Gauliga Osterland

Gauliga Osterland
Full name	Gauliga Osterland
Association	VMBV
First edition	1923
Last event	1933
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	5 - 10
Record champions	FC Wacker Gera (6)
Qualification for	Central German football championship
region	Thuringian Vogtland , Orlasenke
↓ 2nd class

The Gauliga Osterland was one of the top football leagues of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs (VMBV). It was launched in 1923 and existed until the VMBV was dissolved in 1933. The winner qualified for the finals of the Central German soccer championship .

overview

The Gauliga Osterland was founded in 1923 in the course of a division reform (the seven first-class district leagues were dissolved and the numerous Gauligen came back first) of the VMBV. Before 1919 the clubs played in the Gau Ostthüringen , which was assigned to the district of Thuringia between 1919 and 1923 . The Gauliga started with five participants, the number was gradually increased in the coming seasons. From the 1928/29 season ten clubs played in the league.

In the course of the Gleichschaltung , the VMBV and, consequently, the Gauliga Osterland were dissolved a few months after the Nazis came to power in 1933. The clubs were classified in the football district center , but were not given a starting place for the first-class Gauliga Mitte, which was introduced from 1933, but were classified in the lower leagues.

The Gauliga Osterland was dominated by FC Wacker Gera , who won the Gaume Championships six times. Local rivals SpVgg 1904 Gera won the Gaume Championship in 1924/25 . Towards the end of the 1920s and the beginning of 1930, 1. FC Greiz and FC Thuringia Weida also won championship honors.

classification

The excessive number of first-class Gauligen within the VMBV had caused a dilution of the game level, there were sometimes double-digit results in the Central German football finals. The performance in the Central German football finals of the clubs from the Gauliga Osterland varied year after year. In the first two seasons in which the Gauliga Osterland existed, the Gaumeister from Gera were eliminated in the first round. In the mid-1920s, however, the playing strength increased, so that in 1926/27 the third round and in 1927/28 even the semi-finals of the Central German soccer championship could be reached. In 1930/31 Thuringia Weida achieved a 3-2 win in the second round over the Gaumeister from the strongest district of North-West Saxony , FC Sportfreunde Leipzig . However, these successes were in other seasons too high defeats contrary, 1929/30 of lost 1. FC Greiz his first round match against SV Prussia Langensalza with 2: 7, 1931/32 lost Thuringia Weida in the second round to eventual central German soccer champions PSV Chemnitz even two digits (2:10).

For the Gauliga Mitte , introduced from 1933, no team from the Gauliga Osterland was initially considered. The FC Thuringia Weida , however, succeeded in 1936 and the 1. SV Gera (merger of the SpVgg 1904 Gera with the SC Concordia Gera Reuss ) in 1939 in this first football league.

Master of the Gauliga Osterland 1924–1933

year	Gaumeister Osterland	Cut off medium. Championship a	Central German master
1923/24	FC Wacker Gera	1st round (1)	SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau
1924/25	SpVgg 1904 Gera	1st round (1)	VfB Leipzig
1925/26	FC Wacker Gera	2nd round (2)	Dresdner SC
1926/27	FC Wacker Gera	2nd intermediate round (3)	VfB Leipzig
1927/28	FC Wacker Gera	Semi-finals (4)	FC Wacker Halle
1928/29	FC Wacker Gera	2nd preliminary round (2)	Dresdner SC
1929/30	1. FC Greiz	1st preliminary round (1)	Dresdner SC
1930/31	FC Thuringia Weida	Quarter finals (3)	Dresdner SC
1931/32	FC Thuringia Weida	2nd preliminary round (2)	PSV Chemnitz
1932/33	FC Wacker Gera	2nd round (2)	Dresdner SC

^a The number of the game round reached is shown in brackets.

Record champions

The record champions of the Gauliga Osterland are FC Wacker Gera , who have won the title six times.

	society	title	year
	FC Wacker Gera	6th	1923/24, 1925/26, 1926/27, 1927/28, 1928/29, 1932/33
	FC Thuringia Weida	2	1930/31, 1931/32
	SpVgg 1904 Gera	1	1924/25
	1. FC Greiz	1	1929/30

Eternal table

All seasons of the first-class Gauliga Osterland from 1923 to 1933 are taken into account.

Pl.	society	Years	Sp.	S.	U	N	T +	T-	Diff.	Points	Ø pt.	title	Playing times
1.	FC Wacker Gera	10	140	101	16	23	565	228	+337	218: 62	1.56	6th	1923-1933
2.	SpVgg 1904 Gera	10	140	72	23	45	449	269	+180	167: 113	1.19	1	1923-1933
3.	VfB Pößneck	10	140	66	13	61	348	316	+32	145: 135	1.04	0	1923-1933
4th	FC Thuringia Weida	7th	114	63	13	38	356	269	+87	139: 89	1.22	2	1926-1933
5.	FC Konkordia Gera-Reuss	10	140	51	21st	68	318	427	−109	123: 157	0.88	0	1923-1933
6th	1. FC Greiz	7th	112	54	11	47	270	294	−24	119: 105	1.06	1	1925-1927, 1928-1933
7th	SpVgg Neustadt / Orla	7th	107	39	14th	54	272	301	−29	92: 122	0.86	0	1924-1926, 1928-1933
8th.	SV Schmoelln 1913	6th	102	26th	15th	61	182	359	−177	67: 137	0.66	0	1927-1933
9.	PSV Gera	5	77	23	12	42	173	223	−50	58:96	0.75	0	1926-1931
10.	SC Gera-Rubitz	3	54	17th	4th	33	121	182	−61	38:70	0.7	0	1929/30, 1931-1933
11.	VfB Ronneburg	3	54	10	6th	38	110	242	−132	26:82	0.48	0	1928/29, 1930-1932
12.	SC Ranis	1	18th	4th	3	11	33	68	−35	11:25	0.61	0	1932/33
13.	SpVgg Helios Eisenberg	1	8th	1	1	6th	7th	26th	−19	3:13	0.38	0	1923/24

swell

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