List of clubs in the German football championship

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This is a list of all clubs that have taken part in the German football championship from 1903 to 1963, in the era when the national championship was decided by a finals round with a national title game at the end.

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The German football championship was first held in 1903 and won by VfB Leipzig. [1] In 1904, the championship was not completed due to a protest by Karlsruher FV about a technicality, with all games but the final played. [2] [3] The competition was held again in 1905 and, from then on, annually.

The championship was interrupted by the World War I, and not held from 1915 to 1920, when football returned to more organised fashion after the disruptions caused by the war. [4] [5]

In 1922, the final was inconclusive and Hamburger SV was declared champions but declined the honor. [6] After this, a championship was held every season until 1944. With the expansion of Nazi Germany, clubs from occupied territories or annexed countries took part in the competition, including teams from Austria, France, Luxembourg, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. [7]

Occupation zone borders in Germany Map-Germany-1945.svg
Occupation zone borders in Germany

The German championship resumed in 1948, three years after the end of the World War II. Germany, now greatly reduced in size, originally was divided into four occupation zones; [8] from 1949 into three political entities, the German Democratic Republic, known in English as East Germany, the Saar Protectorate, now the German Federal State of the Saarland, and the Federal Republic of Germany, widely called in English, West Germany.

The clubs from the Saar protectorate remained within the German football league system for the most part and continued to take part in the national championship. East German clubs did not. SC Planitz, the team from Zwickau, in Saxony qualified for the 1948 championships at Nuremberg, but was refused a travel permit by the Soviet authorities. After 1948, no clubs from the East entered the championship again. [9]

The German championship continued to operate in this form until 1963, when the system was superseded by the Bundesliga as a means of determining the national champion. [10]

With thirty-one appearances, Hamburger SV holds the record, while 1. FC Nürnberg won the most titles, eight, followed by FC Schalke 04 with seven. The now defunct VfB Königsberg has the most appearances in the national finals without ever reaching the championship game, sixteen.

List

A

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Alemannia Aachen 100 1938
Hindenburg Allenstein 500 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1939
BV Altenessen 100 1926
TuS Helene Altenessen 100 1941
FC Altona 93 400 1903, 1909, 1914, 1925

B

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
VfL Benrath 500 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935
Alemannia Berlin 200 1924, 1925
Berliner BC 100 1914
SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin 200 1939, 1942
Hertha BSC 1524 1906, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 , 1931 , 1933, 1935, 1937, 1944, 1957, 1961, 1963
Kickers 1900 Berlin 100 1927
Minerva 93 Berlin 100 1932
Norden-Nordwest Berlin 300 1906, 1922, 1926
BFC Preussen 200 1910, 1912
Berliner SV 92 701 1903, 1904, 1936, 1938, 1943, 1949, 1954
Tasmania 1900 Berlin 600 1909, 1910, 1911, 1959, 1960, 1962
Tennis Borussia Berlin 1000 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1958
Union Oberschöneweide 401 1920, 1923, 1940, 1948
Union 92 Berlin 210 1905 , 1906
Union 06 Berlin 200 1950, 1953
Viktoria 89 Berlin 1022 1907, 1908 , 1909, 1911 , 1912, 1913, 1933, 1934, 1955, 1956
Vorwärts Berlin 101 1921
Beuthen 09 600 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937
Arminia Bielefeld 200 1922, 1923
VfB Bielefeld 100 1931
Union Böckingen 100 1934
Eintracht Braunschweig 500 1905, 1908, 1943, 1944, 1958
Werder Bremen 900 1934, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
TuS Bremerhaven 93 100 1955
FV Breslau 06 100 1927
SC Breslau 08 500 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932
Schlesien Breslau 300 1905, 1906, 1907
Sportfreunde Breslau 700 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1930
SV Breslau 02 100 1942
VfR Breslau 200 1908, 1910
LSV Brieg 100 1943
MSV Brünn 200 1943, 1944
NSTG Brüx 100 1944

C

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
WSC Celle 100 1944
Chemnitzer BC 200 1927, 1933
PSV Chemnitz 300 1932, 1935, 1936
Alemannia Cottbus 200 1905, 1909

D

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
BuEV Danzig 100 1912
LSV Danzig 100 1944
Preußen Danzig 200 1934, 1941
Preußen Dellbrück 100 1950
SV Dessau 05 600 1937, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944
Borussia Dortmund 732 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956 , 1957 , 1961, 1963
Guts Muths Dresden 100 1923
Dresdner SC 1321 1905, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943 , 1944
FV Stadt Düdelingen 100 1942
KSG Duisburg 100 1944
MSV Duisburg 200 1929, 1931
Duisburger SV 1301 1904, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1957
Fortuna Düsseldorf 911 1927, 1928, 1931, 1933 , 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940
Düsseldorfer FC 99 100 1907
TuRU Düsseldorf 100 1925

E

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Eimsbütteler TV 500 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1942
SC Erfurt 100 1909
Rot-Weiß Essen 310 1950, 1952, 1955
Schwarz-Weiß Essen 100 1925

F

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Askania Forst 300 1911, 1913, 1914
FC Viktoria Forst 300 1922, 1925, 1926
Eintracht Frankfurt 1111 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1938, 1953, 1954, 1959 , 1961, 1962
FSV Frankfurt 301 1925, 1926, 1933
Freiburger FC 210 1907 , 1908
Borussia Fulda 500 1932, 1934, 1941, 1942, 1944
SpVgg Fürth 1131 1914 , 1920, 1923, 1926 , 1927, 1929 , 1930, 1931, 1935, 1950, 1951

G

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz 700 1933, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941
SV Göppingen 100 1944
NSTG Graslitz 100 1940
HSV Groß-Born 100 1944

H

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Wacker Halle 300 1920, 1928, 1934
SV Hamborn 07 100 1942
Westende Hamborn 100 1943
Germania Hamburg 100 1904
LSV Hamburg 101 1944
Hamburger SV 3134 1921, 1922, 1923 , 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928 , 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 , 1961, 1962, 1963
FC St. Pauli Hamburg 400 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951
SC Victoria Hamburg 400 1905, 1906, 1907, 1943
FC Hanau 93 300 1935, 1936, 1938
Arminia Hannover 300 1920, 1930, 1933
ASC Hannover 100 1904
Hannover 96 620 1905, 1935, 1938 , 1941, 1954 , 1956
BC Hartha 200 1937, 1938
Westfalia Herne 200 1959, 1960
Preussen Hindenburg 100 1929
STG Hirschberg 100 1944
STV Horst-Emscher 100 1950

I

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Yorck Boyen Insterburg 200 1935, 1938

J

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
1. SV Jena 500 1925, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941

K

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
1. FC Kaiserslautern 1223 1942, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 , 1953 , 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963
Karlsruher FV 612 1903, 1904, 1905, 1910 , 1911, 1912
Phönix Karlsruhe 210 1909 , 1910
Karlsruher SC 301 1956, 1958, 1960
FV Kassel 100 1904
CSC Kassel 200 1939, 1940
SV 06 Kassel 200 1937, 1943
Holstein Kiel 1512 1910, 1911, 1912 , 1913, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1943, 1944, 1953, 1957
Kölner BC 100 1912
CfR Köln 100 1936
1. FC Köln 812 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 , 1963
KSG Köln-Sülz/VfL 99 100 1944
SC 99 Köln 100 1906
VfL Köln 99 400 1941, 1942
VfR Köln 300 1926, 1935, 1937
Victoria Köln 100 1943
Prussia Samland Königsberg 500 1910, 1913, 1914, 1931, 1933
VfB Königsberg 1600 1908, 1909, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944
Germania Königshütte 300 1942, 1943, 1944
LSV Krakau 200 1942, 1944
Preußen Krefeld 100 1928

L

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Fortuna Leipzig 100 1926
SpVgg Leipzig 500 1912, 1914, 1922, 1924, 1931
VfB Leipzig 1233 1903 , 1904, 1906 , 1907, 1910, 1911, 1913 , 1914, 1920, 1925, 1927, 1930
Wacker Leipzig 200 1908, 1929
ATV Liegnitz 100 1912
VfB Liegnitz 100 1931
Polizei Litzmannstadt 100 1942
Phönix Ludwigshafen 100 1935

M

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg 300 1903, 1904, 1905
VfR Mannheim 810 1925, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1949 , 1950
Waldhof Mannheim 500 1934, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942
HUS Marienwerder 100 1942
Borussia Mönchengladbach 100 1920
FC Mönchengladbach 100 1909
FC Mülhausen 93 300 1941, 1943, 1944
Mülheimer SV 200 1934, 1940
FC Bayern Munich 510 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932 , 1944
TSV 1860 Munich 701 1927, 1931, 1933, 1941, 1943, 1948, 1963
FC Wacker München 200 1922, 1928
Preußen Münster 101 1950

N

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
VfL Neckarau 100 1941
TuS Neuendorf 500 1943, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1956
SV Neufahrwasser 1919 100 1943
Borussia Neunkirchen 500 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
1. FC Nürnberg 2484 1920 , 1921 , 1922, 1924 , 1925 , 1927 , 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936 , 1937, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1948 , 1951, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1961 , 1962, 1963

O

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Kickers Offenbach 1202 1934, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960
LSV Olmütz 100 1942
VfL Osnabrück 400 1939, 1940, 1950, 1952

P

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
DFC Prag 101 1903
NSTG Prag 100 1941
1. FC Pforzheim 101 1906
FK Pirmasens 400 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962
SC Planitz 200 1942, 1948
SuBC Plauen 100 1932
DWM Posen 200 1943, 1944
LSV Pütnitz 200 1942, 1943

R

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
LSV Rerik 100 1944
SSV Reutlingen 200 1950, 1955
TSG Rostock 100 1943

S

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
KSG Saarbrücken 100 1944
1. FC Saarbrücken 402 1943, 1952, 1957, 1961
FC Schalke 04 2273 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934 , 1935 , 1936, 1937 , 1938, 1939 , 1940 , 1941, 1942 , 1943, 1944, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1958 , 1962
FC Schweinfurt 05 200 1939, 1942
SV Sodingen 100 1955
LSV Stettin 100 1941
Preußen Stettin 100 1928
SC Stettin 400 1921, 1926, 1935, 1938
Titania Stettin 600 1920, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930
VfL Stettin 100 1940
Viktoria Stolp 500 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939
SG SS Straßburg 100 1942
Stuttgarter Kickers 701 1908, 1913, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942
VfB Stuttgart 922 1935, 1937, 1938, 1943, 1950 , 1952 , 1953, 1954, 1956
SpVgg Sülz 07 300 1928, 1930, 1939

T

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Lituania Tilsit 100 1911

W

ClubQualifiedChampionsRunners-upSeasons
Warnsdorfer FK 100 1939
SG Warschau 100 1943
Admira Wien 101 1939
First Vienna 301 1942, 1943, 1944
Rapid Wien 210 1940, 1941
SV Wilhelmshaven 200 1943, 1944
Wormatia Worms 500 1936, 1937, 1939, 1949, 1955

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References

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  2. ↑ kicker Almanach 1990(in German) Yearbook of German football, page: 168, publisher: kicker, published: 1989, accessed: 30 May 2009
  3. ↑ Deutsche Meisterschaft 1904 (in German) Hirschis Fussball Seiten, German football championship 1904, accessed: 30 May 2009
  4. ↑ Germany - Championships 1902-1945 RSSSF.com, accessed: 30 May 2009
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