The Amateurliga Nordbaden was the highest football league in the region of the North Baden Football Aassociation and the third tier of the

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from its inception in 1945 to the formation of the

Oberliga Baden-Württemberg The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is the highest association football league in the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg football league system. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German footb ...

and the

Verbandsliga Nordbaden The Verbandsliga Nordbaden is a German amateur football division administered by the Baden Football Association, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Baden state association, the Verbandsliga is currently a ...

below it in 1978.

Overview

The Amateurliga Nordbaden was formed in 1945 in the northern half of the then-state of

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, which is now the northwestern part of the German state of

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. It was a feeder league to the

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and therefore the second tier of the football league system in the south of

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until the inception of the

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in 1950. From 1950 until the establishment of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 1978, it was the third tier of the football league system. The winner of the Amateurliga Nordbaden was not automatically promoted but rather had to take part in a

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to its league above. Usually, the champion would have to compete with the winners of the Amateurligas Südbaden,

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and (from 1961) Schwarzwald-Bodensee. The separation of North Baden and South Baden resulted from the outcome of

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when the state was split into two separate occupation zones. The north was in the US zone and the south in the French zone. The official names for the two FAs reflect the separation of Südbaden from the originally association, with Nordbaden just simply calling itself Baden FA. The league was established in 1945 with ten teams, the winner gaining promotion to the Oberliga Süd. The founder members were: *

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* VfB Knielingen *

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* ASV Feudenheim * SpVgg Sandhofen *

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* Phönix Mannheim *

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The league was split into a northern and a southern group from 1946 to 1948. With the introduction of the

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in 1963 the Amateurliga was placed below the new Regionalliga Süd but still retained its third-tier status. It continued to do so after the introduction of the 2. Bundesliga Süd in 1974. The longest continuous member of the league was the SV Sandhausen which gained promotion to it in 1957 and spent 21 seasons in it until its admittance to the new Oberliga in 1978. The VfR Pforzheim spent a record of 28 out of 33 possible seasons in the league.

Disbanding of the Amateurliga Nordbaden

In 1978, the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg was formed to allow direct promotion to the 2. Bundesliga Süd for the Amateure champion of the state. The teams placed one to five gained entry to the Oberliga while the other eleven teams were put into the new Verbandsliga Nordbaden, now the fourth tier of the football league system. Admitted to the new Oberliga: *

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* SV Neckargerach Relegated to the new Verbandsliga: * SV Schwetzingen *

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* VfB Bretten * FVgg Weingarten * SpVgg Neckarelz * Germania Mönchzell * VfB Knielingen * Alemannia Eggenstein

Winners of the Amateurliga Nordbaden

* Bold denotes team gained promotion. * In 1950, three teams were promoted to the new 2. Oberliga Süd. * In 1965 the VfR Pforzheim gained promotion as runners-up as the reserves team of Karlsruher SC was ineligible.

References

Sources

* ''Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen'', An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga, publisher: DSFS * ''kicker Almanach'', The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the kicker Sports Magazine * ''Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897–1988'' History of Southern German football in tables, publisher & author: Ludolf Hyll * ''Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945–2005'' History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables, publisher: DSFS, published: 2006

External links

Das deutsche Fussball Archiv
Historic German league tables
Fussball.de: Verbandsliga Nordbaden

BFV: Baden Football Association
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