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1944 German football championship

Field	Value
title	German championship
year	1944
other_titles	Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft
image	Victoria Schalke-Museum.jpg
image_size	100px
caption	Replica of the Viktoria trophy
country	Germany
dates	16 April – 18 June
num_teams	31
winners	Dresdner SC
2nd German title
second	LSV Hamburg
matches	32
goals	185
scoring_leader	Helmut Schön (14 goals)
prev_season	[1943](1943-german-football-championship)
next_season	[1948](1948-german-football-championship)

2nd German title The ** 1944 German football championship**, the 37th edition of the competition, was won by Dresdner SC, the club defending its 1943 title by defeating Luftwaffe team LSV Hamburg in the final.

The final years of the German Championship during the war saw many military teams compete in the championship, Luftwaffe teams, Luftwaffensportvereine, short LSV, and, Wehrmacht teams, Wehrmachtssportvereine, short WSV, became very competitive.

Dresden's Helmut Schön, who would later coach Germany to the 1974 FIFA World Cup, became the top scorer of the 1944 championship with 14 goals, the second-highest individual amount of any player in the history of the competition from 1903 to 1963.

It was the last edition of the tournament during the Second World War, with the competition not being held again until 1948. The thirty-one 1943–44 Gauliga champions, two more than in the previous season, competed in a single-leg knock out competition to determine the national champion.

Dresdner SC became the last club to be awarded the Viktoria, the annual trophy for the German champions from 1903 to 1944. The trophy disappeared during the final stages of the war, did not resurface until after the German reunification and was put on display at the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt until 2015, when it was moved to the new Deutsches Fußballmuseum in Dortmund.

Qualified teams

The teams qualified through the 1943–44 Gauliga season:

SV Göppingen	Gauliga Württemberg

Competition

First round

Borussia Fulda received a bye for the first round.

Replay

Round of 16

Replay

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Gornick Sold

Machate
Schön

Third place play-off

Final

Schaffer
Schön

GER Georg Köhler

GER Karl Höger

References

Sources

kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 164 & 177 - German championship

References

[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duitchamp.html (West) Germany -List of champions] rsssf.org, accessed: 22 December 2015
[http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/dresdner-sc/1/ Dresdner SC » Steckbrief] {{in lang. de Weltfussball.de – Dresdner SC honours, accessed: 22 December 2015
[http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/sport/Als-Wien-deutscher-Meister-wurde-id31162997.html Als Wien deutscher Meister wurde] {{in lang. de ''[[Augsburger Allgemeine]]'' – When Vienna became German champions, published: 3 September 2015, accessed: 26 December 2015
"Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige".
''kicker Allmanach 1990'', page: 243-245
[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duithistpre45.html German championship 1944] rsssf.org, accessed: 25 December 2015
[https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/pokale-auf-reisen-viktoria-und-co-wandern-ins-fussballmuseum-123277/ POKALE AUF REISEN: VIKTORIA UND CO. WANDERN INS FUSSBALLMUSEUM] {{in lang. de DFB website, accessed: 27 December 2015
[http://www.weltfussball.de/spielplan/deutsche-meisterschaft-1944-1-runde/0/ German championship 1944 – First round] {{in lang. de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015
[https://www.weltfussball.de/spielplan/deutsche-meisterschaft-1944-1-runde/0/ German championship 1944 – Round of sixteen] {{in lang. de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015
[http://www.weltfussball.de/spielplan/deutsche-meisterschaft-1944-viertelfinale/0/ German championship 1944 – Quarter finals] {{in lang. de Weltfussball.de, accessed: 25 December 2015

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