STAGIONE CALCISTICA 2023/24 - SERIE A, CHAMPIONS, PREMIER, LIGA

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Il soprannome più comune dei giocatori è quello di colchoneros, alla lettera "materassai", in quanto il colore e la foggia delle uniformi della squadra erano analoghi a quelli delle tele che all'epoca rivestivano i materassi.

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German football championships in Nazi Germany (1933–45)
With the beginning of the 1933–34 season, top-flight German football was reorganized into 16 regional Gauligen with each of these leagues sending their champion to the national playoffs. New Gauligen were created as the Reich expanded its border through the Anschluss with Austria. This expanded the national championship competition with the addition of regional champions from the new circuits. It also introduced previously foreign clubs into German domestic competition where Viennese Austrian sides made a notable impression. Competition during the war was also characterized by the formation of military-based clubs including the Luftwaffe side LSV Hamburg which appeared in the era's last national championship match at the end of the 1943–44 season. Unlike the United Kingdom, where play was suspended early on, national football competition continued on in Germany in some form through the course of the war. Play finally collapsed as the war drew to its conclusion and no champion was declared in 1944–45.

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This step came as a disappointment to many more forward thinking football officials, like the German national team managers Otto Nerz and Sepp Herberger, who had hoped for a Reichsliga, a unified highest competition for all of Germany, like the ones already in place in countries like Italy (Serie A) and England (The Football League). Shortly before the Nazis came to power, the DFB started to seriously consider the establishment of such a national league. In a special session on 28 and 29 May 1933, a decision was to be made on the establishment of the Reichsliga as a professional league. Four weeks before that date, the session was cancelled, professionalism and Nazi ideology did not agree with each other.With the disappointing performance of the German team at the 1938 FIFA World Cup, the debate about a Reichsliga was reopened. In August 1939, a meeting was to be held to decide on the creation of a league system of six Gauligas as a transition stage to the Reichsliga, but the outbreak of the Second World War shortly after ended this debate, too.In reality, this step was not taken until 1963, when the Bundesliga was formed, for similar reason, after the disappointing performance at the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

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In occupied territories
The Nazis' position to football and its clubs in the occupied territories varied greatly. Local clubs in Eastern Europe, such as Polish and Czech clubs, were not permitted to compete in the Gauligen. The situation was different in Western Europe, where clubs from Alsace, Lorraine, and Luxembourg took part in the Gauliga system under Germanised names.

Clubs with a Czech majority, while part of the German Reich, played out their own national, Bohemia/Moravia championship in this time, parallel to the German Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren, but were racially segregated

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Three of the Gauligen contained clubs from regions occupied and annexed by Germany after the start of the Second World War in 1939.

The Gauliga Elsaß was completely made up of French clubs from Alsace, who had to Germanise their names, like RC Strasbourg, which became Rasen SC Straßburg.

In the Gauliga Westmark three clubs from the French Lorraine region played under their German names:

FV Metz, was FC Metz
TSG Saargemünd, from Sarreguemines
TSG Merlenbach, from Merlebach
In the Gauliga Moselland, clubs from Luxembourg took part in the competition, including:

FV Stadt Düdelingen, formerly Stade Dudelange
FK Niederkorn, formerly Progrès Niedercorn
Moselland Luxemburg, formerly Spora Luxembourg
SV Düdelingen, formerly US Dudelange
SV Schwarz-Weiß Esch, formerly Jeunesse d'Esch
Schwarz-Weiß Wasserbillig, formerly Jeunesse Wasserbillig
In the Gauliga Schlesien, later the Gauliga Oberschlesien, a number of clubs from Poland played under their German names:

TuS Schwientochlowitz, was Śląsk Świętochłowice
TuS Lipine, was Naprzód Lipiny
Germania Königshütte, was AKS Chorzów
1. FC Kattowitz, retained its name
Bismarckhütter SV 99, was Ruch Chorzów
RSG Myslowitz, from Mysłowice
Sportfreunde Knurow, from Knurów
Adler Tarnowitz, from Tarnowskie Góry
Reichsbahn SG Kattowitz, from Katowice

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