# 1942 German football championship

The 1942 German football championship, the 35th edition of the competition, was won by Schalke 04, the club's sixth championship, won by defeating First Vienna FC in the final. It marked the third and last occasion of a club from Vienna (German: Wien) in the final, Rapid Wien having won the competition in the previous season while Admira Wien had made a losing appearance in the 1939 final. It was the last time that Schalke was awarded the Viktoria, the annual trophy for the German champions from 1903 to 1944 as the trophy disappeared during the final stages of the Second World War.
Schalke's Fritz Szepan was the 1942 championships top scorer with eight goals.
The 1942 championship marked the last highlight of the golden era of Schalke 04 which had reached the semi-finals of each edition of the national championship from 1932 to 1942 and won the competition in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940 and 1942 while losing the final in 1933, 1938 and 1941. By appearing in the 1942 final Schalke also equaled Hertha BSC's record of six consecutive final appearances which the latter had set from 1926 to 1931. Schalke would however not win another German championship until 1958.
The twenty-five 1941–42 Gauliga champions, five more than in the previous season, competed in a single-leg knock out competition to determine the national champion. In the following season, the German championship was played with twenty nine clubs. From there it gradually expanded further through a combination of territorial expansion of Nazi Germany and the sub-dividing of the Gauligas in later years, reaching a strength of thirty one in its last completed season, 1943–44.

## Qualified teams

The teams qualified through the 1941–42 Gauliga season:
| Club | Qualified from |
| SV Waldhof Mannheim | Gauliga Baden |
| FC Schweinfurt 05 | Gauliga Bayern |
| Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin | Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg |
| HUS Marienwerder | Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen |
| SG SS Straßburg | Gauliga Elsaß |
| LSV Boelcke Krakau | Gauliga Generalgouvernement |
| Kickers Offenbach | Gauliga Hessen-Nassau |
| Borussia Fulda | Gauliga Kurhessen |
| SV Dessau 05 | Gauliga Mitte |
| VfL 99 Köln | Gauliga Mittelrhein |
| FV Stadt Düdelingen | Gauliga Moselland |
| Sportfreunde Hamborn | Gauliga Niederrhein |
| Werder Bremen | Gauliga Niedersachsen |
| SV Breslau 02 | Gauliga Niederschlesien |
| Eimsbütteler TV | Gauliga Nordmark |
| Germania Königshütte | Gauliga Oberschlesien |
| First Vienna | Gauliga Ostmark |
| VfB Königsberg | Gauliga Ostpreußen |
| LSV Pütnitz | Gauliga Pommern |
| SC Planitz | Gauliga Sachsen |
| LSV Olmütz | Gauliga Sudetenland |
| Polizei Litzmannstadt | Gauliga Wartheland |
| Schalke 04 | Gauliga Westfalen |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Gauliga Westmark |
| Stuttgarter Kickers | Gauliga Württemberg |

## Competition
### Qualifying round

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 10 May 1942 |||
| Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin | 3–1 | LSV Pütnitz |
| Borussia Fulda | 0–2 | SV Dessau 05 |
| Sportfreunde Hamborn | 1–1 | Werder Bremen |
| HUS Marienwerder | 1–7 | VfB Königsberg |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 7–1 | SV Waldhof Mannheim |
| LSV Olmütz | 0–1 | First Vienna FC |
| SC Planitz | 5–2 | LSV Boelcke Krakau |
| SG SS Straßburg | 2–0 | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| FV Stadt Düdelingen | 0–2 | Schalke 04 |

#### Replay

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 17 May 1942 |||
| Werder Bremen | 5–1 | Sportfreunde Hamborn |

### Round of 16

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 24 May 1942 |||
| SV Dessau 05 | 0–3 | Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin |
| Schalke 04 | 9–3 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| Kickers Offenbach | 3–1 | VfL 99 Köln |
| SC Planitz | 2–1 | SV Breslau 02 |
| SG SS Strassburg | 2–1 | FC Schweinfurt 05 |
| VfB Königsberg | 8–1 | Polizei Litzmannstadt |
| First Vienna FC | 1–0 | Germania Königshütte |
| Werder Bremen | 4–2 | Eimsbütteler TV |

### Quarter-finals

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 7 June 1942 |||
| Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin | 2–1 | VfB Königsberg |
| Schalke 04 | 6–0 | SG SS Straßburg |
| Kickers Offenbach | 4–3 | Werder Bremen |
| First Vienna FC | 3–2 | SC Planitz |

### Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 21 June 1942 |||
| Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin | 2–3 | First Vienna FC |
| Schalke 04 | 6–0 | Kickers Offenbach |

### Final

FC GELSENKIRCHEN-SCHALKE 04: :
| GK | Heinz Flotho |
| DF | Heinz Hinz |
| DF | Otto Schweisfurth |
| MF | Hans Bornemann |
| MF | Otto Tibulski |
| MF | Herbert Burdenski |
| FW | Ernst Kalwitzki |
| FW | Fritz Szepan |
| FW | Hermann Eppenhoff |
| FW | Ernst Kuzorra |
| FW | Adolf Urban |
| Manager: |||
| Otto Faist ||||
VIENNA: :
| GK | Stefan Ploc |
| DF | Otto Kaller |
| DF | Willibald Schmaus |
| MF | Vitus Kubicka |
| MF | Ernst Sabeditsch |
| MF | Franz Jaburek |
| FW | Karl Bortoli |
| FW | Karl Decker |
| FW | Franz Holeschofski |
| FW | Karl Lechner |
| FW | Franz Erdl |
| Manager: |||
| Fritz Gschweidl ||||