The Gauliga Bayern 1939/40 was the seventh season of the Gauliga Bayern (officially: Bayern division ) in football. As in all divisions, the round was initially suspended after the first day of play due to the outbreak of World War II . While the other divisional classes in southern Germany were divided into groups and their championships did not start until the end of November, the Gaume championship in Bavaria was resumed on October 29, 1939 in the originally planned single-track league with ten teams. 1. FC Nürnberg was able to recapture the title, which this year had to deal with BC 1907 Augsburg as the toughest competitor. In the subsequent final round of the German championship , the "club" failed in the preliminary round at SV Waldhof Mannheim. Since the 1940/41 division began in two seasons and was briefly increased to 13 teams, the promoted VfR 07 Schweinfurt and FSV Nürnberg remained in the Bavarian upper house , who were on the relegation places . The Würzburger Kickers and Schwaben Augsburg rose from the district classes .
Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
