Oberliga Süd (1945-63)

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Oberliga Süd
Founded
1945
Disbanded
1963
Nation
Flag of Germany Germany
Map of Germany:Position of the Oberliga Süd highlighted
States
Flag of Bavaria Bavaria
Flag of Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
Flag of Hesse Hessen
Relegation To
2nd Oberliga Süd
Number of Seasons
18
Replaced by
Bundesliga
Level on Pyramid
Level 1
Last Champions 1962-63
TSV 1860 München

The Oberliga Süd was the highest level of the German football league system in the south of Germany from 1945 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the three states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen.

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[edit] Overview

The league was introduced as the highest level of football in the US occupation zone in 1945 to replace the disbanded Gauligas. At this stage, clubs from the south-western parts of Baden and Württemberg did not compete in it as they were based in the French occupation zone and had to play in the Oberliga Südwest, where they remaind until 1950. Play in the southern parts of Germany went underway almost straight after the end of the war while the north and east still had to wait some more years. A main reason for this was the fact that the less industrial, more aggricaltural south had sustained much less damage to infrastructur.

The clubs in the Oberliga Süd came from the following Gauligas:

In addition to the Oberliga Süd, four other Oberligas were formed in Germany in the 1940s.

Set below the Oberliga were originally the Landesligas of Hessen, Bayern, Württemberg and Nordbaden, from 1950 also Südbaden. From 1950 the 2nd Oberliga Süd was formed as an intermidiate between Oberliga and Landesligas.

With the reintroduction of the German championship in 1948, the winner and runners-up of the Oberliga Süd went on to the finals tournament with the other Oberliga champions. In 16 attempts the Oberliga Süd managed to win it six times.

In 1950, the southern group of the Oberliga Südwest was disbaned and it's clubs joined the Southern German Football Association. The SSV Reutlingen and the FC Singen 04 joined the Oberliga Süd, SV Tübingen, Freiburger FC and Vfl Konstanz were integrated into the new 2nd Oberliga Süd and the other eleven clubs were relegated to the Amateurliga.

The Oberliga Süd had quite a few permanent clubs. The VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Nürnberg, Eintracht Frankfurt, Kickers Offenbach, VfR Mannheim and FC Schweinfurt 05 played all of the 18 possible seasons in the league. The Karlsruher SC was also present for all 18 seasons but only by counting in both halfs of the merger club.

[edit] Founding members of the Oberliga Süd

In order of finish:

Of those clubs, the Karlsruher FV has ceased to exist and the Phönix Karlsruhe is now the Karlsruher SC.

[edit] Disbanding of the Oberliga

With the introduction of the Bundesliga, five teams from the Oberliga Süd were admitted to the new Bundesliga. The remaining clubs went to the new Regionalliga Süd, one of five new second divisions.

The teams admitted to the Bundesliga were:

The 3rd placed team of the 1963 season, the FC Bayern München was not admitted as the DFB did not want two teams from the same city in the league and TSV 1860 München had qualified higher.

The following teams from the Oberliga went to the new Regionalliga:

[edit] Winners and runners-up of the Oberliga Süd[1]

1946 VfB Stuttgart                    1.FC Nürnberg
1947 1.FC Nürnberg                    SV Waldhof Mannheim
1948 1.FC Nürnberg                    TSV 1860 München
1949 Kickers Offenbach                VfR Mannheim
1950 SpVgg Fürth                      VfB Stuttgart
1951 1.FC Nürnberg                    SpVgg Fürth 
1952 VfB Stuttgart                    1.FC Nürnberg 
1953 Eintracht Frankfurt              VfB Stuttgart 
1954 VfB Stuttgart                    Eintracht Frankfurt 
1955 Kickers Offenbach                SSV Reutlingen 
1956 Karlsruher SC                    VfB Stuttgart
1957 1.FC Nürnberg                    Kickers Offenbach
1958 Karlsruher SC                    1.FC Nürnberg 
1959 Eintracht Frankfurt              Kickers Offenbach
1960 Karlsruher SC                    Kickers Offenbach
1961 1.FC Nürnberg                    Eintracht Frankfurt
1962 1.FC Nürnberg                    Eintracht Frankfurt
1963 TSV 1860 München                 1.FC Nürnberg

Bold denotes team went on to win German championship.

[edit] Placings & overall table of the Oberliga Süd 1945 to 1963

Club 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 Seasons Games GF GA Points
1. FC Nürnberg 2 1 1 11 8 1 2 9 4 9 7 1 2 3 6 1 1 2 18 560 1348 754 739
Kickers Offenbach 12 5 9 1 3 10 3 6 3 1 4 2 5 2 2 4 4 7 18 560 1236 848 684
VfB Stuttgart 1 6 5 6 2 4 1 2 1 13 2 4 9 5 7 7 5 6 18 560 1165 824 661
Eintracht Frankfurt 11 3 10 13 14 8 4 1 2 4 6 5 3 1 4 2 2 4 18 560 1117 809 661
FC Bayern München 6 11 4 3 13 9 8 7 9 16 10 7 4 3 8 3 3 17 530 1060 922 554
VfR Mannheim 14 12 8 2 4 12 5 13 10 10 3 7 10 8 10 9 10 12 18 560 1022 1066 546
SpVgg Fürth 13 10 15 1 2 6 3 11 11 13 6 4 7 11 11 12 9 17 530 920 899 528
FC Schweinfurt 05 7 9 13 10 12 7 14 5 8 3 8 12 8 10 12 14 14 11 18 560 854 953 524
TSV 1860 München 9 4 2 4 9 6 13 15 16 6 6 5 6 7 1 15 470 908 815 507
FSV Frankfurt 10 14 7 12 5 5 7 11 7 6 9 11 13 11 9 12 15 17 530 812 907 506
Karlsruher SC 4 5 5 1 3 1 9 1 3 9 5 11 330 727 524 401
SV Waldhof Mannheim 4 2 6 5 6 14 10 8 15 16 13 16 12 380 646 704 369
Stuttgarter Kickers 3 7 3 8 16 12 14 14 12 14 14 16 16 13 406 774 795 360
BC Augsburg 8 17 14 10 16 10 12 7 11 13 12 15 11 16 14 432 737 983 353
TSV Schwaben Augsburg 5 8 11 7 11 13 15 8 12 15 13 15 12 380 600 711 347
Viktoria Aschaffenburg 15 17 11 12 16 5 8 11 14 15 10 316 504 720 264
SSV Reulingen* 18 2 15 14 12 8 5 8 14 9 274 470 598 243
TSG Ulm 1846 13 12 15 16 13 14 15 8 8 256 390 508 212
VfB Mühlburg 14 9 7 3 9* 5 162 309 248 166
SSV Jahn Regensburg 15 6 14 10 9 15 16 7 210 281 509 164
VfL Neckarau 16 16 11 16 4 140 242 344 111
FC Bayern Hof 13 10 6 13 4 120 181 262 105
KSV Hessen Kassel 13 15 10 3 90 140 198 70
Phönix Karlsruhe 15 20 2 68 100 185 42
Karlsruher FV 16 19 2 68 81 196 40
1. FC Bamberg 18 1 38 44 75 28
SV Darmstadt 98 15 1 34 54 86 25
FC Singen 04* 17 1 34 56 112 22
Rot-Weiß Frankfurt 18 1 38 50 99 22
FC Wacker München 19 1 38 41 89 21
Freiburger FC* 16 1 30 43 66 20
FC Rödelheim 16 1 30 40 73 17
Spfr. Stuttgart 20 1 38 30 100 14

Source:Oberliga Süd. Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. Retrieved on 2007-12-26.

  • VfB Mühlburg and Phönix Karlsruhe merged in 1952 to form Karlsruher SC.
  • * denotes club played in the Oberliga Südwest until 1950.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Kicker Almanach" The Football Yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine


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