1944–45 Gauliga

July 2026 Gauliga 1944–45 Not completed German champions Not held 1943–44 1945–46 (Oberliga) thumb|right|The initial 16 districts of the Gauliga from 1933 to 1938 The 1944–45 Gauliga was the twelfth and final season of the Gauliga, the first tier of the football league system in Germany from 1933 to 1945. It was the sixth season of the league held during the Second World War but was not completed as Nazi Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. Cancellation The league operated in a large number of regional divisions, the effects of the war having forced a further regionalisation. The effects of the war led to the cancellation of all Gauliga competition and various stages from September 1944 onwards. In Southern Germany competitions continued up to almost the end of the war. Only the Gauliga Hamburg had an official champion recorded with Hamburger SV winning the competition.http://www.f-archiv.de/ Gauliga final tables f-archiv.de 17 January 2016 dehttp://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1940-41/frg-1944-45/ Germany 1944–45 claudionicoletti.eu 17 January 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204836/http://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1940-41/frg-1944-45/ 23 September 2015 dead kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 243-245 The last recorded official Gauliga game was Munich derby between FC Bayern and 1860 Munich on 23 April 1945, ending 3–2.http://www.abseits-soccer.com/essays/nazi.html https://web.archive.org/web/20030606191838/http://abseits-soccer.com/essays/nazi.html usurped 6 June 2003 Soccer in the Third Reich: 1933-1945 abseits-soccer.com The Abseits Guide to German Soccer 17 January 2016 League football soon resumed in post-war Germany in mostly regional competitions. In the American occupation zone, in Southern Germany the tier one Oberliga Süd kicked off with the approval of the US occupation authorities on 4 November 1945.100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball Verband, page: 71 German championship The league champions would have qualified for the 1945 German football championship, but the competition was not held, with the next edition being in 1948.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duitchamp.html (West) Germany -List of champions Rsssf.com 17 January 2016 References Sources kicker-Almanach 1990 de Yearbook of German football, publisher: kicker Sportmagazin, published: 1989, 3-7679-0297-4 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband de 100 Years of the Southern German Football Federation, publisher: SFV, published: 1997 Die deutschen Gauligen 1933–45 – Heft 1–3 de Tables of the Gauligas 1933–45, publisher: DSFS External links Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv de Historic German league tables 1944-45 1 Ger