German football championship 1910/11

German football championship 1910/11
master	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89
Teams	8th
Games	7  (of which 6 played)
Gates	23  (ø 3.83 per game)
Top scorer	Willi Worpitzky (4 goals)
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The ninth German soccer championship was held from May 7th to June 4th 1911. Viktoria 89 Berlin secured his second championship in the final in Dresden with a 3-1 win against VfB Leipzig and thus caught up with the previous sole “record champions” from Leipzig.

The German Football Association was invited by the organizers of the International Hygiene Exhibition to Dresden to host the final of the German Championship on its exhibition grounds. Several special trains were used from Berlin.

Attendees

Eight teams took part in the final round and the Berlin-Brandenburg region sent two representatives into the race as in the two previous years. While the master of the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs automatically qualified for the final round, the master of the Märkischer Fußball-Bund had to play a qualifying game against the master of the Association of Berlin Athletics Clubs . The FC Tasmania Rixdorf (MFB) won this game against the Berliner Sport-Club (VBAV) with 4: 2 and thus qualified for the German soccer championship 1910/11.

society	Qualified as
SC Lituania Tilsit	Champion of the Baltic Lawn Sports Association
FC Askania Forst	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
VfB Leipzig	Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs
FV Holstein Kiel	Champion of the North German Football Association
Duisburg SpV	Master of the West German Game Association
Karlsruhe FV	Champion of the Association of South German Football Clubs and defending champion

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
May 7, 1911	Karlsruhe FV	4: 0 (1: 0)	TuFC Tasmania Rixdorf	Fürth , Ronhof
May 7, 1911	FC Askania Forst	2: 3 (1: 1)	VfB Leipzig	Cottbus , Alemannia Square
May 7, 1911	FV Holstein Kiel	3: 1 (1: 1)	Duisburg SpV	Bremen , place of the Bremer SC
May 7, 1911	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	1failed 1	SC Lituania Tilsit	Planned location: Berlin

¹ Lituania Tilsit decided not to play against Viktoria Berlin because several players were not given any leave from their employers.

At halftime, the defending champion led 1-0 through a goal from Fritz Förderer after 17 minutes. Rixdorf was able to keep the game balanced until the 70th minute, but received three goals from Karlsruhe in the last 20 minutes through two more goals from Fritz Förderer and once from Gottfried Fuchs .

In the 22nd minute, Leipzig took the lead with a goal from Hans Dolge, and forester Emil Schulz equalized before the break. Only in the 82nd and 83rd minutes did the Leipzigers take the lead with a double strike from Emil Feiler. Forst shortened two minutes later by Richard Koßwig to 2: 3.

After 45 minutes it was 1-1 through goals from Ernst Möller from Kiel and Heinrich Fischer from Duisburg . In the 71st minute Kiel took the lead again through Ernst Möller and expanded it to 3-1 in the 89th minute through the Danish Sophus Nielsen .

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
May 21, 1911	Karlsruhe FV	0: 2 (0: 1)	VfB Leipzig	Frankfurt am Main , Victoria-Platz
May 21, 1911	FV Holstein Kiel	0: 4 (0: 2)	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Hamburg , Hoheluft sports ground

At halftime, Leipzig led 1-0 with a goal from Heinrich Riso in the 39th minute. In the 69th minute, Emil Feiler even increased to 2-0. The best player on the pitch was Camillo Ugi, who performed very well on both the defensive and the offensive. The Karlsruhern lacked their middle runner Max Breunig .

The Berliners clearly prevailed against Kiel. In the first half Paul Kugler and Willi Worpitzky scored the goals to 2-0, in the second half Robert Krüger and Willi Worpitzky to 4-0. Paul Hunder from Berlin managed to narrow down Sophus Nielsen's circle decisively.

final

pairing	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89 - VfB Leipzig
Result	3: 1 (1: 0)
date	June 4, 1911
Stadion	Sports field at the hygiene exhibition , Dresden
spectator	12,000
referee	Paul Schröder ( Munich-Gladbach )
Gates	1: 0 Worpitzky (42nd) 2: 0 Kugler (52nd) 2: 1 Riso (82nd) 3: 1 Worpitzky (88th)
Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	Reinhold Welkisch - Helmut Röpnack , Paul Fischer - Albert Graßmann , Willi Knesebeck , Paul Hunder  - Otto Dumke , Robert Krüger , Willi Worpitzky , Paul Kugler , Hermann Gasse
VfB Leipzig	Johannes Schneider - Willy Völker , Curt Hesse - Curt Fischer , Camillo Ugi , Lothar Rubin - Karl Uhle , Heinrich Riso  , Hans Dolge , Emil Feiler , Adelbert Friedrich

Match report

Both clubs were each qualified for the final for the fourth time. Willi Worpitzky scored 1-0 for Viktoria shortly before half-time. After 52 minutes, Paul Kugler increased to 2-0. Leipzig was only able to shorten it to 2-1 after 82 minutes thanks to their captain Heinrich Riso, but the hoped-for equalization was no longer possible. Berlin scored again through Willi Worpitzky in the 88th minute the 3-1 final score. The decisive factor for the victory was the effectiveness of the Berlin trio. For Viktoria Berlin it was the second German championship after 1908.

The master team of the Berlin TuFC Viktoria 1889

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

Berlin TuFC Viktoria 1889
	Goal : Reinhold Welkisch (2 / -) Defense : Paul Fischer (1 / -), Willi Hahn (1 / -), Helmut Röpnack (2 / -) Midfield : Albert Graßmann (2 / -), Paul Hunder  (2 / -), Willi Knesebeck (2 / -) Storm : Otto Dumke (2 / -), Hermann Gasse (2 / -), Robert Krüger (2/1), Paul Kugler (2/2), Willi Worpitzky (2/4) Trainer : -

List of goalscorers

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Willi Worpitzky	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	4th
2.	Fritz sponsor	Karlsruhe FV	2	3
3.	Emil Feiler	VfB Leipzig	3	3
4th	Paul Kugler	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	2
	Ernst Möller	FV Holstein Kiel	2	2
	Heinrich Riso	VfB Leipzig	2	2
7th	Heinrich Fischer	Duisburg SpV	1	1
	Richard Koßwig	FC Askania Forst	1	1
	Emil Schulz	FC Askania Forst	1	1
10.	Gottfried Fuchs	Karlsruhe FV	2	1
	Robert Kruger	Berlin TuFC Viktoria 89	2	1
	Sophus Nielsen	FV Holstein Kiel	2	1
13.	Hans Dolge	VfB Leipzig	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.