Gauliga Lower Silesia

Gauliga Lower Silesia
Association	Football department
First edition	1941
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	10, from 1943: 35
Record champions	Breslauer SpVgg 02 , LSV Reinecke Brieg , STC Hirschberg (1 each)
Qualification for	German soccer championship
region	Lower Silesia
↓ 1st class Lower Silesia

The Gauliga Lower Silesia was one of the top German football leagues during the National Socialist era . It was introduced in 1941 together with the Gauliga Oberschlesien as the successor to the Gauliga Silesia .

history

After the championship of the Gauliga Silesia in 1940/41 was canceled due to the war, the Football Department decided to subdivide the Gauliga Silesia among other Gauligen . This was mainly due to logistical reasons, due to the war there was a shortage of fuel and a lack of transport options, so that longer trips away from home were increasingly difficult to organize. For this reason, the Gau Schlesien was divided into the Gauliga Upper Silesia and the Gauliga Lower Silesia. All clubs from the districts of Lower Silesia and Central Silesia from the former Gauliga Schlesien as well as teams from Oława and Brieg , which previously played in the area of ​​Upper Silesia, played in the Lower Silesian Football District .

In the Gauliga Lower Silesia 10 teams played in a round-robin tournament for the title. The Gaumeister was qualified for the final round of the German soccer championship. For the 1943/44 season, the championship was further subdivided due to the war. In the groups Breslau , Liegnitz / Görlitz and Bergland three regional champions were determined who competed against each other in a final round. In the 1944/45 season there were only a few games in the Breslau group, the game operations came to a standstill.

With the end of the Second World War and the annexation of Lower Silesia , the Gauliga Lower Silesia also ended. The German clubs were dissolved.

Master of the Lower Silesia Gauliga 1942–1944

year	Master Gauliga Lower Silesia	Cutting off German championship	German champions
1942	Breslauer SpVgg 02	Round of 16	FC Schalke 04
1943	LSV Reinecke Brieg	Round of 16	Dresdner SC
1944	STC Hirschberg	Round of 16	Dresdner SC

League system

After the Gauliga Lower Silesia was founded in 1941, the following league system resulted. As an example, the league system of the 1941/42 season is shown schematically.

level	Divisions of the Gauliga Lower Silesia 1941/42
1	Gauliga Lower Silesia 10 teams 1st place: qualification German football championship 9-10th place: relegated
2	1st class Lower Silesia - Group Bergland 8 teams 1st place: Promotion round various relegation regulations	1st Class Lower Silesia - Group Wroclaw 10 teams 1st place: Promotion round 9-10th place: Relegated team	1st class Lower Silesia - Group Görlitz 6 teams 1st place: Promotion round 5th–6th: relegated team	1st class Lower Silesia - Group Liegnitz 7 teams 1st place: Promotion round 7th place: Relegated team
3	2nd grade Lower Silesia	2nd grade Lower Silesia	2nd grade Lower Silesia	2nd grade Lower Silesia

swell

• 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 .
• German sports club for football statistics : football in Silesia 1933/34 - 1944/45. Wiesbaden 2014, OCLC 887172127 .

Web links

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