Baltic Cup 1937

Baltic Cup 1937
Number of nations	3
Baltic Masters	Latvia (5th title)
venue	Lithuania
Opening game	September 3, 1937
Endgame	September 7, 1937
Games	4th
Gates	14  (⌀: 3.5 per game)
spectator	30,000  (⌀: 7,500 per game)
Top scorer	Iļja Vestermans (3 goals)

The Baltic Cup 1937 was the 9th edition of the tournament of the Baltic countries . The tournament for national football teams took place in Lithuania between September 3 and 7, 1937 . The games were played in the Valstybinis Stadionas in Kaunas . For the first time a final of the Baltic Cup was played, which was won by the Latvian national soccer team , with Iļja Vestermans from Hakoah Riga , the Latvians were the top scorer of the tournament. The Austrian referee Hans Frankenstein directed the four international matches. The first game between Lithuania and Latvia was also the second leg of the first qualifying round for the 1938 World Cup . After the Latvian national team won the first leg in Riga 4-2 against Lithuania, the second was also successfully contested. In the second round, Latvia was eliminated by Austria .

general overview

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Latvia	2	1	1	0	006: 200	+4	03
2.	Estonia	2	0	1	1	001: 300	−2	01
3.	Lithuania	2	0	0	2	001: 900	−8	00

September 3, 1937 in Kaunas
Lithuania	-	Latvia	1: 5
September 4, 1937 in Kaunas
Estonia	-	Latvia	1: 1
September 5, 1937 in Kaunas
Lithuania	-	Estonia	0: 4

Final September 7, 1937 in Kaunas
Estonia	-	Latvia	0: 2

Lithuania versus Latvia

Lithuania		Latvia
	September 3, 1937 in Kaunas ( Valstybinis Stadionas ) Result: 1: 5 (0: 4) Spectators: 8,000 Referee: Hans Frankenstein ( Austria )   Match report
	Bronius Jankauskas (30th-35th Stasys Skalski ) Dizmondas Ilgūnas , Juozas Kymontas , Česlovas Šopys , Antanas Vilimavičius , Romualdas Nevinskas , Jonas Normantas , Kazys Abravičius , Zigmas Sabaliauskas , Jonas Paulionis , Juozas Gudelis Coach: Karl Jiszda ( Austria )	Jānis Bebris , Pēteris Lauks , Rūdolfs Slavišens , Sergejs Maģers , Ēriks Pētersons , Jānis Lidmanis , Ēriks Raisters , Iļja Vestermans , Fricis Kaņeps , Alfrēds Verners , Vaclavs Borduško Trainer: Rudolf Stanzel ( Austria )
	1: 5 Paulionis (72nd)	0: 1 Kaņeps (4th) 0: 2 Borduško (11th) 0: 3 Borduško (30th) 0: 4 Kaņeps (45 .; penalty ) 0: 5 Vestermans (67.)

Estonia versus Latvia

Estonia		Latvia
	September 4, 1937 in Kaunas ( Valstybinis Stadionas ) Result: 1: 1 (0: 1) Spectators: 8,000 Referee: Hans Frankenstein ( Austria )   Match report
	Evald Tipner , Elmar Tepp , Valter Neeris , Juho Matsalu , Egon Parbo , Karl-Rudolf Sillak , Georg Siimenson , Heinrich Uukkivi , Richard Kuremaa , Julius Kaljo , Aavo Sillandi Trainer: Bernhard Rein ( Estonia )	Jānis Bebris (12th Harijs Lazdiņš ), Pēteris Lauks , Ādolfs Sīmanis , Sergejs Maģers , Ēriks Pētersons , Jānis Lidmanis , Ēriks Raisters , Iļja Vestermans , Fricis Kaņeps , Fricis Kaņeps , Vaclavs Borduško Trainer: Rudolf Stanzko ( Austria )
	1: 1 Kuremaa (68th)	0: 1 Vestermans (35th)

Lithuania versus Estonia

Lithuania		Estonia
	September 5, 1937 in Kaunas ( Valstybinis Stadionas ) Result: 0: 4 (0: 3) Spectators: 8,000 Referee: Hans Frankenstein ( Austria )   Match report
	Bronius Jankauskas (46th Stasys Skalski ) Dizmondas Ilgūnas , Vytautas Geležiūnas , Antanas Vilimavičius , Romualdas Marcinkus , Romualdas Nevinskas , Jonas Normantas , Česlovas Šopys , Vladas Karalius , Jonas Paulionis , Juozas Gudelis Coach: Karl Jiszda ( Austria )	Evald Tipner , Elmar Tepp , Voldemar Peterson , Karl-Rudolf Sillak , Egon Parbo , Juho Matsalu , Georg Siimenson , Julius Kaljo , Richard Kuremaa , Heinrich Uukkivi , Aavo Sillandi Trainer: Bernhard Rein ( Estonia )
		0: 1 Siimenson (3rd) 0: 2 Uukkivi (22nd) 0: 3 Sillandi (37th) 0: 4 Siimenson (50th)

final

Estonia		Latvia
	September 7, 1937 in Kaunas ( Valstybinis Stadionas ) Result: 0: 2 (0: 2) Spectators: 6,000 Referee: Hans Frankenstein ( Austria )   Match report
	Evald Tipner , Elmar Tepp , Valter Neeris , Karl-Rudolf Sillak , Juho Matsalu , Ferdinand Murr , Georg Siimenson , Julius Kaljo , Richard Kuremaa , Heinrich Uukkivi , Ralf Veidemann Trainer: Bernhard Rein ( Estonia )	Harijs Lazdiņš , Pēteris Lauks , Rūdolfs Slavišens , Sergejs Maģers , Ēriks Pētersons , Ādolfs Sīmanis , Ēriks Raisters , Fricis Kaņeps , Jānis Rozītis , Vaclav Borduško , Iļja Vestermans Coach: Rudolf Stanzel ( Austria )
		0: 1 Rozītis (12th) 0: 2 Vestermans (19th)

Web links

• Baltic Cup 1937 on eu-football.info

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baltic Cup Overview rsssf.com
2. ↑ Football MATCH: July 29, 1937 Latvia 4: 2 Lithuania eu-football.info
3. ↑ Football MATCH: October 5, 1937 Austria 2: 1 Latvia eu-football.info