1934–35 Gauliga

July 2026 Gauliga 1934–35 16 regional winners German champions Schalke 042nd German title 1933–34 1935–36 thumb|right|The initial 16 districts of the Gauliga in 1933 The 1934–35 Gauliga was the second 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 two regional groups again, with the league containing 172 clubs all up, six less than the previous season. The league champions entered the 1935 German football championship, won by FC Schalke 04 who defeated VfB Stuttgart 6–4 in the final. It was Schalke's second national championship and the club would go on to win six all up 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 No club remained unbeaten during the league season but five teams finished with just one defeat, those being Yorck Boyen Insterburg, Stettiner SC, Eimsbütteler TV, SV Werder Bremen and FC Hanau 93. At the other end of the table two clubs finished the season without a win, Viktoria Recklinghausen and Germania Karlsdorf. Hannover 96 scored the most goals of any Gauliga club with 80 while Bremer SV conceded the most with 84. VfL 06 Benrath and Eimsbütteler TV achieved the highest points totals with 32 each while Viktoria Recklinghausen, Komet Stettin and FC Mannheim-Lindenhof earned the least with four points each to their name. The 1934–35 season saw the introduction of a cup competition, the Tschammerpokal, now the DFB-Pokal. The inaugural 1935 edition was won by 1. FC Nürnberg, defeating German champion FC Schalke 04 2–0 on 8 December 1935,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 preventing Schalke from winning the double, something the club would achieve two years later in 1937 as the only club in the pre-Bundesliga era.https://www.dfb.de/dfb-pokal/statistik/doublegewinner/ DOUBLEGEWINNER dfb.de German Football Association 15 January 2016 de Double winners Champions The 1934–35 Gauliga champions qualified for the group stage of the German championship. VfL 06 Benrath, PSV Chemnitz, VfB Stuttgart and FC Schalke 04 won their championship groups and advanced to the semi-finals with the latter two reaching the championship final which Schalke 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-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 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesd/duithistpre45.html German championship 1935 Rsssf.com 15 January 2016 FC Schalke 04, VfL 06 Benrath and Eimsbütteler TV won back-to-back Gauliga titles while the other 13 champions all won their first.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 VfR Mannheim Gauliga Baden 10 SpVgg Fürth Gauliga Bayern(1934–35 season)11 Hertha BSC Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg 11 FC Hanau 93 Gauliga Hessen 10 SV Jena Gauliga Mitte 10 VfR Köln Gauliga Mittelrhein 10VfL 06 Benrath Gauliga Niederrhein 11Hannover 96 Gauliga Niedersachsen 10 Eimsbütteler TV Gauliga Nordmark 10 Yorck Boyen Insterburg Gauliga Ostpreußen 14 SC Stettin Gauliga Pommern 14 PSV Chemnitz Gauliga Sachsen 10Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz Gauliga Schlesien 10Phönix Ludwigshafen Gauliga Südwest 11FC Schalke 04 Gauliga Westfalen 10VfB Stuttgart Gauliga Württemberg 10 German championship 1935 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 1934-35 1 Ger