1960_German_football_championship_Final

1960 German football championship

1960 German football championship

Football tournament season

The 1960 German football championship was the culmination of the football season in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959–60. Hamburger SV were crowned champions for the third time after a group stage and a final, having previously won the title in 1923 and 1928. It was the club's third appearance in the final in four years, having lost the 1957 and 1958 final.[1] On the strength of this title, the club participated in the 1960-61 European Cup, where HSV lost to FC Barcelona in the semi-finals.

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Hamburg's Uwe Seeler was the 1960 championships top scorer with 13 goals, the highest total for any top scorer in the competition after the Second World War.[2]

Runners-up 1. FC Köln made its first appearance in the national title game. The 1960 German championship saw an attendance record for the Oberliga era with 87,739 seeing Tasmania 1900 Berlin hosting 1. FC Köln.[3]

The format used to determine the German champion was the same as the one used in the 1959 season. Nine clubs qualified for the tournament, with the runners-up of West and South having to play a qualifying 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.

Qualified teams

The teams qualified through the 1959–60 Oberliga season:

ClubQualified from
Hamburger SVOberliga Nord champions
SV Werder BremenOberliga Nord runners-up
1. FC KölnOberliga West champions
Westfalia HerneOberliga West runners-up
Tasmania 1900 BerlinOberliga Berlin champions
FK PirmasensOberliga Südwest champions
Borussia NeunkirchenOberliga Südwest runners-up
Karlsruher SCOberliga Süd champions
Kickers OffenbachOberliga Süd runners-up

Competition

Qualifying round

DateMatchResultStadiumAttendance
7 May 1960 Westfalia Herne – Kickers Offenbach 1-0 (1–0) Hannover, Niedersachsenstadion 45,000

Group 1

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Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio.
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Group 2

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Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal ratio.
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Final

DateMatchResultStadiumAttendance
25 June 1960 Hamburger SV – 1. FC Köln 3–2 (0–0) Frankfurt, Waldstadion 71,000
Hamburger SV:
1Germany Horst Schnoor
2Germany Jürgen Werner
3Germany Erwin Piechowiak
4Germany Jochen Meinke
5Germany Gerhard Krug
6Germany Klaus Neisner
7Germany Dieter Seeler
8Germany Klaus Stürmer
9Germany Uwe Seeler 53' 88'
10Germany Charly Dörfel 75'
11Germany Horst Dehn
Manager:
Germany Günter Mahlmann
1. FC Köln:
1Germany Fritz Ewert
2Germany Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
3Germany Leo Wilden
4Germany Georg Stollenwerk
5Germany Hans Sturm
6Germany Josef Röhrig
7Germany Christian Breuer 53'
8Germany Karl-Heinz Thielen
9Germany Hans Schäfer
10Germany Helmut Rahn
11Germany Christian Müller 86'
Manager:
Germany Oswald Pfau

References

  1. [1]
    (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.org, accessed: 22 December 2015
  2. [2]
    "Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige" [German championship: Top goal scorer]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  3. [3]
    kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 245

Sources

  • kicker Allmanach 1990, by kicker, page 165 & 177 - German championship 1960
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