German A-Juniors football championship 1975/76

The German A-Juniors football championship in 1976 was the 8th edition of this competition. The champions were FC Schalke 04 , who defeated Rot-Weiss Essen 5-1 in the final.

Participating teams

The 16 national association champions took part in the A youth championship.

Regional Association North	Regional Association West	Regional Association Southwest	Regional Association South	Berlin
Schleswig-Holstein : VfB Lübeck Hamburg : FC St. Pauli Bremen : Werder Bremen Lower Saxony : Eintracht Braunschweig	Westphalia : FC Schalke 04 Middle Rhine : 1. FC Cologne Lower Rhine : Rot-Weiss Essen	Rhineland : Spvgg Andernach Southwest : ASV Idar-Oberstein Saarland : 1. SC Saarlouis-Roden	Hessen : Eintracht Frankfurt Baden : VfR Mannheim South Baden : Freiburg FC Württemberg : VfB Stuttgart Bayern : 1. FC Nürnberg	Berlin : Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin

Round of 16

1st leg: Sun 13.06. 2nd leg: Sun 20.06.

	total		First leg	Return leg
1. SC Saarlouis-Roden	6: 3	Eintracht Braunschweig	2: 3	4-0
Blue-White 90 Berlin	0: 6	FC Schalke 04	0: 1	0: 5
SV Werder Bremen	2: 1	VfB Lübeck	0-0	2: 1
VfR Mannheim	1: 3	1. FC Nuremberg	0: 2	1: 1
SpVgg Andernach	1: 8	Red and white food	1: 3	0: 5
1. FC Cologne	4: 4 (6: 5 i.E. )	ASV Idar-Oberstein	3: 3	1: 1
Eintracht Frankfurt	10: 4	FC St. Pauli	5: 2	5: 2
VfB Stuttgart	05: 2	Freiburg FC	4: 2	1-0

Quarter finals

1st leg: Sun 27.06. Second legs : Sun 04.07.

	total		First leg	Return leg
1. SC Saarlouis-Roden	01:15	FC Schalke 04	1: 5	00:10
SV Werder Bremen	3: 6	1. FC Nuremberg	1: 5	2: 1
Red and white food	5: 4	1. FC Cologne	3: 1	2: 3
Eintracht Frankfurt	3: 5	VfB Stuttgart	2: 2	1: 3

Semifinals

1st leg: Sun, 11.07. 2nd leg: Sun., Jul 18.

	total		First leg	Return leg
FC Schalke 04	6: 3	1. FC Nuremberg	2-0	4: 3
Red and white food	6: 3	VfB Stuttgart	4: 3	2-0

final

FC Schalke 04		Red and white food
	Saturday, July 24, 1976 in Herne ( Stadium at Strünkede Castle ) Result: 5: 1 (2: 1) Spectators: 23,000 Referee: Paul Kindervater ( Cologne )
	Peter Sandhofe - Rolf Köster (30th Wolfgang Reichel ) - Helmut Gorka , Norbert Dörmann , Mathias Schipper - Klaus Santanius (75th Jörg Feldmann), Ulrich Bittcher , Thomas Lander - Hans-Peter Mentzel , Uwe Höfer , Friedhelm Schütte Trainer: Uli Maslo	Detlev Schneider - Ralf Holznagel (74th Helmut Vennemann) - Uwe Hafermass, Michael Kunze, Burkhard Steiner (61st Joachim Skorupa) - Karl-Heinz Gundersdorf , Frank Mill , Jürgen Sekula , Jürgen Kaminsky - Rainer Meseck, Wolfgang Patzke Trainer: Heinz Redepennig
	1: 1 Ulrich Bittcher (8th) 2: 1 Thomas Lander (40th) 3: 1 Ralf Holznagel (46th, own goal ) 4: 1 Uwe Höfer (64th) 5: 1 Uwe Höfer (67th)	0: 1 Jürgen Sekula (6th)

Individual evidence

• Kicker sports magazine : Born 1976 , Olympia-Verlag , ISSN  0023-1290
• Karsten Kiepert: Rot-Weiss Essen The 70s . Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-89784-387-5 , p. 130-134 .