliga Sachsen10
Vorwärts-Rasensport GleiwitzGauliga Schlesien10
Phönix LudwigshafenGauliga Südwest11
FC Schalke 04Gauliga Westfalen10
VfB StuttgartGauliga Württemberg10

German championship
Main article: 1935 German football championship

References
  1. "(West) Germany -List of champions". Rsssf.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  2. "Germany 1934–35". claudionicoletti.eu. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. 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. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.

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

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