| Season | 1934–35 |
|---|---|
| Champions | 16 regional winners |
| German champions | Schalke 04 2ndGerman title |
1935–36 → | |
The1934–35 Gauliga was the second season of theGauliga, the first tier of thefootball league system inGermany from 1933 to 1945.
The league operated in sixteen regional divisions, of which two, theGauliga Ostpreußen andGauliga Pommern, were sub-divided into two regional groups again, with the league containing 172 clubs all up, six less than the previous season. The league champions entered the1935 German football championship, won byFC Schalke 04 who defeatedVfB Stuttgart 6–4 in the final. It was Schalke's secondnational championship and the club would go on to win six all up during the Gauliga era of German football from 1933 to 1945.[1]
No club remained unbeaten during the league season but five teams finished with just one defeat, those beingYorck Boyen Insterburg,Stettiner SC,Eimsbütteler TV,SV Werder Bremen andFC Hanau 93. At the other end of the table two clubs finished the season without a win,Viktoria Recklinghausen andGermania Karlsdorf.Hannover 96 scored the most goals of any Gauliga club with 80 whileBremer SV conceded the most with 84.VfL 06 Benrath and Eimsbütteler TV achieved the highest points totals with 32 each while Viktoria Recklinghausen,Komet Stettin andFC Mannheim-Lindenhof earned the least with four points each to their name.[2]
The 1934–35 season saw the introduction of a cup competition, theTschammerpokal, now theDFB-Pokal. The inaugural1935 edition was won by1. FC Nürnberg, defeating German champion FC Schalke 04 2–0 on 8 December 1935,[3] preventing Schalke from winning thedouble, something the club would achieve two years later in1937 as the only club in the pre-Bundesliga era.[4]
The 1934–35 Gauliga champions qualified for the group stage of the German championship. VfL 06 Benrath, PSV Chemnitz, VfB Stuttgart and FC Schalke 04 won their championship groups and advanced to the semi-finals with the latter two reaching the championship final which Schalke won.[5][2][6]
FC Schalke 04, VfL 06 Benrath and Eimsbütteler TV won back-to-back Gauliga titles while the other 13 champions all won their first.[2][7]