German football championship of the A-Juniors 1996/97

The German soccer championship of the A-Juniors 1997 was the 29th edition of this competition. Borussia Dortmund won their fourth championship in a row with a 2-1 win in Augsburg against TSV 1860 Munich .

Participating teams

The six champions from the regional leagues and the runners-up from the south and west took part in the A youth championship.

Regionalliga North	Regionalliga West	Regionalliga southwest	Regional league south	Regionalliga Northeast
Champion : Hamburger SV	Champion: Borussia Dortmund Runner-up: Borussia Mönchengladbach	Champion: 1. FC Kaiserslautern	Champion: VfB Stuttgart Vice champion: TSV 1860 Munich	Season north: Reinickendorfer foxes Relay south: FC Carl Zeiss Jena

Quarter finals

1st leg: Sun 15.06. 2nd leg: Sun 22.06.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Borussia Dortmund	8: 1	Reinickendorfer foxes	4: 1	4-0
Borussia Monchengladbach	3: 8	VfB Stuttgart	3: 2	0: 6
1. FC Kaiserslautern	3: 4	TSV 1860 Munich	3: 2	0: 2
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	2: 3	Hamburger SV	0: 1	2: 2

Semifinals

1st leg: Wed 25.06. Second leg: Sun 29.06.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Borussia Dortmund	4: 2	VfB Stuttgart	1-0	3: 2
TSV 1860 Munich	7: 2	Hamburger SV	4: 2	3-0

final

TSV 1860 Munich		Borussia Dortmund
	Sunday, July 6, 1997 at 11 a.m. in Augsburg ( Rosenaustadion ) Result: 1: 2 (0: 1) Spectators: 5,800 Referee: Bernd Heynemann ( Magdeburg )
	Manuel Baum - Jan Kerler - Stefan Mittelbach (59th Stefan Binder ), Alexander Bartl - Samuel Bachmaier, Christian Holzer , Morhard, Michael Öller , Markus Zahn (59th Necat Aygün ) - Admir Hasanovic (8th Michael Miedl ), Jürgen Kirschenbauer coach : Peter Gebele	Alexander Kuschmann - Amos Sasy - Benjamin Knoche , Niko Savvidis - Klaus Voike, Kurtulus Öztürk, Shlomi Dahan (70th Sedat Akcay), Benjones Ballout, Tobias Schäper (77th Michael Rothholz) - Thomas Piorunek (88th Sascha Lindner), Francis Bugri Trainer: Michael Skibbe
	1: 1 Michael Öller (67th, hand penalty )	0: 1 Francis Bugri (21st) 1: 2 Sedat Akcay (87th)
	Bachmaier, Miedl, cherry growers	Öztürk, Piorunek, Bugri
		Savvidis (78th)

Individual evidence

Kicker sports magazine : Born 1997 , Olympia-Verlag GmbH, ISSN  0023-1290