1940-41 Austrian football championship

The **1939-40 Austrian football championship** (Gauliga Ostmark also Fußball-Sportbereichsklasse Ostmark 1940/41) was the third season of the Gauliga Ostmark in annexed Austria.

## General informations

Rapid Wien became champions of the Gauliga for the second time in a row and Austrian champions for the 14th time.

With this victory, Rapid qualified for the 1940/41 German football championship. They made it into the final. On 22 June 1941 in front of almost 100,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin they played against FC Schalke 04.  They won 4-3 and were German champion.

The two bottom-placed teams from the Gauliga were Grazer SC (Styria) and Linzer ASK (Upper Donau). They were relegated. Promotion and relegation, which had been suspended in 1939, was reintroduced for 1940/41. After the end of the war, each club was put into the league that it held in August 1939 - before the start of the war.

## Table

|Pl.|Name|M|W|D|L|P|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|SK Rapid Wien|18|12|4|2|28|
|2.|SC Wacker Wien|18|10|4|4|24|
|3.|First Vienna FC|18|11|2|5|24|
|4.|FK Austria Wien|18|10|2|6|22|
|5.|SK Admira Wien|18|8|5|5|21|
|6.|Wiener Sport-Club|18|7|4|7|18|
|7.|FC Wien|18|6|5|7|17|
|8.|Floridsdorfer AC|18|7|3|8|17|
|9.|Grazer SC|18|4|1|13|9|
|10.|LASK|18|0|0|18|0|

## Matches

The games were often scheduled arbitrarily and so are most of the discrepancies between rounds and game date were clear. The home advantage was not important. Only Rapid and Wacker played on their home pitches. Most of the matches took place as part of double events.

### Round 1

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1 September 1940|**FK Austria Wien**|Wiener Sport-Club|3-0|
|1 September 1940|**Floridsdorfer AC**|LASK|6-3|
|1 September 1940|Grazer SC|**SC Wacker Wien**|1-2|
|1 September 1940|First Vienna FC|**FC Wien**|1-3|
|3 November 1940|**SK Rapid Wien**|SK Admira Wien|6-1|

### Round 2

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|8 September 1940|**SK Admira Wien**|Grazer SC|8-1|
|8 September 1940|**FC Wien**|SK Rapid Wien|3-1|
|8 September 1940|LASK|**FK Austria Wien**|1-4|
|3 November 1940|**Floridsdorfer AC**|SC Wacker Wien|5-2|
|3 November 1940|**Wiener Sport-Club**|First Vienna FC|3-0|

### Round 3

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|15 September 1940|SK Admira Wien|FC Wien|1-1|
|15 September 1940|**FK Austria Wien**|SC Wacker Wien|3-1|
|15 September 1940|**Grazer SC**|Floridsdorfer AC|5-2|
|15 September 1940|**First Vienna FC **|LASK|8-1|
|8 December 1940|SK Rapid Wien|**Wiener Sport-Club**|2-3|

### Round 4

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|29 September 1940|FC Wien|Grazer SC|1-1|
|29 September 1940|**Floridsdorfer AC**|FK Austria Wien|4-2|
|8 December 1940|SC Wacker Wien|**First Vienna FC **|0-1|
|15 December 1940|Wiener Sport-Club|SK Admira Wien|3-3|
|22 December 1940|LASK|**SK Rapid Wien**|0-9|

### Round 5

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|13 October 1940|**FC Wien**|Wiener Sport-Club|2-1|
|13 October 1940|Grazer SC|**FK Austria Wien**|0-3|
|13 October 1940|SK Rapid Wien|SC Wacker Wien|1-1|
|13 October 1940|**First Vienna FC**|Floridsdorfer AC|4-0|
|13 October 1940|** SK Admira Wien**|LASK|6-2|

### Round 6

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|20 October 1940|FK Austria Wien|First Vienna FC|0-0|
|20 October 1940|LASK|FC Wien|3-3|
|20 October 1940|SC Wacker Wien|SK Admira Wien|3-3|
|15 December 1940|**SK Rapid Wien **|Grazer SC|11-1|
|22 December 1940|Floridsdorfer AC|**Wiener Sport-Club**|0-2|

### Round 7

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|27 October 1940|SK Admira Wien|Floridsdorfer AC|3-3|
|27 October 1940|FK Austria Wien|**SK Rapid Wien **|0-3|
|27 October 1940|FC Wien|**SC Wacker Wien**|1-4|
|27 October 1940|Grazer SC|**First Vienna FC**|0-4|
|27 October 1940|**Wiener Sport-Club**|LASK|7-0|

### Round 8

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|10 November 1940|FC Wien|**FK Austria Wien**|0-1|
|10 November 1940|LASK|**Grazer SC **|3-6|
|10 November 1940|First Vienna FC|**SK Admira Wien**|2-5|
|10 November 1940|**SC Wacker Wien**|Wiener Sport-Club|1-0|
|12 January 1941|Floridsdorfer AC|**SK Rapid Wien**|0-7|

### Round 9

|Date|Team 1|Team2|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|24 November 1940|LASK|**SC Wacker Wien**|1-9||
|1 December 1940|**FK Austria Wien**|SK Admira Wien|2-0||
|1 December 1940|**Floridsdorfer AC**|FC Wien|3-1||
|1 December 1940|**SK Rapid Wien**|First Vienna FC|7-0||
||1 December 1940|**Wiener Sport-Club**|Grazer SC|5-0|

### Round 10

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2 March 1941|SK Admira Wien|**SK Rapid Wien**|1-9|
|2 March 1941|FC Wien|**First Vienna FC**|1-7|
|2 March 1941|**SC Wacker Wien**|Grazer SC|5 -3|
|2 March 1941|Wiener Sport-Club|**FK Austria Wien**|0-6|
|27 April 1941|LASK|**Floridsdorfer AC**|0-3|

### Round 11

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|19 January 1941|**FK Austria Wien**|LASK|21-0|
|19 January 1941|**SC Wacker Wien**|Floridsdorfer AC|7-1|
|26 January 1941|Grazer SC|**SK Admira Wien**|1-4|
|23 March 1941|SK Rapid Wien|FC Wien|5-5|
|23 March 1941|**First Vienna FC**|Wiener Sport-Club|3-2|

### Round 12

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|23 February 1941|FC Wien|**SK Admira Wien**|4-5|
|23 February 1941|Floridsdorfer AC|Grazer SC|0-0|
|23 February 1941|LASK|First Vienna FC|0-0|
|23 February 1941|SC Wacker Wien|FK Austria Wien|2-2|
|23 February 1941|Wiener Sport-Club|SK Rapid Wien|2-2|

### Round 13

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2 February 1941|**SK Admira Wien**|Wiener Sport-Club|6-4|
|2 February 1941|FK Austria Wien|**Floridsdorfer AC**|1-2|
|2 February 1941|SK Rapid Wien|LASK|11-3|
|11 May  1941|First Vienna FC|**SC Wacker Wien**|3-6|
|23 February 1941|Grazer SC|**FC Wien**|0-2|

### Round 14

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|9 March 1941|**FK Austria Wien **|Grazer SC|3-1|
|9 March 1941|Floridsdorfer AC|**First Vienna FC**|0-8|
|9 March 1941|SC Wacker Wien|**SK Rapid Wien**|2-3|
|9 March 1941|Wiener Sport-Club|FC Wien|3-3|
|23 March 1941|LASK|**SK Admira Wien**|0-1|

### Round 15

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|6 April 1941|SK Admira Wien|**SC Wacker Wien**|1-4|
|6 April 1941|FC Wien|LASK|0-0|
|6 April 1941|**First Vienna FC**|FK Austria Wien|3-1|
|6 April 1941|**Wiener Sport-Club**|Floridsdorfer AC|4-1|
|25 May 1941|Grazer SC|**SK Rapid Wien**|3-4|

### Round 16

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|30 March 1941|Floridsdorfer AC|SK Admira Wien|3-3|
|30 March 1941|LASK|**Wiener Sport-Club**|2-6|
|30 March 1941|**SK Rapid Wien**|FK Austria Wien|1-0|
|30 March 1941|**First Vienna SC**|Grazer SC|4-1|
|30 March 1941|**SC Wacker Wien**|FC Wien|2-1|

### Round 17

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|16 March 1941|**SK Admira Wien**|FK Austria Wien|4-1|
|16 March 1941|FC Wien|Floridsdorfer AC|3-3|
|16 March 1941|**Grazer SC**|Wiener Sport-Club|2-1|
|16 March 1941|First Vienna SC|SK Rapid Wien|1-1|
|16 March 1941|**SC Wacker Wien**|LASK|9-1|

### Round 18

|Date|Team 1|Team2||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|16 February 1941|SK Admira Wien|**First Vienna SC**|2-3|
|16 February 1941|**FK Austria Wien**|FC Wien|2-1|
|16 February 1941|**SK Rapid Wien**|Floridsdorfer AC|5-4|
|16 February 1941|Wiener Sport-Club|SC Wacker Wien|1-1|
|29 June 1941|Grazer SC|LASK|0-0|

### Champion squad Rapid Wien

- **Goalkeepers:** Rudolf Raftl, Josef Musil
- **Defenders:** Stefan Wagner, Heribert Sperner, Friedrich Pimperl
- **Midfielders:** Franz Wagner, Johann Hofstätter, Stefan Skoumal, Leopold Gernhardt, Franz Kaspirek, Cerny
- **Forwards:** Wilhelm Fitz, Georg Schors, Franz Binder (K), Matthias Kaburek, Johann Pesser, Hermann Dvoracek, Wilhelm Holec
- **Coach:** Leopold Nitsch

## Top scorer

|Name|Club|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Franz Binder|SK Rapid Wien|27|
|Wilhelm Hahnemann|SK Admira Wien|19|
|Walter Rirsch|FK Austria Wien|18|

## Infobox (football league season)

- **competition**: Gauliga Ostmark
- **season**: 1940-41
- **winners**: SK Rapid Wien
- **relegated**: Grazer SC ; LASK
- **matches**: 90
- **total goals**: 468
- **league topscorer**: Franz Binder
(27 goals)
- **prevseason**: 1939-40 Austrian football championship, 1939-40
- **nextseason**: 1941-42 Austrian football championship, 1941-42