1935–36 Gauliga Bayern

The 1935–36

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was the third season of the league, one of the 16

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

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(German:''Bayern'') from 1933 to 1945. For 1. FC Nürnberg it was the second of seven Gauliga championships the club would win in the era from 1933 to 1944. The club qualified for the 1936 German football championship, where it finished first in its group with

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, SV Jena and

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and qualified for the semi-finals. After overcoming defending champions

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2–1 Nürnberg advanced to the final where it won 2–1 after extra time against

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. For 1. FC Nürnberg it was the eighth time the club reached the final, winning its sixth national championship, the only one for a Gauliga Bayern club. The 1935–36 season saw the second edition of the ''Tschammerpokal'', now the

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. The most successful Gauliga Bayern representative in the 1936 edition, 1. FC Schweinfurt 05, advanced to the semi-finals where it lost to FC Schalke 04 who, in turn, would lose the final to

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