1949 German football championship

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 sides' first appearance in the final.[1][2]

1949 German championship
Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft
CountryWest Germany
Dates29 May – 10 July
Teams10
ChampionsVfR Mannheim
1st German title
Runners-upBorussia Dortmund
Third place1. FC Kaiserslautern
Fourth placeKickers Offenbach
Matches played14
Goals scored48 (3.43 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Alfred Boller
Ernst Löttke
(4 goals each)
← 1948
1950 →

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. Pauli4 – 1Rot-Weiss EssenBraunschweig
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. Pauli1 – 1
(a.e.t.)		Bayern MunichHanover
Boller  49' Resch  88' Stadium: Eilenriedestadion
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Schumann (Berlin)

Replay
6 June 1949 FC St. Pauli2 – 0Bayern MunichHanover
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'
Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne
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:
GK Hermann Jöckel
DF Kurt Keuerleber
DF Philip Henninger
DF Eugen Rößling
MF Fritz Bolleyer
MF Jakob Müller
MF Rudi Maier
FW Ernst Löttke
FW Ernst Langlotz
FW Rudolf de la Vigne
FW Kurt Stiefvater
Manager:
Hans Schmidt
BORUSSIA DORTMUND:
GK Günther Rau
DF Max Michallek
DF Paul Koschmieder
DF Erwin Halfen
DF Heinrich Ruhmhofer
MF Friedel Ibel
MF Wilhelm Buddenberg
FW Edmund Kasperski
FW Werner Erdmann
FW Erich Schanko
FW Alfred Preißler
Manager:
Eduard Havlicek

References
  1. (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.com, 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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