1974–75 Oberliga

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1974–75 Oberliga

Country

Germany

Teams

Champions

Runners-up

Matches played

612

← 1962–63

1975–76 →

The 1974–75 season of the Oberliga was the inaugural season of the Oberliga as a tier three league. The Oberligas, then as tier one leagues, had been disestablished after the 1962–63 season, when the Bundesliga was introduced.

The Oberliga was organised in two regional divisions, the Oberliga Nord and the Oberliga Berlin, with the league champions, and the runners-up of the Oberliga Nord, earning the right to play-off for promotion to the level above, the 2. Bundesliga. Parallel to the two Oberligas, Amateurligas and Verbandsligas existed in the other parts of Germany at this level.

A similar league, the DDR-Oberliga, existed in East Germany, set at the first tier of the East German football league system. The 1974–75 DDR-Oberliga was won by FC Carl Zeiss Jena.^[1]

Overview

The tier three football leagues in West Germany in 1974–75

The new Oberliga Nord replaced the Amateurliga Bremen, Landesliga Hamburg, Amateurliga Niedersachsen and Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein at the third level, with the latter dropping down to the fourth tier as a consequence. Ten of the eighteen clubs in the new Oberliga came from the Regionalliga Nord, a second tier league that had been disbanded at the end of the 1973–74 season and been replaced by the northern division of the 2. Bundesliga.^[2]^[3] Three clubs came from the Amateurliga Niedersachsen, two each from the Amateurliga Bremen and Landesliga Hamburg and one club from the Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein.^[4]

The inaugural championship of the Oberliga Nord was won by VfB Oldenburg while Arminia Hannover finished runners-up, two points behind. Both clubs failed to win promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in the promotion round but Arminia would succeed the following season while Oldenburg had to wait until 1979–80.^[4] SC Victoria Hamburg, fourth in the Oberliga Nord and best-placed team from Hamburg, qualified for the German amateur football championship, where it reached the final but lost 3–0 to VfR Oli Bürstadt. Of the other qualified teams from the league, Itzehoer SV (Schleswig-Holstein) reached the second round while TuS Bremerhaven 93 (Bremen) and SV Meppen (Lower Saxony) were knocked-out in the first.^[5]

In the new Oberliga Berlin, which replaced the Amateurliga Berlin at this level in West Berlin, eighteen clubs competed in the inaugural season. Nine of those came from the Regionalliga Berlin, a second tier league like the Regionalliga Nord, while the other nine came from the Amateurliga.^[6] Spandauer SV became the first champions of the league and won promotion to the 2. Bundesliga.^[4] League runners-up Hertha Zehlendorf entered the German amateur championship but was knocked-out by Schwarz-Weiss Essen in the first round.^[5]

Oberliga	Champions	Promoted	Championship	Relegated	Teams
Oberliga Berlin	Spandauer SV	Spandauer SV	Hertha Zehlendorf	Kickers 1900 Berlin Alemannia 90 Berlin BFC Südring	18
Oberliga Nord	VfB Oldenburg	—	SV Meppen (3rd) SC Victoria Hamburg (4th) TuS Bremerhaven 93 (6th) Itzehoer SV (8th)	Phönix Lübeck SpVgg Flensburg 08 Heider SV Bremer SV SC Poppenbüttel	18

The numbers behind the clubs qualified for the German amateur championship from the Oberliga Nord indicate the league placing in 1975–76.

Promotion play-off to the 2. Bundesliga

Thirteen teams took part in the promotion round to the 1975–76 2. Bundesliga, six in the north and seven in the south. Two teams, the champions of Bavaria and Hesse, were promoted directly without entering the play-off.

North

Group A

In group A the champions of the Amateurliga Mittelrhein and Amateurliga Niederrhein as well as the runners-up of the Oberliga Nord competed for two promotion spots:

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (P)	4	3	1	9	8	+1	6	Promotion to 1975–76 2. Bundesliga Nord
2	SG Union Solingen (P)	4	2	2	8	7	+1	4	Promotion to 1975–76 2. Bundesliga Nord
3	Arminia Hannover	4	1	3	6	8	−2	2

Source: Weltfussball.de (German)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored;
(P) Promoted.

Group B

In group B the champions of the Amateurliga Westfalen (played in two divisions), Oberliga Berlin and Oberliga Nord competed for two promotion spots:

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Westfalia Herne (P)	4	3	1	0	13	3	+10	7	Promotion to 1975–76 2. Bundesliga Nord
2	Spandauer SV (P)	4	2	0	2	5	11	−6	4	Promotion to 1975–76 2. Bundesliga Nord
3	VfB Oldenburg	4	0	1	3	4	8	−4	1

Source: Weltfussball.de (German)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored;
(P) Promoted.

South

The champions of the Amateurliga Bayern, Jahn Regensburg, and Amateurliga Hessen, FSV Frankfurt, were directly promoted and did not have to enter the promotion round.

Group A

In group A the champions of the Amateurliga Saarland, Amateurliga Südwest and Amateurliga Rheinland competed for one promotion spot:

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Eintracht Bad Kreuznach (P)	4	4	0	0	18	4	+14	8	Promotion to 1975–76 2. Bundesliga Süd
2	Eintracht Trier	4	1	1	2	8	10	−2	3
3	ASC Dudweiler	4	0	1	3	3	15	−12	1

Source: Weltfussball.de (German)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored;
(P) Promoted.

Group B

In group B the champions of the Amateurliga Nordbaden, Amateurliga Südbaden, Amateurliga Württemberg and Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee competed for one promotion spot:

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	SSV Reutlingen (P)	6	5	1	17	7	+10	10	Promotion to 1975–76 2. Bundesliga Süd
2	Offenburger FV	6	3	3	16	15	+1	6
3	VfR Aalen	6	3	3	12	11	+1	6
4	VfB Eppingen	6	1	5	7	19	−12	2

Source: Weltfussball.de (German)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored;
(P) Promoted.

References

↑ East Germany 1946-1990 rsssf.com, accessed: 13 December 2015
↑ Germany - Regionalliga Nord 1963-1974 (2nd level) rsssf.com, accessed: 21 November 2015
↑ Regionalliga Nord tables & results (German) Fussballdaten.de, accessed: 21 November 2015
1 2 3 Historic German league tables (German) Das deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 21 November 2015
1 2 AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP WEST-GERMANY '74-'75 rsssf.com, accessed: 21 November 2015
↑ Stadtliga Berlin tables & results (German) Fussballdaten.de, accessed: 21 November 2015

Sources

kicker Almanach - The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, first published: 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine
Die Deutsche Liga Chronik 1945-2006, Section F: Berlin and the Northeast region, publisher: DSFS, published: 2006

External links

Fussball.de (German) Official results website of the German Football Association
Weltfussball.de (German) German football results and tables

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Current Oberligas	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg Bayernliga Nord Bayernliga Süd Bremen-Liga Oberliga Hamburg Hessenliga Mittelrheinliga Oberliga Niederrhein Niedersachsenliga NOFV-Oberliga Nord NOFV-Oberliga Süd Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar Schleswig-Holstein-Liga Oberliga Westfalen

Defunct Oberligas	Amateur-Oberliga Berlin Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost Oberliga Niedersachsen-West Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen NOFV-Oberliga Mitte NRW-Liga Oberliga Nord Oberliga Nordrhein

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