German football championship 1908/09

German football championship 1908/09
master	Karlsruher FC Phoenix
Teams	8th
Games	7th
Gates	54  (ø 7.71 per game)
Top scorer	Willi Worpitzky (7 goals)
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The seventh German football championship was held from May 2 to May 30, 1909. The championship was won by the Karlsruher FC Phönix in the final in Breslau with a 4: 2 against the defending champion Viktoria 89 Berlin .

The Berlin team reached the final for the third time in a row this year, but the southern German champions prevailed.

Attendees

This year eight teams took part, two of them from Berlin-Brandenburg. The elimination game of the rival associations that was held in the last two years was not played this year at the instigation of the Association of Berliner Ballspielvereine ; it refused to strengthen the rival association with additional income. The DFB therefore also allowed the champions of the Märkischer Fußball-Bund to take part in the finals. The champions of the Berliner Ballspiel-Bund and the fourth Berlin Association, the Association of Berlin Athletics Clubs , founded in the previous year , were not given a place in the finals.

society	Qualified as
VfB Koenigsberg	Champion of the Baltic Lawn Sports Association
SC Alemannia Cottbus	Champion of the Southeast German Football Association
Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Master of the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs
TuFC Tasmania Rixdorf	Champion of the Märkischen Football Association
SC Erfurt 95	Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs
Altonaer FC 93	Champion of the North German Football Association
FC Munich-Gladbach	Master of the West German Game Association
FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	Master of the Association of South German Football Associations

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
May 2, 1909	FC Munich-Gladbach	0: 5 (0: 4)	FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	Duisburg , DSV-Platz am Grunewald
May 2, 1909	Altonaer FC 93	4: 2 (1: 1)	TuFC Tasmania Rixdorf	Braunschweig , Eintracht-Platz on Helmstedter Strasse
May 2, 1909	VfB Koenigsberg	1:12 (0: 6)	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Koenigsberg , Walter-Simon-Platz
May 16, 1909	SC Erfurt 95	4: 3 n.V. (3: 3, 2: 1)	SC Alemannia Cottbus	Leipzig , Wackerstadion Debrahof

The West German champion had no chance against the South German champion. Otto Reiser scored the first two goals in the 20th and 25th minutes, Wilhelm Noë after 32 minutes and Hermann Leibold before half-time increased to 4-0. Arthur Beier scored the fifth goal for Phoenix in the 88th minute. Karlsruhe played an offensive football.

Between the North German champions and the champions from the Brandenburg region, it was 1: 1 at halftime thanks to goals from Adolf Jäger in the 3rd minute and Kurt Meye in the 12th minute. The Altona increased in the 64th minute by Karl Hanssen and just four minutes later by Gerhard Schmidt to 3-1, before Paul Fischer from Rixdorf scored the next goal in the 85th minute. Four minutes later, Adolf Jäger made the decision with his second goal.

The northeast German champions - with Bruno Neumann in goal - lost to the Berlin champions in double digits. Only a few goalscorers are known, in the first half Willi Worpitzky scored three times and Otto Dumke once. In the second half, Worpitzky's fourth goal and Pepp Münster's consolation goal should be mentioned.

In the game between the central German champions and the south-east German champions it was 3: 3 after 90 minutes. Since no further goal was scored until the 120th minute, another extra time was played. Cottbus scored the winning goal in the 130th minute. There are no known goalscorers for this game.

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
May 16, 1909	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	7: 0 (4: 0)	Altonaer FC 93	Berlin-Mariendorf , Union-Platz
May 23, 1909	FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	9: 1 (3: 0)	SC Erfurt 95	Frankfurt am Main , Victoria-Platz

Although the Berliners had to play in the 21st minute after being sent off against Otto Dumke, there was a big win against Altona. After a quarter of an hour it was 3-0 through goals from Willi Worpitzky and twice Helmut Röpnack. In the further course of the game Worpitzky scored his second goal and Röpnack scored three more times, the 2-0 and 4-0 from penalties.

The Karlsruhe team also achieved a great victory. Already after 10 minutes it was 2-0 through goals from Hermann Leibold in the 7th and Emil Oberle in the 9th minute, before the break came the 3-0 through Wilhelm Noë in the 43rd minute. After an hour it was 6: 1 through further goals from Wilhelm Noë, Otto Reiser and Hermann Leibold. The goalscorer of the Erfurt consolation goal is not known. In the 69th and 85th minutes, Otto Reiser scored two more goals, and Emil Oberle scored one in the 78th minute.

final

pairing	FC Phönix Karlsruhe - Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89
Result	4: 2 (2: 1)
date	May 30, 1909
Stadion	SC Schlesien Square , Wroclaw
spectator	1,500
referee	Gottfried Hinze (Duisburg)
Gates	0: 1 Worpitzky (16th) 1: 1 Beier (30th) 2: 1 Noë (34th) 3: 1 Leibold (55th) 4: 1 Noë (65th) 4: 2 Röpnack (83th)
FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	Otto Michaelis - Ernst Karth , Robert Neumaier - Karl Robert Heger , Arthur Beier  , Karl Schweinshaut - Karl Wegele , Otto Reiser , Hermann Leibold , Wilhelm Noë , Emil Oberle Trainer: Arthur Beier
Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Paul Scranowitz - Willi Hahn , Paul Fischer - Willi Moeck , Willi Knesebeck , Paul Hunder  - Reinhold Bock , Otto Dumke , Willi Worpitzky , Helmut Röpnack , Alfred Gelbhaar

Match report

In the final, the Berlin team took the lead with a header from Willi Worpitzky in the 16th minute, who was injured and was only able to continue playing. In the 30th minute the Karlsruhe team equalized with their captain Arthur Beier and just four minutes later they took a 2-1 lead with Wilhelm Noë. This was also the half-time result. In the second half, Phönix increased to 4-1 with goals from Hermann Leibold in the 55th minute and Wilhelm Noë in the 65th minute, before Viktoria scored the last goal of the game with a shot by Helmut Röpnack in the 83rd minute. With this, the southern German champion also won the German championship. At Phönix Karlsruhe, Arthur Beier was both captain and player-coach. Incidentally, the referee was the then DFB President.

The championship team of the Karlsruher FC Phönix

The championship team of the Karlsruher FC Phönix
v. l. To right: Michaelis, Karth, Reißer, Neumaier, Beier, Schweinshaut, Noë in
front: Wegele, Leibold, Oberle, Heger

Below is the championship team with the players' stakes and goals.

Karlsruher FC Phoenix
	Goal : Otto Michaelis (3 / -) Defense : Ernst Karth (3 / -), Robert Neumaier (3 / -) Midfield : Arthur Beier  (3/2), Karl Robert Heger (3 / -), Karl Schweinshaut (3 / -) Storm : Hermann Leibold (3/4), Wilhelm Noë (3/5), Emil Oberle (3/2), Otto Reiser (3/5), Karl Wegele (3 / -) Trainer : Arthur Beier (3)

List of goalscorers

There are also 15 unknown goalscorers from Viktoria Berlin (7), SC Erfurt (5) and Alemannia Cottbus (3).

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Willi Worpitzky	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	3	7th
2.	Helmut Röpnack	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	6th
3.	Wilhelm Noë	FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	3	5
	Otto Reiser	FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	3	5
5.	Hermann Leibold	FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	3	4th
6th	Adolf Jäger	Altonaer FC 93	2	2
7th	Arthur Beier	FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	3	2
	Emil Oberle	FC Phoenix Karlsruhe	3	2
9.	Paul Fischer	TuFC Tasmania Rixdorf	1	1
	Kurt Meye	TuFC Tasmania Rixdorf	1	1
	Muenster	VfB Koenigsberg	1	1
12.	Karl Hanssen	Altonaer FC 93	2	1
	Gerhard Schmidt	Altonaer FC 93	2	1
14th	Otto Dumke	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	3	1

literature

• History of German football. Volume III of the series of publications of the German Football Association. Carl Koppehel, Verlag Wilhelm Limpert, Frankfurt 1954, 4th expanded edition without a year.
• German Championship (1903-1923) , IFFHS magazine Libero No. 36. International Federation of Football History & Statistics , Wiesbaden, 2nd quarter 2002.
• The Golden Book of German Football. Hardy Grüne , Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, Die Werkstatt publishing house, Göttingen 2015.

Web links

• Match report from the 1909 final

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Alexander Staisch: The German Masters. 1909 - a forgotten championship. The history of the Karlsruher FC Phönix 1894. BadnerBuch-Verlag, Rastatt 2014, p. 147f.
2. ↑ Thomas Alexander Staisch: The German Masters. 1909 - a forgotten championship. The history of the Karlsruher FC Phönix 1894. BadnerBuch-Verlag, Rastatt 2014, p. 159f.