Regionalliga Süd (1963-74)

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Regionalliga Süd
Founded
1963
Disbanded
1974
Nation
Flag of Germany Germany
Map of Germany:Position of the Regionalliga Süd highlighted
States
Flag of Bavaria Bavaria
Flag of Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
Flag of Hesse Hessen
Promotion To
Bundesliga
Relegation To
Amateurliga Bayern
Amateurliga Hessen
Amateurliga Nordbaden
Amateurliga Südbaden
Amateurliga Württemberg
Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee
Number of Seasons
11
Replaced by
2nd Bundesliga Süd
Level on Pyramid
Level 2
Last Champions 1973-74
FC Augsburg

The Regionalliga Süd was the second-highest level of the German football league system 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.

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[edit] Overview

The league started out in 1963 with 20 clubs which were reduced for the next season to 19 and form 1965 to 1974 there was always 18 teams in the league, except in 1972 when another season of 19 clubs was played.

It was formed from the eleven clubs of the Oberliga Süd which did not get admitted to the new Bundesliga and from the top nine clubs of the 2nd Oberliga Süd. The Regionalliga Süd was as such a continuation of the Oberliga Süd under a different name and a tier lower.

Along with the Regionalliga Süd went another four Regionalligas, these five formed the second tier of German football until 1974:

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 anachronism, neither large nor populos.

The league contained some big names of German Football, having the FC Bayern München, Kickers Offenbach and SpVgg Fürth as its founder members. In later years, clubs like TSV 1860 München, 1. FC Nürnberg and Karlsruher SC found themselves relegated to the league. The league posed something of a death trap for the big names of southern German football, as only the FC Bayern München and Kickers Offenbach archived promotion from it. Kickers Offenbach also managed to win the German Cup in 1970, while still a Regionalliga side, the only club to do so.

The FC Schweinfurt 05, SpVgg Fürth, Stuttgarter Kickers, KSV Hessen Kassel, Freiburger FC and FC Bayern Hof all played in the league for the duration of its 11 season existence. Of those six, the Stuttgarter Kickers had the longest unbroken run in the second division, from 1960 to 1988, 28 seasons.

The winners and runners-up of this league were admitted to the promotion play-off to the Bundesliga, which was staged in two groups of origanally four, later five teams each with the winner of each group going up.

The bottom three, some years four teams were relegated to the Amateurligas. Below the Regionalliga Süd were the following Amateurligas:

[edit] Disbanding of the Regionalliga Süd

The league was dissolved in 1974. According to their performance of the last couple of seasons, 13 clubs of the Regionalliga went to the new 2nd Bundesliga Süd. The five remaining clubs were relegated to the Amateurligas.

The teams admitted to the 2nd Bundesliga Süd were:

The following teams were relegated to the Amateurligas:

[edit] Re-formation of the Regionalliga Süd

The Regionalliga Süd was reformed in 1994, now as the third tier of the German football league system, again covering the three southern German states of Bayern, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen. In something of a repeat of history, the clubs from the Oberliga Südwest merged into the league in 2000. The Regionalliga Süd now roughly covered the same area as the 2nd Bundesliga Süd did from 1974 to 1981. In 2008, the Südwest clubs will leave the league again and join the new Regionalliga West and the Regionalliga Süd will revert to its coverage of the three original regions, but now as the fourth tier of the league system, below the new 3rd Liga.

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

1964 Hessen Kassel                     FC Bayern München
1965 FC Bayern München                 SSV Reutlingen
1966 FC Schweinfurt 05                 Kickers Offenbach
1967 Kickers Offenbach                 FC Bayern Hof
1968 FC Bayern Hof                     Kickers Offenbach
1969 Karlsruher SC                     Freiburger FC
1970 Kickers Offenbach                 Karlsruher SC
1971 1.FC Nürnberg                     Karlsruher SC
1972 Kickers Offenbach                 FC Bayern Hof
1973 SV Darmstadt 98                   Karlsruher SC
1974 FC Augsburg                       1.FC Nürnberg

Bold denotes team went on to gain promotion to the Bundesliga.

  • In 1970, Kickers Offenbach won the German Cup as a Regionalliga team, the only one to do so. They are also the only club to have won the league more than once, having done so three times.
  • In 1974, FC Augsburg won the Regionalliga being freshly promoted from the Amateurliga Bayern.
  • Of the nine different winners of the Regionalliga Süd from 1964 to 1974, four have done so again in the new Regionalliga Süd: FC Augsburg, Karlsruher SC, 1. FC Nürnberg and, for a record fourth time, Kickers Offenbach in 2005.

[edit] Placings in the Regionalliga Süd 1963 to 1974

Club 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74
FC Bayern München 2 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Kickers Offenbach 3 3 2 1 2 ♦ 1 ♦ 1 ♦ ♦
TSV 1860 München ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 3 3 3
1. FC Nürnberg ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 3 1 9 5 2
Karlsruher SC ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 1 2 2 5 2 8
FC Augsburg 19 16 1
SV Darmstadt 98 14 13 14 14 8 18 7 1 4
SpVgg Bayreuth 17 13 4 5
Stuttgarter Kickers 14 7 5 4 4 4 12 10 11 8 6
SV Waldhof Mannheim 11 4 3 11 12 11 20 7 7
FC Bayern Hof 13 9 9 2 1 3 4 13 2 12 9
SpVgg Fürth 9 8 4 3 7 7 8 7 14 9 10
FSV Frankfurt 16 10 14 13 16 19 11
VfR Heilbronn 14 8 8 6 12
VfR Mannheim 6 6 12 5 6 14 15 16 13
VfR Bürstadt 13 14
FC Schweinfurt 05 7 15 1 10 5 6 5 6 12 14 15
KSV Hessen Kassel 1 5 6 8 8 10 7 3 4 10 16
Freiburger FC 10 11 15 7 9 2 6 9 6 15 17
SSV Jahn Regensburg 15 5 10 5 16 11 18
SpVgg Ludwigsburg 15 16
SSV Reutlingen 5 2 8 6 3 9 11 15 10 17
FC Wacker München 17 19 18
Opel Rüsselsheim 10 12 11 15 13 14 17
FC 08 Villingen 15 10 13 9 12 18
ESV Ingolstadt 12 12 16 12 16 11 19
SV Göppingen 17
Viktoria Aschaffenburg 18
VfL Neckarau 16
TSV Schwaben Augsburg 4 16 11 9 13 17
Rot-Weiß Frankfurt 18
TSG Backnang 17
SV Wiesbaden 18
Germania Wiesbaden 17
1. FC Pforzheim 15 13 7 18
SpVgg Weiden 17
VfR Pforzheim 18
TSG Ulm 1846 8 18
FC Emmendingen 19
SpVgg Neu-Isenburg 17
Borussia Fulda 18
Amicitia Viernheim 20

Source:Regionalliga Süd. Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. Retrieved on 2008-01-07.

  • ♦ denotes club played in the Bundesliga.

[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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