The 1926 German football championship, the 19th edition of the competition, was won by
SpVgg Fürth, defeating
Hertha BSC
Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC (), and sometimes referred to as Hertha Berlin, Hertha BSC Berlin, or simply Hertha, is a German professional football club based in the locality of Westend of the borough of Charl ...
4–1 in the final.
For SpVgg Fürth it was the second national championship after winning the 1914 edition and it won a third and last one in 1929, also against Hertha BSC. For Hertha it marked the club's first final appearance and it played in six consecutive ones, losing the first four and winning the final two in 1930 and 1931.
Hamburger SV's
Tull Harder
Otto Fritz Harder (Nickname: Tull Harder; 25 November 1892 – 4 March 1956) was a association football, footballer who played for Eintracht Braunschweig, Hamburger SV, and SC Victoria Hamburg, Victoria Hamburg. He won two German football champio ...
was the top scorer of the 1926 championship with six goals, having previously done so in 1922 and 1923 and, again, in 1928.
Sixteen club qualified for the knock-out competition, two from each of the regional federations plus an additional third club from the South and West. In all cases the regional champions and runners-up qualified. In the West and South the third spot went to the third placed team of the championship.
The eventual champions, SpVgg Fürth, failed to qualify for the Southern German championship through the
Bezirksliga Bayern
The Bezirksliga Bayern was the highest association football league in the German state of Bavaria from 1923 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933.
Overview
The league was formed in 1923, after a league refor ...
, coming only third behind league champions
FC Bayern Munich
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runners-up
1. FC Nürnberg, when only the champions advanced. Instead, Fürth won the Southern German Cup and qualified through this route for the Southern German finals where it than finished runners-up.
[Hyll, page 82]
Qualified teams
The teams qualified through the regional championships:
Competition
Round of 16
The round of 16, played on 16 May 1926:
Quarter-finals
The quarter-finals, played on 30 May 1926:
Semi-finals
The semi-finals, played on 6 June 1926:
Final
References
Sources
* ''kicker Allmanach 1990'', by
kicker
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, page 160 to 178 – German championship
* ''Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988'' History of Southern German football in tables, publisher & author: Ludolf Hyll
External links
German Championship 1925–26at weltfussball.de
at RSSSF
{{1925–26 in European football (UEFA)
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