The Austrian Football Championship 1919/20 was organized by the Lower Austrian Football Association and contested by its members. The single-track second class served as the substructure for the first class . It was the first peace championship in the newly founded Republic of Austria.
The 1919/20 championship developed into a duel between Rapid and the amateurs and was only to be decided on the last match day. The amateurs, who under the direction of Hugo Meisl had strengthened themselves with Jenő and Kálmán Konrád, led the table for a long time and were one point ahead of the green-whites with one lap to go. In the last game against the sports club there was a 2: 2, Rapid, however, dealt with Wacker 4: 0 and thus became Austrian football champions for the sixth time in literally the last second . The man of the game was Josef Uridil, who scored the first three of Rapid's four goals. In the relegation battle, however, newcomer Admira fell by the wayside. The Federation of Workers 'and Soldiers' Sports Associations achieved at its general assembly that the Jedleseer could stay in the first class. With the second division champions Hakoah there were 13 first-class clubs in the coming year.
Stand: Final stand. Source: Austria Soccer, Rapid Archive, RSSSF
EK1 Until May 1920, Simmering did not have a place of his own and played most of his home games on Rennwegerplatz, which was too small for competition games, or at the opponent's
EK1 The Hohe Warte was dismantled by the end of 1919, so the Vienna had to play their home games with their opponents.
In the second class , a total of 15 teams played for promotion to the first class, each of which met twice during the entire season. The master Hakoah Vienna was able to advance by winning the performance level. SC Blue Star Wien and Favoritner FC Vorwärts 06 relegated to the third level.
ZK1About the games Ober. St. Veit against Slovan and Vorwärts against Blue Star there is no result. A victory for Ober St. Veit or Blue Star can be deduced from known, incorrect end tables.
ZK3 FC Ostmark was suspended by the association for three weeks, all players, the games were all rated 0: 3 and rescheduled after the ruling was revised.
After the first attempts to install regional championships held annually in Tyrol and Vorarlberg as early as 1909, the Austrian federal state associations established their own championships starting with this season. This season was the first time a championship was held in Upper Austria, which was canceled after the end of the season. The reason for this were protests by the participating teams against the supposed first champion SK Vorwärts Steyr, who used unauthorized (banned) players in several games towards the end of the season. Even if the official state championship of Upper Austria was held for the first time in the 1920/21 season, this first season, which has been declared invalid, is interesting from a sport-historical point of view.
In Lower Austria, the championship was held in a provincial group south and a provincial group north. ASK Liesing won the provincial group south, but there is no final table in the provincial group south.
(TK1) FC Innsbrucker SV II successfully protest against the qualifying result against FC Wacker Innsbruck II and can take part in the A-League of the 1920/21 season.
Ernst Winkler
Kálmán Konrád