Upper Silesian Football Championship

Beuthener SuSV 09
7 times Upper Silesian champion

In 1907 FC Preußen 05 Katowitz became the first Upper Silesian champion

From 1906 to 1933, the men's Upper Silesian football championship was played in the Southeast German Football Association (SOFV) , with FC Preußen 05 Kattowitz winning the first and SuSV 09 by SuSV 09 the most. The Upper Silesian champions qualified for the final round of the Southeast German championship .

history

After the founding of the SOFV, the Katowice Ball Game Association decided to join the Southeast German Football Association and play for the Southeast German championship as the district of Upper Silesia. From the 1908/09 season the championship was held in several districts, the winners of which then played off the Upper Silesian champions in playoffs. At the beginning there were only two groups with the Gau Kattowitz and Ratibor , or Kattowitz and Gleiwitz , but the number increased to three in the 1913/14 season when the Gau Beuthen was added. After the First World War , the Upper Silesian championship was played in four districts (Beuthen, Gleiwitz, Kattowitz, Ratibor). In 1920/21 the Opole district was added. In the 1922/23 season, Katowice fell to Poland and the Gau was dissolved, but the Gau Neustadt was established. The Gau Beuthen was also divided into East and West, the winners of which then played the Gaume Championship. In the years to come, the individual districts were further subdivided until a system was created again in 1925/26 and the Upper Silesian championship was only held in two groups (Group I, Group II). Finally, in the following season, they were merged into just one group, which lasted until 1933. From the 1928/29 season onwards, the Upper Silesian runner-up was also allowed to take part in the south-east German finals.

At the beginning, the Upper Silesian championship was dominated by clubs from Katowice. This changed with the transition from Katowice to Poland and clubs from Beuthen, Zaborze and Gleiwitz were able to win the championship. While in the 1910s and early 1920s one could not keep up with other clubs from the Southeast German Football Association, especially from Central Silesia and Lower Lusatia, this changed with the merging of the district class into a league and the resulting bundling of forces in the middle of the 1920s. From 1929 onwards, all the Southeast German champions came from the Upper Silesian district class, and in 1933 the Southeast German runner-up came from Upper Silesia. It is also noteworthy that all Southeast German champions from Upper Silesia were only runner-up in the district class in the same season. In the course of the Gleichschaltung, the Southeast German Football Association was dissolved a few months after the National Socialists came to power in 1933. Thus the district class of Upper Silesia also ceased to exist. From 1933 the clubs were assigned to the Gauliga Schlesien or its substructure.

season	District of Upper Silesia
1906/07	District class Upper Silesia
1907/08
1908/09	Gau Katowice																														District Ratibor
1909/10	Gau Bytom																				Gau Katowice																				District Ratibor
1910/11	Gau Bytom																				Gau Gliwice																				Gau Katowice
1911/12	League class Upper Silesia
1912/13
1913/14	Gau Bytom																				Gau Gliwice																				Gau Katowice
1919/20	Gau Bytom															Gau Gliwice															Gau Katowice															District Ratibor
1920/21	Gau Bytom												Gau Gliwice												Gau Katowice												Gau Opole												District Ratibor
1921/22
1922/23																									District Neustadt
1923/24													Gau Gliwice (East, West)																																				Gau Ratibor (north, south)
1924/25																									Gau Neustadt (east, west)												Gau Opole (east, west)												District Ratibor
1925/26	Group I.																														Group II
1926/27	District class Upper Silesia
1927/28
1928/29
1929/30
1930/31
1931/32
1932/33

	Single track top division
	Multi-track top leagues with finals

Upper Silesian Master 1907–1933

year	Upper Silesian Master	Cut off southeast German championship	Southeast German master
1906/07	FC Prussia 05 Katowice	Preliminary round	SC Silesia Wroclaw
1907/08	FC Prussia 05 Katowice	final	VfR 1897 Breslau
1908/09	FC Prussia 05 Katowice	final	SC Alemannia Cottbus
1909/10	SC Germania Katowice	final	VfR 1897 Breslau
1910/11	SC Germania Katowice	Preliminary round	FC Askania Forst
1911/12	SC Diana Katowice	Preliminary round	ATV Liegnitz
1912/13	FC Prussia 05 Katowice	final	FC Askania Forst
1913/14	Beuthener SuSV 09	Preliminary round	FC Askania Forst
1919/20	Beuthener SuSV 09	Preliminary round	United Wroclaw Sports Friends
1920/21	Beuthener SuSV 09	Preliminary round	United Wroclaw Sports Friends
1921/22	FC Prussia 05 Katowice	Third	United Wroclaw Sports Friends
1922/23	Beuthener SuSV 09	Second	United Wroclaw Sports Friends
1923/24	SC Forward Gliwice	Fourth	United Wroclaw Sports Friends
1924/25	Beuthener SuSV 09	Fourth	FC Viktoria Forst
1925/26	VfB 1910 Gliwice	Third	Breslauer SC 08
1926/27	SpVgg forward lawn sport Gleiwitz	fifth	United Wroclaw Sports Friends
1927/28	SC Prussia Zaborze	Third	Breslauer SC 08
1928/29	Beuthener SuSV 09	Fourth (championship relay)	SC Prussia Zaborze
1929/30	SC Prussia Zaborze	Third (championship relay)	Beuthener SuSV 09
1930/31	SC Prussia Zaborze	Fourth (championship relay)	Beuthener SuSV 09
1931/32	SpVgg forward lawn sport Gleiwitz	Third (championship relay)	Beuthener SuSV 09
1932/33	SpVgg forward lawn sport Gleiwitz	Runner-up	Beuthener SuSV 09

Upper Silesian runner-up from 1929–1933

season	Upper Silesian runner-up	Cut off southeast German championship	Southeast German master
1928/29	SC Prussia Zaborze	winner	SC Prussia Zaborze
1929/30	Beuthener SuSV 09	winner	Beuthener SuSV 09
1930/31	Beuthener SuSV 09	winner	Beuthener SuSV 09
1931/32	Beuthener SuSV 09	winner	Beuthener SuSV 09
1932/33	Beuthener SuSV 09	winner	Beuthener SuSV 09

Record champions

The Upper Silesian record champion is Beuthener SuSV 09, who won the title 6 times.

	society	title	year
	Beuthener SuSV 09	6th	1914, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1929
	FC Prussia 05 Katowice	5	1907, 1908, 1909, 1913, 1922
	SpVgg forward lawn sport Gleiwitz	3	1927, 1932, 1933
	SC Prussia Zaborze	3	1928, 1930, 1931
	SC Germania Katowice	2	1910, 1911
	SC Diana Katowice	1	1912
	SC Forward Gliwice	1	1924
	VfB 1910 Gliwice	1	1926

swell

• Mario Tomao (German Sports Club for Football Statistics eV): Football in Silesia 1900/01 - 1932/33. (Published December 2007)
• Final round: 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 , pp. 111-114.
• Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
• webalice.it - ​​GERMANY - LEAGUE FINAL TABLES