20-515: Oberliga Südwest may refer to: Association football leagues in Southwestern Germany: Oberliga Südwest (1945–63) , a defunct tier one league existing from 1945 to 1963. Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar , a tier five league named Oberliga Südwest from 1978 to 2012 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
40-603: A license. However, by 1980 they found themselves in the Amateur Oberliga Südwest (III), slipped to the Verbandsliga Südwest by 1993, and just two seasons later were playing in the Landesliga Südwest (VI). The club has recovered nicely and climbed as high as the third division Regionalliga Süd in 2006–07. In 2006, the club stunned German football when they defeated Werder Bremen in the first round of
60-514: Is one of the few teams that uses the German Klub in their name as opposed to the commonly affected English-style term Club. The club developed into a strong amateur side in southwestern Germany. In post-First World War play, the club was grouped in the tier-one Kreisliga Saar in 1919 but then moved to the Kreisliga Pfalz in 1920. From 1930 to 1933 the team made three consecutive appearances in
80-655: The DFB-Pokal in a penalty shootout. Since 2007 the club played in the Oberliga Südwest where the team has achieved good results, coming second in 2010 and 2011. From 2012 to 2013 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, with FKP continuing in this league. The club won the championship in 2014 and earned promotion to the Regionalliga Südwest . The club's reserve team, FK Pirmasens II, achieved its greatest success in 2014–15 when it won promotion to
100-512: 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 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,
120-546: 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 the 1962–63 season were granted direct access to
140-479: 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 the new Regionalliga Südwest together with six clubs from the 2nd Oberliga Südwest, one of five new second divisions. While
160-702: 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 the Oberliga were originally the Amateurligas. In 1951 the 2. Oberliga Südwest was formed to fit in between. With
180-469: 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 the 1962-63 placing was used to determine the qualified team. Of
200-408: 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 the new league was fairly complex. The league placings of the clubs playing in
220-658: 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
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#1733202947126240-539: The conflict. After the war the club played in the Oberliga Südwest and captured league titles there in 1958, 1959 and 1960 while finishing as vice champions in 1954 and 1962. The club was so popular at the time that they often had to abandon their home ground in favour of the stadium in nearby Ludwigshafen in order to accommodate crowds of up to 65,000 spectators. After the formation of the Bundesliga , Germany's new professional league, in 1963 Pirmasens found themselves in
260-616: The final of the Southern German championship , on the strength of four Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar titles, and between 1934 and 1936 were three times vice-champions of the Gauliga Südwest , one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich . World War II was hard on the club: following a 0–26 beating at the hands of 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1942 they withdrew from competition until after
280-603: 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 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
300-407: The second division Regionalliga Südwest where they consistently finished in the upper half of the league table over the course of the next decade. While they had several opportunities to advance to the Bundesliga through the promotion rounds they were unsuccessful. By the mid-1970s the club was faltering. They narrowly missed relegation in 1977, only staying up because rival SV Völklingen was denied
320-444: 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), a very influential figure in German football. The DFB justified
340-564: The southern group of the Oberliga Südwest: Source: "Oberliga Südwest" . Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv . Retrieved 8 January 2008 . FK Pirmasens FK Pirmasens is a German association football club in Pirmasens , Rhineland-Palatinate. The team was formed as the football section of the gymnastics and sports club TV Pirminia Pirmasens in 1903 and became independent in 1914. They took on their current name in 1925. FK
360-550: The title Oberliga Südwest . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oberliga_Südwest&oldid=695430877 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oberliga S%C3%BCdwest (1945%E2%80%9363) The Oberliga Südwest (English: Premier league Southwest )
380-554: 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 the Oberliga Süd came from the following Gauligas : In addition to the Oberliga Südwest, four other Oberligas were formed in Germany in
400-552: 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 the French occupation zone in 1945, replacing the Gauligas as such. As was the French occupation zone, the Oberliga
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