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.