South German football championship 1901/02
The 1901/02 South German soccer championship was the fourth competition held by the Association of South German Soccer Clubs (VSFV). The champion was the Karlsruhe FV . The southern German association has not yet organized a game in play classes; championships were only played in individual cities in regional football associations or on the initiative of clubs. The VFSV was only responsible for the national finals.
Regional gaming operations
Maingau
In the Rhine-Main area, especially in Frankfurt and Hanau, there had been lively gaming operations since the turn of the century. Numerous friendships and shows between the teams ensured that new clubs were created, including in 1901, for example, Kickers Offenbach , Germania Bieber and Viktoria Aschaffenburg, and in the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim, FV Amicitia, FVgg 01 and FC Germania (predecessor clubs of Rot -Weiss Frankfurt ). The Frankfurter Association Federation organized like last year, a city championship that the FC Victoria won. The qualifying games for the southern German championship are only partially known, Hanau 93 and Germania 94 Frankfurt qualified for the semi-finals through the following matches:
| 1. Hanauer FC 93 | - | FC Victoria Frankfurt | 2-0 | 1st round, December 1, 1901 |
| Frankfurt FC Kickers | - | 1. Hanauer FC 93 | 1: 5 | 2nd round, December 15, 1901 |
| Darmstadt FC | - | Germania 94 Frankfurt | 1: 3 | 2nd round, in Offenbach |
Palatinate and Mannheim
In the Palatinate, which at that time still belonged to Bavaria, football was still in its infancy. In Ludwigshafen, the first club was FC Revidia 1900, and there was also a pioneer club in the northern suburb of Frankenthal, FC 1900 , but neither of them made any significant appearances. Also, the FC 1900 Kaiserslautern was still far from the level of the top teams in southern Germany as the result of a friendship game from 1901 shows: FC 1900 was subject to Karlsruher FV with 00:29. In Mannheim, on the other hand, they were already further, and at least last year a representative from the city of squares took part in the southern German championship. In addition, the local Mannheim Football Association endeavored that year to integrate clubs from the area into the game operations - but the small association broke up as early as 1902 due to internal disputes. Nothing is known about the participation of Palatinate or Mannheim clubs in the 1901/02 South German Championship.
Württemberg, Baden, Alsace
In addition to the Stuttgarter Kickers, at least the clubs FC Stuttgart 1894 and FV Schwaben Stuttgart took part in the Württemberg district this year . Results from these encounters are not known. The Stuttgarter Kickers were Württemberg champions. Among the comparatively large number of clubs in the Baden royal seat of Karlsruhe, the Karlsruhe FV stood out, having won the southern German title for the first time in the previous year and was considered almost invincible at the time. In the vicinity there was at least one club, 1. FC Pforzheim , that met the KFV on an equal footing. On the Upper Rhine, the three clubs Freiburg FC , Strasbourg FV and FC Mühlhausen 1893 fought for supremacy.
The following qualifying games for the southern German championship are known for the Württemberg / Baden / Alsace region:
| 1. FC Pforzheim | - | Stuttgart Kickers | 5: 1 |
| Karlsruhe FV | - | Strasbourg FV | 7: 2 |
Bavaria
In Munich, an unofficial city championship was played for the first time , in which the clubs FC Bavaria 1899 Munich , MTV Munich 1879 , 1. Munich FC 1896 and FC Bayern Munich took part and the latter emerged as the winner; however, did not take part in the final round of the South German Championship.
on the occasion of the first meeting of the two clubs on September 29, 1901.
| FC Bavaria 1899 Munich | - | FC Bayern Munich | 1: 4 | November 10, 1901 |
| MTV Munich 1879 | - | FC Bayern Munich | 4: 1 | November 24, 1901 |
| 1. Munich FC 1896 | - | FC Bayern Munich | 1: 6 | February 3, 1902 |
| FC Bayern Munich | - | FC Bavaria 1899 Munich | 5: 1 | May 4, 1902 |
| FC Bayern Munich | - | 1. Munich FC 1896 | 8: 1 | May 11, 1902 |
| FC Bayern Munich | - | MTV Munich 1879 | 2: 1 | June 8, 1902 |
| 1. | FC Bayern Munich | 6th | 5 | 0 | 1 | 26: 9 | 10: 2 |
There were only a few cities outside of Munich where there were football clubs. The 1. FC Nuremberg was largely unrivaled in Central Franconia, after all, made his first official appearance at the founding of the 1. FC Bamberg on 29 September 1901. The stir. Nothing is known about participation of Bavarian teams in the final round of the South German Championship 1901/02.
Final round of the southern German championship
In the final round, the Karlsruhe FV , which was outstanding in southern Germany during these years, won the title for the second time in the fourth final. A German championship has not yet been played this year, the first final round hosted by the DFB did not follow until the 1902/03 season .
| Semifinals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karlsruhe FV | - | 1. FC Pforzheim | 5: 1 | February 23, 1902 in Karlsruhe |
| Germania 94 Frankfurt | - | 1. Hanauer FC 93 | 1: 4 | March 23, 1902 in Offenbach |
| Final game for the southern German championship | ||||
| 1. Hanauer FC 93 | - | Karlsruhe FV | 0: 4 | April 6, 1902 in Hanau |
KFV: Wilhelm Langer - Guillaume Zweerts, A. Holdermann - Karl Sauter, Ivo Schricker , Albert Alterheim - Fritz Gutsch , Louis Heck , Julius Zinser , Rudolf Wetzler , Otto Jüngling .
literature
- Christoph Bausenwein, Harald Kaiser, Bernd Siegler: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-536-3 .
- 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 , p. 15.
- Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-538-9 .
- Günter Rohrbacher-List: In the heart of the Palatinate. The history of 1. FC Kaiserslautern . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-583-9 .
- Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The Bavarians. The story of a record champion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-669-0 .
Single references
- ^ Walter Grüber: FC Bayern Munich. 6389 games. - Production and publishing BoD - Books on Demand, 2016 - ISBN 978-3-7412-0071-7 - p. 11
- ^ Match report in: Het Sportblad from April 11, 1902. Zweerts was "loaned" from RAP Amsterdam.