1962–63_2._Oberliga

1962–63 2. Oberliga

1962–63 2. Oberliga

Football league season

For other uses, see 1962–63 Oberliga (disambiguation).

The 1962–63 2. Oberliga was the fourteenth 2. Oberliga season, the second tier of the football league system in West Germany. The league operated in three regional divisions, South, Southwest and West. In Northern Germany and West Berlin the 2. Oberliga did not existed, local Amateurligas taking their place instead as the second tier of the league system.[1]

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Map of the five German Oberligas 1945 to 1963. 2. Oberligas existed only in the South, Southwest and West.

It was the last season of the 2. Oberliga as, following the 1962–63 season, the Bundesliga was introduced which the best Oberliga teams qualified for while the best 2. Oberliga teams went to the new Regionalligas, the new second tier of the league system. Those teams not qualified for the Regionalligas dropped to the third tier, the Amateurligas. The new Regionalligas covered the same regions as the previous 2. Oberligas, the Regionalliga Süd taking over from the 2. Oberliga Süd, the Regionalliga Südwest from the 2. Oberliga Südwest and the Regionalliga West from the 2. Oberliga West. In the two regions without 2. Oberligas Regionalligas were also formed, the Regionalliga Nord and Regionalliga Berlin.[1]

2. Oberliga West

The 1962–63 season saw four new clubs in the league, Arminia Bielefeld and FV Duisburg 08, both promoted from the Amateurliga while Duisburger SV and SV Sodingen had been relegated from the Oberliga West.

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Source: f-archiv.de, Liga-Chronik, p: G 37
Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

2. Oberliga Südwest

The 1962–63 season saw four new clubs in the league, Phönix Bellheim and VfB Wissen, both promoted from the Amateurliga while Phönix Ludwigshafen and Eintracht Trier had been relegated from the Oberliga Südwest.

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Source: f-archiv.de, Liga-Chronik, p: H 36
Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. The clubs placed fourth to eighth played a qualification round with the 15th and 16th-placed Oberliga team and the southwestern Amateur champions, ASV Landau, for four more spots in the new Regionalliga.

2. Oberliga Süd

The 1962–63 season saw five new clubs in the league, ESV Ingolstadt, SV Darmstadt 98 and VfR Heilbronn, all three promoted from the Amateurliga while FSV Frankfurt and SV Waldhof Mannheim had been relegated from the Oberliga Süd.

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Source: f-archiv.de, Liga-Chronik, p: I 38
Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Other tier two leagues

The leagues and league champions of the regions without a 2. Oberliga at the second tier of the league system in 1962–63:[2]

References

  1. [1]
    kicker Almanach, p: 252–259
  2. [2]
    kicker Almanach, p: 259

Sources

  • kicker-Almanach 1990 [Yearbook of German football] (in German). Kicker (sports magazine). 1990. ISBN 3-7679-0297-4.
  • 100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband [100 Years of the Southern German Football Association] (in German). Munich: Southern German Football Association. 1997.
  • 50 Jahre Bayerischer Fussball-Verband - BFV [50 Years of the Bavarian Football Association] (in German). Munich: Bavarian Football Association. 1995.
  • Ludolf Hyll (1988). Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988 [Southern Germany's football history in tables] (in German).
  • Deutsche Liga-Chronik seit 1945 (in German). DSFS. 2005.
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