1940-41 Austrian football championship

Gauliga Ostmark
Season	1940-41
Champions	SK Rapid Wien
Relegated	Grazer SC ; LASK
Matches played	90
Goals scored	468 (5.2 per match)
Top goalscorer	Franz Binder; (27 goals)
	← 1939-40 1941-42 →

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^[1]	18	0	0	18	0

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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^[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^[4]	LASK	Floridsdorfer AC	0-3

Round 11

Date	Team 1	Team2
19 January 1941	FK Austria Wien	LASK	21-0 ^[5]
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 ^[6]
23 February 1941	LASK	First Vienna FC	0-0 ^[7]
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 ^[8]
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 ^[9]

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 ^[10]

Top scorer

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

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References

↑ Some LASK games were penalized because Linz did not appear.
↑ Austria Soccer
↑ Use of the unauthorized player Ludwig Lutz at LASK with 0:0 verified
↑ On the original match day,2 March, canceled because of unusability of the NSKL pitch .
↑ Highest championship victory in Austrian football history (although against only 9 LASK players). LASK started the game with seven players, because due to a train delay 5 players arrived late.
↑ Grazer SC did not play. The game was rescheduled 4 May.The Graz team was once again unable to field a team on this date.
↑ Linzer ASK did not play.
↑ LASK was unable to field a team and did not compete.
↑ LASK did not compet
↑ Austria Soccer
↑ Austria Soccer

[1] Some LASK games were penalized because Linz did not appear.

[2] Austria Soccer

[3] Use of the unauthorized player Ludwig Lutz at LASK with 0:0 verified

[4] On the original match day,2 March, canceled because of unusability of the NSKL pitch .

[5] Highest championship victory in Austrian football history (although against only 9 LASK players). LASK started the game with seven players, because due to a train delay 5 players arrived late.

[6] Grazer SC did not play. The game was rescheduled 4 May.The Graz team was once again unable to field a team on this date.

[7] Linzer ASK did not play.

[8] LASK was unable to field a team and did not compete.

[9] LASK did not compet

[10] Austria Soccer

[11] Austria Soccer

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