The Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren, was the highest football league in the parts of

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occupied by Germany on 15 March 1939 and incorporated in the

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; cs, Protektorát Čechy a Morava; its territory was called by the Nazis ("the rest of Czechia"). was a partially annexed territory of Nazi Germany established on 16 March 1939 following the German oc ...

(German:''Protectorat Böhmen und Mähren'') from 1943 to 1945. The league only existed for one complete season.

Overview

After the German occupation the ethnically German clubs in the ''Protectorate'' initially entered the ''

Gauliga Sudetenland The Gauliga Sudetenland, was the highest football league in the ''Sudetenland'', the predominantly German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia that were awarded to the German Reich on 30 September 1938 through the Munich Agreement. Shortly after the c ...

''. From 1943, a separate ''Gauliga Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren'' was formed by the NSRL. The league was formed with fourteen clubs in two divisions. The two divisional champions then played a home-and-away final to determine the ''Gauliga'' champion. The winner of this competition qualified for the German championship. The clubs in the league were mostly military teams, only ethnically German clubs were permitted to take part in it. Czech clubs continued to play their own Bohemia/Moravia championship. The league program was severely interrupted by the war and not all games were actually played in the 1943–44 season. The imminent collapse of

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in 1945 affected all ''Gauligas'' and its doubtful whether the 1944–45 season in the ''Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren'' got under way at all. The second season of the league was meant to operate with fifteen teams in three groups.

Aftermath

At the end of the

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, the German population of Czechoslovakia was almost completely expelled. Only a small minority remains in what is now the

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. All German football clubs were dissolved and the

Czechoslovak First League The Czechoslovak First League ( cs, 1. fotbalová liga, sk, 1. futbalová liga) was the premier football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who forme ...

once more became the highest level of play for the whole country, but now without any ethnically German clubs, the last of which had been relegated in

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from the top division.RSSSF.com - Table 1935/36 (Statni Liga)
accessed: 24 June 2008

Winners and runners-up of the league

The winners and runners-up of the league:

References

Sources

* ''Die deutschen Gauligen 1933-45 - Heft 1-3'' Tables of the Gauligas 1933–45, publisher: DSFS * ''Kicker Almanach'', The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine

External links

*
The Gauligas
''Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv''

at RSSSF.com

Article on cross-border movements of football clubs, at ''RSSSF.com''

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