DFB Cup 1952/53

The DFB Cup 1952/1953 was the first cup to be held after the Second World War and the successor to the Tschammer Cup . The cup began on August 17, 1952 and ended with the final between Rot-Weiss Essen and Alemannia Aachen in Düsseldorf's Rheinstadion on May 1, 1953, which Rot-Weiss Essen won 2-1.

32 teams played in 5 rounds. If there was still no winner after the extension, a replay was scheduled, where the visiting team then had home rights. The participating teams qualified for the DFB Cup through the cup competitions of the regional associations (Berlin Cup, North German Cup, South German Cup, South West German Cup and West German Cup).

Participating teams

The following 32 teams were qualified for the first round:

First class - 26 teams ¹
Oberliga Nord Hamburger SV FC St. Pauli Concordia Hamburg 1. SC Göttingen 05 Eintracht Osnabrück VfL Osnabrück	Oberliga West Borussia Dortmund Alemannia Aachen Red and white food Prussia Dellbrück FC Schalke 04 Prussia Munster	Oberliga Berlin Blue-White 90 Berlin Wacker 04 Berlin	Oberliga Südwest 1. FC Saarbrücken VfR Kaiserslautern Eintracht Trier Borussia Neunkirchen Wormatia worms SV Phoenix Ludwigshafen	Oberliga Süd VfB Stuttgart Kickers Offenbach SV Waldhof Mannheim SpVgg Fürth 1. FC Nuremberg VfB Mühlburg ²
Second class - 5 teams
SSV Reutlingen 05 (II. Division South) SC Victoria Hamburg (Amateur League Hamburg) SSV Jahn Regensburg (II. Division South) Hamborn 07 (2nd Division West) Eintracht Braunschweig (Amateur Oberliga Lower Saxony East)
Third class - 1 team
TuS Essen-West (Lower Rhine Regional League)

¹The class level refers to the 1952/53 season .

²After seven match days in the 1952/53 season, VfB Mühlburg merged with FC Phönix on October 16, 1952 to form the Karlsruhe Sport Club Mühlburg-Phönix , or Karlsruher SC for short .

Preliminary round

date		Result
Sa 16.08.1952	VfB Stuttgart	0: 3	Kickers Offenbach
Sa 16.08.1952	Hamborn 07	4: 1 a.d.	1. SC Göttingen 05
Sa 16.08.1952	Red and white food	5-0	SSV Jahn Regensburg
Sa 16.08.1952	Eintracht Osnabrück	1: 2	Prussia Dellbrück
Sa 16.08.1952	Hamburger SV	6: 1	SC Victoria Hamburg
Sun 08/17/1952	SV Waldhof Mannheim	2: 1	Eintracht Braunschweig
Sun 08/17/1952	1. FC Saarbrücken	1: 2	FC St. Pauli
Sun 08/17/1952	SpVgg Fürth	6: 1	VfR Kaiserslautern
Sun 08/17/1952	Concordia Hamburg	4: 3	Borussia Dortmund
Sun 08/17/1952	Blue-White 90 Berlin	0: 1	Eintracht Trier
Sun 08/17/1952	Alemannia Aachen	¹5: 2 ¹	TuS Essen-West
Sun 08/17/1952	Borussia Neunkirchen	2: 1	FC Schalke 04
Sun 08/17/1952	Wacker 04 Berlin	2: 6	1. FC Nuremberg
Sun 08/17/1952	VfB Mühlburg	5: 3 a.d.	Prussia Munster
Sun 08/17/1952	SSV Reutlingen 05	4: 5 a.d.	Wormatia worms
Sun 08/17/1952	VfL Osnabrück	2: 2 a.d.	SV Phoenix Ludwigshafen

¹The game took place in Herzogenrath's Fuchsberg Stadium .

Replay

date		Result
Sun October 15, 1952	Phoenix Ludwigshafen	0: 2	VfL Osnabrück

Round of 16

date		Result
Sun 05.10.1952	SV Waldhof Mannheim	5: 2	SpVgg Fürth
Sun 05.10.1952	Concordia Hamburg	4: 3	VfB Mühlburg
Sun 05.10.1952	Prussia Dellbrück	2: 3 a.d.	Kickers Offenbach
Sun 05.10.1952	Wormatia worms	4: 1	Eintracht Trier
Sun 05.10.1952	1. FC Nuremberg	3: 3 a.d.	Alemannia Aachen
Sun 11/9/1952	Hamborn 07	1: 1 a.d.	FC St. Pauli
Wed 11/19/1952	Hamburger SV	2-0	Borussia Neunkirchen
Wed 11/19/1952	Red and white food	2-0	VfL Osnabrück

Replay games

date		Result
Sun 11/9/1952	Alemannia Aachen	2-0	1. FC Nuremberg
Fri December 26, 1952	FC St. Pauli	^[1]3: 4	Hamborn 07

Quarter finals

date		Result
So 02/01/1953	Red and white food	6: 1	Hamburger SV
So 02/01/1953	Kickers Offenbach	1: 2	Wormatia worms
So 02/01/1953	SV Waldhof Mannheim	2: 1	Concordia Hamburg
So 03/01/1953	Alemannia Aachen	3: 1	Hamborn 07

Semifinals

date		Result
So 03/08/1953	Red and white food	3: 2	SV Waldhof Mannheim
So 03/08/1953	Alemannia Aachen	3: 1	Wormatia worms

final

pairing	Rot-Weiss Essen - Alemannia Aachen
Result	2: 1 (1: 0)
date	Friday May 1st 1953
Stadion	Rheinstadion , Düsseldorf
spectator	37,000
referee	Alois Reinhardt ( Stuttgart )
Gates	1: 0 Franz Islacker (32nd) 2: 0 Helmut Rahn (52nd) 2: 1 Jupp Derwall (56th)
Red and white food	Fritz Herkenrath , Werner Göbel , Willi Köchling , Paul Jahnel , Heinz Wewers , Clemens Wientjes , Helmut Rahn , Franz Islacker , August Gottschalk , Fritz Abromeit , Bernhard Termath Trainer: Karl Hohmann(C)
Alemannia Aachen	Wilfried Heinrichs , Herbert Metzen , Hans Coenen , Michael Pfeiffer , Manfred Jansen , Gerhard Richter , Robert Hartmann , Rainer Gawell , Günther Schmidt , Jupp Derwall , Josef Schmidt Trainer: Hermann Lindemann

literature

The German Wembley: 60 years club cup; (1935-1994). Ralf Grengel, Creator at Bonifatius Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-87088-833-4 .

Web link

dfb.de: 65 years ago today: Rot-Weiss Essen becomes first cup winner (accessed on May 1, 2018)

Individual evidence

↑ Game details. In: ochehoppaz.de. December 9, 2012, accessed on July 13, 2017 : "" As a result of the Aachen tournament, the first cup game of the DFB main round took place in Herzogenrath in the beautiful, newly built Fuchsberg Stadium. ... (Ferdi Wiebecke) "
↑ On December 26, 1952, the DFB-Pokal game FC St. Pauli against the Duisburg district association Hamborn 07 on Hamburg's Heiligengeistfeld (today Millerntor Stadium), the first football game to be broadcast live on German television. The Hamborner won the round of 16 game 4: 3. Hamborn 07: The first television game , ruhr-guide.de

[1] Game details. In: ochehoppaz.de. December 9, 2012, accessed on July 13, 2017 : "" As a result of the Aachen tournament, the first cup game of the DFB main round took place in Herzogenrath in the beautiful, newly built Fuchsberg Stadium. ... (Ferdi Wiebecke) "

[2] On December 26, 1952, the DFB-Pokal game FC St. Pauli against the Duisburg district association Hamborn 07 on Hamburg's Heiligengeistfeld (today Millerntor Stadium), the first football game to be broadcast live on German television. The Hamborner won the round of 16 game 4: 3. Hamborn 07: The first television game , ruhr-guide.de