1949 German football championship

The 45th German football championship was the culmination of the 1948-49 football season in Germany. VfR Mannheim were crowned champions for the first time after a one-leg knock-out tournament. It was both side's first appearance in the final.

The tournament was expanded so that ten teams were to take part in the final stage which was played as a one-leg knock-out tournament, with the matches played on neutral ground. The five regional Oberliga winners, along with VfR Mannheim and Wormatia Worms, automatically qualified for the quarter finals, while the remaining three teams played qualifying rounds to clinch the eighth place.

Qualified teams

Competition

Qualifying Round

First Round

29 May 1949	FC St. Pauli	4 – 1	Rot-Weiss Essen	Braunschweig
	Boller  14', 54' Stender  20' Michael  87'		Cornelissen  83'	Stadium: Stadion Hamburger Straße Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Boullion (Königsberg)

Second Round

5 June 1949	FC St. Pauli	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Bayern Munich	Hanover
	Boller  49'		Resch  88'	Stadium: Eilenriedestadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Schumann (Berlin)

Second Round Replay

6 June 1949	FC St. Pauli	2 – 0	Bayern Munich	Hanover
	Woitas  8' Boller  66'			Stadium: Eilenriedestadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Schumann (Berlin)

Quarter finals

12 June 1949	Berliner SV 92	0 – 5	Borussia Dortmund	Olympiastadion, Berlin Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Schulz (Dresden)
			Michallek  3', 77' Erdmann  17' Preißler  44' Kasperski  83'

12 June 1949	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	FC St. Pauli	Weserstadion, Bremen Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Bernbeck (Frankfurt)
	O.Walter  10'		Woitas  43'

12 June 1949	Kickers Offenbach	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Wormatia Worms	Betzenberg, Kaiserslautern Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Heuck (Kiel)
	Maier  71', 73'		Müller  35' Vogt  90'

12 June 1949	VfR Mannheim	5 – 0	Hamburger SV	Waldstadion, Frankfurt Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Trompetter (Cologne)
	de la Vigne  20' Bolleyer  30' Langlotz  79' (pen.), 90' Löttke  84'

Replays

19 June 1949	1. FC Kaiserslautern	4 – 1	FC St. Pauli	Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Strobel (Schwabach)
	O.Walter  8' Baßler  15' Grewenig  86', 90'		Appel  4'

19 June 1949	Kickers Offenbach	2 – 0	Wormatia Worms	Telegrafenkaserne, Karlsruhe Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Imbeck (Hamburg)
	Maier  12' Selbert  70' (o.g.)

Semi finals

26 June 1949	VfR Mannheim	2 – 1	Kickers Offenbach	Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Kormannshaus (Bad Oeynhausen)
	Löttke  1' de la Vigne  8'		Schreiner  3'

Replay

3 July 1949	Borussia Dortmund	4 – 1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Fink (Frankfurt)
	Preißler  22', 60' Michallek  35' Erdmann  85'		Baßler  50'

Third Place playoff

9 July 1949	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Kickers Offenbach	Stadion Oberwerth, Koblenz Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Witthaus (Duisburg)
	Grewenig  97' O.Walter  109'		Schreiner  120'

Final

10 July 1949	VfR Mannheim	3 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Borussia Dortmund	Neckarstadion, Stuttgart Attendance: 92,000 Referee: Zacher (Berlin)
	Löttke  74'  108' Langlotz  85'		Erdmann  5'  82'

VFR MANNHEIM: GK Hermann Jöckel DF Kurt Keuerleber DF Philip Henninger DF Eugen Rößling MF Fritz Bolleyer MF Jakob Müller MF Rudi Maier FW Ernst Löttke FW Ernst Langlotz FW Rudolf de la Vigne FW Kurt Stiefvater Manager: Hans Schmidt

BORUSSIA DORTMUND: GK Günther Rau DF Max Michallek DF Paul Koschmieder DF Erwin Halfen DF Heinrich Ruhmhofer MF Friedel Ibel MF Wilhelm Buddenberg FW Edmund Kasperski FW Werner Erdmann FW Erich Schanko FW Alfred Preißler Manager: Viktor Havlicek

References

• 1948-49 at Weltfussball.de
• Germany - Championship 1949 at RSSSF.com
• German championship 1949 at Fussballdaten.de