a semi-final match played in Berlin, Karlsruhe protested the result as under league rules the match was to have been played at a neutral venue. Ultimately, the DFB cancelled the final and the Viktoria trophy was not awarded that year. KFV reached the final in 1905 for the first time and lost against Union 92 Berlin 2–0. KFV's championship was earned under the direction of English coach William Townley, a prominent figure in the early history of the game in Germany. In 1912, KFV lost the final against Holstein Kiel, 1–0. From 1908, the club played in the new Südkreis-Liga, which it won in 1910, 1911 and 1912. In 1909, Phönix Karlsruhe, known today as Karlsruher SC, brought the city its first national championship. KFV's win the following year makes Karlsruhe one of only three cities in Germany that have been home to two or more national football champions. The others are Munich (FC Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 München) and Berlin (Union 92 Berlin, BFC Viktoria 1889, Hertha BSC). Karlsruhe is the only city with two different teams that won the championship in two subsequent years. Julius Hirsch, together with Fritz Förderer and Gottfried Fuchs, formed an attacking trio for the team. He helped Karlsruher FV win the 1910 German football championship. While playing for the national team in 1912, KFV's Gottfried Fuchs scored 10 goals in a contest against Russia to set a German international match record that still stands. Fuchs and his fellow player Julius Hirsch were the only Jewish players to ever represent the German national team. KFV made its re-appearance after the First World War, first in the Kreisliga Südwest and then in the Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden, Gruppe Baden with the capture of the league championship in 1926. While they went on to dominate their division, the team was not able to make its way out of the South German league playoffs and back onto the national stage. From 1925 to 1931 Jimmy Lawrence, the record holding former Newcastle United goal keeper and Preston North End manager relocated to Germany to manage Karlsruher FV. With the club he won the regional championships of Württemberg/Baden in 1926 and of Baden in 1928, 1929 and 1931 which qualified the club to participate in the matches for the German football championship in those years. In 1933, Karlsruher FV took up play in the Gauliga Baden, one of the sixteen