1953–54 Eintracht Frankfurt season

Eintracht Frankfurt

1953–54 season
Chairman	Anton Keller
Manager	Kurt Windmann
Oberliga Süd	2nd / Eliminated in championship group 1
Top goalscorer	League: Richard Kress (17) All: Richard Kress (17)
Highest home attendance	35,000 on three occasions (league)
Lowest home attendance	6,000 30 November 1952 v BC Augsburg (league)
Average home league attendance	17,733
← 1952–53 1954–55 →

The 1953–54 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 54th season in the club's football history. In 1953–54 the club played in the Oberliga Süd, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 9th season in the Oberliga Süd.

The season ended up with Eintracht finishing in the Oberliga Süd as runners-up. In the German championship round the Eagles didn't qualify for the final match.

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendlies

Oberliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	VfB Stuttgart	30	18	7	5	64	39	+25	43	Qualification to German championship
2	Eintracht Frankfurt	30	17	8	5	70	31	+39	42
3	Kickers Offenbach	30	16	9	5	70	38	+32	41
4	1. FC Nürnberg	30	15	8	7	71	44	+27	38
5	Karlsruher SC	30	14	7	9	61	53	+8	35

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	17	8	5	70	31	+39	42	12	2	1	43	11	+32	5	6	4	27	20	+7

Results by round

League fixtures and results

Championship round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification		FCK	KOE	SGE
1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2	2	0	0	5	3	1.667	4	Advance to final		—	4–3	1–0
2	1. FC Köln	2	1	0	1	6	6	1.000	2			—	—	3–2
3	Eintracht Frankfurt	2	0	0	2	2	4	0.500	0			—	—	—

Squad

Squad and statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Oberliga		Championship round
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK	FRG	Helmut Henig	31	0	29	0	2	0
	GK	FRG	Alexander Rothuber	1	0	1	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Adolf Bechtold	31	0	29	0	2	0
	DF	FRG	Karlheinz Greiner	1	0	1	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Hermann Hesse	1	0	1	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Heinz Kaster	1	0	1	0	0	0
	DF	FRG	Ernst Kudrass	30	0	28	0	2	0
	MF	FRG	Werner Heilig	31	6	29	5	2	1
	MF	FRG	Kurt Krömmelbein	6	0	6	0	0	0
	MF	FRG	Alfons Remlein	29	2	27	2	2	0
	MF	FRG	Hans Wloka	30	1	28	1	2	0
	FW	FRG	Erich Dziwoki	32	16	30	16	2	0
	FW	FRG	Erich Ebeling	10	2	10	2	0	0
	FW	FRG	Erich Geier	11	2	11	2	0	0
	FW	FRG	Erich Gonschorek	4	3	4	3	0	0
	FW	FRG	Hermann Höfer	3	1	1	1	2	0
	FW	FRG	Richard Kress	32	17	30	17	2	0
	FW	FRG	Alfred Pfaff	30	9	28	9	2	0
	FW	FRG	Friedel Reichert	6	1	6	1	0	0
	FW	FRG	Hans Weilbächer	32	10	30	9	2	1

Transfers

See also

• 1954 German football championship

Notes

Sources

External links

• Official English Eintracht website Archived 2 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• German archive site
• 1953–54 Oberliga Süd season at Fussballdaten.de (in German)