Western German football championship

The West German Game Association ( WSV ) was the regional football association for the western part of the former German Empire. He was under the name Rhenish Game Association ( RSV) founded on October 23, 1898 in Dusseldorf, to make a regular and on regional play operation possible. On November 21, 1900, the RSV was renamed the Rhenish- Westphalian Game Association ( RWSV ), on May 12, 1907, in West German game association.

The nine founding clubs of the Rhenish Association game on October 23, 1898 were:

  • SpAbt. the Bonn TV 1860
  • SpAbt. Cölner of TV 1843
  • Dortmund FC 1895
  • Duisburg TV 1848
  • SpAbt. TG Düren
  • SpAbt. the Düsseldorf TV 1847
  • Hochfelder TV
  • FC 1894 München- Gladbach
  • FC München- Gladbach Reydt

While have been held championships in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg / Altona, Leipzig and in neighboring Netherlands and Belgium, was the development in the supraregional associations - almost a year before the RSV was originated in southern Germany VSFV - in the first years of relatively slow and slow. Only in the 1902/03 season three districts were formed in RWSV and received the game point operation. The District I included the cities Cologne / Bonn, Dusseldorf District II / München- Gladbach Reydt / Crefeld / Solingen / Velbert and District III Essen / Duisburg / Gelsenkirchen / Dortmund / Bottrop. It was played in three classes. 1902/ 03, the first West German Championship was held, in 1899 won the Cölner FC in the first class.

With increasing number of member clubs, the number of districts was expanded in the following years. 1906 occurred in the Casseler clubs RSV that were previously a member of the North German Football Association. Following the accession of clubs from the city of Osnabrück, Giessen, Marburg, Wetzlar and Dillenburg was on 12 May 1907, the renaming of the RWSV in West German Game Association ( WSV). The association area eventually encompassed the present-day state of North Rhine -Westphalia, the Greater Osnabrück up to the Dutch border, the Göttingen area, the metropolitan area of ​​Cassel, Fulda, Hesse means and the Greater Coblenz. Meanwhile, there was also a member of clubs from today's Saarland and from other parts of the Rhineland. In the course of the final determination of the regional association limits these associations were the Association slammed Southern German football clubs.

Only a few years after the start of the championship games in the west the discharge of official matches has been repeatedly discussed. Critics called for the abolition of the championship games because they were supposedly out too hard, and the return to the friendly matches of the early years. For the 1909/10 season of WSV led the league class as a top division for its association area. Nevertheless, the master of the league against the class had determined in an elimination round champion of local classes A1 deny a final of the West German championship. After only four years, the League class was abolished, resulting in a significant sporting throwback meant.

Until the introduction of Gauligen in 1933 there were constantly new reforms of the leagues. The extension of the season over two years for the seasons 1922/24 and 1924/26 was a one extreme case in German football. In the wake of the " Gleichschaltung " of sport organizations by the Nazis, the regional associations of the DFB were dissolved, and organized the matches now in central Germany far 16 Sportgauen. The WSV " survived " this a few months longer than the six other soccer regional associations, under the name " Gauverband West", he was initially to spring for the Gaus 9 ( Westphalia ), 10 ( Lower Rhine ) and 11 ( Middle Rhine ) responsible. His last chairman, the Nazi Party member Joseph Klein, then continued to try to delay the liquidation of the Association, and bent only in the spring of 1935, political pressure from the Interior Ministry.

Masters of Rhenish-Westphalian Game Association

  • 1902/03 season: Master Class 1: FC Cologne 1899
  • Master 2nd Class: VfvB 1900 Ruhrort
  • Master Class 3: Düsseldorf 1899 FC II
  • Season 1903/ 04: Master Class 1: Duisburg SpV
  • Master 2nd Class: Crefelder FC 1895
  • Master Class 3: Duisburg SpV III
  • Season 1904/ 05: Master Class 1: Duisburg SpV
  • Master 2nd Class: VfvB 1900 Ruhrort or FC 1894 München -Gladbach II
  • Master Class 3: FC Borussia München- Gladbach in 1900
  • 1905/06 season: Master Class 1: FC Cologne 1899
  • Master 2nd Class: FC Germania 1899 Düren ( last Western German Championship 2nd class )
  • Master Class 3: FC 1894 München -Gladbach III ( last Western German Championship 3rd class)
  • Season 1906/ 07: Master: Düsseldorf FC 1899

Master of the West German Game Association

  • 1907/08 season: Master: Duisburg SpV
  • 1908/09 season: Champion: FC 1894 München- Gladbach
  • 1909/10 season: Master: Duisburg SpV
  • 1910/11 season: Master: Duisburg SpV
  • 1911/12 season: Master: Kölner BC 1901
  • Season 1912/13: Master: Duisburg SpV (for master determined )
  • Season 1913/14: Master: Duisburg SpV
  • Season 1914/15: Master: during the first world war was fought not to the final WSV Championship
  • Season 1915/16: Master: during the first world war was fought not to the final WSV Championship
  • Season 1916/17: Master: during the first world war was fought not to the final WSV Championship
  • Season 1917/18: Master: during the first world war was fought not to the final WSV Championship
  • Season 1918/19: Master: during the first world war was fought not WSV Championship
  • Season 1919/20: Master: VfTuR 1889 München- Gladbach
  • Season 1920/21: Master: Duisburg SpV
  • Season 1921/22: Master: TG Arminia Bielefeld 1848
  • Season 1922/23: Master: 1 Arminia Bielefeld FC 1905
  • Season 1923/24: Master: Duisburg SpV
  • Season 1924 /25: Master: Duisburg SpV
  • Season 1925/26: Master: VfR rrh. 1904 Cologne
  • Season 1926/27: Master: Duisburg SpV
  • 1927/28 season: Master: SpVgg Suelz 07
  • 1928/29 season: Champion: FC Schalke 04
  • Season 1929/30: Champion: FC Schalke 04
  • Season 1930/31: Master: TSV Fortuna Dusseldorf 1895
  • Season 1931/32: Champion: FC Schalke 04
  • Cup: VfL Benrath 1906
  • Season 1932/33: Champion: FC Schalke 04
  • Cup: VfL Benrath 1906
  • Former German Football Association
  • Sports Association ( Dusseldorf )
  • Regional Sports Association (Nordrhein- Westfalen)
  • Sport ( Prussia)
  • Established in 1898
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