Football revolution

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The soccer revolution took place in 1928 as a protest by North German soccer clubs against the league system and led to the extensive failure of regular game operations in North Germany in the 1928/29 season.

The increasing attractiveness of the soccer game had led to an increase in the number of clubs throughout Germany . At that time there was no nationwide league and hardly any regional top division, but generally only point rounds at the district level, the winners of which qualified for the finals for the regional and then the German football championship. The associations reacted to the increasing number of clubs by increasingly splitting up the top divisions. The North German Sports Association had tried several times to establish a regional league, but the majority of clubs, especially in rural areas, were against it. At the beginning of the 1927/28 season, there were eleven formally first-class district leagues in six districts in northern Germany:

  • Fjord
  • Eider
  • Lübeck-Mecklenburg 1
  • Lübeck-Mecklenburg 2
  • Hamburg / Alster
  • Hamburg / Elbe
  • North Hanover
  • South Hanover / Braunschweig 1
  • South Hanover / Braunschweig 2
  • Weser
  • jade

This division is spatially comparable to the current sixth class national leagues (association leagues, district upper leagues) at the beginning of the 21st century . For the large northern German clubs, especially from Hamburg and Altona as well as Holstein Kiel , this split was completely inadequate. The league games against weak local opponents were neither interesting for the audience, nor did they help to promote performance. In the 1920s, they were often inferior to the southern German clubs around the series champions 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Fürth . In order not to fall further behind, but above all for financial reasons, the following clubs joined together to form the "League of Interest Association" and created the "Round of Ten" as a separate division: from Hamburg the HSV , SpVg Polizei , Victoria , ETV and SV St. Georg , from Altona the AFC 93 , Union 03 , St. Pauli Sport (despite its name in Stellingen, then Altona, based) and Ottensen 07, plus Holstein Kiel. HSV won the points round of these clubs ahead of Kiel and Union Altona.

Faced with a fait accompli, the North German Sports Association finally reacted and implemented a league reform at the Association Day on March 10, 1929 with a wafer-thin majority (50.1 percent of the votes), at the end of which six major leagues were introduced for the 1929/30 season:

  • Schleswig-Holstein
  • Lübeck-Mecklenburg
  • Greater Hamburg
  • North Hanover
  • South Hanover / Braunschweig
  • Weser / Jade

The 1928/29 season was completely canceled in northern Germany. Only the first matchday had taken place in some districts. However, the final round of the North German championship was still held, and the association also let the best six “revolutionary clubs” take part.

The final table of the round of ten :

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Pt.
1. Hamburger SV 9 8th 1 0 50:16 +34 17-1
2. Holstein Kiel 9 6th 0 3 38:20 +18 12-6
3. FC Union 03 Altona 9 5 2 2 29:20 +9 12-6
4th Eimsbüttel TV 9 6th 0 3 31:31 0 12-6
5. Altonaer FC 93 9 4th 2 3 28:23 +5 10-8
6th St. Pauli SV 9 5 0 4th 37:37 0 10-8
7th SpVg Police Hamburg 9 2 2 5 26:34 -8th 6-12
8th. SpVgg Ottensen 07 9 2 0 7th 18:38 -20 4-14
9. SV St. Georg 9 2 0 7th 17:38 -21 4-14
10. SC Victoria Hamburg 9 1 1 7th 25:40 -15 3-15

literature

  • Hardy Greens : Legendary football clubs. Northern Germany. Between TSV Achim, Hamburger SV and TuS Zeven. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-223-8 , pp. 85-87.
  • Bernd Jankowski, Harald Pistorius, Jens Reimer Prüß : Football in the North. 100 years of the North German Football Association. History, chronicle, names, dates, facts, figures. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-89784-270-X , pp. 61-62.