Warnsdorfer Fußball Klub, commonly known as Warnsdorfer FK, was an association football club from the city of

Varnsdorf Varnsdorf (; german: Warnsdorf, hsb, Warnoćicy) is a town in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 15,000 inhabitants. It lies on the border with Germany. Administrative parts Villages of Studánka and Světliny 1.díl ...

(german: Warnsdorf), in what is today the Czech Republic.

History

Warnsdorfer FK was founded on 10 January 1931 in Czechoslovakia, following the merging of ''DFC Warnsdorf'' (founded on 13 April 1907) and ''SK Germania Warnsdorf'' (founded on 27 April 1912 as ''SK Edelgrund Warnsdorf'' before renaming in 1919). In the following period, the new club succeeded in breaking the dominance of Jablonec and

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clubs in northern region of the

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. However, the

Sudetenland The Sudetenland ( , ; Czech and sk, Sudety) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans. These German speakers had predominated in the ...

continued to be dominated more or less by professional clubs

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Teplitzer FK Teplitzer FK was a Czechoslovak football club from the town of Teplice, which played seven seasons in the Czechoslovak First League. It was founded in 1903 as a football club associating local German population. The club was the first from Czecho ...

, and

DSV Saaz Deutscher Spielverein Saaz (DSV Saaz), also known as DSV Žatec, was a football club from the town of Žatec. The club was a member of the German Football Association in Czechoslovakia (german: Deutscher Fußballverband in ČSR) but played one seas ...

. The rise of Warnsdorf in 1939 was thanks to the

annexation of the Sudetenland The Munich Agreement ( cs, Mnichovská dohoda; sk, Mníchovská dohoda; german: Münchner Abkommen) was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. It provided "cession to Germany ...

by Nazi Germany and the subsequent official abolition of professional football. That was the opportunity for Warnsdorfer FK, who had a financially strong sponsor in the stocking manufacturer Kunert. Warnsdorf brought players from dissolved or "deprofessionalised" teams, such as the two-time Czechoslovakia international Vilhelm Náhlovský from Teplitzer FK. The success was immediate: in the 1938–39 season, Warnsdorf won the Gauliga Sudetenland with a 4–0 final win against Teplitzer FK and thus qualified for

1939 German football championship The 1939 German football championship, the 32nd edition of the competition, was won by Schalke 04, the club's fourth German championship, by defeating Admira Wien 9–0 in the final, with Ernst Kalwitzki scoring five goals. For Admira it was the ...

. However, Warnsdorf finished last in their group with no points after losing all four matches against Dresdner SC and Schweinfurt 05. However, the rise of Warnsdorf was already over. In 1940, the club did not return to the Gauliga Sudetenland and instead was absorbed by the new NSTG (National Socialist Gymnastics Community), and therefore could no longer build on previous successes. With the end of World War II, the club ceased to exist. Warnsdorfer FK's home stadium, the Platz am Hauptbahnhof, no longer exists and was replaced by a textile manufacturing facility.

Honours

* Gauliga Sudetenland champions: 1938–39 *

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participants:

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References

* Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag * Grüne, Hardy (2001): Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag * Král, Lubomír (2006): Historie německé kopané v Čechách. Prague: MJF * Zwicker, Stefan (2008): Fußball in den böhmischen Ländern. Göttingen: Verlag Die Werkstatt {{DEFAULTSORT:Warnsdorf, Fk Football clubs in Czechoslovakia Defunct football clubs in Germany Defunct football clubs in the Czech Republic Děčín District Football clubs from former German territories Defunct football clubs in former German territories Association football clubs established in 1931 Association football clubs disestablished in 1940 1931 establishments in Czechoslovakia 1940 disestablishments in Germany