1960 German football championship

1960 German championship final
Event German football championship
Date 25 June 1960
Venue Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Referee Josef Kandlbinder
Attendance 71,000

The 1960 German football championship was the culmination of the football season in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959–60. Hamburger SV were crowned champions for the third time after a group stage and a final, having previously won the title in 1923 and 1928. It was the clubs third appearance in the final in four years, having lost the 1957 and 1958 final.[1] On the strength of this title, the club participated in the 1960-61 European Cup, where HSV lost to FC Barcelona in the semi-finals.

Hamburg's Uwe Seeler was the 1960 championships top scorer with 13 goals, the highest total for any top scorer in the competition after the Second World War.[2]

Runners-up 1. FC Köln made its first appearance in the national title game. The 1960 German championship saw an attendance record for the Oberliga era with 87,739 seeing Tasmania 1900 Berlin hosting 1. FC Köln.[3]

The format used to determine the German champion was the same as the one used in the 1959 season. Nine clubs qualified for the tournament, with the runners-up of West and South having to play a qualification match. The remaining eight clubs then played a home-and-away round in two groups of four, with the two group winners entering the final.

Qualified teams

The teams qualified through the 1959–60 Oberliga season:

Club Qualified from
Hamburger SV Oberliga Nord champions
SV Werder Bremen Oberliga Nord runners-up
1. FC Köln Oberliga West champions
Westfalia Herne Oberliga West runners-up
Tasmania 1900 Berlin Oberliga Berlin champions
FK Pirmasens Oberliga Südwest champions
Borussia Neunkirchen Oberliga Südwest runners-up
Karlsruher SC Oberliga Süd champions
Kickers Offenbach Oberliga Süd runners-up

Competition

Qualifying round

Date Match Result Stadium Attendance
7 May 1960 Westfalia Herne Kickers Offenbach 1-0 (1–0) Hannover, Niedersachsenstadion 45,000

Group 1

Matches

Group phase - Group 1
Match Final result
Borussia Neunkirchen  - Hamburger SV 0:4
Karlsruher SC  - Westfalia Herne 5:4
Hamburger SV  - Karlsruher SC 3:3
Westfalia Herne  - Borussia Neunkirchen 2:1
Karlsruher SC  - Borussia Neunkirchen 2:4
Westfalia Herne  - Hamburger SV 3:4
Hamburger SV  - Westfalia Herne 2:1
Borussia Neunkirchen  - Karlsruher SC 2:2
Karlsruher SC  - Hamburger SV 4:3
Borussia Neunkirchen  - Westfalia Herne 2:1
Hamburger SV  - Borussia Neunkirchen 6:0
Westfalia Herne  - Karlsruher SC 2:2

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Hamburger SV 6 4 1 1 22 11 +11 9 Qualified to final
2 Karlsruher SC 6 2 3 1 18 18 0 7
3 Borussia Neunkirchen 6 2 1 3 9 17 8 5
4 Westfalia Herne 6 1 1 4 13 16 3 3
Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points;

Group 2

Matches

Group phase - Group 2
Match Final result
Werder Bremen  - 1. FC Köln 1:2
FK Pirmasens  - Tasmania 1900 Berlin 1:2
Tasmania 1900 Berlin  - Werder Bremen 2:1
1. FC Köln  - FK Pirmasens 4:0
Tasmania 1900 Berlin  - 1. FC Köln 1:2
FK Pirmasens  - Werder Bremen 4:6
1. FC Köln  - Tasmania 1900 Berlin 3:0
Werder Bremen  - FK Pirmasens 3:1
FK Pirmasens  - 1. FC Köln 1:1
Werder Bremen  - Tasmania 1900 Berlin 2:1
1. FC Köln  - Werder Bremen 2:5
Tasmania 1900 Berlin  - FK Pirmasens 5:2

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 1. FC Köln 6 4 1 1 14 8 +6 9 Qualified to final
2 Werder Bremen 6 4 0 2 18 12 +6 8
3 Tasmania 1900 Berlin 6 3 0 3 11 11 0 6
4 FK Pirmasens 6 0 1 5 9 21 12 1
Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points;

Final

Date Match Result Stadium Attendance
25 June 1960 Hamburger SV 1. FC Köln 3–2 (0–0) Frankfurt, Waldstadion 71,000

Teams

Hamburger SV:
1 Germany Horst Schnoor
2 Germany Jürgen Werner
3 Germany Erwin Piechowiak
4 Germany Jochen Meinke
5 Germany Gerhard Krug
6 Germany Klaus Neisner
7 Germany Dieter Seeler
8 Germany Klaus Stürmer
9 Germany Uwe Seeler  53'  88'
10 Germany Charly Dörfel  75'
11 Germany Horst Dehn
Manager:
Germany Günter Mahlmann
1. FC Köln:
1 Germany Fritz Ewert
2 Germany Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
3 Germany Leo Wilden
4 Germany Georg Stollenwerk
5 Germany Hans Sturm
6 Germany Josef Röhrig
7 Germany Christian Breuer  53'
8 Germany Karl-Heinz Thielen
9 Germany Hans Schäfer
10 Germany Helmut Rahn
11 Germany Christian Müller  86'
Manager:
Germany Oswald Pfau

References

  1. (West) Germany -List of champions rsssf.com, accessed: 22 December 2015
  2. "Deutsche Meisterschaft » Torschützenkönige" [German championship: Top goal scorer]. Weltfussball.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  3. kicker Allmanach 1990, page: 245

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