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(詳細はGau (from 1938) | region = | successor = | level = Level 1 | domest_cup = Tschammerpokal | season = 1943–44 | champions = First Vienna }} The Gauliga Ostmark, renamed Gauliga Donau-Alpenland in 1941, was the highest football league in Austria after its annexation by Germany in 1938. Shortly after the occupation, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Austria, and the seven ''Gaue'' ''Carinthia'', ''Niederdonau'', ''Oberdonau'', ''Salzburg'', ''Styria'', ''Vienna'' and ''Tyrol-Vorarlberg'' replaced the country of Austria. From 1941, the northern-most region of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, ''Drava Banovina'', became part of the ''Gaue'' ''Carinthia'' and ''Styria''. ==Overview== The ''Gauliga Ostmark'' was introduced by the Nazi Sports Office in 1938, after Austria's annexation, to replace the previously existing national league (German:''Nationalliga'') in the occupied country. The former country of Austria was renamed ''Ostmark'' (English:''Eastern March'') and became part of Germany until 1945. The renaming of Austria to ''Ostmark'' was carried out to eradicate all recognition of the country's former independence from Germany. To take matters further, the FK Austria Wien was also renamed in April 1938, to SC Ostmark Wien. This step however was revoked two months later and the club remained one of the few, if not only, institutions to be permitted to carry the former country's name.〔(Fußball unterm Hakenkreuz - »Wer's trotzdem blieb« - die Austria ) (in German) author: David Forster and Georg Spitaler, published: 10 March 2008, accessed: 24 June 2008〕 Unlike the professional ''Austrian Nationalliga'', the new ''Gauliga'' was supposed to be strictly an amateur league.〔(Steirischer Fußballverbande – Verbandsgeschichte – 1938 ) (in German), accessed: 24 June 2008〕 The new league consisted of six clubs from the old Austrian first division, all based in Vienna and the champion of the second-tier ''Vienna league'' (German:''Wiener Liga''). Additionally, the three champions of the regional leagues of ''Niederdonau'', ''Oberdonau'' and ''Styria'' were also admitted to the new ''Gauliga''. As such, it was only the second time in the history of Austrian football for regional clubs to take part in the premier competition of the country. Previously, this level had only been open to clubs from Vienna but, in 1937, a national league had been formed with non-Vienna clubs in it for the first time.〔(RSSSF.com – Tables of the Austrian football leagues – 1937–38 ) accessed: 23 June 2008〕 In its first season, the league had ten clubs, playing each other once at home and once away. The league winner qualified for the German championship while the bottom three teams were relegated. The league was reduced to eight teams for the 1939–40 season, with the bottom club being relegated. In 1940–41, the ''Gauliga Ostmark'' returned to a strength of ten clubs. After the German occupation of Yugoslavia in April 1941, parts of what is now the country of Slovenia were added to the two southern-most ''Gaue'' in the Ostmark. Additionally, the league was renamed ''Gauliga Donau-Alpenland''. However, no clubs from the annexed part of Yugoslavia did take part in the league. The league was reduced to nine clubs during the 1941–42 season due to the withdrawal of Sturm Graz. The season after, it played with eleven teams. In 1943–44, it again played with nine teams only. The imminent collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945 gravely affected the ''Gauligas'' and the league's last season 1944–45, played with ten teams, was not completed. After nine of eighteen rounds, the competition was halted on 11 March 1945.〔(Steirischer Fußballverbande – Verbandsgeschichte – 1945 ) (in German), accessed: 24 June 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gauliga Ostmark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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