German football championship 1925/26

German football championship 1925/26
master	SpVgg Fürth
Teams	16
Games	15th
Gates	73  (ø 4.87 per game)
Top scorer	Otto Harder (3 goals)
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The nineteenth German football championship was a championship of surprises: defending champion 1. FC Nürnberg could not qualify for the final round - they were only second behind FC Bayern Munich in the Bayernliga - and runner-up FSV Frankfurt clearly failed in the quarter-finals with 2: 8 to Hertha BSC , the Hamburger SV , subscription champions of the north, was only runner-up there, Bayern Munich, today the most successful German soccer team, is sensationally southern champion, only to be eliminated in the first round at Fortuna Leipzig without a sound, another surprise participant was alongside Fortuna Leipzig of BV Altenessen 06 .

The SpVgg Fürth was the second time German champion, it had but good luck. When you were third in the Bayernliga you had already failed in terms of sport, but as a South German Cup winner you were allowed to take part in the South German finals. There they finished second behind Bayern and then showed great form in the German championship. Due to the way in which the Fürth title came about, many called for a fundamental reform of the championship mode.

The West German teams were disappointed: All three teams were eliminated in the first round. Many attributed this to the “new path”, which ended with it. As usual, the coming season should last over a year.

Other German soccer champions that year were Dresdner SV 1910 , who successfully defended their ATSB title, as well as MTV Fürth at the German Gymnastics Association . The German youth force played again no champions this year.

Participants in the final round

society	Qualified as
VfB Koenigsberg	Northeast German master
Stettiner SC	Northeast German runner-up
Breslauer SC 08	Southeast German master
FC Viktoria Forst	Southeast German runner-up
Hertha BSC	Master Berlin-Brandenburg
SV North-Northwest 98	Vice champion Berlin-Brandenburg
Dresdner SC	Central German master
SV Fortuna Leipzig 02	Winner of the Central German qualification for the 2nd participant
Holstein Kiel	North German master
Hamburger SV	North German runner-up
VfR Cologne 04 rrh.	West German master
BV Altenessen 06	West German runner-up
Duisburg SpV	Winner of the West German qualification for the 3rd participant
FC Bayern Munich	South German master
SpVgg Fürth	South German runner-up
FSV Frankfurt	Third in the southern German championship

Round of 16

date		Result		Stadion
May 16, 1926	Duisburg SpV	1: 3 (1: 2)	Hamburger SV	Duisburg , Wedaustadion
May 16, 1926	SV Fortuna Leipzig 02	2: 0 (0: 0)	FC Bayern Munich	Leipzig , Wackerstadion
May 16, 1926	FSV Frankfurt	2: 1 (2: 1)	BV Altenessen 06	Frankfurt am Main , Waldstadion
May 16, 1926	Hertha BSC	4: 0 (0: 0)	VfB Koenigsberg	Berlin , Preußen-Platz
May 16, 1926	Breslauer SC 08	1: 0 (0: 0)	Dresdner SC	Breslau , Square of Silesia Breslau
May 16, 1926	Holstein Kiel	8: 2 (4: 0)	Stettiner SC	Kiel , Holstein Stadium
May 16, 1926	SpVgg Fürth	5: 0 (2: 0)	FC Viktoria Forst	Fürth , Ronhof
May 17, 1926	VfR Cologne 04 rrh.	1: 2 (0: 0)	SV North-Northwest 98	Cologne , Müngersdorfer Stadium

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
May 30, 1926	Hamburger SV	6: 2 (3: 1)	SV Fortuna Leipzig 02	Hamburg , Hoheluft sports ground
May 30, 1926	Hertha BSC	8: 2 (5: 1)	FSV Frankfurt	Nuremberg , Zabo
May 30, 1926	SV North-Northwest 98	0: 4 (0: 2)	Holstein Kiel	Berlin , German Stadium
May 30, 1926	SpVgg Fürth	4: 0 (3: 0)	Breslauer SC	Leipzig , Probstheidaer Stadium

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
June 6, 1926	Hertha BSC	4: 2 (2: 1)	Hamburger SV	Berlin , German Stadium
June 6, 1926	SpVgg Fürth	3: 1 (1: 0)	Holstein Kiel	Düsseldorf , Rheinstadion

final

pairing	SpVgg Fürth - Hertha BSC
Result	4: 1 (3: 1)
date	June 13, 1926
Stadion	Waldstadion , Frankfurt am Main
spectator	40,000
referee	Fritz Spranger ( Glauchau )
Gates	0: 1 Ruch (9th) 1: 1 Seiderer (27th) 2: 1 Auer (34th) 3: 1 Leuschner (38th, own goal) 4: 1 Ascherl (68th)
' SpVgg Fürth '	Gustav Hörgreen - Josef Müller , Hans Hagen - Hans Krauss , Ludwig Leinberger , Konrad Kleinlein - Karl Auer , Andreas Franz , Leonhard Seiderer , Willy Ascherl , Georg Kießling Trainer: William Townley
Hertha BSC	Alfred Götze - Emil Domscheidt , Max Fischer - Otto Leuschner , Karl Tewes , Willi Völker - Hans Ruch , Hanne Sobek , Hans Grenzel , Willi Kirsei , Erich Gülle Trainer: Alexander Popovich

List of goalscorers

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Otto Harder	Hamburger SV	3	6th
2.	Willi Kirsei	Hertha BSC	4th	5
3.	Waldemar Lübke	Holstein Kiel	3	4th
4th	Willy Ascherl	SpVgg Fürth	4th	4th
	Andreas Franz	SpVgg Fürth	4th	4th
	Hans Ruch	Hertha BSC	4th	4th