The Central German football championship (German: Mitteldeutsche Fußball Meisterschaft) was the highest association football competition in Central Germany, in what is now the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, established in 1902.

With the interception of the later in 1903, the former became qualifying tournaments for it but these regional championships still held a high value for the local clubs.

Regional champions were determined to establish who the qualified clubs for the Central German championship were.

In 1903, in the second year of the competition, a German football championship was established, for which the Central champion was qualified.

[3] VfB became the dominant side in the pre-First World War era of the competition, also winning another German title in 1906 and 1913 and making a losing appearance in the 1911 and 1914 final.

This was expanded to four teams when the champion of the Chemnitz area joined the Central German championship.

During the war years, until 1919, eleven clubs played each season for the Central German championship but national title games were not held.

This was drastically expanded to 27 clubs for 1924 because of the fragmented nature of the league system in Central Germany with a large number of local competitions.

After the end of the Second World War, Germany remained divided until 1991 and the former top-clubs of this competition, under new names, played in the DDR-Oberliga as part of the East German league system.