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46-764: The league was organized by Verband Brandenburgischer Ballspielvereine (VBB) and formed in 1923, after a league reform which was decided upon in Darmstadt , Hesse . Until the introduction of the Oberliga , the Verbandsliga Berlin-Brandenburg was the highest league in the state. This league had been formed after the First World War . The Oberliga , like the Verbandsliga before, consisted of two divisions of ten clubs each who would determine their champions in

92-504: A home-and-away format. The two divisional champions would then play for the Brandenburg championship in a two-game series. Should each team win one game, a third game was held as a decider. The Brandenburg champion would then continue on to play in the German football championship . From 1925 onwards, the runners-up of Brandenburg was also qualified for an enlarged national championship. Below

138-408: A league format for it. The number of games played by each team varied greatly but the top four clubs each played nine season games with the top three ending up on equal points. To determine the champion, a two leg decider was played between Britannia Berlin and BFC Preussen with the former winning both games and earning its first league title. In its second edition, only six clubs participated, all from

184-499: A national title in 1930, beating Holstein Kiel 5–4 in the final. The season after, it repeated this achievement by beating TSV 1860 Munich 3–2. The 1932 season saw the end of Hertha's seven-year run; the club came second in its division and missed out on taking part in the Brandenburg finals. This title was won by Tennis Borussia Berlin, for the first time after four unsuccessful attempts in series; but Eintracht Frankfurt stopped TB in

230-682: A refusal of the Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine to stage a Berlin final for financial reasons; it did not want the Märkischer Fußball-Bund to profit financially from the games. Because of this, both league champions were allowed at the German finals but Viktoria lost 2–4 to Phönix Karlsruhe in the final game. In 1910, the two rival leagues continued their stand-off and the March champion, SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin, actually reached

276-440: A single division of ten clubs in 1913 and kept this format until 1917. In 1918 and 1919, the league was expanded to 18 clubs, an extraordinary number in German football in those days when most leagues were at a strength of ten to twelve teams. Brandenburg did not, unlike most other German regions, interrupt play during the war and continued its competition. The 1920 season was an oddity, only half completed when Union Oberschöneweide

322-723: A very influential figure in German football. The DFB justified the choice of the 1. FCS with the fact that the club had a superior infrastructure to the other two. The 1. FC Kaiserslautern also qualified. Points table: The winners and runners-up of the Oberliga Südwest: The final placings and all-time table of the northern group of the Oberliga Südwest: Source: "Oberliga Südwest" . Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv . Retrieved 7 January 2008 . Source: "Overall table Oberliga Südwest" . FSV Mainz 05 . Retrieved 7 January 2008 . The final placings of

368-744: The French occupation zone in 1945, replacing the Gauligas as such. As was the French occupation zone, the Oberliga was split into a northern and a southern zone. The northern zone continued till 1963 to form the Oberliga Südwest while the southern zone was integrated into the Oberliga Süd in 1950. Until then, the champion of the Oberliga was determined by a home-and-away final between the two group winners. The clubs in

414-586: The German football championship . In April 1911, the two associations merged to form the Verband Brandenburgischer Ballspielvereine . In 1933, after the rise of the Nazis to power, the Verband Brandenburgischer Ballspielvereine was disbanded, like all other regional football associations in Germany. The Brandenburg football championship was first played in 1898, when eight clubs competed in

460-401: The March football championship being introduced, organised by the rival Märkischer Fußball-Bund . Also, the German football championship was held for the first time, with the Brandenburg champion, Britannia Berlin, losing 1–3 against VfB Leipzig , who went on to win the title. Unchanged in format and modus, the league winner was once more Britannia Berlin with the club reaching the final of

506-422: The Märkischer Fußball-Bund agreed on playing a one-off final for an overall Berlin championship, which BFC Viktoria 1889 won. Viktoria then went on to reach the German final but lost to southern champions Freiburger FC . The following year saw almost a complete repeat but this time Viktoria won the German final, beating Stuttgarter Kickers 3–0. The 1909 season saw an expansion of the league to nine clubs and

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552-447: The 1962-63 placing was used to determine the qualified team. Of the seven clubs from the league applying, the 1. FC Saarbrücken qualified early even though FK Pirmasens and Borussia Neunkirchen were less than ten points behind in the overall ranking and finished better in 1962–63. The rumor persists that Saarbrücken was chosen because it was from the home state of the later DFB chairman Hermann Neuberger (Chairman from 1975 to 1992),

598-503: The 1962–63 season were granted direct access to the Bundesliga. All up, 46 clubs applied for the 16 available Bundesliga slots. Following this system, by 11 January 1963, the DFB announced nine fixed clubs for the new league and reduced the clubs eligible for the remaining seven places to 20. Clubs within the same Oberliga that were separated by less than 50 points were considered on equal rank and

644-608: The Baltic championship, as the territories they were held in were not part of Germany any more. With the South West German football championship , a new regional competition also appeared in 1945. Ultimately, with the formation of the Fußball-Bundesliga in 1963, all this regional championships ceased altogether. The Prussian province of Brandenburg was largely identical to what is now the federal state of Brandenburg , except for

690-480: The Brandenburg championship. South West German football championship The Oberliga Südwest (English: Premier league Southwest ) was the highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1945 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the two states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . The league was introduced as the highest level of football in

736-629: The German championship, too. Because of a protest by the Karlsruher FV , who had lost 1–6 to Britannia in the first round in Berlin and rightfully claimed all games were supposed to be staged on neutral ground, the final in Kassel was canceled hours before the game. In 1905, the Union 92 Berlin took out the title in a competition that remained otherwise unchanged from the previous two seasons and then went on to become

782-617: The Oberliga Süd came from the following Gauligas : In addition to the Oberliga Südwest, four other Oberligas were formed in Germany in the 1940s. Next to the Oberliga Berlin, the Oberliga Südwest was the smallest of the five Oberligas. Considering this, it is still impressive that it won two German titles through the 1. FC Kaiserslautern, led by the German captain Fritz Walter , still a legend in Kaiserslautern and Germany. Set below

828-575: The Oberliga were originally the Amateurligas. In 1951 the 2. Oberliga Südwest was formed to fit in between. With the reintroduction of the German championship in 1948, the winner and runners-up of the Oberliga Südwest went on to the finals tournament with the other Oberliga champions. In 1950, the southern group of the Oberliga Südwest was disbanded and its clubs joined the Southern German Football Association. From 1948 to 1951

874-623: The Pomeranian champion and the Berlin Cup winner. The 1932 edition saw the end of an era; Hertha only came second in its division and was therefore not qualified for the Brandenburg championship. The tournament was held with only three clubs, the Berlin Cup winner, incidentally Hertha, did not take part. Hertha returned in 1933 to win the last championship of the Oberliga and Brandenburg. The club's golden age had come to an end, however, as evident by

920-580: The areas east of the Oder-Neisse line , which are now part of Poland . Berlin was separated politically from the province in 1881 and significantly enlarged in size through the Greater Berlin Act of 1920. Clubs from city of Berlin were part of, and indeed, dominated the Brandenburg football championship. The outcome of the First World War and change of Prussia to a Free State had little influence on

966-416: The city of Berlin and this time each club played an equal number of games. Because of the top two teams finishing on equal points, a final had to be played once more, this time BFC Preussen coming out the winner. Expanded to nine clubs for 1900, the league champion won the Brandenburg title outright at this edition, BFC Preussen winning all of its 16 games. The following season, only seven clubs took part in

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1012-524: The clubs from the Saarland did not take part in the Oberliga Südwest, playing their own competition instead. The 1. FC Saarbrücken even took part in the French second division in 1948–49, winning the division but being refused further participation. The 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Wormatia Worms and 1. FSV Mainz 05 took part in all of the 18 seasons of the Oberliga Südwest. In 1978, the Oberliga Südwest

1058-421: The competition as, unlike other regions of Germany, Brandenburg did not lose any territory. In the late 1890s, a number of local football associations were formed in the Berlin and Brandenburg region, most of them short lived. In the earliest days of football in the country, Berlin was the center of growth of the sport and some of the champions of these associations held themselves to be "national champions" before

1104-428: The competition but for 1902 it was expanded to twelve teams in two divisions of six, with the two divisional winners playing out the Brandenburg champions. The finals were held in a two leg format but because each team won one game, a third match had to be held to decide the winner. For 1903, the league returned to a single division format, now with eight clubs. Additionally, the league received some local competition with

1150-620: The era that followed, the clubs from Brandenburg had little success and none ever reached a German championship final again until the introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga in 1963, which did away with the finals games altogether. A competition similar to the Brandenburg football championship never reformed. After the end of the Second World War, Germany remained divided until 1991 and the former clubs of this competition played in separate countries. Clubs from both parts of Berlin played in

1196-555: The fact that it bowed out in the first round of the German championship to un-heralded SV Hindenburg Allenstein , which in turn was beaten 12-2 by Eintracht Frankfurt in the second round. With the rise of the Nazis to power, the Gauligas were introduced as the highest football leagues in Germany. In Brandenburg, the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg replaced the Oberliga as the highest level of play. The eleven best teams from

1242-441: The first club from Berlin to win a German championship, beating Karlsruher FV in the final. The 1906 edition saw BFC Hertha 92, the later Hertha BSC, win the league and become one of three Berlin clubs in the German finals, alongside defending champions Union 92 and the March league winner SV Norden-Nordwest, without any of the three making it to the final. In 1907, the league winners of the Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine and

1288-425: The first four to win the last two. The league and its modus did not change at all until 1930, when, on 18 January, the clubs from the western part of Pomerania joined the Brandenburg football championship, but not the Oberliga . This meant, instead of two or three final games between the two divisional champions, a four team finals tournament was introduced in 1931, consisting of the two Oberliga division winners,

1334-430: The first time. For 1923, both divisions operated on a strength of ten clubs, now renamed Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg , and champions Union Oberschöneweide reached the national final, losing 0–3 to Hamburger SV . After an unchanged 1924 season, from 1925 onwards the league saw the rise of Hertha BSC as a dominating team in Brandenburg and Germany. Hertha BSC was to win the league seven consecutive times from 1925 to 1931,

1380-405: The following champions: The Brandenburg championship was not always decided by a final. In some seasons, a final was necessary because two clubs finished on equal points at the top of the table. In two seasons, a final was played against the winner of a rival competition. In most cases where a final was played, it was when the league was split into two divisions and the division winners played for

1426-510: The formation of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund, en: German Football Association) and the emergence of a widely recognized German championship in the early 1900s. In 1933, associations throughout the country, including those in Berlin, were disbanded under the Nazi regime and reorganized into 16 regional leagues, or Gauligen , playing for a single national championship. Separate workers' and faith-based competitions active in Berlin were also absorbed into

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1472-462: The interception of the later in 1903, the former became qualifying tournaments for it but these regional championships still held a high value for the local clubs. These regional championships were: All this regional championships were suspended with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933. At the end of the Second World War , some resumed, now in league format. Others completely disappeared, like

1518-555: The last four of those by beating Tennis Borussia Berlin in the final, laying the foundations to a still existing rivalry. While the club bowed out of the German finals in the semi-finals of 1925 against FSV Frankfurt , losing 0–1 in extra time, it also dominated German football in this era, to a lesser extent. Hertha reached the final of every German championship from 1926 to 1931, losing in 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929, to SpVgg Fürth , 1. FC Nürnberg, Hamburger SV and Fürth again. From 1925, an expanded finals round also meant that Brandenburg

1564-622: The league qualified for this new single-division league. A twelfth team, the SV Cottbus-Süd , came from the Bezirksliga Niederlausitz . Brandenburg football championship The Brandenburg football championship ( German : Brandenburgische Fußball-Meisterschaft ) was the name of highest association football competition in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg , including Berlin , established in 1898. The competition

1610-482: The league, as the second division in Brandenburg, four Kreisligas were set, those being: From 1925 onwards, until 1931, the league was dominated by Hertha BSC Berlin, who won it every season in this time. Hertha, after reaching the semi-finals of the national championship in 1925, played in each of the German final games from 1926 to 1931, a record only matched by FC Schalke 04 from 1937 to 1942. Unlike Schalke, who won four of those finals and only lost two, Hertha lost

1656-457: The new Regionalliga Südwest together with six clubs from the 2nd Oberliga Südwest, one of five new second divisions. While the admittance of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern as the most prolific team of the Oberliga and champion of 1963 was logical, the pick of the 1. FC Saarbrücken was more than dubious, having only finished fifth in the Oberliga that year and coming in below the other Saarland side, Borussia Neunkirchen . The qualifying system for

1702-527: The new league was fairly complex. The league placings of the clubs playing in the Oberligen for the last ten seasons were taken into consideration, whereby results from 1952 to 1955 counted once, results from 1955 to 1959 counted double and results from 1959 to 1963 triple. A first-place finish was awarded 16 points, a sixteenth place one point. Appearances in the German championship or DFB-Pokal finals were also rewarded with points. The five Oberliga champions of

1748-488: The new leagues. The Verband Deutscher Ballspielvereine , a Berlin-based association of German football clubs was formed on 11 September 1897. In May 1902, it was renamed as the Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine to reflect its geographical alignment. From 1903 to 1911, the Märkischer Fußball-Bund , named after the Mittelmark , existed in parallel with the Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine and both sent their champions to

1794-477: The quarter-finals of the national title games. The last Brandenburg championship in 1933 was won by Hertha BSC once more, but the club's golden age had gone and it made a first-round exit to SV Hindenburg Allenstein at the national finals. The Brandenburg championship was replaced with the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg by the Nazis in 1933, one of 16 new tier-one football leagues in the country. In

1840-404: The region, made up of two leagues, the Brandenburg championship was staged in 1912 in two divisions of ten clubs each with a two-leg final between the league winners at the end. In the final years before the First World War the Brandenburg champions could not reach a German final again and from 1914 to 1920, the German championship was suspended in any case. On local level, the league returned to

1886-605: The same competition, the Oberliga Berlin until 1950, but it did not include clubs from the rest of Brandenburg. After the reunion, the clubs from what was East Germany joined the united German football league system , but a competition that only includes clubs from Brandenburg and Berlin was not recreated. German champions in Bold : The championship of the Märkischer Fußball-Bund was held from 1903 to 1911, resulting in

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1932-403: The semi-finals of the national championship while BFC Preussen was knocked out in the first round. The 1911 season was the last of the split, the situation remaining unchanged during the season and Viktoria taking out the Brandenburg and German title. At the end of it, the two associations merged and formed the Verband Brandenburgischer Ballspielvereine . With only one football association in

1978-562: Was allowed to send the championship finalist to the national title games as well. The Brandenburg championship was again split into two divisions of ten teams from 1926, with finals at the end, a format it maintained until 1933. From 1931, the Pommeranian champions, previously part of the Baltic football championship , took part in a four-team final round that also included the Berlin Cup winner. After four unsuccessful attempts, Hertha finally won

2024-409: Was declared the winner. The 1921 edition saw a return to a more common format with two divisions of six clubs each, with a two-leg final at the end. Brandenburg champion Vorwärts Berlin reached the German final, losing 0–5 to 1. FC Nürnberg . The two division were expanded to eleven clubs in one and ten in the other for 1922 and, with Union Potsdam, contained a club from outside of Greater Berlin for

2070-505: Was organized by various regional football associations between 1898 and 1933. The last incarnation of the competition was the VBB-Oberliga . The competition was disbanded in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis to power. German football was, from its beginnings, divided into regional associations, which carried out their own championship, which often pre-dated the national German championship . With

2116-438: Was reformed, as the third tier of German football, but still covering the same region. From the clubs that played the last season in 1963, the 1. FSV Mainz 05, FK Pirmasens , SV Südwest Ludwigshafen , TuS Neuendorf and Eintracht Bad Kreuznach also saw the first season of the new league. With the introduction of the Bundesliga, two teams from the Oberliga Südwest were admitted to the new Bundesliga. The remaining clubs went to

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