# List of clubs in the German football championship

This is a list of all clubs that have taken part in the German football championship from 1903 to 1963, in the era when the national championship was decided by a finals round with a national title game at the end.
The German football championship was first held in 1903 and won by VfB Leipzig. In 1904, the championship was not completed due to a protest by Karlsruher FV about a technicality, with all games but the final played. The competition was held again in 1905 and, from then on, annually.
The championship was interrupted by the World War I, and not held from 1915 to 1920, when football returned to more organised fashion after the disruptions caused by the war.
In 1922, the final was inconclusive and Hamburger SV was declared champions but declined the honor. After this, a championship was held every season until 1944. With the expansion of Nazi Germany, clubs from occupied territories or annexed countries took part in the competition, including teams from Austria, France, Luxembourg, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
The German championship resumed in 1948, three years after the end of the World War II. Germany, now greatly reduced in size, originally was divided into four occupation zones; from 1949 into three political entities, the German Democratic Republic, known in English as East Germany, the Saar Protectorate, now the German Federal State of the Saarland, and the Federal Republic of Germany, widely called in English, West Germany.
The clubs from the Saar protectorate remained within the German football league system for the most part and continued to take part in the national championship. East German clubs did not. SC Planitz, the team from Zwickau, in Saxony qualified for the 1948 championships at Nuremberg, but was refused a travel permit by the Soviet authorities. After 1948, no clubs from the East entered the championship again.
The German championship continued to operate in this form until 1963, when the system was superseded by the Bundesliga as a means of determining the national champion.
With thirty-one appearances, Hamburger SV holds the record, while 1. FC Nürnberg won the most titles, eight, followed by FC Schalke 04 with seven. The now defunct VfB Königsberg has the most appearances in the national finals without ever reaching the championship game, sixteen.

## List
### A

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Alemannia Aachen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1938 |
| Hindenburg Allenstein | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1939 |
| BV Altenessen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1926 |
| TuS Helene Altenessen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1941 |
| FC Altona 93 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1903, 1909, 1914, 1925 |

### B

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| VfL Benrath | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935 |
| Alemannia Berlin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1924, 1925 |
| Berliner BC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1914 |
| SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1939, 1942 |
| Hertha BSC | 15 | 2 | 4 | 1906, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1944, 1957, 1961, 1963 |
| Kickers 1900 Berlin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1927 |
| Minerva 93 Berlin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1932 |
| Norden-Nordwest Berlin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1906, 1922, 1926 |
| BFC Preussen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1910, 1912 |
| Berliner SV 92 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1903, 1904, 1936, 1938, 1943, 1949, 1954 |
| Tasmania 1900 Berlin | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1959, 1960, 1962 |
| Tennis Borussia Berlin | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1958 |
| Union Oberschöneweide | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1920, 1923, 1940, 1948 |
| Union 92 Berlin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1905, 1906 |
| Union 06 Berlin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1950, 1953 |
| Viktoria 89 Berlin | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1933, 1934, 1955, 1956 |
| Vorwärts Berlin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1921 |
| Beuthen 09 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937 |
| Arminia Bielefeld | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1922, 1923 |
| VfB Bielefeld | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1931 |
| Union Böckingen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1934 |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1905, 1908, 1943, 1944, 1958 |
| Werder Bremen | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1934, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 |
| TuS Bremerhaven 93 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1955 |
| FV Breslau 06 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1927 |
| SC Breslau 08 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932 |
| Schlesien Breslau | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1905, 1906, 1907 |
| Sportfreunde Breslau | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1930 |
| SV Breslau 02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1942 |
| VfR Breslau | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1908, 1910 |
| LSV Brieg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |
| MSV Brünn | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1943, 1944 |
| NSTG Brüx | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |

### C

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| WSC Celle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |
| Chemnitzer BC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1927, 1933 |
| PSV Chemnitz | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1932, 1935, 1936 |
| Alemannia Cottbus | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1905, 1909 |

### D

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| BuEV Danzig | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1912 |
| LSV Danzig | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |
| Preußen Danzig | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1934, 1941 |
| Preußen Dellbrück | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1950 |
| SV Dessau 05 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1937, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1963 |
| Guts Muths Dresden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1923 |
| Dresdner SC | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1905, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944 |
| FV Stadt Düdelingen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1942 |
| KSG Duisburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |
| MSV Duisburg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1929, 1931 |
| Duisburger SV | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1904, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1957 |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1927, 1928, 1931, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940 |
| Düsseldorfer FC 99 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1907 |
| TuRU Düsseldorf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1925 |

### E

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Eimsbütteler TV | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1942 |
| SC Erfurt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1909 |
| Rot-Weiß Essen | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1950, 1952, 1955 |
| Schwarz-Weiß Essen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1925 |

### F

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Askania Forst | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1911, 1913, 1914 |
| FC Viktoria Forst | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1922, 1925, 1926 |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1938, 1953, 1954, 1959, 1961, 1962 |
| FSV Frankfurt | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1925, 1926, 1933 |
| Freiburger FC | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1907, 1908 |
| Borussia Fulda | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1932, 1934, 1941, 1942, 1944 |
| SpVgg Fürth | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1914, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1950, 1951 |

### G

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1933, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941 |
| SV Göppingen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |
| NSTG Graslitz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1940 |
| HSV Groß-Born | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |

### H

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Wacker Halle | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1920, 1928, 1934 |
| SV Hamborn 07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1942 |
| Westende Hamborn | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |
| Germania Hamburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1904 |
| LSV Hamburg | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1944 |
| Hamburger SV | 31 | 3 | 4 | 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 |
| FC St. Pauli Hamburg | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 |
| SC Victoria Hamburg | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1905, 1906, 1907, 1943 |
| FC Hanau 93 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1935, 1936, 1938 |
| Arminia Hannover | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1920, 1930, 1933 |
| ASC Hannover | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1904 |
| Hannover 96 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1905, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1954, 1956 |
| BC Hartha | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1937, 1938 |
| Westfalia Herne | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1959, 1960 |
| Preussen Hindenburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1929 |
| STG Hirschberg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |
| STV Horst-Emscher | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1950 |

### I

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Yorck Boyen Insterburg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1935, 1938 |

### J

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| 1. SV Jena | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1925, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941 |

### K

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 12 | 2 | 3 | 1942, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963 |
| Karlsruher FV | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1903, 1904, 1905, 1910, 1911, 1912 |
| Phönix Karlsruhe | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1909, 1910 |
| Karlsruher SC | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1956, 1958, 1960 |
| FV Kassel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1904 |
| CSC Kassel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1939, 1940 |
| SV 06 Kassel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1937, 1943 |
| Holstein Kiel | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1943, 1944, 1953, 1957 |
| Kölner BC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1912 |
| CfR Köln | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1936 |
| 1. FC Köln | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 |
| KSG Köln-Sülz/VfL 99 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |
| SC 99 Köln | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1906 |
| VfL Köln 99 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1941, 1942 |
| VfR Köln | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1926, 1935, 1937 |
| Victoria Köln | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |
| Prussia Samland Königsberg | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1910, 1913, 1914, 1931, 1933 |
| VfB Königsberg | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1908, 1909, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 |
| Germania Königshütte | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1942, 1943, 1944 |
| LSV Krakau | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1942, 1944 |
| Preußen Krefeld | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1928 |

### L

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Fortuna Leipzig | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1926 |
| SpVgg Leipzig | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1912, 1914, 1922, 1924, 1931 |
| VfB Leipzig | 12 | 3 | 3 | 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1925, 1927, 1930 |
| Wacker Leipzig | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1908, 1929 |
| ATV Liegnitz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1912 |
| VfB Liegnitz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1931 |
| Polizei Litzmannstadt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1942 |
| Phönix Ludwigshafen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1935 |

### M

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1903, 1904, 1905 |
| VfR Mannheim | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1925, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1949, 1950 |
| Waldhof Mannheim | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1934, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942 |
| HUS Marienwerder | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1942 |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1920 |
| FC Mönchengladbach | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1909 |
| FC Mülhausen 93 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1941, 1943, 1944 |
| Mülheimer SV | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1934, 1940 |
| FC Bayern Munich | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1944 |
| TSV 1860 Munich | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1927, 1931, 1933, 1941, 1943, 1948, 1963 |
| FC Wacker München | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1922, 1928 |
| Preußen Münster | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1950 |

### N

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| VfL Neckarau | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1941 |
| TuS Neuendorf | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1943, 1944, 1948, 1950, 1956 |
| SV Neufahrwasser 1919 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |
| Borussia Neunkirchen | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963 |

### O

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Kickers Offenbach | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1934, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960 |
| LSV Olmütz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1942 |
| VfL Osnabrück | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1939, 1940, 1950, 1952 |

### P

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| DFC Prag | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1903 |
| NSTG Prag | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1941 |
| 1. FC Pforzheim | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1906 |
| FK Pirmasens | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962 |
| SC Planitz | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1942, 1948 |
| SuBC Plauen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1932 |
| DWM Posen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1943, 1944 |
| LSV Pütnitz | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1942, 1943 |

### R

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| LSV Rerik | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |
| SSV Reutlingen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1950, 1955 |
| TSG Rostock | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |

### S

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| KSG Saarbrücken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1944 |
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1943, 1952, 1957, 1961 |
| FC Schalke 04 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1962 |
| FC Schweinfurt 05 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1939, 1942 |
| SV Sodingen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1955 |
| LSV Stettin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1941 |
| Preußen Stettin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1928 |
| SC Stettin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1921, 1926, 1935, 1938 |
| Titania Stettin | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1920, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930 |
| VfL Stettin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1940 |
| Viktoria Stolp | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939 |
| SG SS Straßburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1942 |
| Stuttgarter Kickers | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1908, 1913, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 |
| VfB Stuttgart | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1935, 1937, 1938, 1943, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956 |
| SpVgg Sülz 07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1928, 1930, 1939 |

### T

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Lituania Tilsit | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1911 |

### W

| Club | Qualified | Champions | Runners-up | Seasons |
| Warnsdorfer FK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1939 |
| SG Warschau | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1943 |
| Admira Wien | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1939 |
| First Vienna | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1942, 1943, 1944 |
| Rapid Wien | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1940, 1941 |
| SV Wilhelmshaven | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1943, 1944 |
| Wormatia Worms | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1936, 1937, 1939, 1949, 1955 |
* Bold denotes champions and championship-winning seasons.
* Italics denotes club was from territories outside of what is now the Federal Republic of Germany.

## Sources

* kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 160 & 178 - German championship
* Pre-1933 Football leagues in Germany Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv (in German)
* Germany - Championships 1902-1945 at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
* Hirschi's Fussballseiten - History of German football (in German), Results and tables up until 1933