National soccer class Thuringia 1948–1952
| Football national class Thuringia | |
| Association | Football Committee |
| First edition | 1948 |
| hierarchy | 1 (1948/49) 2 (1949/50) 3 (1950-1952) . league |
| Teams | 14-26 |
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The Thuringia national soccer class was one of the five top national soccer classes in the area of the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic . It was held from 1948 to 1952 and determined the football champions of the state of Thuringia . After the introduction of the GDR Oberliga and the GDR League , the national class was only third class from the 1950/51 season.
history
1945/46 and 1946/47: district championships
As early as 1945 there were individual championships at the municipal level, but the staging of a zone championship was prohibited. In 1945/46 regional championships were played in the following areas in Thuringia:
| area | District master |
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| City of Altenburg | SG Altenburg-Nord |
| City of Erfurt | SG Erfurt-West |
| City of Ilmenau | SG Ilmenau |
| City of Jena | SG Ernst-Abbe Jena |
| Nordhausen district | SG Nordhausen |
| Southern Thuringia district | SG Steinach |
| City of Suhl | SG Suhl |
| City of Weimar | SG Weimar-Ost |
For the season 1946/47 there was again no top division, instead it was played again in regional district leagues and district classes without playing a Thuringian football champion. The following district champions have been handed down for this season:
| area | District master |
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| Altenburg | SG Altenburg-Nord |
| Erfurt | SG Erfurt-West |
| Gera | SG Weida |
| Gotha | SG Gotha |
| Langensalza | Langensalza national team |
| Nordhausen | SG Nordhausen |
| Suhl | SG Suhl |
| Weimar | SG Weimar-Ost |
1947/48: Qualification for the Eastern Zone Championship
Despite the introduction of the soccer east zone championship , the game continued in the 1947/48 season in regional district leagues or district classes, a state championship has not yet been held. The leaders of the regional leagues played two participants in the soccer east zone championship in 1948 in a final round .
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Quarter finals
| date | Result | place | ||
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| May 26, 1948 | SG Erfurt-West | 2: 1 | SG Ernst-Abbe Jena | Weimar |
| May 26, 1948 | SG Sömmerda | 2: 1 | SG Franconia Wurzbach | Schleiz |
| May 26, 1948 | SG Weimar-Ost | 2: 1 a.d. | SG Meiningen | Erfurt |
| May 26, 1948 | SG Suhl | 2-0 | SG Altenburg-Nord | Saalfeld |
Semifinals
| date | Result | place | ||
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| May 30, 1948 | SG Sömmerda | 2-0 | SG Erfurt-West | Arnstadt |
| May 30, 1948 | SG Weimar-Ost | 4: 2 | SG Suhl | Erfurt |
Thus SG Sömmerda and SG Weimar-Ost were qualified for the soccer east zone championship in 1948 . Sömmerda was eliminated in the qualifying round after a 0-1 defeat against SG Sportfreunde Burg . Weimar made it to the semi-finals, but was defeated by the later champions SG Planitz with 0: 5.
Since 1948/49: national class
From the 1948/49 season , the top national class was introduced. The 24 strongest clubs of the preseason qualified for this league, which was played in three seasons. The winners of the three seasons met in a final round and determined the Thuringian soccer champion, who was qualified together with the runner-up for the soccer east zone championship in 1949 and for the top GDR league , which was newly introduced in the coming year . After the Eastern Zone sport had been converted to the basis of company sports associations (BSG) , most of the previous SG appeared in the coming seasons with new names.
From the 1949/50 season , the Thuringia regional football class was only second class. It was reduced to two seasons, the two season winners determined the Thuringian champions. The BSG KWU Weimar prevailed 1-0 in the final against SG Lauscha , became Thuringian champions and qualified for the promotion to the football league in 1950/51 which was successfully contested. Lauscha and the two season runner-ups BSG KWU Nordhausen and BSG Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the second-rate GDR league, which was newly introduced in 1950 . As a result, the national soccer class was third class from 1950/51 . The league was reduced to a season with 14 teams. The SG Volkspolizei Weimar won the league and rose to the second division. Also in 1951/52 there was a season with 14 teams. In the summer of 1952, the states in the GDR were liquidated and 14 districts were introduced in their place . GDR football had to adapt to the new administrative structure with its league system. The national leagues were therefore dissolved after the 1951/52 season and replaced by 14 district leagues . Instead of football Landesklasse Thuringia were the Football League District Erfurt , the Football League District Gera , the Football League District Leipzig and the Football League District Suhl .
National champion
| season | Regional champion Thuringia | Finalist / runner-up |
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| 1948/49 | SG Fortuna Erfurt | SG Altenburg-Nord |
| 1949/50 | BSG KWU Weimar | SG Lauscha |
| 1950/51 | SG Volkspolizei Weimar | BSG progress Neustadt / Orla |
| 1951/52 | BSG activist Kaiseroda Tiefenort | BSG unit Sonneberg |
literature
- DFSF (ed.): Football in the Soviet Occupation Zone and in Berlin 1945–1949 . Berlin 2016.
- DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 1). Berlin 2011.