German football championship 1922/23

German football championship 1922/23
master	Hamburger SV
Teams	7th
Games	7th
Gates	20  (ø 2.86 per game)
Top scorer	Otto Harder (5 goals)
← German championship 1921/22 German championship 1923/24 →

The sixteenth German football championship brought Hamburger SV the championship title against SC Union Oberschöneweide , which they had waived the previous year .

In West Germany no regional champion was determined this year. In this region, the so-called “new path” was taken. It had been decided to spread a league season over two years, and there should only be promotion and relegation every four years. The WSV hoped to dampen emotions and aggression on the field and in the spectator stands. However, the WSV did not want to do without a representative at the German championship final and let the current leaders of the district leagues play a qualifying round, which Arminia Bielefeld won. That is why Arminia Bielefeld is listed in many statistics as the West German champion of 1923, which is not correct.

For the first time after the war, VfB Königsberg took part in the finals. After having won the northeast German championship title at the green table and too late in the past three years, the Königsbergers won the title this year without protest and especially on time.

VfL Leipzig-Stötteritz won the ATSB championship for the third time and thus managed the hat trick. The German youth force did not play a football champion again this year.

Participants in the final round

society	Qualified as
VfB Koenigsberg	Champion of the Baltic Lawn Sports Association
United Wroclaw Spfr.	Representative of the Southeast German Football Association
SC Union Oberschöneweide	Master of the Brandenburg Ball Game Association
SV Guts-Muts Dresden	Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs
Hamburger SV	Champion of the North German Football Association
1. Bielefeld FC Arminia	Representative of the West German Gaming Association
SpVgg Fürth	Master of the Association of South German Football Clubs

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
May 6, 1923	SpVgg Fürth	4: 0 (1: 0)	Vgt. Breslauer Spfr.	Nuremberg , Zabo
May 6, 1923	1. Bielefeld FC Arminia	0: 0 a.d.	SC Union Oberschöneweide	Bochum , stadium on Castroper Strasse
May 13, 1923	Hamburger SV	2: 0 (1: 0)	SV Guts-Muts Dresden	Altona , Altona 93 stadium
May 20, 1923	SC Union Oberschöneweide	2: 1 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 0)	1. Bielefeld FC Arminia	Berlin , German Stadium
	VfB Koenigsberg	bye

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
May 27, 1923	VfB Koenigsberg	2: 3 (1: 1)	Hamburger SV	Stettin , Hans-Pelster-Kampfbahn
May 27, 1923	SC Union Oberschöneweide	2: 1 (2: 0)	SpVgg Fürth	Halle (Saale) , stadium at the zoo

final

pairing	Hamburger SV - Union Oberschöneweide
Result	3: 0 (1: 0)
date	June 10, 1923
Stadion	German Stadium , Berlin
spectator	64,000
referee	Philipp Bruckner ( Stuttgart )
Gates	1-0 Harder (34th) 2-0 Breuel (70th) 3-0 Schneider (90th)
Hamburger SV	Hans Martens - Albert Beier , Marcel Speyer - Otto Carlsson , Asbjørn Halvorsen , Hans Krohn - Walter Kolzen , Ludwig Breuel , Otto Harder , Karl Schneider , Hans Rave Trainer: AW Turner
Union Oberschöneweide	Franz Müller - Erich Standke , Franz Klautzsch - August Hamann , Otto Splittgerber , Otto Martwig - Albert Dietz , Horst Franke , Hermann Lux , Max Franke , Willi Jachmann

List of goalscorers

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Otto Harder	Hamburger SV	3	5
2.	Andreas Franz	SpVgg Fürth	2	3
3.	Willy Ascherl	SpVgg Fürth	2	2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match report in the Hamburger Anzeiger from May 14, 1923 (digitized version)