German Youth Championship (soccer)
German youth championships have been played in football since 1969 . At first there was only one competition for the male A-youth. A competition for the male B youth was added later. In 2000 a German champion of the female B-youth was chosen for the first time.
mode
Male A youth
The champions of the three A-Junior Bundesliga relays as well as the runner-up of the relay that had the most successful participants in the three previous finals qualify . The semi-finals will be played in a two-way leg, the final in one game.
Male B youth
The mode of the B-Junioren-Bundesliga introduced for the 2007/08 season is identical to that of the A-Youth.
Female B youth
The mode of the B-Juniorinnen-Bundesliga introduced for the 2012/13 season corresponds to that of the male youth championships.
Previous title holder
Record champions
Male A youth
- VfB Stuttgart (10)
- Borussia Dortmund (8)
- FC Schalke 04 (4)
- MSV Duisburg, Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayern Munich (3 each)
Male B youth
- VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Dortmund (7 each)
- Bayern Munich (5)
- Eintracht Frankfurt, Hertha BSC (4 each)
- 1. FC Cologne (3)
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Schalke 04 (2 each)
Female B youth
- 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (11)
- FC Bayern Munich (3)
- VfL Wolfsburg (2)
Remarkable
- Bayer Uerdingen (now KFC 05) achieved their first double in 1987 (championship for male A and B youth)
- Borussia Dortmund managed two doubles, Bayern Munich and Bayer Uerdingen one each.
- A club has never been able to win all three championships. In 2007 Bayern Munich played in all three finals, but could only win the championship of the male B-youth.
- Borussia Dortmund won the male A youth championship five times in a row between 1994 and 1998. This improved the record of VfB Stuttgart, which won the title four times in a row from 1988 to 1991.
- In 1995, VfB Stuttgart defended their title in the male B youth group. It was only 20 years later that a second club, Borussia Dortmund, was able to successfully defend its title.
- The 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam made it twice, four times in a row to become champion of the female B-youth.
- Championships of youth teams of amateur clubs are a rarity. So far only Hertha Zehlendorf, FC Augsburg and Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin have been successful. Hertha Zehlendorf even won the championship in the male A and B youth.
- In 1998, Werder Bremen was the first club from northern Germany to win a junior championship. Before that, the northern clubs played a minor role at best.
- So far, only two clubs from the " new federal states " have won a title, with 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam winning several times in the female B youth team, and in 2010 FC Hansa Rostock won its first title in the male youth team .
- Players with the most youth titles (4 each): Felix Passlack , Dzenis Burnic , Jan Binias, Patrick Fritsch, Sahin Kösecik (B youth 2014, 2015, A youth 2016, 2017), Arek Grad, Deniz Sahin (Borussia Dortmund) - B-Youth (1993), A-Youth (1994-1996); Paul Thomik (Bayern Munich) - B-Youth (2001), A-Youth (2001, 2002, 2004)
- Before VfL Bochum became the first official German A youth champion in 1969, there was already a German A youth champion in Hamborn 07 in 1938. Due to the progressive disempowerment of the DFB during the Nazi era , this competition was organized by the Hitler Youth . The team from the north of Duisburg won the final on August 28, 1938 2-1 against Franconia Nuremberg in front of 50,000 spectators in the Frankfurt Waldstadion . In the competitions from 1939 to 1941, club teams were no longer allowed to take part, but so-called "ban teams", so to speak, selection teams. The other title holders were the selections Duisburg-Nord (1939), Oberhausen (1940) and Herne (1941).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedhelm Thelen: The master before the first master. In: derwesten.de. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , April 15, 2009, accessed June 19, 2013 .