Bezirksliga Main-Hessen

The Bezirksliga Main-Hessen was the highest association football league in the German state of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1927 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933.

Overview

The league was formed in 1927, from the clubs of the ''Bezirksliga Main'' and the clubs of the north-eastern part of the ''Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar''. The clubs from the ''Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar'' which did not become part of the new league were added to the new ''Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar'' instead. With the Viktoria Aschaffenburg, the league also included one club from Bavaria.

The league operated from the start in two regional divisions, the ''Main-division'', named after the river Main and the ''Hessen-division'', named after the region of Hesse. The first played with twelve, the second with ten clubs in its first season 1927-28. The clubs in each division played each other in a home-and-away round with the division winners advancing to the Southern German championship, which in turn was a qualification tournament for the German championship. A ''Bezirksliga'' final was not played.

The second and third placed team in each division qualified for another round, the ''Bezirksliga'' runners-up round, to determine one more team which would gain entry to the German finals.

The leagues were reduced to ten teams in the ''Main'' division and nine in the ''Hessen'' division in the following season but remained unchanged in modus otherwise. For the 1929-30 season, both divisions then operated on a strength of eight teams, a system that also applied in the following season.

In the 1931-32 season, both divisions expanded in strength, ''Main'' to eleven and ''Hessen'' to ten teams. The Southern German finals were also reorganised with the top two teams from each division advancing to the ''Northwest'' finals group.

In its last season, 1932–33, both divisions operated on a strength of ten clubs.

With the rise of the Nazis to power, the ''Gauligas'' were introduced as the highest football leagues in Germany. In the region, the ''Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen'' replaced the ''Bezirksliga Main-Hessen'' as the highest level of play. The clubs from the Hanau and Friedberg region however were added to the new ''Gauliga Hessen''.

National success

Southern German championship

Qualified teams and their success:

* 1928:
** VfL Neu-Isenburg, ''6th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** Rot-Weiß Frankfurt, ''5th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** FSV Mainz 05, ''2nd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** FSV Frankfurt, ''Winner of the Bezirksliga-runners-up round, loser division final''
** Wormatia Worms, ''6th place''
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''Runners-up''
* 1929:
** VfL Neu-Isenburg, ''8th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** Union Niederrad, ''5th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** FSV Mainz 05, ''4th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** FSV Frankfurt, ''Winner of the Bezirksliga-runners-up round, loser division final''
** Wormatia Worms, ''7th place''
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''4th place''
* 1930:
** Rot-Weiß Frankfurt, ''6th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** VfL Neu-Isenburg, ''5th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** SV Wiesbaden, ''3rd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** FSV Frankfurt, ''Winner of the Bezirksliga-runners-up round, loser division final''
** Wormatia Worms, ''7th place''
** Eintracht Frankfurt, Southern German champions
* 1931:
** SV Wiesbaden, ''8th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** Union Niederrad, ''5th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** Rot-Weiß Frankfurt, ''3rd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** VfL Neu-Isenburg, ''2nd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round''
** Wormatia Worms, ''7th place''
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''Runners-up''
* 1932:
** FSV Mainz 05, ''8th place northwest division''
** Wormatia Worms, ''3rd place northwest division''
** FSV Frankfurt, ''2nd place northwest division, 4th place in Southern German championship''
** Eintracht Frankfurt, Southern German champions
* 1933:
** FSV Mainz 05, ''7th place northsouth division''
** Wormatia Worms, ''3rd place northsouth division''
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''2nd place northsouth division, 3rd place in Southern German championship''
** FSV Frankfurt, Southern German champions

German championship

Qualified teams and their success:

* 1928:
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''First round''
* 1929:
** ''none qualified''
* 1930:
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''Quarter-finals''
* 1931:
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''Quarter-finals''
* 1932:
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''Final''
* 1933:
** FSV Frankfurt, ''Quarter-finals''
** Eintracht Frankfurt, ''Semi-finals''

Founding members of the league

The 22 founding members of the league and their positions in the 1926-27 season were:

Main division

* Eintracht Frankfurt, ''runners-up Bezirksliga Main''
* FSV Frankfurt, ''champions Bezirksliga Main''
* Rot-Weiß Frankfurt, ''4th Bezirksliga Main''
* Union Niederrad, ''8th Bezirksliga Main''
* FC Hanau 93, ''6th Bezirksliga Main''
* Viktoria Aschaffenburg, ''9th Bezirksliga Main''
* Kickers Offenbach, ''3rd Bezirksliga Main''
* SpVgg Fechenheim, ''promoted from second tier''
* Sport 1860 Hanau, ''promoted from second tier''
* VfR Offenbach, ''promoted from second tier''
* Viktoria Hanau, ''10th Bezirksliga Main''
* Germania 94 Frankfurt, ''7th Bezirksliga Main''

Hessen division

* Wormatia Worms, ''3rd Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar''
* FSV Mainz 05, ''champions Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar''
* VfL Neu-Isenburg, ''5th Bezirksliga Main''
* SV Wiesbaden, ''4th Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar''
* TSG Höchst, ''promoted from second tier''
* Alemannia Worms, ''8th Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar''
* Hassia Bingen, ''5th Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar''
* SpVgg Arheiligen, ''promoted from second tier''
* SV Darmstadt 98, ''6th Bezirksliga Rhein''
* Germania Wiesbaden, ''promoted from second tier''

Winners of the Bezirksliga Main-Hessen

Placings in the Bezirksliga Main-Hessen 1927-33

Main division

Source:
* The ''Sport 1860 Hanau'' and ''Viktoria Hanau'' merged in 1928 to form ''SpVgg Hanau''.

Hessen division

Source:

References

Sources

* ''Fussball-Jahrbuch Deutschland'' (8 vol.), Tables and results of the German tier-one leagues 1919-33, publisher: DSFS
* ''Kicker Almanach'', The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine
* ''Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988'' History of Southern German football in tables, publisher & author: Ludolf Hyll

External links

The Gauligas
''Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv''

German league tables 1892-1933
''Hirschi's Fussball seiten''


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