2nd Oberliga Südwest
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2nd Oberliga Südwest
Founded
1951
Disbanded
1963
Nation
States
Rheinland-Pfalz
Saarland
Saarland
Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...

Promotion To
Oberliga Südwest
Oberliga Südwest (1945-63)
The Oberliga Südwest was the highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1945 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the two states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland.-Overview:...

Relegation To
Amateurliga Rheinland
Amateurliga Rheinland
The Amateurliga Rheinland was the highest football league in the region of the Rheinland FA and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1952 to the formation of the Oberliga Südwest and the Verbandsliga Rheinland below it in 1978.- Overview :The Amateurliga...

Amateurliga Saarland
Amateurliga Saarland
The Amateurliga Saarland was the highest football league in the state of Saarland and the third tier of the German football league system from 1951, when the clubs from the Saar returned to Germany, till the formation of the Oberliga Südwest and the Verbandsliga Saarland below it in 1978.- Overview...

Amateurliga Südwest
Amateurliga Südwest
The Amateurliga Südwest was the highest football league in the region of the Südwest FA and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1952 to the formation of the Oberliga Südwest and the Verbandsliga Südwest below it in 1978....

Number of Seasons
12
Replaced by
Regionalliga Südwest
Regionalliga Südwest (1963-74)
The Regionalliga Südwest was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974...

Level on Pyramid
Level 2
German football league system
The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to a series of hierarchically interconnected leagues for association football clubs in Germany that consists of over 2,300 men's divisions, in which all leagues are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation...

Last Champions 1962-63
Phönix Ludwigshafen


The 2nd Oberliga Südwest (2nd Premier league Southwest) was the second-highest level of the German football league system
German football league system
The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to a series of hierarchically interconnected leagues for association football clubs in Germany that consists of over 2,300 men's divisions, in which all leagues are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation...

 in the southwest of Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 from 1951 until the formation
Introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga
The Introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga was the long-debated step of establishing a top-level association football league in Germany in 1963. The new league, the Fußball-Bundesliga, played its first season in 1963–64 and continues to be the higest league in the country...

 of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the two states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland
Saarland
Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...

.

Overview

The 2nd Oberliga Südwest was formed in 1951 as a feeder league to the Oberliga Südwest
Oberliga Südwest (1945-63)
The Oberliga Südwest was the highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1945 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the two states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland.-Overview:...

 which had been operating since 1945. It was the last of the three second Oberligas, the other two being 2nd Oberliga West
2nd Oberliga West
The 2nd Oberliga West was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the west of Germany from 1949 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, the most populous state of Germany....

 (1949) and 2nd Oberliga Süd
2nd Oberliga Süd
The 2nd Oberliga Süd was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the south of Germany from 1950 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the three states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen.-Overview:...

 (1950).

The winners and runners-up of this league were promoted to the Oberliga Südwest, the bottom two teams relegated to the Amateurligas. Below the 2nd Oberliga were the following Amateurligas:
  • Amateurliga Rheinland
    Amateurliga Rheinland
    The Amateurliga Rheinland was the highest football league in the region of the Rheinland FA and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1952 to the formation of the Oberliga Südwest and the Verbandsliga Rheinland below it in 1978.- Overview :The Amateurliga...

     (split into two groups from 1956 to 1963)
  • Amateurliga Saarland
    Amateurliga Saarland
    The Amateurliga Saarland was the highest football league in the state of Saarland and the third tier of the German football league system from 1951, when the clubs from the Saar returned to Germany, till the formation of the Oberliga Südwest and the Verbandsliga Saarland below it in 1978.- Overview...

  • Amateurliga Südwest
    Amateurliga Südwest
    The Amateurliga Südwest was the highest football league in the region of the Südwest FA and the third tier of the German football league system from its inception in 1952 to the formation of the Oberliga Südwest and the Verbandsliga Südwest below it in 1978....



The TSC Zweibrücken was the only club to play all twelve seasons in the league.

Disbanding of the 2nd Oberliga

In 1963 the league was dissolved. Six of its clubs went to the new Regionalliga Südwest
Regionalliga Südwest (1963-74)
The Regionalliga Südwest was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974...

, the new second division. The other ten teams were relegated to the Amateurligas.

The following teams were admitted to the new Regionalliga:
  • Phönix Ludwigshafen
  • Eintracht Trier
  • SpVgg Weisenau
  • Phönix Bellheim
    Phönix Bellheim
    FC Phönix Bellheim is a German association football club from the city of Bellheim, Rhineland-Palatinate. Established on 11 February 1921 the club did not come to note until after World War II when they were part of the Amateurliga Vorderplatz from 1947–52 and the Amateurliga Südwest from 1952–62...

  • SV Röchling Völklingen
    SV Röchling Völklingen
    SV Röchling Völklingen is a German association football club that plays in Völklingen, part of the greater Saarbrücken, Saarland.-History:The club was founded as FC Völklingen on 26 April 1906 and re-named SV Völklingen in 1912 before folding in 1916 as a consequence of the fighting along the...

  • TSC Zweibrücken


The following teams were relegated:
  • to the Amateurliga Saarland: SC Friedrichsthal, SV Ludweiler, VfB Theley, SV St. Ingbert
  • to the Amateurliga Rheinland: VfB Wissen, Germania Metternich, FV Engers 07
    FV Engers 07
    FV Engers 07 is a German association football club based in the city of Engers, Rhineland-Palatinate that currently plays in the Oberliga Südwest .-History:...

  • to the Amateurliga Südwest: FV Speyer, FSV Schifferstadt, Hassia Bingen

Winners and runners-up of the 2nd Oberliga Südwest

The winners and runners-up of the league:
Season Winner Runner-Up
1951-52 VfR Kirn FV Speyer
1952-53 ASV Landau VfR Frankenthal
1953-54 Spfr. Saarbrücken Eintracht Kreuznach
1954-55 SpVgg Andernach FV Engers
1955-56 Spfr. Saarbrücken FV Speyer
1956-57 SV St. Ingbert TuRa Ludwigshafen
1957-58 SpVgg Weisenau Spfr. Saarbrücken
1958-59 VfR Kaiserslautern SC Ludwigshafen
1959-60 SV Niederlahnstein TuS Neuendorf
1960-61 VfR Kaiserslautern BSC Oppau
1961-62 SV Niederlahnstein VfR Frankenthal
1962-63 Phönix Ludwigshafen Eintracht Trier

Placings in the 2nd Oberliga Südwest 1951 to 1963

The league placings from 1951 to 1963:
Club 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
Eintracht Kreuznach 5 2
TuRa Ludwigshafen 2
Sportfreunde Saarbrücken 13 1 1 2
SC Ludwigshafen 7 10 3 9 9 15 2
TuS Neuendorf 2
VfR Kaiserslautern 1 1
BSC Oppau 13 6 10 4 12 6 3 2
SV Niederlahnstein 9 4 14 1 1
VfR Frankenthal 2 2
Südwest Ludwigshafen 1
Eintracht Trier 2
SpVgg Weisenau 16 12 13 6 1 6 10 11 3
Phönix Bellheim
Phönix Bellheim
FC Phönix Bellheim is a German association football club from the city of Bellheim, Rhineland-Palatinate. Established on 11 February 1921 the club did not come to note until after World War II when they were part of the Amateurliga Vorderplatz from 1947–52 and the Amateurliga Südwest from 1952–62...

4
SV Röchling Völklingen
SV Röchling Völklingen
SV Röchling Völklingen is a German association football club that plays in Völklingen, part of the greater Saarbrücken, Saarland.-History:The club was founded as FC Völklingen on 26 April 1906 and re-named SV Völklingen in 1912 before folding in 1916 as a consequence of the fighting along the...

7 5
VfB Wissen 6
Hassia Bingen 3 6 7 16 9 7 9 7
TSC Zweibrücken 8 4 5 4 8 8 10 12 13 5 5 8
FSV Schifferstadt 8 10 9
Germania Metternich 15 4 12 10
VfB Theley 11 14 14 13 11
SV Ludweiler-Warndt 8 7 7 7 13 11 13 6 12
SV St. Ingbert 12 1 4 7 6 14 13
FV Engers 7 2 3 3 7 5 12 8 14
SC Friedrichsthal 8 9 3 15
FV Speyer 2 2 3 4 16
ASC Dudweiler 14 11 6 10 6 9 10 11 15
SG Sobernheim 16
SpVgg Andernach
SpVgg Andernach
SG Andernach is a German football club from the city of Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club was formed in 1999 through the merger of the football departments of SpVgg Andernach, BSV 1910 Andernach, and DJK Boulla Andernach based in the earlier association between these sides going back to 1992...

5 3 12 1 9 10 12 15
Viktoria Sulzbach 11 10 15 11 13 5 4 16
FC Homburg
FC Homburg
FC 08 Homburg is a German association football club based in Homburg, Saarland. The club was founded on 15 June 1908 as Fussball Club Homburg by a group of seventeen young men at the local Hohenburg pub.- History :...

11 3 15
ASV Landau 6 1 14 3 5 8 8 16
VfL Trier 5 13 14 15
VfR Kirn 1 13 4 12 5 16
VfL Neuwied 10 8 4 5 14 14 16
ASV Hochfeld 7 10 3 9 9 15
Sportfreunde Herdorf 11 7 8 3 11 16
SG Pirmasens 4 9 9 10 15
SC Bad Neuenahr 12 6 11 16
SC Altenkessel
SC Altenkessel
SC Altenkessel is a German football club from the district of Altenkessel in the city of Saarbrücken, Saarland. The club was briefly part of first division play during World War II and after the war played in the Saarlandliga when the state of Saarland was occupied by the French.-History:The club...

12 15
1. FC Idar 9 14 16
VfL Neustadt 15
VfB Lützel 13
TuS Konz 14

Source:

Key

Symbol Key
Oberliga Südwest
1 League champions
Place League
Blank Played at a league level below this league

Sources

  • Kicker Almanach, The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine
    Kicker (sports magazine)
    kicker Sportmagazin is Germany's leading sports magazine and is focused primarily on football. The magazine was founded in 1920 by German football pioneer Walther Bensemann and is published twice a week, usually Monday and Thursday, in Nuremberg...

  • Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988 History of Southern German football in tables, publisher & author: Ludolf Hyll
  • 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband 100-year-anniversary book of Southern German football Association, publisher: Vindelica Verlag, published: 1997
  • Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945-2005 History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables, publisher: DSFS, published: 2006

External links

Das deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables Oberliga Südwest at Fussballdaten.de
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