District League Thuringia

District League Thuringia
Full name	District League Thuringia
Association	VMBV
First edition	1918
Last event	1923
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	6 - 26
Record champions	SC Erfurt (2)
Qualification for	Central German football championship
region	Thuringia
↓ Gauligen

The district league of Thuringia was one of the top football leagues of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs (VMBV). It was launched in 1918 and lasted until 1923. The winner qualified for the finals of the Central German soccer championship .

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As early as the 1916/17 season , the champions of the Gauligen in Thuringia were no longer directly qualified for the Central German football championship, but first played the Thuringian football championship among themselves. Only this winner then took part in the Central German football final. In 1918/19 , a season earlier than the rest of the district leagues, the district league Thuringia was formed as the top division from the Gauen Kyffhäuser , Gauliga Northern Thuringia , Osterland , Eastern Thuringia , Wartburg and Western Thuringia . Originally the Saale-Elster district was also supposed to become part of the Thuringia district, but this successfully protested against the association's decision and remained independent in 1918/19. The district league started with eight participating teams (four from Northern Thuringia, two from Eastern Thuringia and two from Wartburg). For the 1919/20 season , the VMBV then merged the remaining districts in the association area to form further district leagues.

The reason for the amalgamation of several Gauligen to circular leagues is primarily to be found in the level of play that has been watered down by the numerous leagues. The VMBV wanted to increase the playing strength with the merger. However, this was particularly thwarted in the Gau Thuringia, as early as the 1921/22 season there were two seasons with seven teams each. In the following season four squadrons with a total of 26 teams were formed in the district league Thuringia, which is almost the same as before the district league was founded. The reason for this was the travel times and travel costs of the individual clubs, which had increased due to the amalgamation of several districts. For the 1923/24 season , the circular leagues were therefore abolished again, from then on the numerous Gauligen again formed the first divisions within it VMBVs.

Two-time district champions are SC Erfurt , who won the first two seasons. Local rivals SpVgg Erfurt reached the district championship in 1922. VfB 07 Coburg , coming from the southern Thuringian district, came to championship honors in 1921. The last played district championship was secured by SV 01 Gotha from the Gau Wartburg . In the Central German football finals, however, the district champions of Thuringia could not celebrate any success. The best place in the final round, which was held in the round-robin tournament from 1920 , was third place from SC Erfurt in the 1919/20 season .

Champion of the district league of Thuringia 1919–1923

year	District Master Thuringia	Cut off medium. Championship a	Central German master
1918/19	SC Erfurt	Semifinals	Hallescher FC 1896
1919/20	SC Erfurt	3/6	VfB Leipzig
1920/21	VfB 07 Coburg	4/7	FC Wacker Halle
1921/22	SpVgg Erfurt	6/7	SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau
1922/23	SV 01 Gotha	Quarter finals	SV Guts Muts Dresden

^a From 1920 to 1922 the final round took place in the round-robin tournament, in the seasons 1918/19 and 1922/23 in the knockout tournament.

Record champions

The record champions of the Saale district league are SC Erfurt , which won the title twice.

	society	title	year
	SC Erfurt	2	1918/19, 1919/20
	VfB 07 Coburg	1	1920/21
	SpVgg Erfurt	1	1921/22
	SV 01 Gotha	1	1922/23

Ewiga table

All traditional seasons of the first-class district league Thuringia from 1918 to 1923 including the finals between the season winners in 1921/22 and 1922/23 are taken into account. Only the participants have survived from the 1918/19 season.

Pl.	society	Years	Sp.	S.	U	N	T +	T-	Diff.	Points	Ø pt.	title	gau
1.	SpVgg Erfurt	5	53	39	0	14th	162	74	+88	78:28	1.47	1	Northern Thuringia
2.	SC Erfurt	5	50	32	1	17th	105	66	+39	65:35	1.3	2	Northern Thuringia
3.	1. SV Jena	5	51	30th	4th	17th	150	67	+83	64:38	1.25	0	East Thuringia
4th	VfB Erfurt	5	49	29	3	17th	107	66	+41	61:37	1.24	0	Northern Thuringia
5.	SV 01 Gotha	5	52	28	3	21st	95	98	−3	59:45	1.13	1	Wartburg
6th	VfB 07 Coburg	3	39	23	5	11	80	48	+32	51:27	1.31	1	South Thuringia
7th	SV Germania Ilmenau	3	40	20th	4th	16	62	73	−11	44:36	1.1	0	Northern Thuringia
8th.	SC 1912 Zella-Mehlis	3	38	17th	3	18th	48	56	−8	37:39	0.97	0	West Thuringia
9.	SV 1899 Mulhouse	2	22nd	9	3	10	32	33	−1	21:23	0.95	0	Wartburg
10.	FC Borussia Erfurt	5	49	8th	5	36	47	117	−70	21:77	0.43	0	Northern Thuringia
11.	SC 1903 Weimar	2	11	8th	1	2	22nd	10	+12	17: 50	1.55	0	East Thuringia
12.	BC Vimaria Weimar	3	40	6th	2	32	33	113	−80	14:66	0.35	0	East Thuringia
13.	SpVgg 1908 Jena	1	10	6th	0	4th	18th	14th	+4	12: 80	1.2	0	East Thuringia
14th	1. FC 1907 Lauscha	2	18th	5	1	12	27	47	−20	11:25	0.61	0	South Thuringia
15th	SV Wacker Gotha	2	10	4th	2	4th	15th	11	+4	10:10	1	0	Wartburg
16.	VfB Apolda	1	10	4th	2	4th	11	14th	−3	10:10	1	0	East Thuringia
17th	SC Germania Mehlis	2	18th	3	4th	11	19th	47	−28	10:26	0.56	0	West Thuringia
18th	FC Preußen Langensalza	1	10	3	3	4th	13	22nd	−9	9:11	0.9	0	Wartburg
19th	SV 07 Neustadt	1	6th	4th	0	2	12	8th	+4	8: 40	1.33	0	South Thuringia
20th	SC Concordia Gera	1	10	3	2	5	19th	26th	−7	8:12	0.8	0	Osterland
21st	SC 06 Oberlind	1	6th	3	1	2	13	17th	−4	7: 50	1.17	0	South Thuringia
22nd	MTV 1897 Erfurt	1	10	3	1	6th	13	17th	−4	7:13	0.7	0	Northern Thuringia
23.	TV 1905 Ilversgehofen	2	22nd	3	1	18th	20th	81	−61	7:37	0.32	0	Northern Thuringia
24.	FC 1905 Zella-Mehlis	1	6th	2	1	3	10	7th	+3	5: 70	0.83	0	West Thuringia
25th	TV 1909 Mehlis	1	6th	2	1	3	6th	7th	−1	5: 70	0.83	0	West Thuringia
26th	SpVgg 1907 Arnstadt	1	10	2	1	7th	18th	18th	± 0	5:15	0.5	0	Northern Thuringia

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