German football championship 1919/20

German football championship 1919/20
master	1. FC Nuremberg
Teams	8th
Games	7th
Gates	26  (ø 3.71 per game)
Top scorer	Viktor Hierländer Leonhard Seiderer Heinrich Träger (4 goals each)
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After five years without football at the national level, a German football championship , the thirteenth, was held again in 1920 .

The First World War had changed almost everything in Germany. Only the hosting of the first championship round after the war seemed at first glance to be excluded. As before the war, seven regional champions (South, West, North, Middle, Berlin-Brandenburg, Southeast, Northeast) were determined who, together with the defending champion (the last pre-war champion, the SpVgg Fürth), played off the German champions in cup mode.

But at second glance, enormous changes were also visible in German football. First there were the territorial changes in Germany (cession of North Schleswig , West Prussia , Alsace-Lorraine and Eupen-Malmedy ), which affected six of the seven football regions; however, the ceded areas were usually not football strongholds.

Then in 1920 the social rifts in the new Weimar Republic became visible. In addition to the middle-class German Football Association , the workers 'sports organization, the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSB), held a German football championship in 1920. TSV Fürth was the first champion of the ATSB .

Other associations representing social groups were to follow: in 1921 the German Youth Force (DJK, organization of the Catholic Church), in 1925 the German Turnerschaft (DT) and in 1931 the Rotsport (organization of the communists, a spin-off from the ATSB).

What was also new, however, was the enormous boom that football experienced after the war. This was evident not only from the numerous new club foundations and increasing membership numbers in the clubs, but also from the number of spectators. 35,000 visitors wanted to see the first post-war final in Frankfurt am Main , and even the average number of spectators for the quarter and semi-finals, at around 7,160, was higher than that of the final in 1914 with around 6,000.

The sporting focus had also shifted. With VfB Leipzig and SpVgg Fürth , only two teams took part in this final round that had already taken part in a championship final round before the war. The championship in 1920 saw six newcomers to the final round, among whom, 1. FC Nürnberg, played a team that was not only to become German champions for the first time, but also to become the most successful team of the 1920s.

Participants in the final round

society	Qualified as
FC Titania Szczecin	Champion of the Baltic Lawn Sports Association
United Wroclaw Sports Friends	Champion of the Southeast German Football Association
SC Union Oberschöneweide	Master of the Brandenburg Ball Game Association
VfB Leipzig	Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs
SV Arminia Hanover	Champion of the North German Football Association
VfTuR 1889 Munich-Gladbach	Master of the West German Gaming Association
1. FC Nuremberg	Master of the Association of South German Football Clubs
SpVgg Fürth	Defending champion

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
May 16, 1920	Vgt. Breslauer Spfr.	3: 2 (1: 1)	SC Union Oberschöneweide	Breslau , Square of Silesia Breslau
May 16, 1920	SpVgg Fürth	7: 0 (2: 0)	VfTuR 1889 Munich-Gladbach	Mannheim , place at the breweries
May 16, 1920	SV Arminia Hanover	1: 2 n.v. (1: 1, 1: 0)	FC Titania Szczecin	Kiel , Holstein Stadium
May 16, 1920	VfB Leipzig	0: 2 (0: 0)	1. FC Nuremberg	Halle (Saale) , sports field at the zoo

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
May 30, 1920	Vgt. Breslauer Spfr.	0: 4 (0: 1)	SpVgg Fürth	Leipzig , Wackerstadion Debrahof
May 30, 1920	FC Titania Szczecin	0: 3 (0: 2)	1. FC Nuremberg	Berlin , Preussen-Platz

final

Flag for the championship at the Frankenstadion

pairing	1. FC Nuremberg - SpVgg Fürth
Result	2: 0 (1: 0)
date	June 13, 1920
Stadion	Sandhöfer Wiesen , Frankfurt am Main
spectator	35,000
referee	Peco Bauwens ( Cologne )
Gates	1-0 Popp (12th) 2-0 Szabó (73rd)
1. FC Nuremberg	Heinrich Stuhlfauth - Gustav Bark , Johann Steinlein - Anton Kugler , Hans Kalb , Carl Riegel - Wolfgang Strobel , Luitpold Popp , Willy Boess , Heinrich Träger , Péter Szabó
SpVgg Fürth	Ludwig Gebhardt - Hans Ammerbacher , Georg Wellhöfer - Heinrich Schuster , Hans Hagen , Georg Löblein - Leo Fiederer , Andreas Franz , Leonhard Seiderer , Viktor Hierländer , Hans Sutor

List of goalscorers

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Viktor Hierländer	SpVgg Fürth	3	4th
	Leonhard Seiderer	SpVgg Fürth	3	4th
	Heinrich Träger	1. FC Nuremberg	3	4th