2nd Oberliga West
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| 2nd Oberliga West |
|---|
| Founded |
| 1949 |
| Disbanded |
| 1963 |
| Nation |
 Germany |
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| State |
 Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| Promotion To |
| Oberliga West |
| Relegation To |
| Verbandsliga Niederrhein |
| Verbandsliga Mittelrhein |
| Verbandsliga Westfalen 1 |
| Verbandsliga Westfalen 2 |
| Number of Seasons |
| 14 |
| Replaced by |
| Regionalliga West |
| Level on Pyramid |
| Level 2 |
| Last Champions 1962-63 |
| VfB Bottrop |
The Oberliga West was the second-highest level of the German football league system in the west of Germany from 1949 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, the most populous state of Germany.
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[edit] Overview
The 2nd Oberliga West was formed in 1949 with two groups of sixteen teams each as a feeder league to the Oberliga West. It was the first of the three second Oberligas, the other two being 2nd Oberliga Süd (1950) and 2nd Oberliga Südwest (1951). The league adopted a single group format from 1952. The top two teams of the 2nd Oberliga gained promotion to the Oberliga while the bottom two teams were relegated to the Verbandsligas. Some years however, exceptions applied and the number of promoted and relegated teams altered.
Below the 2nd Oberliga West ranked the Amateurligas, varying in numbers and names but split into three zones, Westfalen, Niederrhein and Mittelrhein.
- Niederrhein: Landesliga Niederrhein in two groups until 1952, then three groups. From 1956 single-group Verbandsliga Niederrhein.
- Mittelrhein: Landesliga Mittelrhein in a single group in 1950, two groups from 1951. From 1956 single-group Verbandsliga Mittelrhein.
- Westfalen: Landesliga Westfalen in two groups in 1950, single group in 1951 and 1952, five groups from 1953. From 1956 two groups, Verbandsliga Westfalen 1 and Verbandsliga Westfalen 2.
The 2nd Oberliga West existed until 1963, when it was replaced by the Regionalliga West as the second division for Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The SpVgg Herten was the only team to have played in the league for all 14 seasons.
Schwarz-Weiß Essen became the first second division side to win the German Cup when they did so in 1959, an archivemend only repeated by Kickers Offenbach and Hannover 96.
[edit] Disbanding of the 2nd Oberliga
In 1963, the league was disbanded in favor of the new Regionalliga. The first eight teams from this season went to the Regionalliga West. The clubs placed from ninth to sixteenth were relegated to the Verbandsligas.
- VfB Bottrop
- Duisburg 48/99
- SpVgg Herten
- STV Horst-Emscher
- Sportfreunde Siegen
- Rot-Weiß Essen
- Arminia Bielefeld
- Duisburger SV
The following teams were relegated to the Amateurligas:
- To the Verbandsliga Niederrhein: SV Neukirchen, FV Duisburg 08
- To the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein: Bonner FV
- To the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Nordost: Eintracht Gelsenkirchen, Sportfreunde Gladbeck
- To the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Südwest: SC Dortmund 95, SV Sodingen, VfL Bochum
[edit] Winners and runners-up of the 2nd Oberliga
1950 Rheydter SV & Sportfreunde Katernberg
1951 MSV Duisburg & Bayer Leverkusen
1952 SV Sodingen & Borussia Mönchengladbach
league changed to single division
1953 VfL Bochum Rheydter SV
1954 Duisburger SV Westfalia Herne
1955 Wuppertaler SV SV Hamborn 07
1956 VfL Bochum MSV Duisburg
1957 SV Hamborn 07 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
1958 STV Horst-Emscher Borussia Mönchengladbach
1959 SV Hamborn 07 Schwarz-Weiß Essen
1960 SV Sodingen TSV Marl-Hüls
1961 Schwarz-Weiß Essen Fortuna Düsseldorf
1962 Bayer Leverkusen Wuppertaler SV
1963 VfB Bottrop Duisburg 48/99
[edit] Placings in the 2nd Oberliga West 1949 to 1963
| Club | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westfalia Herne | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| MSV Duisburg | 4 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | ♦ | ♦ | 3 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2 | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| SV Hamborn 07 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 10 | 7 | 2 | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| TSV Marl-Hüls | 13 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |||||
| Schwarz-Weiß Essen | 7 | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 7 | 2 | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 2 | ♦ | ♦ |
| Bayer Leverkusen | 5 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ♦ |
| Wuppertaler SV* | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 | ♦ | |||||
| Duisburger SV | ♦ | ♦ | 3 | 3 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 8 |
| SV Sodingen | 4 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | 9 | |
| Rot-Weiß Essen | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 5 | 6 |
| VfL Bochum | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 3 | 14 |
| STV Horst-Emscher | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | ♦ | 10 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| Rheydter SV | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | 2 | ♦ | 10 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 16 | |||
| SpVgg Erkenschwick | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 11 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 16 | ||
| Sportfreunde Katernberg | 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | 6 | 15 | ||||||||
| Arminia Bielefeld | ♦ | 9 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 7 | ||||||||
| FV Duisburg 08 | ♦ | 3 | 16 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Rhenania Würselen | ♦ | 15 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 15 | |||||||
| TSG Vohwinkel* | ♦ | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | |||||||||
| VfB Bottrop | 11 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 1 | |
| Duisburg 48/99 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 2 | ||||||||||
| SpVgg Herten | 6 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 3 |
| Sportfreunde Siegen | 8 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Eintracht Gelsenkirchen* | 5 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 10 | ||||
| Sportfreunde Gladbeck | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 11 | ||||||||
| SC Dortmund 95 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 12 | |||||||
| SV Neukirchen | 6 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| Bonner FV | 16 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 16 | |||||||||
| VfL Benrath | 13 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 15 | |||||
| SSV Hagen | 15 | |||||||||||||
| BV Osterfeld | 16 | |||||||||||||
| Union Krefeld | 5 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 15 | |||
| SG Düren 99 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 15 | |||||
| TuS Lintfort | 16 | |||||||||||||
| SG Wattenscheid 09 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 15 | |||||
| VfB Marathon Remscheid | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 16 | ||||||
| VfB Speldorf | 16 | |||||||||||||
| VfB Bielefeld | 11 | 14 | 16 | |||||||||||
| SSV Wuppertal* | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | |||||||||
| TuRU Düsseldorf | 15 | 10 | 9 | |||||||||||
| FV Hombruch 09 | 3 | 15 | 10 | |||||||||||
| Preußen Krefeld | 9 | 12 | 10 | |||||||||||
| SC Bergisch-Gladbach | 14 | 3 | 11 | |||||||||||
| SSV Hagen | 14 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| TuS Essen-West | 8 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Union Ohligs | 14 | 14 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Fortuna Köln | 16 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| TB Wanne-Eickel | 10 | 16 | 13 | |||||||||||
| SpVgg Röhlinghausen | 9 | 15 | ||||||||||||
| SC Rapid Köln | 6 | 7 | 15 | |||||||||||
| TSV Detmold | 12 | 17 | ||||||||||||
| VfL Köln | 8 | |||||||||||||
| SC West Köln | 7 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| TuRa Essen | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Alemannia Gelsenkirchen* | 10 | |||||||||||||
| VfL Witten | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Viktoria Alsdorf | 12 | |||||||||||||
| SSV Troisdorf 05 | 15 | |||||||||||||
| Union Gelsenkirchen* | 16 |
Source:2nd Oberliga West. Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
- ♦ denotes club played in the Oberliga West.
- SSV Wuppertal and TSG Vohwinkel merged in 1954 to form Wuppertaler SV.
- Union Gelsenkirchen merged with Alemannia Gelsenkirchen to form Eintracht Gelsenkirchen in 1950.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
"Kicker Almanach" The Football Yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine
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