German football championship 1927/28

German football championship 1927/28
master	Hamburger SV
Teams	16
Games	15th
Gates	75  (ø 5 per game)
Top scorer	Otto Harder (7 goals)
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The twenty-first German football championship ended very late. The new German soccer champion could only be chosen on July 29th . The reason was the participation of the national team in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam . The final round of the German championship could therefore only begin on July 8th with the round of 16.

The new German champion was Hamburger SV , who celebrated their second, for some already their third, title win. In contrast, the dominance of the Nuremberg / Fürth region in German football seemed to be coming to an end. For the first time since 1913 , no team from this region could qualify for the championship finals. Both the defending champion and record champions 1. FC Nürnberg and the two-time title holder SpVgg Fürth were not in the final round. The club failed in the Bayern League, the SpVgg in the so-called consolation round.

In return, two Munich teams, FC Wacker and FC Bayern Munich , took part in the championship for the first time and both even reached the semi-finals. The Munich Bavarians have already won their second southern German championship title and experienced the first high phase of their impressive club history during this time. They were considered a popular championship favorite this season. The end in the semifinals was all the more depressing when they went down against HSV with 2: 8.

There was also a changing of the guard at the ATSB . With Adler Pankow from Berlin winning the title, the championship did not go to Saxony for the first time in seven seasons . At the German Gymnastics Association , the title went north like at the DFB: The Harburger TB 1865 won the first time, but was lucky, because the HTB had already failed in the quarter-finals on TV Fürth 1860 , but still came to the green table to the semifinals. The German youth force played no champions this year.

Participants in the final round

society	Qualified as
VfB Koenigsberg	Northeast German master
Prussia Szczecin	Northeast German runner-up
Breslauer SC 08	Southeast German master
United Wroclaw Spfr.	Southeast German runner-up
Hertha BSC	Master Berlin-Brandenburg
Tennis Borussia Berlin	Vice champion Berlin-Brandenburg
Hallescher FC Wacker	Central German master
Dresdner SC	Central German cup winner
Hamburger SV	North German master
Holstein Kiel	Winner of the north German qualifying round for the 2nd participant
SpVgg Sülz 07	West German master
Crefelder FC Prussia 1895	West German runner-up
FC Schalke 04	Winner of the West German qualifying round for the 3rd participant
FC Bayern Munich	South German master
Eintracht Frankfurt	South German runner-up
FC Wacker Munich	Winner of the southern German qualifying round for the 3rd participant

Round of 16

date		Result		Stadion
July 8, 1928	Hamburger SV	4: 2 (2: 0)	FC Schalke 04	Hamburg , Hoheluft sports ground
July 8, 1928	Hallescher FC Wacker	0: 3 (0: 2)	FC Bayern Munich	Halle (Saale) , stadium at the zoo
July 8, 1928	SpVgg Sülz 07	3: 1 (2: 1)	Eintracht Frankfurt	Cologne , Müngersdorfer Stadium
July 8, 1928	Hertha BSC	7: 0 (3: 0)	Vgt. Breslauer Spfr.	Berlin , Avus Stadium
July 8, 1928	Crefelder FC Prussia 1895	1: 3 (1: 3)	Tennis Borussia Berlin	Hamborn , place on Buschstrasse
July 8, 1928	FC Wacker Munich	1: 0 a.d.	Dresdner SC	Munich , Heinrich Zisch Stadium
July 8, 1928	Breslauer SC 08	2: 3 (2: 1)	VfB Koenigsberg	Breslau , Square of Silesia Breslau
July 8, 1928	Prussia Szczecin	1: 4 (1: 3)	Holstein Kiel	Stettin , Hans-Peltzer-Kampfbahn

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
July 12, 1928	VfB Koenigsberg	0: 4 (0: 2)	Hamburger SV	Königsberg , VfB-Platz Maraunenhof
July 12, 1928	FC Bayern Munich	5: 2 (2: 2)	SpVgg Sülz 07	Munich , Heinrich Zisch Stadium
July 12, 1928	Holstein Kiel	0: 4 (0: 2)	Hertha BSC	Kiel , Holstein Stadium
July 12, 1928	Tennis Borussia Berlin	1: 4 (1: 2)	FC Wacker Munich	Berlin , stadium at Gesundbrunnen

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
July 22, 1928	Hamburger SV	8: 2 (1: 1)	FC Bayern Munich	Duisburg , Wedaustadion
July 22, 1928	Hertha BSC	2: 1 (0: 0)	FC Wacker Munich	Leipzig , Probstheidaer Stadium

final

pairing	Hamburger SV - Hertha BSC
Result	5: 2 (3: 1)
date	July 29, 1928
Stadion	Altona Stadium , Altona
spectator	42,000
referee	Theodor Maul ( Nuremberg )
Gates	1: 0 Harder (7th) 2: 0 Rave (17th) 3: 0 Kolzen (20th) 3: 1 Kirsei (24th) 4: 1 Horn (57th) 5: 1 Kolzen (64th) 5: 2 Grenzel (75th)
Hamburger SV	Wilhelm Blunk - Albert Beier , Walter Risse - Hans Lang , Asbjørn Halvorsen , Otto Carlsson - Walter Kolzen , Heinrich Ziegenspeck , Otto Harder , Franz Horn , Hans Rave Trainer: Rudolf Agte
Hertha BSC	Alfred Götze - Emil Domscheidt , Max Fischer - Otto Leuschner , Karl Tewes , Ernst Müller - Hans Ruch , Johannes Sobek , Hans Grenzel , Willi Kirsei , Erich Gülle

List of goalscorers

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Otto Harder	Hamburger SV	3	7th
2.	Hans Grenzel	Hertha BSC	4th	7th
3.	Josef Pöttinger	FC Bayern Munich	3	5
4th	Franz Horn	Hamburger SV	4th	5
	Hans Rave	Hamburger SV	4th	5