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- The 1940–41 Gauliga was the eighth season of the Gauliga, the first tier of the football league system in Germany from 1933 to 1945. It was the second season of the league held during the Second World War. The league operated in twenty regional divisions, two more than in the previous season, with the league containing 225 clubs all up, nine more than the previous season. The majority of Gauligas returned to their pre-war single-division format, having been split into regional sub-divisions for the first war season. The league champions entered the 1941 German football championship, won by SK Rapid Wien who defeated FC Schalke 04 4–3 in the final. It was Rapid's sole German national championship. The 1940–41 season saw the seventh edition of the Tschammerpokal, now the DFB-Pokal. The 1941 edition was won by Dresdner SC, defeating FC Schalke 04 2–1 on 2 November 1941, leaving Schalke to have lost both the championship and cup final in 1941. The number of Gauligas, twenty, increased by two compare to the previous season because of the introduction of the Gauliga Danzig-Westpreußen, named after the city of Gdańsk (German: Danzig) and the former Prussian province of West Prussia and formed by clubs from the Free City of Danzig and Pomeranian Voivodeship, annexed from Poland, and Gauliga Elsaß, formed in the Alsace (German: Elsaß) region which was annexed by Nazi Germany from France. In the part of Czechoslovakia incorporated into Germany in March 1939, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a separate Czech league continued to exist which was not part of the Gauliga system or the German championship. (en)
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