The 1941–42

Gauliga Bayern The Gauliga Bayern was the highest association football league in the German state of Bavaria from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the five ''Gaue'' ''Bayre ...

was the ninth season of the league, one of the 25

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 ...

s in Germany at the time. It was the first tier of the

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Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

(German:''Bayern'') from 1933 to 1945. It was the last season of the league played in the single division format with the Gauliga Bayern being sub-divided into north and south in the following edition. For 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 it was the second of two Gauliga championships the club would win in the era from 1933 to 1944. The club qualified for 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 ...

, where it was knocked out in the intermediate stage after losing 2–1 to SG SS Strassburg. The eighth edition of the ''Tschammerpokal'', now the

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, was won by Gauliga Bayern club TSV 1860 München who defeated German champions FC Schalke 04 2–0 in the final.

Table

The 1941–42 season saw two new clubs in the league, FC Eintracht/Franken Nürnberg and Reichsbahn SG Weiden.

References

Sources

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External links

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