Baltenverband
| Baltic football championship |
|---|
| Founded |
| 1908 |
| Disbanded |
| 1933 |
| Nation |
 German Empire
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| Province |
| East Prussia |
| Pomerania |
| West Prussia |
| Number of Seasons |
| 21 |
| Replaced by |
| Gauliga Ostpreußen |
| Gauliga Pommern |
| Level on Pyramid |
| Level 1 |
| Last Champions 1932-33 |
| Prussia Samland Königsberg |
The Baltic football championship (German: Baltische Fußball Meisterschaft) was the highest association football competition in the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and West Prussia. The competition was disbanded in 1933.
It should not be confused with the Baltic Cup, a competition for the national teams of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Instead, the competition was named after the Baltic Sea, its clubs mostly based on the shore of this sea.
German football was, from its beginnings, divided into regional associations, each of which carried out their own championship matches. These often pre-dated the national German championship. With the inception of the latter in 1903, the former became qualifying tournaments. Regional championships still held a high value for the local clubs. These regional championships were:
Regional championships were suspended with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933. At the end of the Second World War, some resumed, but in league format. Others, such as the Baltic championship, completely disappeared, especially if the territories they were held in were no longer part of Germany. With the South West German football championship, a new regional competition also appeared in 1945. Ultimately, with the formation of the Fußball-Bundesliga, regional championships ceased altogether.
When the Baltic championship was established in 1908, the region of North Eastern Germany (German: Nordostdeutschland) was politically part of the Kingdom of Prussia, as the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and West Prussia.
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