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1973–74 Regionalliga
The 1973–74 Regionalliga was the eleventh season of the Regionalliga, the second tier of the German football league system. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and runners-up then entered a promotion play-off to determine the two clubs to move up to the Bundesliga for the next season. Northern German and Berlin champions Eintracht Braunschweig and Tennis Borussia Berlin were promoted. It was the last season of the Regionalliga as a tier two league, being replaced by two regional divisions of the 2. Bundesliga at this level from 1974–75. Apart from the two teams promoted to the Bundesliga, 38 clubs qualified for the new 2. Bundesliga while the remaining 43 dropped down to the third division Verbandsligas, Amateurligas and Oberligas. Qualification for the 2. Bundesliga took the previous five Regionalliga season into account to determine the qualified teams, rather than just the final tables of 1973� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regionalliga
The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the fourth tier. While all of the clubs in the top three divisions of German football are professional, the Regionalliga has a mixture of professional and semi-professional clubs. History of the Regionalligas 1963–1974 From the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974, there were five Regionalligas, forming the second tier of German Football: *Regionalliga Nord, ''(covering the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg)'' * Regionalliga West, ''(covering the state of North Rhine-Westphalia)'' * Regionalliga Berlin, ''(covering West Berlin)'' * Regionalliga Südwest, ''(covering the states of Rheinland-Palatinate and Saarland)'' * Regionalliga Süd, ''(covering the states of Bav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VfL Pinneberg
VfL Pinneberg is a German association football club from the town of Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein. Despite its location in Schleswig-Holstein the club plays in the football leagues of near-by Hamburg. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier two Regionalliga Nord in 1973, where it played for a season. ''VfL'' also made one appearance in the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, in 1976–77, where it lost 4–0 to FC Augsburg in the first round. Apart from football the club also offers other sports like volleyball, field hockey and basketball. History Formed in 1945 VfL Pinneberg entered league football in the 1946–47 season at the lowest level in Hamburg, eventually working its way up to what was then the tier two Amateurliga Hamburg in 1960. ''VfL'' became a strong side at this level which dropped to the third tier after the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963. After a number of league titles and unsuccessful promotion rounds to the Regionalliga the club final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heider SV
Heider SV is a German association football club from the city of Heide, Schleswig-Holstein. The club was founded 14 October 1925 by what was the reserve side of '' VfL 05 Heide''. The reservists thought they were the better side and challenged the first team to a match, which they won. Despite this, no changes were made to the first team roster, so the reservists left to form ''SV''. __TOC__ History Small town on the big stage The team is known popularly as ''kleiner HSV'' (en: Little HSV), a play on the name of better known Hamburger SV. They represented the smallest town competing in top-flight German competition in the regional Oberliga Nord (I) in 1956–57 and 1960–61 against the likes of larger clubs including Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Werder Bremen, and FC St. Pauli. The club's appearances in the top flight were brief, but they were enthusiastically supported, regularly drawing large crowds. The highlight of Heider SV's 1956–57 season was a 2–0 victory over Hamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TuS Bremerhaven 93
OSC Bremerhaven is a German sports club based in Bremerhaven, in the federal state of Bremen. History The club was founded in 1972 as ''Olympischer Sport-Club Bremerhaven'' in a merger of various local football clubs including ''ATS Bremerhaven'', which has roots going back to 1859, ''Polizei Sportverein'', ''TuS Bremerhaven 93'', and the ''Judo-Klub''. They are the largest sports club in the city, claiming some 4500 members, but football is not their primary focus. Their minor league side currently competes at the tier V level after a decade spent in tiers II and III, from the mid-70s through to the mid-80s. OSC can make a strong claim to being the successor to ''TuS Bremerhaven 93'', which was officially disbanded in 1974. While many members of ''TuS 93'' joined OSC, others continued to field a separate football team until 1977. In 1991, the football players left OSC en masse to form '' FC Bremerhaven'', leaving OSC with just a rump side. The ''TuS 93'' was a quite successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holstein Kiel
Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e.V., simply as KSV Holstein or Kieler SV Holstein, commonly known as Holstein Kiel (), is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. From the 1900s through the 1960s the club was one of the most dominant sides in northern Germany. Holstein appeared regularly in the national playoffs, capturing their most important title, the German football championship in 1912, and finishing as vice-champions in 1910 and 1930. Holstein also won six regional titles and finished as runners-up another nine times. They remained a first-division side until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. History Foundation to WWII Holstein Kiel is the product of the merger of predecessor sides Kieler Fußball-Verein von 1900 and Kieler Fußball-Club Holstein. The earliest of these two sides was Kieler Fußball-Verein (later 1. KFV) established on 7 October 1900 out of the membership of the gymnastics club Kieler Mä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göttingen 05
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The origins of Göttingen lay in a village called ''Gutingi, ''first mentioned in a document in 953 AD. The city was founded northwest of this village, between 1150 and 1200 AD, and adopted its name. In medieval times the city was a member of the Hanseatic League and hence a wealthy town. Today, Göttingen is famous for its old university (''Georgia Augusta'', or "Georg-August-Universität"), which was founded in 1734 (first classes in 1737) and became the most visited university of Europe. In 1837, seven professors protested against the absolute sovereignty of the kings of Hanover; they lost their positions, but became known as the "Göttingen Seven". Its alumni include some well-known historical figures: the Brothers Grimm, Heinrich Ewald, Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OSV Hannover
OSV Hannover is a German association football club based in the Oststadt district of Hanover, Lower Saxony. History The club was founded in 1923 as ''Freie Sportvereinigung Hannover Ost''. The club was dissolved in 1933 in the course of the Nazi regime's politically motivated reorganization of sport and football clubs throughout the country and re-constituted as ''Oststädter Sportverein Hannover''. In 1937, the club merged with the older side ''MTV Groß Buchholz'', which had been founded in 1923. After World War II the football side was associated with ''TuS Bothfeld 04'' until re-establishing themselves as an independent club in 1953. The club has an unremarkable history, noted only for three seasons spent in Regionalliga Nord from 1972 to 1974, and another two in the 2. Bundesliga Nord in 1979 and 1980. ''OSV'' re-established a facility sharing partnership with ''TuS Bothfeld 04'' in the mid-1970s, and had a close brush with bankruptcy in the early 1980s. The club slipped i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arminia Hannover
SV Arminia Hannover is a German association football club based in Hanover, Lower Saxony. History The club was founded in 1910 as ''FC Arminia Hannover'' and merged with ''Rugby-Verein Merkur'' in 1918, becoming ''SV Arminia-Merkur''. Two years later they renamed themselves ''SV Arminia Hannover'' and captured the North German title. Through the 1920s and 1930s the club grew to include a number of other sports, but the football side did not earn any significant result, apart from the 1932–33 season when the club, under the English coach William Townley, advanced as far as the quarterfinals of the German Championship, where they were ousted by the eventual winners Fortuna Düsseldorf. During the Third Reich, the club played in the Gauliga Niedersachsen, later the Gauliga Südhannover-Braunschweig, generally as a top of the table side without winning another local championship. For the most part, the club played second tier ball through the 1950s and 1960s with their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SV Meppen
SV Meppen is a German association football club playing in Meppen, Lower Saxony. The club was founded on 29 November 1912 as ''Amisia Meppen'' and joined ''Männer-Turnverein Meppen'' on 8 February 1920 to form ''TuS Meppen 1912''. The football branch left ''TuS Meppen'' in 1921 to create a separate club called ''Sport Verein Meppen 1912 e.V.''. SV Meppen spent a total of 11 years in the 2. Bundesliga. History Meppen have had a relatively quiet history playing in III and IV level circles, winning their first title of any sort when they claimed the Amateurliga Lower Saxony (IV) championship in 1961. They claimed a second title there in 1968 and then qualified for the Regionalliga Nord (II) in 1972. After league re-structuring in 1974 the team played in the Oberliga Nord (III) where they won the championship in 1987 and then emerged out the promotion playoffs to join the 2. Bundesliga. Generally, the side ended up in mid-table with their best finishes being 7th in 1994 and 6th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympia Wilhelmshaven
TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven is a German sports club based in Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony, on the northwestern coast of the country. The football team was a department of the club which also offers its members American football, athletics, table tennis, and triathlon. History Only a small local side, the footballers nonetheless played a half dozen seasons in the second division Regionalliga Nord through the early 1970s. They joined the newly formed 2. Bundesliga Nord for the 1974–75 season when a re-structured second division circuit was created from the best performing and most financially stable clubs of the era's five Regionalliga. A middling club at best in their old division, ''Wilhelmshaven'' finished 17th in the re-organized competition and was relegated to the tier III Amateur Oberliga Nord. In 1992 the sports clubs ''TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven'' and ''SV Wilhelmshaven'' merged for economic reasons. ''Olympias football department withdrew to play in the local city circ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VfB Oldenburg
VfB Oldenburg is a German association football club based in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony. In the 2022–23 season, they play in the 3. Liga, the third level of football in Germany. History Founded by a group of high school boys as ''FC 1897 Oldenburg'' on 17 October 1897, they merged with ''FV Germania 1903 Oldenburg'' in 1919 and adopted their current name. Their interests were football, cricket and track. Within a year the club acquired an old velodrome in Donnerschwee – part of the town of Oldenburg today – and converted it to a football ground. The club played for two seasons in the Gauliga Weser-Ems (I), just before the end of the war, from 1942 to 1944. After again restoring their ground in the aftermath of World War II, the club was able to pick up play in the Oberliga Nord in the 1949–50 season, but immediately found themselves relegated to tier II. They made another single season appearance in the upper league in 1955–56, before returning for a run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HSV Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst
HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst is a German association football club from the city of Hamburg. The club played as a second and third division side from the early 1960s on into the early 1980s before fading from sight into lower-tier competition. History The roots of the side are found in the merger on 10 July 1909 of the local gymnastics clubs ''Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst Turnverein 1876'', ''Männer Turnverein 1888 Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst'', and ''Barmbecker Turnverein 1902'' to create ''Hamburger Turnerschaft Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst 1876'', which formed a football department in 1911. The footballers went their own way as the independent side ''Hamburger Sportverein Barmbeck-Uhlenhorst'' on 15 November 1923, and played in lower-level local competition over the next several decades.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag During World War II, player rosters were depleted by the demands of armed forces service, and ''HSV'' played in various combinations with other shorthanded c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
