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 – 6th. 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 – 14th.
Hertha 03 Zehlendorf – champion.
Tennis Borussia – 2nd.
Tasmania 1900 – 3rd.
TuS Wannsee – 9th.
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.