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The 1939–40 season started in August 1939, but with the outbreak of the Second World War shortly after, league football was suspended. It only resumed at the end of October, with a number of local city-championships having been played to bridge the gap. As the war progressed, top-division football
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was declared, most football competitions were abandoned as the country's attention turned to the war effort. Regional league competitions were set up instead as there was a 50 mile limit for travelling implemented by the government during this time. Appearances in these tournaments do not count in
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had 170 of its club members drafted into military service, of those, 44 were killed in action and another 15 are missing. Those that did return found the clubs facilities completely destroyed by air raids on the town in October 1944 and April 1945.
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Scotland played 19 unofficial wartime internationals between 2 December 1939 and 24 August 1946, 17 against England and one each against Wales and Northern Ireland.
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did not cease to play internationals but was limited to neutral, axis and puppet states. Its first war international was held on 24 September 1939, a loss to
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became more regionalised. It also expanded into occupied territories, some of them annexed into Greater Germany, increasing the number of tier-one
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Wales played seventeen wartime unofficial matches for which the players were not awarded caps, and a further six matches in aid of war charities.
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were found on the construction site. The stadium was originally built, like so many others in Germany, on rubble left over from the war.
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England played 29 unofficial wartime internationals between 11 November 1939 and 5 May 1945, 14 against Wales and 15 against Scotland.
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Some of the events of the war continued to affect German football. Within the first two weeks of the re-development of the
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fielded 186 different players during the seven wartime seasons. The FA Cup was resumed for the 1945–46 season and
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saw ten of its eleven players that had won a local youth championship in 1940 not return from the battle fields.
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were suspended in 1939, with unofficial regional competitions replacing them. These were dominated by
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With the end of the war, ethnic German football clubs in the parts of Germany that were awarded to
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Rangers dominated wartime football but should their titles be recognised in the record books?
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survived the camps to become a FIFA international referee. Goldstein is also a member of the
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and was a German patriot, unable and unwilling to believe that his life could be at risk.
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was the 65th season of competitive football in England. In September 1939, shortly after
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lieutenant. He was executed in December 1944. The Estonian international goalkeeper
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captained Army football teams, and organised friendly matches in Austria and Egypt.
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was murdered in a Nazi labor camp in 1943, and the Hungarian football manager
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was forced to leave the country, clubs experienced the same fate. A few, like
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was played in 1944, before resumption of the league in a limited form in
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during the War, when he was working as Deputy Head of Police in
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team had enlisted as one just before the war, had received the
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also had a number of German internationals playing for them.
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However, some people also survived the concentration camps.
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Football was seen as a morale booster during the horrors of
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Scotland national football team results (unofficial matches)
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England national football team results (unofficial matches)
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Many German football clubs suffered heavy casualties from
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and played for these sides. Representative teams like the
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in 1938 and the Austrian league had become a part of the
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Football was affected less in World War II than it was
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players' official records. A few leagues, such as the
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A number of Jewish footballers were murdered during
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considerably from the original 16 in 1933. The last
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