Kreisliga Württemberg
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| Kreisliga Württemberg |
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| Founded |
| 1919 |
| Disbanded |
| 1923 |
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| Number of Seasons |
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| Replaced by |
| Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden The Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden was the highest association football league in the German states of Württemberg and Baden and the Prussian Province of Hohenzollern from 1923 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933.... |
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| Last Champions 1922-23 |
| Stuttgarter Kickers Stuttgarter Kickers Stuttgarter Kickers is a German association football club that plays in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, founded on 21 September 1899 as FC Stuttgarter Cickers... |
The Kreisliga Württemberg (English: District league Württemberg) was the highest association football league in the German
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Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
state of Württemberg
Free People's State of Württemberg
The Free People's State of Württemberg was a state of Germany during the Weimar Republic in Württemberg.-1918 revolution:As Germany underwent violent revolution near the end of World War I, the Kingdom of Württemberg was transformed from a monarchy to a democratic republic without bloodshed; its...
from 1919 to 1923. The league was disbanded with the introduction of the Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden
Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden
The Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden was the highest association football league in the German states of Württemberg and Baden and the Prussian Province of Hohenzollern from 1923 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933....
in 1923.
Predecessor
From 1907, four regional leagues were formed within the structure of the Southern German football championshipSouthern German football championship
The Southern German football championship was the highest association football competition in the South of Germany, established in 1898...
, in a move to improve the organisation of football in Southern Germany, these being:
- Ostkreis-Liga, covering Bavaria
- Nordkreis-LigaNordkreis-LigaThe Nordkreis-Liga was the highest association football league in the German Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1909 to 1918...
, covering Hesse - Südkreis-LigaSüdkreis-LigaThe Südkreis-Liga was the highest association football league in the German Kingdom of Württemberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, the Province of Hohenzollern and Alsace-Lorraine from 1908 to 1918...
, covering Württemberg, Baden and Alsace - Westkreis-LigaWestkreis-LigaThe Westkreis-Liga was the highest association football league in the Bavarian region of Palatinate, the northern parts of the Grand Duchy of Baden, the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province and parts of Lorraine from 1908 to 1918...
, covering the Palatinate, Lorraine and the southern Rhine Province
In 1908, a first Südkreis-Liga (English: Southern District League) was established, consisting of ten clubs and playing a home-and-away season. With the outbreak of the First World War, league football came to a halt and, during the war, games were only played on a limited level.
Post-First World War
With the collapse of the German EmpireGerman Empire
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in 1918, no Württemberg championship was played in 1918-19 but football returned to a more organised system in 1919.
Southern Germany, now without the Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
region, which had to be returned to France
France
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, was sub-divided into ten Kreisligas, these being:
- Kreisliga HessenKreisliga HessenThe Kreisliga Hessen was the highest association football league in parts of the German state of Hesse and parts of the Bavarian region of Palatinate as well as the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1919 to 1923...
- Kreisliga Nordbayern
- Kreisliga NordmainKreisliga NordmainThe Kreisliga Nordmain was the highest association football league in parts of the German state of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1919 to 1923...
- Kreisliga OdenwaldKreisliga OdenwaldThe Kreisliga Odenwald was the highest association football league in the northern part of the German state of Baden and the southern part of the state of Hesse from 1919 to 1923...
- Kreisliga PfalzKreisliga PfalzThe Kreisliga Pfalz was the highest association football league in the Bavarian region of Palatinate from 1919 to 1923...
- Kreisliga SaarKreisliga SaarThe Kreisliga Saar was the highest association football league in the German state of Saarland and parts of the Bavarian region of Palatinate and the Prussian Rhine Province from 1919 to 1923...
- Kreisliga Südbayern
- Kreisliga SüdmainKreisliga SüdmainThe Kreisliga Südmain was the highest association football league in parts of the German state of Hesse from 1919 to 1923. The league was disbanded with the introduction of the Bezirksliga Main in 1923....
- Kreisliga SüdwestKreisliga SüdwestThe Kreisliga Südwest was the highest association football league in the German state of Baden from 1919 to 1923...
- Kreisliga Württemberg
The Südkreis-Liga was split into three regional competitions, Württemberg, Odenwald and Südwest, each with ten clubs. The three league winners advanced to the Southern championship. This system applied for the 1919-20 and 1920-21 season.
In 1921-22, the Kreisliga Württemberg was split into two groups of eight, increasing the number of tier-one clubs in Württemberg to 16. The two league winners then played a final to determine the Württemberg champion, which in turn advanced to a Baden-Württemberg championship final against the Südwest champion. The Odenwald champion was not part of this series but rather played a Rhine championship. This "watering down" of Württemberg football lasted for only one season, in 1922-23, the number of top clubs was reduced to eight clubs in a single division, with a Baden-Württemberg final against the Südwest champion once more.
In 1923, a league reform which was decided upon in Darmstadt
Darmstadt
Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
, Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
, established the Southern German Bezirksligas which were to replace the Kreisligas. The best four teams each from the Südwest and Württemberg were admitted to the new Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden
Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden
The Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden was the highest association football league in the German states of Württemberg and Baden and the Prussian Province of Hohenzollern from 1923 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933....
. The four clubs from Württemberg were:
- Stuttgarter KickersStuttgarter KickersStuttgarter Kickers is a German association football club that plays in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, founded on 21 September 1899 as FC Stuttgarter Cickers...
- SV Feuerbach
- VfR Heilbronn
- SC Stuttgart
National success
The clubs from the Kreisliga Württemberg were not particularly successful in this era and none managed to qualify for the German championship.Baden-Württemberg championship
Played in 1922 and 1923, these were the finals:- 1922:
- Württemberg final: Sportfreunde Stuttgart - Stuttgarter Kickers 1-0 / 3-2
- Baden-Württemberg final: Sportfreunde Stuttgart - Karlsruher FVKarlsruher FVKarlsruher FV is a German association football club that plays in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. Established on 17 November 1891, KFV was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900. The team went on to capture the national championship in 1910 with a 1–0 victory over Holstein Kiel...
1-0 / 1-1
- 1923:
- Baden-Württemberg final: 1. FC Pforzheim1. FC Pforzheim1. FC Pforzheim was a German association football club playing in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club was established on 5 May 1896 and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900. In 2010 it merged with VfR Pforzheim to 1. CfR Pforzheim.-Early success:The club...
- Stuttgarter Kickers 3-0 / 1-1
- Baden-Württemberg final: 1. FC Pforzheim
Southern German championship
Qualified teams and their success:- 1920:
- SC Stuttgart, Group stage
- 1921:
- Stuttgarter Kickers, Group stage
- 1922:
- Sportfreunde Stuttgart, Semi-finals
- 1923:
- Stuttgarter Kickers, not qualified
Winners and runners-up of the Kreisliga Württemberg
| Season | Champions | Runner-Up |
| 1919-20 | SC Stuttgart | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| 1920-21 | Stuttgarter Kickers | SV Feuerbach |
| 1921-22 | Sportfreunde Stuttgart | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| 1922-23 | Stuttgarter Kickers | SV Feuerbach |
Placings in the Kreisliga Württemberg 1919-23
| Club | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC Stuttgart | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Stuttgarter Kickers Stuttgarter Kickers Stuttgarter Kickers is a German association football club that plays in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, founded on 21 September 1899 as FC Stuttgarter Cickers... |
2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sportfreunde Stuttgart Sportfreunde Stuttgart The Sportfreunde Stuttgart is a German association football club from the city of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg.-1874 to 1945:The club was formed, as a gymnastics club, on 18 April 1874, under the name of Turnverein Heslach... |
3 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| SV Feuerbach | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| VfB Stuttgart VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons... |
5 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| VfR Heilbronn | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| FV Ulm 94 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
| FV Zuffenhausen | 8 | 9 | 8 | |
| Spgg. Tübingen | 9 | 6 | ||
| FV Kornwestheim | 10 | |||
| Spgg. Cannstatt | 7 | 6 | ||
| Union Böckingen Union Böckingen Union Böckingen is a German sports club from the district of Böckingen in the city of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg. Founded in 1908 out of the merger of Fussball Klub Germania 08 Böcking and Viktoria Böcking, the club today has 1,200 members in departments for football, canoeing, handball, and skiing... |
10 | 7 | ||
| TB Ulm | 5 | |||
| Pfeil Gaisburg | 7 | |||
| Eintracht Stuttgart | 3 | 7 | ||
| Normannia Gmünd | 5 | |||
| VfL Stuttgart | 8 | |||
Sources
- Fussball-Jahrbuch Deutschland (8 vol.), Tables and results of the German tier-one leagues 1919-33, publisher: DSFS
- Kicker Almanach, The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports MagazineKicker (sports magazine)kicker Sportmagazin is Germany's leading sports magazine and is focused primarily on football. The magazine was founded in 1920 by German football pioneer Walther Bensemann and is published twice a week, usually Monday and Thursday, in Nuremberg...
- Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988 History of Southern German football in tables, publisher & author: Ludolf Hyll
External links
The Gauligas Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv German league tables 1892-1933 Hirschi's Fussball seiten- Germany - Championships 1902-1945 at RSSSF.com