The 1941–42 Gauliga was the ninth season of the

Gauliga A Gauliga () was the highest level of play in German football from 1933 to 1945. The leagues were introduced in 1933, after the Nazi takeover of power by the National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise. Name The German word ...

, the first tier of the

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from 1933 to 1945. It was the third season of the league held during the

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. The league operated in twenty-five regional divisions, five more than in the previous season, with the league containing 265 clubs all up, 40 more than the previous season. The league champions entered the

1942 German football championship The 1942 German football championship, the 35th edition of the competition, was won by FC Schalke 04, Schalke 04, the club's sixth championship, won by defeating First Vienna FC in the final. It marked the third and last occasion of a club from V ...

, won by FC Schalke 04 who defeated

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2–0 in the final. It was Schalke's sixth German national championship and its last in the Gauliga era. The 1941–42 season saw the eighth edition of the ''Tschammerpokal'', now the

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. The 1942 edition was won by

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, defeating FC Schalke 04 2–0 on 15 November 1942. The number of Gauligas, twenty-five, increased by five compare to the previous season because of the introduction of two new Gauligas and the sub-division of three existing ones. The

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, covering the

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, and the

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, covering the General Government, were created in the

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and in

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. The Gauliga Generalgouvernement was only ever played as a knock-out competition of the local district champions and never in league format. Of the sub-divided Gauligas the

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was split into the Gauliga Oberschlesien and Gauliga Niederschlesien, the

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was split into the Gauliga Köln-Aachen and Gauliga Moselland and the

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was split into Gauliga Hessen-Nassau and Gauliga Westmark. As part of Nazi Germany's expansion in occupied Western Europe clubs from Luxembourg entered the new Gauliga Moselland while French clubs from the

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region entered the new Gauliga Westmark. Luxembourgian club FV Stadt Düdelingen, known as

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before and after the club's participation in the German league system, went on to win the inaugural championship of the Gauliga Moselland. The 1941–42 season saw another increase in participation of

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and police teams, especially in the eastern regions. Gauliga champions like LSV Pütnitz, LSV Olmütz and

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were associated with the German air force, the

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, ''LSV'' standing for ''Luftwaffen Sportverein''.

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was a club of the non-commissioned officers academy, ''HUS'' standing for ''Heeres-Unteroffiziers-Schule'' while

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was associated with the ''SS'', the ''

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''. Polizei Litzmannstadt, in turn, was a club of the ''

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'', the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany. In the part of Czechoslovakia annexed into Germany in March 1939, the

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, a separate Czech league continued to exist which was not part of the Gauliga system or the German championship.

Champions

The 1941–42 Gauliga champions qualified for the knock-out stages of the German championship, replacing the group format of the previous Gauliga seasons. Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin finished the tournament in third place, defeating Kickers Offenbach 4–0 in the third-place game while First Vienna FC and FC Schalke 04 contested the final which the latter won. FC Schalke 04 won their ninth consecutive Gauliga title, Stuttgarter Kickers their fourth, VfB Königsberg and Kickers Offenbach their third while SV Jena, Borussia Fulda and VfL 99 Köln defended their 1940–41 Gauliga title. However, Kickers Offenbach, Borussia Fulda and VfL 99 Köln achieved their 1941–42 titles in re-sized or renamed leagues.''kicker Allmanach 1990'', page: 243-245 *^‡ Denotes newly introduced Gauligas for the 1941–42 season. *^# Denotes Gauligas created through sub-division of existing Gauligas for the 1941–42 season. *^¶ Formerly the Gauliga Ostmark. *^† Formerly the Gauliga Hessen.

German championship

References

Sources

* ''kicker-Almanach 1990'' Yearbook of German football, publisher: ''kicker Sportmagazin'', published: 1989, * ''100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband'' 100 Years of the Southern German Football Federation, publisher: SFV, published: 1997 * ''Die deutschen Gauligen 1933–45 – Heft 1–3'' Tables of the Gauligas 1933–45, publisher: DSFS

External links

Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv
Historic German league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Gauliga, 1941-42 1941-42 1 Ger