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Regionalliga West (1963-74)
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| Regionalliga West |
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| Founded |
| 1963 |
| Disbanded |
| 1974 |
| Nation |
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| State |
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| Promotion To |
| 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... |
| Relegation To |
| 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 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 Westfalen 1 |
| Verbandsliga Westfalen 2 |
| Number of Seasons |
| 11 |
| Replaced by |
| 2nd Bundesliga Nord 2nd Bundesliga Nord (1974-81) The 2. Fußball-Bundesliga Nord was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the north of Germany from 1974 until the formation of the single-division 2. Fußball-Bundesliga in 1981... |
| 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 1973-74 |
| 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... |
The Regionalliga 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 1963 until the formation of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974. It covered the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, the most populos state of Germany.
Overview
The league started out in 1963 with 20 teams in the league, which was reduced to 18 the year after.It was formed from the eleven clubs of the 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...
which did not get admitted to the new
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...
Bundesliga and from the top nine clubs of the 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....
. The Regionalliga West was as such a continuation of the Oberliga West under a different name and a tier lower.
Along with the Regionalliga
Regionalliga
Regionalliga is a designation in Germany for sports leagues, which are led by one or more regional federations. Regionalligen often fall below the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga of a given sport...
West went another four Regionalligas, these five formed the second tier of German football until 1974:
- Regionalliga NordRegionalliga Nord (1963-74)The Regionalliga Nord was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the north of Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974...
, covering the states of Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg - Regionalliga SüdRegionalliga Süd (1963-74)The Regionalliga Süd was the second-highest level of the German football league system. It existed in the south of Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1974. It covered the three states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen....
, covering the state of Bayern, Hessen and Baden-Württemberg - Regionalliga BerlinRegionalliga Berlin (1963-74)The Regionalliga Berlin was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the city of West-Berlin in Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974. It was by far the smallest of the five Regionalligen.-Overview:...
, covering West-Berlin - Regionalliga SüdwestRegionalliga 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...
, covering the states of Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland
The new Regionalligas were formed along the borders of the old post-2nd World War Oberligas, not after a balanced regional system. Therefore the Oberligas Berlin and West covered small but populos areas while Nord and Süd covered large areas. Südwest was something of an anomaly, neither large nor populous.
The winners and runners-up of this league were admitted to the promotion play-off to 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...
, which was staged in two groups of originally four, later five teams each with the winner of each group going up.
The bottom teams in a varying amount were relegated to the Verbandsligas. Below the Regionalliga West were the following Verbandsligas:
- 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...
- 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...
- Verbandsliga Westfalen 1
- Verbandsliga Westfalen 2
The Schwarz-Weiß Essen is the only club to have played in all eleven seasons of the Regionalliga West.
Disbanding of the Regionalliga West
The league was dissolved in 1974. According to their performance of the last couple of seasons, 11 clubs of the Regionalliga went to the new 2nd Bundesliga Nord2nd Bundesliga Nord (1974-81)
The 2. Fußball-Bundesliga Nord was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the north of Germany from 1974 until the formation of the single-division 2. Fußball-Bundesliga in 1981...
. The seven remaining clubs were relegated to the Amateurligas.
The teams admitted to the 2nd Bundesliga Nord were:
- SG Wattenscheid 09SG Wattenscheid 09SG 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...
- Rot-Weiss Oberhausen
- Bayer Uerdingen
- 1. FC Mülheim1. FC MülheimFC Mülheim is a German association football club based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia.-History:Spielvereinigung Oberhausen und Styrum was established through the union of a number of local sports clubs including Styrumer Spielverein 08, Styrum 08 and Oberhausener Spielverein...
- Preußen Münster
- Borussia DortmundBorussia DortmundBallspielverein Borussia Dortmund, commonly BVB, are a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. Dortmund are one of the most successful clubs in German football history. Borussia Dortmund play in the Bundesliga, the top league of German football...
- Alemannia AachenAlemannia AachenAlemannia Aachen is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long term fixture of the country's second division, Alemannia enjoyed a three-year turn in the top flight in the late 1960s and, after a successful 2005–06 campaign, returned to first division play...
- Schwarz-Weiss EssenSchwarz-Weiss EssenSchwarz-Weiß Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The side has its origins in the gymnastics club Essener Turnerbund founded in 1881...
- DJK Gütersloh
- SpVgg ErkenschwickSpVgg ErkenschwickSpVgg 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...
- 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...
The following teams were relegated to the Amateurligas:
- to Amateurliga Westfalen Nordost: Arminia GüterslohFC GüterslohFC Gütersloh 2000 is a German association football club based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia.- History :The club was formed in 1978 out of the merger of the football sides of Sport Verein Arminia and Deutsche Jugendkraft Gütersloh in the hopes that the new club would be more successful than...
, Eintracht Gelsenkirchen - to Amateurliga Westfalen Südwest: Rot-Weiß LüdenscheidRot-Weiß LüdenscheidRot-Weiß Lüdenscheid is a German association football club playing in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia.-History:The origins of the club go back to the formation of the Luedenscheider Fußball-Klub in 1908. In the aftermath of World War I, a number of local sides went through a series of mergers...
, 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...
, Westfalia HerneWestfalia HerneSC 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 :... - to Amateurliga Mittelrhein: Viktoria KölnViktoria KölnFC Viktoria Köln 1904 is a German association football club from the city of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia.- History :Founded in 1904 as FC Germania Kalk it is one of the oldest football clubs in the city. In 1909 Germania merged with FC Kalk to form SV Kalk 04 and in 1911 this club was, in...
- to Amateurliga Niederrhein: Union SolingenUnion Solingen1. FC Union Solingen is a German association football club from Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia.- History :The side can trace its roots back to an earlier Union Solingen club founded in 1897 out of the merger of a number of clubs from the district of Ohligs that would over time include Ohligs FC...
Re-formation of the Regionalliga West
In 1994 the Regionalligas were re-established, after 20 years, this time as the third tier of German Football. The new Regionalliga West/SüdwestRegionalliga West/Südwest
The Regionalliga West/Südwest was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Nordrhein-Westfalen from 1994 to 2000.- Overview :...
was a merger of the two old Regionalligas Südwest and West. In 2000 this league was disbanded again and its clubs spread over the Regionalligas Süd and Nord.
In 2008, the Regionalliga West
Regionalliga West
The Regionalliga West is the fourth tier of the German football league system since its introduction in 2008. It covers the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and North Rhine-Westphalia and is one of three leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga...
will reform again, covering the same territory as the Regionalliga West/Südwest did but now called West only. It will then be the fourth tier of football in Germany.
Winners and runners-up of the Regionalliga West
| Season | Winner | Runner-Up |
| 1963-64 | Alemannia Aachen | Wuppertaler SV |
| 1964-65 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | Alemannia Aachen |
| 1965-66 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | Rot-Weiss Essen |
| 1966-67 | Alemannia Aachen | Schwarz-Weiss Essen |
| 1967-68 | Bayer Leverkusen | Rot-Weiss Essen |
| 1968-69 | Rot-Weiss Oberhausen | Rot-Weiss Essen |
| 1969-70 | VfL Bochum | Arminia Bielefeld |
| 1970-71 | VfL Bochum | Fortuna Düsseldorf |
| 1971-72 | Wuppertaler SV | Rot-Weiss Essen |
| 1972-73 | Rot-Weiss Essen | Fortuna Köln |
| 1973-74 | SG Wattenscheid 09 | Rot-Weiss Oberhausen |
- Bold denotes team went on to gain promotion to the Bundesliga.
- Alemannia Aachen (1964, 1967, 1999), SG Wattenscheid 09 (1974, 1997), Rot-Weiss Oberhausen (1969, 1998) and Rot-Weiss Essen (1973, 2004, 2006) all have won the old and the new Regionalliga.
Placings in the Regionalliga West 1963 to 1974
The league placings from 1963 to 1974:| Club | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 |
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| 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... |
8 | 1 | B | B | B | B | B | B | B | B | B |
| 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 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | B | B | B | ||
| 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... |
3 | 3 | 1 | B | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | B | B | B |
| Wuppertaler SV | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | B | B |
| Rot-Weiß Essen | 10 | 7 | 2 | B | 2 | 2 | B | B | 2 | 1 | B |
| Fortuna Köln | 16 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 2 | B | ||||
| 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... |
8 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
| 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... |
7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | B | B | B | B | 2 |
| Bayer Uerdingen | 7 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 1. FC Mülheim 1. FC Mülheim FC Mülheim is a German association football club based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia.-History:Spielvereinigung Oberhausen und Styrum was established through the union of a number of local sports clubs including Styrumer Spielverein 08, Styrum 08 and Oberhausener Spielverein... |
8 | 4 | |||||||||
| Preußen Münster | B | 8 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 5 |
| Borussia Dortmund Borussia Dortmund Ballspielverein Borussia Dortmund, commonly BVB, are a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. Dortmund are one of the most successful clubs in German football history. Borussia Dortmund play in the Bundesliga, the top league of German football... |
B | B | B | B | B | B | B | B | B | 4 | 6 |
| Alemannia Aachen Alemannia Aachen Alemannia Aachen is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long term fixture of the country's second division, Alemannia enjoyed a three-year turn in the top flight in the late 1960s and, after a successful 2005–06 campaign, returned to first division play... |
1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | B | B | B | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| Schwarz-Weiß Essen | 13 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 8 |
| DJK Gütersloh | 10 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 9 | ||||||
| Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid is a German association football club playing in Lüdenscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia.-History:The origins of the club go back to the formation of the Luedenscheider Fußball-Klub in 1908. In the aftermath of World War I, a number of local sides went through a series of mergers... |
10 | ||||||||||
| 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... |
15 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 11 | ||||||
| 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... |
18 | 7 | 12 | ||||||||
| Arminia Gütersloh | 9 | 16 | 13 | ||||||||
| 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... |
11 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | B | B | 11 | 14 |
| Union Solingen Union Solingen 1. FC Union Solingen is a German association football club from Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia.- History :The side can trace its roots back to an earlier Union Solingen club founded in 1897 out of the merger of a number of clubs from the district of Ohligs that would over time include Ohligs FC... |
15 | ||||||||||
| STV Horst-Emscher | 15 | 17 | 18 | 16 | |||||||
| 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 :... |
6 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 17 | ||
| Viktoria Köln Viktoria Köln FC Viktoria Köln 1904 is a German association football club from the city of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia.- History :Founded in 1904 as FC Germania Kalk it is one of the oldest football clubs in the city. In 1909 Germania merged with FC Kalk to form SV Kalk 04 and in 1911 this club was, in... |
5 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 17 | 18 | |
| Eintracht Gelsenkirchen | 13 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 14 | |||
| 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... |
12 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 17 | |
| Lüner SV | 20 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 18 | ||||
| VfR Neuß | 8 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 16 | |||||
| VfL Klafeld | 18 | ||||||||||
| Bonner SC Bonner SC Bonner 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:... |
17 | 15 | 13 | 17 | |||||||
| SF Hamborn 07 SF Hamborn 07 SF Hamborn 07 is a German association football club based in Hamborn, a district in the north of Duisburg. The team currently plays in the Landesliga, the seventh tier of German football.... |
14 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 18 | |||
| SSVg Velbert SSVg Velbert SSVg Velbert is a German association football club located in Velbert, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1902 as Velberter FC 02 and marks itself as the third oldest football club in the region.-Early predecessors:... |
17 | ||||||||||
| TSV Marl-Hüls | 4 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 18 | ||||
| Eintracht Duisburg | 9 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 17 | ||||||
| VfB Bottrop | 17 | 17 | 18 | ||||||||
| SSV Hagen | 15 | ||||||||||
| Hammer SpVg Hammer SpVg Hammer SpVg is a German association football club from the city of Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is part of a larger sports club with some 1,500 members in departments for aikido, judo, cheerleading, fitness and dance, gymnastics, handball, roller hockey, volleyball, and water gymnastics.The... |
16 | ||||||||||
| Homberger SV | 18 | ||||||||||
| SpVgg Herten | 16 | ||||||||||
| Duisburg 48/99 | 19 |
Source:
Key
| Symbol | Key |
|---|---|
| B | Bundesliga |
| Place | League |
| Blank | Played at a league level below this league |
Sources
- Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen, An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga, publisher: DSFSDeutscher Sportclub für FußballstatistikenThe Deutscher Sportclub für Fußballstatistiken e.V., short DSFS is an association dedicated to collecting and publishing German football statistics, similar to the RSSSF, and is a member of the German Olympic Society.The club used to be best known for its annual publication, the Deutschlands...
- 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