West Germany Amateure Championship

 

Amateure championship – along with professional football, West Germany run a championship for those from lower levels of the football pyramid – after all, most clubs were considered amateure clubs. The final: SC Jülich 1910                 3-0 Eintracht Braunschweig (Amateure)
Eintracht Braunschweig Amateure did well, but lost the final. 


SC Julich 1910 should't be underestimated – amateure champions they were, but it was second consecutive title for them. 

West Germany Promotional Tournament

 Promotional tournament – 2 groups of 5 teams, playing mini-championship and each group winner promoted to Bundesliga. 

Group 1
Arminia (Bielefeld) - 1st and promoted to Bundesliga.
Karslruher SC – 2nd.
SV Alsenborn – 3rd.
Tennis Borussia – 4th.
VfL Osnabruck – 5th.
Group 2
Kickers Offenbach – 1st.
VfL Bochum – 2nd.
Hertha 03 Zehlendorf – 3rd.
VfL Wolfsburg – 4th.
FK Pirmasens – 5th.
Thus Kickers (Offenbach), champions of Regionalliga Sud, and Arminia (Bielefeld), second in Regionalliga West earned promotion to Bundesliga. For Kickers there was even bigger success in store this year. 

West Germany Regional Leagues

 

Regional leagues. 5 such leagues made the Second Level of West German football – they ranged from 14 to 20 teams and were practically semi-professional. The winners and second-placed teams moved to promotional tournament – 2 groups of 5 teams each and the winners were promoted to the Bundesliga. Relegation depended on local specifics – for instance, the (West) Berlin league, serving only the city, was the smallest – 14 teams – but even that was tough financially for a single city, so it was going to be reduced and 4 teams were relegated this season. Four teams were also relegated from the largest – Regionalliga Sud – which had 20 teams. The rest had 2 teams relegated – the number everywhere depended also on number of teams relegated from the Bundesliga (maximim of  2 regional leagues could get freshly relegated from top league team, often one league was getting both relegated teams. And since only 2 teams were promoted to the Bundesliga most reagional leagues had no movement – neither up, nor down – in that direction. Anyhow, final tables and few teams representing regional football first: 


VfL Osnabruck – champion.
VfL Wolfsburg – 2nd. 
FC St. Pauli – 4th.

TuS Bremerhaven 93 – 6^th. Standing from left: Trainer Hans-Wilhelm Loßmann, Lothar Lazar, Friedel Mensink, Uwe Westphal, Rolf Lamprecht, Dieter Feßke, Adolf Neumann, Willi Reimann, Reinhard Ringel, Masseur "Stani", Betreuer Willi Bram.

Front: Norbert Kurtenbach, Wolfgang Weschler, Hans-Jürgen Bauche, Peter Haack, Horst Grunenberg, Walter Szarafin, Peter Brauer, Gerd Zebrowski, Norbert Schöbel.

Leu Braunschweig – 14^th.

Hertha 03 Zehlendorf – champion.

Tennis Borussia – 2^nd.

Tasmania 1900 – 3^rd.

TuS Wannsee – 9^th.

VfL Bochum – 1st.
Arminia Bielefeld – 2nd.
Wuppertaler SV – 3rd.
Fortuna Dusseldorf – 4th.
Schwarz-Weiss Essen – 5th.
Luner SV – 6th.
SG Wattenscheid 09 – 8th.
VfR Neuss – 9th.
DJK Gutersloh – 10th.
Fortuna Koln – 14th.
SpVgg Erkenschwick – 15th.
SSVg Velbert – 17th.
TSV Marl-Huls – 18th.

SV Anselborn – champion.
FK Pirmasens – 2nd.
1. FC Saarbrucken – 6th.
ASV Landau – 7th.
Wormatia Worms tried to use shirt-adds – the first German club to do so – but the German Federation clipped their wings very quickly: it was illegal. 
Plain shirst followed and Wormatia finiushed 11th.


FC Homburg – 14th.

Kickers Offenbach – champion.
Karlsruher SC - 2nd.
1. FC Nurnberg – 3rd.
Hessen Kassel - 7th.
Jahn Regensburg – 10th.
Stuttgarter Kickers - 12th.
Opel Russelsheim – 13th.
VfR Heilbronn – 14th.
FSV Frankfurt – 19th.