Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

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Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
Founded
1978
Nation
Flag of Germany Germany
Map of Germany: Position of Baden-Württemberg highlighted
State
Flag of Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
Promotion To
Regionalliga Süd
Relegation To
Verbandsliga Nordbaden
Verbandsliga Südbaden
Verbandsliga Württemberg
Number of Teams
18
Level on Pyramid
Level 5
Domestic Cups
Württembergischer Pokal
Badischer Pokal
Südbadischer Pokal
Current Champions 2007-08
SC Freiburg II

The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is the highest Football League in the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg football league system. It is one of seven Oberligas in German Football, the 5th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008 it was the 4th tier. It's traditional sister leagues and rivals are the Oberliga Hessen and the Oberliga Bayern.

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[edit] Overview

The league was formed in 1978 as the highest level of play in the state. Previous to that, the four Amateurligas Nordwürttemberg,Schwarzwald-Bodensee,Südbaden and Nordbaden formed the tier right below the 2nd Bundesliga. The Amateurligas changed their name since into Verbandsliga. The Amateurligas Nordwürttemberg and Schwarzwald-Bodensee merged to form the Verbandsliga Württemberg. The three Verbandsliga's now feed the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.

Since introduction of the Regionalliga Süd in 1994, the winner of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is automatically promoted to this league, till 1994 the winners of the Oberligas had to play-off for the four promotion spots to the 2nd Bundesliga with the other Oberliga winners.

In 1994, with the introduction of the Regionalliga, five clubs from Baden-Württemberg were qualified for the new league, based on their performance over the last three seasons, these clubs being:

Originally, a sixth place for the Oberliga was available but because the Stuttgarter Kickers, a club from Württemberg, was relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga that year, the club took up this spot.

The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg still remained below the Regionalliga Süd after the reduction of the number of Regionalligas from four to two in 2000 but this reduction meant that the Oberliga champions in that year were not promoted.

With the changes in the league system in 2008, there was four clubs from the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg promoted to Regionalliga Süd after the 2007-08 season, nominally the top four teams, however, there was also financial requirements to receive a Regionalliga license. The four clubs were:

The winners of the three Verbandsligas gain automatic promotion to the Oberliga. The runners-up of Nordbaden then plays the runners-up of Südbaden in a home-and-away series. The winner of this games faces the runners-up of Württemberg for the final Oberliga spot.

Feeder Leagues to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

In the past two clubs which played in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg weren't actually based in the state. Amicitia Viernheim (Hessen) and SpVgg Au/Iller (Bayern) both were in the Oberliga for a number of years.

The separation of Nordbaden and Südbaden is not traditional. It results from the end of World War II when Nordbaden was in the American occupation zone and Südbaden in the French. Inter zone travel was difficult then and two separate leagues developed. Until 1950 the clubs from the Südbaden and the Schwarzwald-Bodensee regions actually played in the southwest league system, the old (1945-1963) Oberliga Südwest, only after that were they integrated into the southern league system, where they geographically belonged.

[edit] Champions of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

Season Club
1978-79 SSV Ulm 1846
1979-80 VfB Stuttgart II
1980-81 SV Sandhausen
1981-82 SSV Ulm 1846
1982-83 SSV Ulm 1846
1983-84 Freiburger FC
1984-85 SV Sandhausen
1985-86 SSV Ulm 1846
1986-87 SV Sandhausen
1987-88 FV Weinheim 09
1988-89 SSV Reutlingen
1989-90 Karlsruher SC II
1990-91 1. FC Pforzheim
1991-92 SSV Reutlingen
1992-93 SSV Ulm 1846
Season Club
1993-94 SSV Ulm 1846
1994-95 SV Sandhausen
1995-96 Karlsruher SC II
1996-97 VfL Kirchheim/Teck
1997-98 VfB Stuttgart II
1998-99 VfR Aalen
1999-2000 SV Sandhausen
2000-01 TSG Hoffenheim
2001-02 SC Pfullendorf
2002-03 VfB Stuttgart II
2003-04 FC Nöttingen
2004-05 Karlsruher SC II
2005-06 SSV Reutlingen
2006-07 SV Sandhausen
2007-08 SC Freiburg II

Source:Oberliga B/W. Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. Retrieved on 2008-03-07.

[edit] Founding Members of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

The Oberliga started in 1978 with 20 clubs from four regions.

From the Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg:

From the Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee:

From the Amateurliga Nordbaden:

From the Amateurliga Südbaden:

[edit] Facts & Records

  • SSV Ulm 1846 and SV Sandhausen jointly hold the record for league titles, six each.
  • Until 1994 reserve teams who won the league were bared from promotion as they could not enter the 2nd Bundesliga. The second placed team went instead. In 1980, VfB Eppingen archived promotion that way, in 1990 SSV Reutlingen failed.
  • The distribution of titles greatly disfavors Südbaden with only two to their name, 1984 and 2002. Nordbaden holds 13, Württemberg 15 titles.
  • When the FV Offenburg was relegated from the Oberliga in 1991 it ended a 41 year spell for the club as a third division team which had started in 1950, a record for any Oberliga club. The club had won the Amateurliga Südbaden nine times before being admitted into the new Oberliga in 1978.

[edit] Placings in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 1979 to 2008

Club 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
VfR Aalen 16 6 6 6 16 10 17 11 10 4 7 6 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
TSG Hoffenheim 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
SC Pfullendorf 17 10 9 10 14 15 15 11 14 5 17 5 6 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
VfB Stuttgart II 1 2 3 4 4 11 8 10 16 6 5 9 12 7 2 3 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Karlsruher SC II 13 16 1 8 3 16 4 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 8 11 15 4 1 ♦ ♦ ♦
SSV Reutlingen 20 11 14 19 13 8 7 1 2 3 1 3 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 9 3 1 ♦ ♦
SV Sandhausen 11 8 1 7 3 3 1 4 1 3 4 6 5 11 2 9 1 ♦ 4 7 2 1 4 2 4 7 7 5 1 ♦
FC Nöttingen 8 1 ♦ 9 14 11
SV Waldhof Mannheim ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 3 11 8 10 3
VfR Mannheim 6 7 9 4 5 5 2 12 3 5 13 11 9 10 4 3 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 12 10 15 16
SSV Ulm 1846 1 ♦ ♦ 1 1 ♦ ♦ 1 ♦ ♦ 7 13 7 2 1 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 2 6 2 3 2 3
TSF Ditzingen 9 6 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 14 17
VfL Kirchheim/Teck 5 4 11 14 15 13 14 12 9 1 ♦ 7 8 17 14
SpVgg Ludwigsburg 10 13 4 2 7 7 14 5 9 14 8 2 8 7 6 ♦ ♦ ♦ 3 9 4 10 5 5 11 18
Freiburger FC ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 6 1 8 2 4 2 9 18 4 10 18
VfB Eppingen 2 ♦ 17 18
SC Freiburg II 5 6 6 6 7 3 5 4 4 7 1
1. FC Heidenheim 18 5 2 3 4
TSG Hoffenheim II 10 8 6 8 5
FC 08 Villingen 9 17 17 18 14 17 16 4 6
TSV Crailsheim 2 6 11 6 7
FC Astoria Walldorf 8
Normania Gmünd 9 12 11 9
SG Sonnenhof Grossasbach 14 13 10
SGV Freiberg 13 11 14 14 7 5 12
Bahlinger SC 5 8 6 9 12 9 14 15 17 12 13
Stuttgarter Kickers II 18 11 8 7 12 10 13 9 15
TSV Schwieberdingen 17
SV Linx 18 8 9 6 14 16 18 18
1. FC Pforzheim 17 3 7 9 2 3 1 13 8 10 8 3 2 5 3 7 2 3 12 19 16
FC Emmendingen 16 15 17
SV Bonlanden 7 8 11 11 11 16 9 8 15 18
ASV Durlach 15 13 12 15 16
FV Lauda 10 14 16 15 18 12 4 2 5 10 6 13 13 17
SpVgg Au/Iller 5 9 4 13 17
TSG Weinheim 15 16 18
SV Waldhof Mannheim II 6 10
FC Teningen 18 16
Spfr. Dorfmerkingen 14 7 12 18
VfR Heilbronn 14 13 11 15 15 17 15 10 3 15
FC Denzlingen 12 13 18
SG Kirchheim-Heidelberg 9 7 11 8 16 13 8 3 15
FV Biberach 13 15 5 5 13 8 7 16 11 11 10 4 13 13
FV Ravensburg 14 12 8 13 18 12 14
FC Singen 04 9 10 16
SV Böblingen 12 10 15
FC Steinen-Höllenstein 13 16
TSV Wäldenbronn 6 8 9 14
FC Viktoria Bammental 10 11 16
SG Oftersheim 16
FC Wangen 13
VfB Gaggenau 18 14 6 12 9 14 6 11 16 14 14
SC Geislingen 5 17 10 14 12 16 12 13 3 15
Amicitia Viernheim 15 15 15 16
VfR Pforzheim 14 5 2
GSV Maichingen 7 5
FV Donaueschingen 17
SV Schwetzingen 16 13 13 3 4 4 7 15
VfL Sindelfingen 12 12 17
SG Lörrach-Stetten 18
FC Marbach 3 9 12 12 5 7 13 15
FV 09 Weinheim 4 4 3 16 12 13 11 6 1 8 10 10 16
VfB Leimen 17
Offenburger FV 5 5 6 6 2 2 4 10 2 11 6 5 17
FC Tailfingen 8 6 10 15 17
VfL Neckarau 18
Spfr./DJK Freiburg 17
FC Rastatt 04 12 9 12 9 12 10 12 19
SV Kuppenheim 15 16 8 9 11 15
SV Göppingen 2 3 7 12 11 14 17
SV Weil 18
SV Neckargerach 16 15 8 18
TSV Ofterdingen 17
Spfr. Schwäbisch-Hall 18
FC Eislingen 3 10 14
DJK Konstanz 7 11 18
VfB Friedrichshafen 19

Source:Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. Retrieved on 2008-01-11.

  • ♦ denotes club played in a league higher then the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.
  • In 1995, VfR Pforzheim and GSV Maichingen withdrew their teams from the league.
  • In 1998, FV 09 Weinheim joined TSG Weinheim to form TSG 62/09 Weinheim.
  • In 2001, SSV Ulm 1846 withdrew from the 2nd Bundesliga to the Verbandsliga for financial reasons.
  • In 2002, VfR Mannheim withdrew from the Regionalliga to the Landesliga.
  • In 2003, SSV Reutlingen and SV Waldhof Mannheim were relegated to the Oberliga for financial reasons.
  • In 2003, SV Waldhof Mannheim II was relegated because the first team was relegated to the Oberliga.

[edit] Teams in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2007-08

Oberligavereine der Saison 2007/08

[edit] External links

[edit] Sources

  • "Deutschlands Fussball in Zahlen" - An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga, published by the DSFS
  • "Kicker Almanach" The Football Yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine

[edit] References

German Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV) Football Clubs (2007-08)
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Bahlinger SC | TSV Crailsheim | SGV Freiberg | SC Freiburg II | SG Sonnenhof Großaspach   1. FC Heidenheim 1846 | 1899 Hoffenheim II | VfL Kirchheim/Teck | SV Linx | SV Waldhof Mannheim   VfR Mannheim | FC Nöttingen | 1. FC Normannia Schwäbisch Gmünd | TSV Schwieberdingen   Stuttgarter Kickers II | SSV Ulm 1846 | FC 08 Villingen | FC Astoria Walldorf


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