Regionalliga Süd (1963–1974)

The Regionalliga Süd was the second-highest level of the German football league system. It existed in the south of Germany from 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974. It covered the three states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen.

For other uses, see Regionalliga Süd (disambiguation).

Regionalliga Süd
Founded1963
Folded1974 (11 seasons)
Replaced by2. Bundesliga Süd
CountryGermany
State
Level on pyramidLevel 2
Promotion toBundesliga
Relegation to
Last championsFC Augsburg
(1973–74)

Overview

The league started out in 1963 with 20 clubs which were reduced for the next season to 19. From 1965 to 1974, there were always 18 teams in the league, except in 1972 when another season of 19 clubs was played.

It was formed from the eleven clubs of the Oberliga Süd which did not get admitted to the new Bundesliga and from the top nine clubs of the 2. Oberliga Süd. The Regionalliga Süd was as such a continuation of the Oberliga Süd under a different name and a tier lower.

Along with the Regionalliga Süd went another four Regionalligas, these five formed the second tier of German football until 1974:

The new Regionalligas were formed along the borders of the old post-World War II Oberligas, not after a balanced regional system. Therefore, the Oberligas Berlin and West covered small but populous areas while Nord and Süd covered large areas. Südwest was something of an anachronism, neither large nor populous.

The league contained some big names of German Football, having the FC Bayern Munich, Kickers Offenbach and SpVgg Fürth as its founder members. In later years, clubs like TSV 1860 Munich, 1. FC Nürnberg and Karlsruher SC found themselves relegated to the league. The league posed something of a death trap for the big names of southern German football, as only the FC Bayern Munich and Kickers Offenbach achieved promotion from it. Kickers Offenbach also managed to win the German Cup in 1970, while still a Regionalliga side, the only club to do so.

The FC Schweinfurt 05, SpVgg Fürth, Stuttgarter Kickers, KSV Hessen Kassel, Freiburger FC and FC Bayern Hof all played in the league for the duration of its 11-season existence. Of those six, the Stuttgarter Kickers had the longest unbroken run in the second division, from 1960 to 1988, 28 seasons.

The winners and runners-up of this league were admitted to the promotion play-off to the Bundesliga, which was staged in two groups of originally four, later five teams each with the winner of each group going up.

The bottom three, some years four teams were relegated to the Amateurligas. Below the Regionalliga Süd were the following Amateurligas:

Disbanding of the Regionalliga Süd

The league was dissolved in 1974. According to their performance of the last couple of seasons, 13 clubs of the Regionalliga went to the new 2. Bundesliga Süd. The five remaining clubs were relegated to the Amateurligas.

The teams admitted to the 2. Bundesliga Süd were:

The following teams were relegated to the Amateurligas:

Qualifying to the 2. Bundesliga

From the Regionalliga Süd, 13 clubs qualified for the new 2. Bundesliga Süd, together with seven teams from the Südwest region.

The qualifying modus saw the last five seasons counted, whereby the last placed team in each season received one point, the second-last two points and so on. For a Bundesliga season within this five-year period, a club received 25 points, for an Amateurliga season none.

For the seasons 1969–70 and 70–71, the received points counted single, for the 71–72 and 72–73 season double and for the 73–74 season three times.

To be considered in the points table for the new league, a club had to play either in the Regionalliga Süd in 1973–74 or to have been relegated from the Bundesliga to it for the next season, something which did not apply to the league that year.

The bottom three clubs in the league, nominally the relegated teams in a normal season, were barred from entry to the 2. Bundesliga, regardless of where they stood in the points ranking. This fact saved the FC Augsburg, the last league champion, from relegation, as Hessen Kassel, placed ninth overall but having finished 16th in 1973–74 was barred from promotion, opening the way for FCA.[1]

Points table:

Rank Club Points 1969–74 Place in 1973–74
1 TSV 1860 Munich 155 3
2 1. FC Nürnberg 138 2
3 Karlsruher SC 134 8
4 SV Darmstadt 98 110 4
5 FC Bayern Hof 104 9
6 Stuttgarter Kickers 98 6
7 SpVgg Bayreuth 90 5
8 VfR Heilbronn 90 12
9 Hessen Kassel 1 90 16
10 SpVgg Fürth 85 10
11 FC Schweinfurt 05 68 15
12 Freiburger FC 1 68 17
13 SV Waldhof Mannheim 61 7
14 FC Augsburg 54 1
15 Jahn Regensburg 1 53 18
16 VfR Mannheim 28 13
17 VfR Bürstadt 27 14
18 FSV Frankfurt 26 11
  • Source: DSFS Liga-Chronik (in German), page: C4, accessed: 18 March 2009
  • Bold teams are promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga.
  • 1 Barred from gaining access to the 2nd Bundesliga due to having finished on a relegation spot.

Re-formation of the Regionalliga Süd

The Regionalliga Süd was reformed in 1994, now as the third tier of the German football league system, again covering the three southern German states of Bayern, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen. In something of a repeat of history, the clubs from the Oberliga Südwest merged into the league in 2000. The Regionalliga Süd now roughly covered the same area as the 2nd Bundesliga Süd did from 1974 to 1981. In 2008, the Südwest clubs will leave the league again and join the new Regionalliga West and the Regionalliga Süd will revert to its coverage of the three original regions, but now as the fourth tier of the league system, below the new 3. Liga.

Winners and runners-up of the Regionalliga Süd

The winners and runners–up of the league were:[2]

Season Winner Runner–Up
1963–64 Hessen Kassel FC Bayern Munich
1964–65 FC Bayern Munich SSV Reutlingen
1965–66 FC Schweinfurt 05 Kickers Offenbach
1966–67 Kickers Offenbach FC Bayern Hof
1967–68 FC Bayern Hof Kickers Offenbach
1968–69 Karlsruher SC Freiburger FC
1969–70 Kickers Offenbach Karlsruher SC
1970–71 1. FC Nürnberg Karlsruher SC
1971–72 Kickers Offenbach FC Bayern Hof
1972–73 SV Darmstadt 98 Karlsruher SC
1973–74 FC Augsburg 1. FC Nürnberg
  • Bold denotes team went on to gain promotion to the Bundesliga.
  • In 1970, Kickers Offenbach won the German Cup as a Regionalliga team, the only one to do so. They are also the only club to have won the league more than once, having done so three times.
  • In 1974, FC Augsburg won the Regionalliga being freshly promoted from the Amateurliga Bayern.
  • Of the nine different winners of the Regionalliga Süd from 1964 to 1974, four have done so again in the new Regionalliga Süd: FC Augsburg, Karlsruher SC, 1. FC Nürnberg and, for a record fourth time, Kickers Offenbach in 2005.

Placings in the Regionalliga Süd 1963 to 1974

The league placings from 1963 to 1974:[3]

Club 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74
FC Bayern Munich 2 1 B B B B B B B B B
Kickers Offenbach 3 3 2 1 2 B 1 B 1 B B
FC Augsburg 1
1. FC Nürnberg B B B B B B 3 1 9 5 2
TSV 1860 Munich B B B B B B B 4 3 3 3
SV Darmstadt 98 14 13 14 14 8 18 7 1 4
SpVgg Bayreuth 17 13 4 5
Stuttgarter Kickers 14 7 5 4 4 4 12 10 11 8 6
SV Waldhof Mannheim 11 4 3 11 12 11 20 7 7
Karlsruher SC B B B B B 1 2 2 5 2 8
FC Bayern Hof 13 9 9 2 1 3 4 13 2 12 9
SpVgg Fürth 9 8 4 3 7 7 8 7 14 9 10
FSV Frankfurt 16 10 14 13 16 19 11
VfR Heilbronn 14 8 8 6 12
VfR Mannheim 6 6 12 5 6 14 15 16 13
VfR Bürstadt 13 14
FC Schweinfurt 05 7 15 1 10 5 6 5 6 12 14 15
KSV Hessen Kassel 1 5 6 8 8 10 7 3 4 10 16
Freiburger FC 10 11 15 7 9 2 6 9 6 15 17
SSV Jahn Regensburg 15 5 10 5 16 11 18
SpVgg Ludwigsburg 15 16
SSV Reutlingen 5 2 8 6 3 9 11 15 10 17
FC Wacker München 17 19 18
Opel Rüsselsheim 10 12 11 15 13 14 17
FC 08 Villingen 15 10 13 9 12 18
ESV Ingolstadt 12 12 16 12 16 11 19
SV Göppingen 17
Viktoria Aschaffenburg 18
VfL Neckarau 16
TSV Schwaben Augsburg 4 16 11 9 13 17
Rot-Weiß Frankfurt 18
TSG Backnang 17
SV Wiesbaden 18
BC Augsburg 19 16
Germania Wiesbaden 17
1. FC Pforzheim 15 13 7 18
SpVgg Weiden 17
VfR Pforzheim 18
TSG Ulm 1846 8 18
FC Emmendingen 19
SpVgg Neu-Isenburg 17
Borussia Fulda 18
Amicitia Viernheim 20

Source:"Regionalliga Süd". Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. Retrieved 7 January 2008.

Key
Symbol Key
B Bundesliga
Place League
Blank Played at a league level below this league

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:

Year Player Club Goals
1963–64 Jendrosch Hessen Kassel 34
1964–65 Rainer Ohlhauser FC Bayern Munich 42
1965–66 Mikulasch ESV Ingolstadt 29
1966–67 Windhausen SpVgg Fürth 32
1967–68 Breuer FC Bayern Hof 27
Schäffner VfR Mannheim 27
1968–69 Klier FC 08 Villingen 23
1969–70 Klier FC 08 Villingen 22
1970–71 Bründl Stuttgarter Kickers 21
1971–72 Erwin Kostedde Kickers Offenbach 27
1972–73 Keller TSV 1860 Munich 26
1973–74 Obermeier FC Augsburg 25

Source:100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband. Vindelica Verlag. 1997. p. 172.

Records

The league records:

Highest win11–0Kickers Offenbach 11 – 0 VfR Pforzheim (19 September 1965)[4]
Most goals in a game13Freiburger FC 2 – 11 FC Bayern Munich (7 February 1965)[5]
Season with most goals1,255 (3,67 per game)1964–65 [6]
Round with most goals49 (5,44 per game)Round 19, 1964–65 [7]

All-time table

The best and worst teams in the all-time table of the league from 1963 to 1974:[8]

Pos. Club Seasons M W D L GF GA P
1FC Bayern Hof1138818381124761554447
2KSV Hessen Kassel1138816689133733609421
3Stuttgarter Kickers1138816487137709619415
4–4138 clubs
42FC Emmendingen1361233311594

References
  1. Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik seit 1945 – History of German league football since 1945 (in German) publisher: DSFS, published: 2006, page: C3 + C4
  2. "Kicker Almanach" The Football Yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the kicker Sports Magazine
  3. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  4. "Regionalliga Süd (1963–1974) .:. Statistik .:. Die höchsten Siege" (in German). Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  5. "Regionalliga Süd (1963–1974) .:. Statistik .:. Die torreichsten Spiele" (in German). Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  6. "Regionalliga Süd (1963–1974) » Statistik » Tore pro Saison" (in German). Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  7. "Regionalliga Süd (1963–1974) » Statistik » Tore pro Spielrunde" (in German). Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  8. "Regionalliga Süd (1963–1974) » Ewige Tabelle" (in German). Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 3 December 2015.

Sources
  • Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen, (in German) An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga, publisher: DSFS
  • Kicker Almanach, (in German) The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine
  • Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897–1988 (in German) History of Southern German football in tables, publisher & author: Ludolf Hyll
  • Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945–2005 (in German) History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables, publisher: DSFS, published: 2006
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.