German football championship 1959
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The 55th German football championship was the culmination of the football
season in the Federal Republic of Germany
in 1958-59. Eintracht Frankfurt
were crowned champions for the first time after a group stage and a final.
It was Eintracht's second appearance in the German final, having previously lost to FC Bayern Munich
in 1932. The team won all seven games it played in the finals. On the strength of this title, the club participated in the 1959–60 European Cup, where it became the first German club to reach the final
.
For the losing finalist, Kickers Offenbach, it was its second time to reach the national title game, having lost to VfB Stuttgart
in 1950. It was also the only time the final was contested by two clubs from the state of Hesse
.
The format used to determine the German champion was very similar to the one used in the 1957 and 1958 season. Nine clubs qualified for the tournament, with the runners-up of North and Southwest having to play a qualification match. The remaining eight clubs then played a home-and-away round in two groups of four, with the two group winners entering the final. In previous seasons, only a single round had been played in the group stage, increasing the number of group games per team from three to six from 1959.
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Kickers Offenbach:
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1
Walter Zimmermann
2
Karl Waldmann
3
Alfred Schultheis
4
Hermann Nuber
5
Ernst Wade
6
Heinz Lichtl
7
Gerhard Kaufhold
8
Helmut Preisendörfer
9
Berti Kraus
10
Willi Keim
11
Siegfried Gast
Manager:
Bogdan Cuvaj
Football (soccer)
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season in the Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
in 1958-59. Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...
were crowned champions for the first time after a group stage and a final.
It was Eintracht's second appearance in the German final, having previously lost to FC Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....
in 1932. The team won all seven games it played in the finals. On the strength of this title, the club participated in the 1959–60 European Cup, where it became the first German club to reach the final
1960 European Cup Final
The 1960 European Cup Final was the fifth final in the history of the European Cup, and was contested between Real Madrid of Spain and Eintracht Frankfurt of Germany. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest football matches ever played. Madrid won 7–3 in front of a crowd of 135,000 people at...
.
For the losing finalist, Kickers Offenbach, it was its second time to reach the national title game, having lost to 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...
in 1950. It was also the only time the final was contested by two clubs from the state of 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...
.
The format used to determine the German champion was very similar to the one used in the 1957 and 1958 season. Nine clubs qualified for the tournament, with the runners-up of North and Southwest having to play a qualification match. The remaining eight clubs then played a home-and-away round in two groups of four, with the two group winners entering the final. In previous seasons, only a single round had been played in the group stage, increasing the number of group games per team from three to six from 1959.
Qualified teams
| Club | Qualified from |
| Hamburger SV Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department... |
Oberliga Nord Oberliga Nord (1947-63) The Oberliga Nord was the highest level of the German football league system in the north of Germany from 1947 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.-Overview:... champions |
| SV Werder Bremen SV Werder Bremen SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize... |
Oberliga Nord runners-up |
| Westfalia Herne Westfalia Herne SC Westfalia Herne is a German football club based in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded on 13 June 1904 by the sons of the more well-heeled residents of the city as a rival to the worker-based club SV Sodingen.- History :... |
Oberliga West Oberliga West (1947-63) The Oberliga West was the highest level of the German football league system in the west of Germany from 1947 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963... champions |
| 1. FC Köln 1. FC Köln 1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07.... |
Oberliga West runners-up |
| Tasmania 1900 Berlin Tasmania 1900 Berlin SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin was a German association football club based in the Berlin district of Neukölln.- Tasmania 1900 :The team was founded on 2 June 1900 as Rixdorfer TuFC Tasmania 1900, changing its name when Rixdorf was re-named Neukölln in 1912... |
Oberliga Berlin Oberliga Berlin (1945-63) The Oberliga Berlin was the highest level of the German football league system in the city of West-Berlin in Germany from 1945 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It was by far the smallest of the five Oberligas.-Overview:... champions |
| FK Pirmasens FK Pirmasens FK Pirmasens is a German association football club in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team was formed as the football section of the gymnastics and sports club TV Pirminia Pirmasens in 1903 and became independent in 1914. They took on their current name in 1925... |
Oberliga Südwest Oberliga Südwest (1945-63) The Oberliga Südwest was the highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1945 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the two states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland.-Overview:... champions |
| Borussia Neunkirchen Borussia Neunkirchen Borussia VfB Neunkirchen is a German association football club based in Neunkirchen, Saarland. The club SC Borussia Neunkirchen was founded out of the 1907 merger of FC 1905 Borussia and SC Neunkirchen.-History:... |
Oberliga Südwest runners-up |
| Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :... |
Oberliga Süd Oberliga Süd (1945-63) The Oberliga Süd was the highest level of the German football league system in the south of Germany from 1945 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963.It covered the three states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen.-Overview:... champions |
| Kickers Offenbach Kickers Offenbach Kickers Offenbach is a German association football club in Offenbach am Main, Hesse. The club was founded on 27 May 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who had left established local clubs including Melitia, Teutonia, Viktoria, Germania and Neptun... |
Oberliga Süd runners-up |
Qualifying round
Matches
Table
| Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | DIF | PTS |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 12 |
| 1. FC Köln | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | -4 | 5 |
| FK Pirmasens | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 18 | -2 | 4 |
| Werder Bremen | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 21 | -9 | 3 |
Matches
| Date | Match | Result | Stadium | Attendance | ||
| 16 May 1959 | Westfalia Herne | – | Tasmania 1900 Berlin | 1–0 (1–0) | Dortmund Dortmund Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union.... , Stadion Rote Erde Stadion Rote Erde Stadion Rote Erde is a 25,000 capacity football and athletics stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It serves as home to Borussia Dortmund II.... |
30,000 |
| 16 May 1959 | Kickers Offenbach | – | Hamburger SV | 3–2 (0–2) | Frankfurt am Main, Waldstadion | 80,000 |
| 23 May 1959 | Hamburger SV | – | Westfalia Herne | 4–2 (2–0) | Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808... , Volksparkstadion |
70,000 |
| 23 May 1959 | Tasmania 1900 Berlin | – | Kickers Offenbach | 2–2 (0–2) | Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... , Olympiastadion |
70,000 |
| 30 May 1959 | Tasmania 1900 Berlin | – | Hamburger SV | 0–2 (0–0) | Berlin, Olympiastadion | 90,000 |
| 30 May 1959 | Westfalia Herne | – | Kickers Offenbach | 1–4 (0–1) | Dortmund, Stadion Rote Erde | 45,000 |
| 7 June 1959 | Hamburger SV | – | Tasmania 1900 Berlin | 3–0 (0–0) | Hamburg, Volksparkstadion | 65,000 |
| 7 June 1959 | Kickers Offenbach | – | Westfalia Herne | 2–1 (0–0) | Frankfurt am Main, Waldstadion | 56,000 |
| 13 June 1959 | Westfalia Herne | – | Hamburger SV | 3–1 (1–1) | Dortmund, Stadion Rote Erde | 42,000 |
| 13 June 1959 | Kickers Offenbach | – | Tasmania 1900 Berlin | 3–2 (0–1) | Frankfurt am Main, Waldstadion | 35,000 |
| 20 June 1959 | Hamburger SV | – | Kickers Offenbach | 1–0 (0–0) | Hamburg, Volksparkstadion | 65,000 |
| 20 June 1959 | Tasmania 1900 Berlin | – | Westfalia Herne | 2-0 (0–0) | Berlin, Olympiastadion | 22,000 |
Table
| Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | DIF | PTS |
| Kickers Offenbach | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 9 |
| Hamburger SV | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 8 |
| Westfalia Herne | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -5 | 4 |
| Tasmania 1900 Berlin | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -5 | 3 |
Final
| Date | Match | Result | Stadium | Attendance | ||
| 28 June 1959 | Eintracht Frankfurt | – | Kickers Offenbach | 5–3 aet (2–2, 2–2) | Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... , Olympiastadion Olympic Stadium (Berlin) The Olympiastadion is a sports stadium in Berlin, Germany. There have been two stadiums on the site: the present facility, and one that is called the Deutsches Stadion which was built for the aborted 1916 Summer Olympics. Both were designed by members of the same family, the first by Otto March... |
75,000 |
Teams
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| 1 | Egon Loy Egon Loy Egon Loy is a German former professional football goalkeeper.-Early career:Egon Loy spent the first years of his senior career in Schwabach near Nuremberg. From local side TSV 04 Schwabach he was promoted to the first Bavarian amateur league. Until 1954 he played with his home club in the highest... |
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| 2 | Hans Weilbächer Hans Weilbächer Hans Weilbächer is a former German football player. He was capped once for Germany in 1955 against Republic of Ireland. With his club side Eintracht Frankfurt, he won the German championship in 1959 and reached the European Cup final in the following year against Real Madrid which the Eagles... |
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| 3 | Friedel Lutz Friedel Lutz Alfred "Friedel" Lutz is a former German football player.Friedel Lutz joined Eintracht Frankfurt in 1955 and carried on playing for the club, with whom he reached the 1960 European Cup final against Real Madrid , until 1973... |
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| 4 | Hermann Höfer Hermann Höfer Hermann "Stift" Höfer was a German football player who played his entire career for Eintracht Frankfurt.... |
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| 5 | Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt was a German football player. The defender won with Eintracht Frankfurt the German championship in 1959 and reached with the club the legendary 1960 European Cup Final against Real Madrid.... |
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| 6 |  István SztaniIstván Sztani István Sztáni is a former football manager and a retired Hungarian football striker.Sztani left Hungary for Eintracht Frankfurt and faced a one year FIFA ban. With the Main siders he won the German championship in 1959. At the end of the season he moved to Standard Liège of Belgium and stayed... |
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| 7 | Dieter Stinka Dieter Stinka Dieter Stinka is a former German football player. The midfielder won with Eintracht Frankfurt the German championship in 1959 and reached with the club the legendary 1960 European Cup Final against Real Madrid.- Career :... |
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| 8 | Dieter Lindner Dieter Lindner (footballer) Dieter Lindner is a former German football player.Lindner played for Eintracht Frankfurt since his youth and remained at his home club the entire career. He appeared in 321 matches in the Oberliga and the new founded Bundesliga... |
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| 9 | Eckehard Feigenspan Eckehard Feigenspan Eckehard Feigenspan is a former German footballer who has been twice capped for Germany's B squad.- German championship 1959 :... |
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| 10 | Alfred Pfaff Alfred Pfaff Alfred Pfaff was a German football player and World Cup winner with West Germany in 1954.- Life :Pfaff was capped seven times between 1953 and 1956 for the West German national team, scoring two goals as an inside forward.... |
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| 11 | Richard Kreß |
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| Paul Oßwald Paul Oßwald Paul Oßwald was a German former football player and manager. As manager of Eintracht Frankfurt he won the German championship in 1959.-Early career, 1918-28:... |
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Walter Zimmermann Karl Waldmann Alfred Schultheis Hermann NuberHermann Nuber
Hermann Nuber is a former German footballer.He was a player of Kickers Offenbach from 1954 to 1971, and was later the club's coach in 1984. There is a bronze bust honoring him outside Bieberer Berg Stadion, the home stadium.He was part of the West German team which participated in the 1958 FIFA...
Ernst Wade Heinz Lichtl Gerhard Kaufhold Helmut Preisendörfer Berti Kraus Willi Keim Siegfried Gast Bogdan CuvajBogdan Cuvaj
Bogdan Cuvaj was a Croatian football manager in both club and international competition.He became the manager of Concordia Zagreb's youth side in 1926. After receiving managerial training in Vienna, Cuvaj became Concordia's manager in 1931, a position he held until the club was banned in 1945...
Sources
- German Championship 1958-59 at Weltfussball.de
- Germany - Championship 1958-59 at RSSSF.com
- kicker Allmanach 1990, by kickerKicker (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...
, page 165 & 177 - German championship 1959 - German championship 1959 at Fussballdaten.de