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The new British game of football quickly caught on in late 19th-century Germany, which had previously been a nation of gymnasts and fencers.The earliest attempt at organizing some form of national championship came in 1894, when city champions Viktoria 89 Berlin invited FC Hanau 93 to play a challenge match.
Most championships won: 33, Bayern Munich; Most consecutive championships: 11 Bayern Munich (2013–2023) Most East German championships: 10, Dynamo Berlin; Most consecutive East German championships: 10, Dynamo Berlin (1979–1988)
Germany's first recognized national football championship took place in 1900 following the establishment of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund). Prior to the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, the national championship format was based on a knockout competition contested between the winners of each of the country's top ...
The championship was interrupted by the World War I, and not held from 1915 to 1920, when football returned to more organised fashion after the disruptions caused by the war. [4] [5] In 1922, the final was inconclusive and Hamburger SV was declared champions but declined the honor. [6] After this, a championship was held every season until 1944.
Bayern Munich made German football history even further by earning a record fourth consecutive Bundesliga title in 2016, [13] and eventually became the first German club to attain more than four championships in succession by winning their fifth and sixth titles in 2017 and 2018 respectively [14] [15] [16] for the club's 27th league title and ...
The 1948 and 1949 East German Champions were determined in a single elimination tournament of three rounds. A nationwide football league, the DDR-Oberliga, was established for the 1949–50 season. [1] The Oberliga was dissolved after the 1990–91 season.
This is a list of football clubs in Germany by major honours won. It lists every German football club to have won any of the two major domestic trophies in Germany (or West Germany), three major European competitions or the global competitions FIFA has recognised. East German championships are not counted in these tables.
Season Date Winner Score Runners-up Venue Attendance 1952–53: 1 May 1953: Rot-Weiss Essen: 2–1: Alemannia Aachen: Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf: 37,000 1953–54: 17 April 1954