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23-538: The Regionalliga West/Südwest was formed in 1994 to form a regional third level of play between the 2. Bundesliga and the Oberligas Westfalen , Nordrhein and Südwest . The league was made up of 18 clubs, with six each from the three regions it covered. It was formed alongside three other Regionalligas, the Regionalliga Nord , Nordost and Süd . The founding members were: From the 2. Bundesliga: From

46-423: A new Regionalliga West which will cover exactly the area the old Regionalliga West/Südwest did, but will then be the fourth tier of German football. When the league was discontinued in 2000, the first two clubs in the league went to the 2. Bundesliga, clubs placed third to twelfth moved to the two remaining Regionalligas, seven to the north and three to the south. The other eight league teams were relegated down to

69-502: The Amateurliga Niedersachsen : At the end of its last season, 2007–08, the last round having been played on 30 May 2008, the clubs of the league were spread over various other divisions, according to their final league position. The 6th placed team, TuS Heeslingen, was not granted a Regionalliga licence and the 7th placed club, VfB Oldenburg, qualified for the play-offs instead. The Bremen champion, FC Bremerhaven ,

92-808: The NRW-Liga , a new statewide league. With the reform of the league system in 2012, which reduced the Regionalliga West to clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia only and disbanded the NRW-Liga below it, the Oberliga Westfalen was reintroduced as the highest tier in the region and the fifth level overall in Germany. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German football league system . The league

115-473: The Verbandsliga Westfalen-Südwest : Oberliga Nord The Oberliga Nord was the fourth tier of the German football league system in the north of Germany . It covered the states of Lower Saxony , Bremen , Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . With the introduction of the 3. Liga , the league ceased to exist from 2008. The original league of this name existed from 1947 to 1963 and

138-554: The NRW-Liga was disbanded again. Throughout the league's existence the two leagues below the Oberliga were: The league champions: The league champions of the first era of the league: The league champions and runners-up from 2012 onwards: The final league placings in the second era of the league from 2012 to present: Sources: From the 2nd Bundesliga Nord : From the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Nordost : From

161-686: The Oberliga Westfalen had to compete with the winner and the runner-up of the Oberliga Nord and the winners of the Oberliga Berlin and of the Oberliga Nordrhein for two 2. Bundesliga spots. Upon creation of the Regionalligas in 1994, the champions of the Oberligas were directly promoted again, however the Oberligas slipped to fourth tier in the German football league system. The top six team of

184-642: The Oberliga Westfalen: From the Oberliga Nordrhein: From the Oberliga Südwest: The number of teams in the league varied, starting its first season (1995) with 18, then 19 (1996), 18 (1997, 1998), 17 (1999), and 20 (2000). The league winner was always promoted to the 2. Bundesliga; the runners up were also promoted in two of the seasons. The regulation on which of the runners-up of the four Regionalligas went up meant that promotion

207-538: The Oberliga that year were admitted to the new Regionalliga West/Südwest , the clubs being: With the reduction of the number of Regionalligas from four to two in 2000, the Oberliga Westfalen was now located below the Regionalliga Nord . However, the Sportfreunde Siegen , based in the very south of the region, played in the Regionalliga Süd . With the creation of the 3rd Liga in 2008 the Oberliga Westfalen

230-669: The Oberligas. To the Regionalliga Nord: To the Regionalliga Süd: The Sportfreunde Siegen were the oddity in this distribution, being from the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen which had all its clubs in the northern group except the Sportfreunde . The reason for this was that Siegen is in the far south of the state. Source: "Regionalliga West/Südwest" . Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv . Retrieved 19 March 2008 . The following clubs have played in

253-716: The Verbandsliga Westfalen-Nordost and eight from the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Südwest. The SC Herford was relegated from the 2. Bundesliga Nord to the new league. The league was founded as the Amateur-Oberliga Westfalen, but from 1994 the name was shortened to Oberliga Westfalen. With the introduction of the unified 2nd Bundesliga in 1981, direct promotion for the Oberliga champions became impossible again because there were eight of them competing for four promotion spots. The champion of

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276-496: The difference between the leagues. In 1975 and 1976, the two first placed teams of the Oberliga took part in the promotion play-off to determine the promoted teams to the 2nd Bundesliga Nord. In 1977 and 1978, the top four teams from the Oberliga Nord went to this competition. With the reduction of the number of Oberligas in 1978, the winner and runners-up of the Oberliga Nord were directly promoted in 1979 and 1980. No promotion

299-657: The five Verbandsliga champions will have to play-off for two promotion spots to the Regionalliga Nord. The league champions: The clubs in the league and their final placings: The league started in 1974 with eighteen clubs from four German states: From the Regionalliga Nord : From the Landesliga Hamburg : From the Amateurliga Bremen : From the Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein : From

322-518: The five Verbandsligas in its stead. The top five clubs of the Oberliga in the 2007-08 season gained promotion to the Regionalliga Nord, the sixth placed team had to play-off with the Verbandsliga champions for another Regionalliga spot and the rest of the clubs were relegated to the Verbandsligas. The northern region therefore became the only region in Germany without an Oberliga after 2008. In future,

345-451: The largest of the four states, split its league into an eastern and a western group, a system already in place until 1964. Due to the difference in playing strength of the Verbandsligas, champions were not directly promoted but had to go through a play-off system. Eight teams in two divisions were qualified for this competition, with three clubs from Niedersachsen, two each from Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein and one from Bremen, to balance out

368-408: The league and achieved the following final positions: Source: "Regionalliga West/Südwest" . Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv . Retrieved 8 December 2007 . Oberliga Westfalen The Oberliga Westfalen is the highest level football league in the region of Westphalia , which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The league existed from 1978 to 2008, but was then replaced by

391-421: The two new Oberligas of Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein and Niedersachsen/Bremen . In 2004, after ten seasons, the Oberliga Nord was reformed, as the league below the Regionalliga Nord, being the fourth tier of football now. The two Oberligas that replaced it in 1994 were disbanded. With the introduction of the 3. Liga and of a third Regionalliga in 2008, the Oberliga Nord again ceased to exist, being replaced by

414-477: Was allocated in an alternating way. After 1995, it gave the runners-up a chance to gain promotion too via a play-off . In its final season (2000), Regionalliagas were reduced from four to two. With the exception of the Sportfreunde Siegen , clubs from Nordrhein-Westfalen went to the Regionalliga Nord . The clubs from Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland went to the Regionalliga Süd . In 2008, the number of Regionalligas will be expanded from two to three and there will be

437-403: Was available in 1981 because the 2nd Bundesliga was reduced to one league only. From 1982, the top two teams in the league had to play-off for promotion again. The Oberliga Nord was disbanded in 1994, with the re-introduction of the Regionalliga Nord , this time as the third tier of German football. Fourteen of its sixteen clubs went to the new Regionalliga, the bottom two teams were relegated to

460-404: Was formed in 1978 as a highest level of play for the region of Westphalia, which used to be split into two groups and covered the eastern half of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The main reason for the creation of this league was to allow its champion direct promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga Nord rather than having to go through a promotion play-off . The league was created from nine clubs from

483-683: Was only the third tier of the German football league system, replacing at this level the four Landes- and Amateurligas of Niedersachsen, Hamburg, Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein, who now slipped to the fourth tier of the league system. Below the Oberliga were originally four leagues, one for each of the four states of the region. The Amateurliga of Niedersachsen changed its name to Landesliga from 1974 and after 1979 to Verbandsliga . The leagues in Bremen and Hamburg changed their name to Verbandsliga straight away in 1974. Schleswig-Holstein changed from Landesliga to Verbandsliga in 1978. In 1994, Niedersachsen,

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506-420: Was replaced by the NRW-Liga, which now is the fifth tier of the league system. The Oberliga Westfalen ceased to exist after 30 seasons. Its clubs were split up over three league levels. The first four teams were promoted to the new Regionalliga West , clubs from place five to eleven went to the new Oberliga while the bottom seven teams were relegated to the Verbandsligas. The league was reintroduced in 2012 after

529-507: Was then the first tier of German football, covering the same region as the "new" Oberliga Nord. For its history, see here . The league was formed in 1974 as a continuation of the Regionalliga Nord , the then second tier of German football. With the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga Nord in that year, the Regionalliga was disbanded and its clubs spread among the new 2nd Bundesliga, Oberliga and Amateurligas. The new Oberliga Nord however

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