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1935–36 Gauliga
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Gauliga 1935–36 16 regional winners German champions 1. FC Nürnberg6th German title 1934–35 1936–37
thumb|right|The initial 16 districts of the Gauliga in 1933
The 1935–36 Gauliga was the third season of the Gauliga, the first tier of the football league system in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
The league operated in sixteen regional divisions, of which two, the Gauliga Ostpreußen and Gauliga Pommern, were sub-divided into four and two regional groups respectively, with the league containing 183 clubs all up, eleven more than the previous season. The league champions entered the 1936 German football championship, won by 1. FC Nürnberg who defeated Fortuna Düsseldorf 2–1 in the final. It was Nürnberg's sixth national championship, the club's only one during the Gauliga era of German football from 1933 to 1945.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duitchamp.html (West) Germany -List of champions Rsssf.com 15 January 2016
Three clubs remained unbeaten during the league season: Hindenburg Allenstein, FC Schalke 04 and 1. FC Nürnberg. Of those three Nürnberg would go on to remain unbeaten during the German championship as well while Schalke would suffer two defeats, one of them in the semi-finals to Nürnberg, while Allenstein would lose all six finals games. At the other end of the table only one club finished the season without a win, SpVgg Feuerbach. FC Schalke 04 scored the most goals of any Gauliga club with 94 while SC Dresdenia Dresden conceded the most with 72. FC Schalke 04 achieved the highest points total with 35 while SV Insterburg earned the least with two points to its name.
The 1935–36 season saw the second edition of the Tschammerpokal, now the DFB-Pokal. The 1936 edition was won by VfB Leipzig, defeating FC Schalke 04 2–1 on 3 January 1937.https://www.dfb.de/dfb-pokal/statistik/bisherige-sieger/ ALLE DFB-POKALSIEGER dfb.de German Football Association 15 January 2016 de All German Cup winners
Champions
The 1935–36 Gauliga champions qualified for the group stage of the German championship. FC Schalke 04, Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz, Fortuna Düsseldorf and 1. FC Nürnberg won their championship groups and advanced to the semi-finals with the latter two reaching the championship final which Nürnberg won.http://www.f-archiv.de/ Gauliga final tables f-archiv.de 15 January 2016 dehttp://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1930-31/frg-1935-36/ Germany 1935–36 claudionicoletti.eu 15 January 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212318/http://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1930-31/frg-1935-36/ 4 March 2016 dead https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duithistpre45.html German championship 1936 Rsssf.com 15 January 2016
FC Schalke 04 and Eimsbütteler TV both won their third consecutive Gauliga titles while Hertha BSC, FC Hanau 93, SV Jena, PSV Chemnitz and Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz all won their second consecutive one. SV Waldhof Mannheim, 1. FC Nürnberg, SV Werder Bremen and Viktoria Stolp repeated their 1933–34 Gauliga titles with the remaining five winning their first.http://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1930-31/frg-1934-35/ Germany 1934–35 claudionicoletti.eu 15 January 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133913/http://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1930-31/frg-1934-35/ 4 March 2016 dead http://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1930-31/frg-1933-34/ Germany 1933–34 claudionicoletti.eu 15 January 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200422/http://www.claudionicoletti.eu/wordpress2/campionati-nazionali-in-europa/all-final-tables/f-r-germany-league-final-tables/frg-1930-31/frg-1933-34/ 4 March 2016 dead
Club League No. of clubs SV Waldhof Mannheim Gauliga Baden 10 1. FC Nürnberg Gauliga Bayern(1935–36 season)10 Hertha BSC Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg 10 FC Hanau 93 Gauliga Hessen 10 SV Jena Gauliga Mitte 10 CfR Köln Gauliga Mittelrhein 10Fortuna Düsseldorf Gauliga Niederrhein 10SV Werder Bremen Gauliga Niedersachsen 11 Eimsbütteler TV Gauliga Nordmark 10 Hindenburg Allenstein Gauliga Ostpreußen 28 Viktoria Stolp Gauliga Pommern 14 PSV Chemnitz Gauliga Sachsen 10Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz Gauliga Schlesien 10Wormatia Worms Gauliga Südwest 10FC Schalke 04 Gauliga Westfalen 10Stuttgarter Kickers Gauliga Württemberg 10
German championship
1936 German football championship
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
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