The South German Football Championship 1899/1900 was the second competition held by the Association of South German Football Associations (VSFV). According to some sources, the Strasbourg FV became champions after being eliminated in the first round. Other sources suggest that the competition has not ended and no master has been determined.
Nine clubs took part, one more than in the first championship. Due to unclear information in various chronicles and pending research, the participating teams and the games played were only partially known for a long time, but the "competition dates" (fixtures) have now emerged and the results up to the semi-finals as well. The final round was played in cup mode.
The Mannheim Football Society 1896; the oldest Mannheim team in 1899
The winner was directly qualified for the final. The Freiburg FC later renounced the further participation and the Strasbourg FV moved up as a losing team.
In the semifinals, the winners of the 1st and 2nd district should have met in Mannheim on December 3, 1899. Relocation was necessary due to the delay in the 2nd circle.
The Mannheimers protested against this successfully (it was about the initially denied eligibility to play for their defender Brückel), so that a rescheduling was necessary.
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References and comments
↑ Detailed description of different researches and theories at JRPrüß : Strasbourg and the ´Süddeutsche´, in: Zeitspiel / Magazin für Fußball-Zeitgeschichte # 11 from March 2018, pages 92 ff., As well as (in the long version) on the associated website of the magazine.
↑ The KFV was "defeated after brave resistance" ( Sport im Wort from December 1, 1899, page 280), but protested for an unnamed reason and Frankonia resigned from the association. See also Deutsche Sportnachrichten, November 1899 edition or Karlsruher FV (ed.), A piece of German football history - 125 years of Karlsruher FV , Karlsruhe 2016, p. 31.
↑ Originally the game was supposed to take place in Pforzheim on November 26th, 1899, but it was postponed because of the protest mentioned above ( Sport im Wort from December 1st, 1899, page 280).
↑ Luy, page 76: "After the recall of 6 Englishmen, the Freiburg FC was no longer operational, so that the Strasbourg FV was qualified for the next round."
^ Match report in Sport im Wort from December 1, 1899, page 280; Author: "GM" (probably Gustav Manning ). According to the "competition data", the winner had already reached the final.
↑ Sport im Wort from March 23, 1900, page 93 as well as games and sport from March 24, 1900.
↑ Luy, page 76. The Mannheimer General-Anzeiger from March 20, 1900 reports on page 3 a 5-0 from Mannheim in 1896 in a friendly against local rivals Sport Mannheim on March 18. There is no mention of another game against KFV in the following weeks (until mid-May).
↑ Zeilinger, page 22. The result also appears in the KFV's own statistics, but there in a different year, see z. E.g .: Karlsruher FV (Ed.), 100 Years of the Karlsruhe Football Club, continuation and supplementary volume , Karlsruhe 1991, p. 126.
