2nd Oberliga West
Encyclopedia
| 2nd Oberliga West |
|---|
| Founded |
| 1949 |
| Disbanded |
| 1963 |
| Nation |
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| State |
 |
| Promotion To |
| Oberliga West Oberliga West (1947-63) The Oberliga West was the highest level of the German football league system in the west of Germany from 1947 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963... |
| Relegation To |
| Verbandsliga Niederrhein Verbandsliga Niederrhein The Niederrheinliga, formerly the Verbandsliga Niederrhein, is the highest football league in the region of Niederrhein which is part of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is the 6th tier of the German football league system... |
| Verbandsliga Mittelrhein Verbandsliga Mittelrhein The Mittelrheinliga, formerly the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, is the highest Football League in the region of Mittelrhein which is part of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is the 6th tier of the German football league system... |
| Verbandsliga Westfalen 1 |
| Verbandsliga Westfalen 2 |
| Number of Seasons |
| 14 |
| Replaced by |
| Regionalliga West Regionalliga West (1963-74) The Regionalliga West was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the west 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 |
| VfB Bottrop |
The 2nd Oberliga West (2nd Premier league West) 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 west 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 1949 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
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
in 1963. It covered the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, the most populous state of Germany.
Overview
The 2nd Oberliga West was formed in 1949 with two groups of sixteen teams each, as a feeder league to Oberliga WestOberliga West (1947-63)
The Oberliga West was the highest level of the German football league system in the west of Germany from 1947 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963...
. It was the first of the three 2nd Oberligas, the other two being 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:...
(formed in 1950) and 2nd Oberliga Südwest
2nd Oberliga Südwest
The 2nd Oberliga Südwest was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1951 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the two states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland.-Overview:...
(in 1951). The league adopted a single group format starting from 1952: The top two teams of the 2nd Oberliga gained promotion to the Oberliga
Oberliga (football)
The Oberliga is currently the name of the fifth tier of the German football leagues. Before the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008, it was the fourth tier...
while the bottom two teams were relegated to the Verbandsliga
Verbandsliga
The Verbandsliga is the 6th tier of football in Germany, played on a regional basis by Bundesland. In Saxony, Thuringia, Hamburg, Bremen and Bavaria the 6th tier is called Landesliga, which is the 7th tier in some of the other Bundesländer...
s. Some years, however, exceptions applied and the number of promoted and relegated teams altered.
Below the 2nd Oberliga West ranked the Amateurligas, varying in numbers (and names) but split into three zones, Niederrhein
Lower Rhine region (Germany)
The Lower Rhine region or Niederrhein is a region around the Lower Rhine section of the river Rhine in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany between approximately Neuss and Düsseldorf in the South and the Dutch border around Emmerich in the North...
, Mittelrhein
Middle Rhine
Between Bingen and Bonn, Germany, the Rhine River flows as the Middle Rhine through the Rhine Gorge, a formation created by erosion, which happened at about the same rate as an uplift in the region, leaving the river at about its original level, and the surrounding lands raised...
, and Westfalen :
- Niederrhein: Landesliga Niederrhein in two groups until 1952, then three groups. From 1956 single-group Verbandsliga NiederrheinVerbandsliga NiederrheinThe Niederrheinliga, formerly the Verbandsliga Niederrhein, is the highest football league in the region of Niederrhein which is part of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is the 6th tier of the German football league system...
. - Mittelrhein: Landesliga Mittelrhein in a single group in 1950, two groups from 1951. From 1956 single-group Verbandsliga MittelrheinVerbandsliga MittelrheinThe Mittelrheinliga, formerly the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, is the highest Football League in the region of Mittelrhein which is part of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is the 6th tier of the German football league system...
. - Westfalen: Landesliga Westfalen in two groups in 1950, single group in 1951 and 1952, five groups from 1953. From 1956 two groups, Verbandsliga Westfalen 1 and Verbandsliga Westfalen 2.
The 2nd Oberliga West existed until 1963, when it was replaced by the Regionalliga West
Regionalliga West (1963-74)
The Regionalliga West was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the west of Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974...
as the second division for Nordrhein-Westfalen.
SpVgg Herten is the only team to have played in the league for all 14 seasons.
Schwarz-Weiß Essen became the 1st second-division side to win the German Cup when they did so in 1959, an achievement only repeated by Kickers Offenbach
Kickers Offenbach
Kickers Offenbach is a German association football club in Offenbach am Main, Hesse. The club was founded on 27 May 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who had left established local clubs including Melitia, Teutonia, Viktoria, Germania and Neptun...
and Hannover 96
Hannover 96
Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96, Hannover or simply 96, is a German association football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony.-Foundation to WWII:...
in the history of German football.
Disbanding of the 2nd Oberliga
In 1963, the league was disbanded in favor of the new Regionalliga. The first eight teams from this season went to the Regionalliga West. The clubs placed from ninth to sixteenth were relegated to the Verbandsligas.- VfB Bottrop
- Duisburg 48/99
- SpVgg Herten
- STV Horst-Emscher
- Sportfreunde SiegenSportfreunde SiegenSportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1899 as the football department of the gymnastics club Turn Verein Jahn von 1879 Siegen...
- Rot-Weiß Essen
- Arminia BielefeldArminia BielefeldDSC Arminia Bielefeld is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating and cue sports. The club has 11,394 members and the club colours are black, white and blue...
- Duisburger SV
The following teams were relegated to the Amateurligas:
- To the Verbandsliga Niederrhein: SV Neukirchen, FV Duisburg 08
- To the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein: Bonner FVBonner SCBonner SC is a German association football club based in Bonn. The club was formed in 1965 through the merger of Bonner FV and Tura Bonn.-History:...
- To the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Nordost: Eintracht Gelsenkirchen, Sportfreunde Gladbeck
- To the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Südwest: SC Dortmund 95, SV SodingenSV SodingenSV Sodingen is a German association football club based in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team currently plays in the Landesliga, the seventh tier of German football. Although a regional league side today, the club played in the first division Oberliga West through most of the 1950s and into...
, VfL BochumVfL BochumVerein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum, is a German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.-Founding to World War II:...
Winners and runners-up of the 2nd Oberliga
| Season | Winner | Runner-Up |
| 1949-50 | Rheydter SV Sportfreunde Katernberg |
Fortuna Düsseldorf Borussia München-Gladbach |
| 1950-51 | MSV Duisburg Bayer Leverkusen |
Schwarz-Weiß Essen SSV 04 Wuppertal |
| 1951-52 | SV Sodingen Borussia Mönchengladbach |
VfB Bottrop TSG Vohwinkel |
| 1952-53 | VfL Bochum | Rheydter SV |
| 1953-54 | Duisburger SV | Westfalia Herne |
| 1954-55 | Wuppertaler SV | SV Hamborn 07 |
| 1955-56 | VfL Bochum | MSV Duisburg |
| 1956-57 | SV Hamborn 07 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen |
| 1957-58 | STV Horst-Emscher | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| 1958-59 | SV Hamborn 07 | Schwarz-Weiß Essen |
| 1959-60 | SV Sodingen | TSV Marl-Hüls |
| 1960-61 | Schwarz-Weiß Essen | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 1961-62 | Bayer Leverkusen | Wuppertaler SV |
| 1962-63 | VfB Bottrop | Duisburg 48/99 |
Placings in the 2nd Oberliga West 1949 to 1963
The league placings from 1949 to 1963:| Club | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 |
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| Westfalia Herne Westfalia Herne SC Westfalia Herne is a German football club based in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded on 13 June 1904 by the sons of the more well-heeled residents of the city as a rival to the worker-based club SV Sodingen.- History :... |
8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| MSV Duisburg MSV Duisburg MSV Duisburg is a German association football club based in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Nicknamed "the Zebras" for their traditional striped jerseys, the club was one of the original members of the Bundesliga when it was formed in 1963.-Early years:... |
4 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is a German association football club in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was formed as Oberhausener SV in December 1904 out of the merger of Emschertaler SV and the football enthusiasts of Oberhausener TV 1873... |
♦ | ♦ | 3 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Mönchengladbach is a German association football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the Bundesliga and is one of the country's most well-known, well-supported, and successful teams. Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 40,000 members and is the sixth... |
2 | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| SV Hamborn 07 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 10 | 7 | 2 | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| TSV Marl-Hüls | 13 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |||||
| Schwarz-Weiß Essen | 7 | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 7 | 2 | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf Fortuna Düsseldorf ' is a German association football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, currently playing in the second tier of German league football, the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga... |
2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 2 | ♦ | ♦ |
| Bayer Leverkusen Bayer Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a German football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the most well-known department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a sports club whose members also participate in athletics, gymnastics, basketball and other sports.-Origins and early years:On 27 November... |
5 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ♦ |
| Wuppertaler SV * | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 | ♦ | |||||
| VfB Bottrop | 11 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 1 | |
| Duisburg 48/99 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 2 | ||||||||||
| SpVgg Herten | 6 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 3 |
| STV Horst-Emscher | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | ♦ | 10 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| Sportfreunde Siegen Sportfreunde Siegen Sportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1899 as the football department of the gymnastics club Turn Verein Jahn von 1879 Siegen... |
8 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Rot-Weiß Essen | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 5 | 6 |
| Arminia Bielefeld Arminia Bielefeld DSC Arminia Bielefeld is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating and cue sports. The club has 11,394 members and the club colours are black, white and blue... |
♦ | 9 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 7 | ||||||||
| Duisburger SV | ♦ | ♦ | 3 | 3 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 8 |
| SV Sodingen SV Sodingen SV Sodingen is a German association football club based in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team currently plays in the Landesliga, the seventh tier of German football. Although a regional league side today, the club played in the first division Oberliga West through most of the 1950s and into... |
4 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | 9 | |
| Eintracht Gelsenkirchen * | 5 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 10 | ||||
| Sportfreunde Gladbeck | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 11 | ||||||||
| SC Dortmund 95 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 12 | |||||||
| SV Neukirchen | 6 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| VfL Bochum VfL Bochum Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum, is a German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.-Founding to World War II:... |
12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 3 | 14 |
| FV Duisburg 08 | ♦ | 3 | 16 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Bonner FV | 16 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 16 | |||||||||
| VfL Benrath | 13 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 15 | |||||
| SpVgg Erkenschwick SpVgg Erkenschwick SpVgg Erkenschwick is a German football club based in Oer-Erkenschwick in North Rhine-Westphalia.- History :Founded as Sportverein Erkenschwick in 1916, they joined Emscher-Lippe-Spielverband to form Sportfreunde Erkenschwick in 1918, which in then merged with Turn- und Leichtathletikverein TV... |
♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 11 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 16 | ||
| SSV Hagen | 15 | |||||||||||||
| BV Osterfeld | 16 | |||||||||||||
| Union Krefeld | 5 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 15 | |||
| Rheydter SV | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | 2 | ♦ | 10 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 16 | |||
| SG Düren 99 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 15 | |||||
| TuS Lintfort | 16 | |||||||||||||
| SG Wattenscheid 09 SG Wattenscheid 09 SG Wattenscheid 09 is a German association football club, located in Wattenscheid which is part of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club claims an official founding date of 18 September 1909 as Ballspiel-Verein Wattenscheid out of the merger of two earlier sides known as BV Sodalität der... |
13 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 15 | |||||
| VfB Marathon Remscheid | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 16 | ||||||
| VfB Speldorf VfB Speldorf VfB Speldorf is a German association football club from the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia.-Squad 2009–2010:-History:... |
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| Rhenania Würselen | ♦ | 15 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 15 | |||||||
| VfB Bielefeld | 11 | 14 | 16 | |||||||||||
| Sportfreunde Katernberg | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 6 | 15 | ||||||||
| TSG Vohwinkel * | ♦ | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | |||||||||
| SSV Wuppertal * | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | |||||||||
| TuRU Düsseldorf TuRU Düsseldorf TuRU Düsseldorf is a German sports club from the city of Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia.-History:Turn- und Rasensport Union Düsseldorf claims a number of early Düsseldorf clubs in its heritage... |
15 | 10 | 9 | |||||||||||
| FV Hombruch 09 | 3 | 15 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Preußen Krefeld | 9 | 12 | 10 | |||||||||||
| SC Bergisch-Gladbach | 14 | 3 | 11 | |||||||||||
| SSV Hagen | 14 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| TuS Essen-West | 8 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Union Ohligs | 14 | 14 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Fortuna Köln | 16 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| TB Wanne-Eickel | 10 | 16 | 13 | |||||||||||
| SpVgg Röhlinghausen | 9 | 15 | ||||||||||||
| SC Rapid Köln | 6 | 7 | 15 | |||||||||||
| TSV Detmold | 12 | 17 | ||||||||||||
| VfL Köln | 8 | |||||||||||||
| SC West Köln | 7 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| TuRa Essen | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Alemannia Gelsenkirchen * | 10 | |||||||||||||
| VfL Witten | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Viktoria Alsdorf | 12 | |||||||||||||
| SSV Troisdorf 05 | 15 | |||||||||||||
| Union Gelsenkirchen * | 16 |
Source:
Key
| Symbol | Key |
|---|---|
| ♦ | Oberliga West |
| 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 MagazineKicker (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...
- Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945-2005 History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables, publisher: DSFS, published: 2006