1948–49 Oberliga
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The 1948–49 Oberliga was the fourth season of the Oberliga, the first tier of the football league system in the three western zones of
Allied-occupied Germany The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949. Unlike occupied Japan, Nazi Germany was stripped of its sov ...
. The league operated in six regional divisions,
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,
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,
South South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...
,
Southwest The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A '' compass rose'' is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west— ...
(north and south) and
West West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance langu ...
. The five league champions, the runners-up from the North, South, Southwest and West and the third-placed team from the South entered the
1949 German football championship The 1949 German football championship, the 39th edition of the German football championship, was the culmination of the 1948–49 football season in Germany. VfR Mannheim were crowned champions for the first time after a one-leg knock-out tourna ...
which was won by
VfR Mannheim VfR Mannheim is a Football in Germany, German association football club based in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg formed in 1911 out of the fusion of Mannheimer FG 1896, Mannheimer FG 1897 Union, and FC Viktoria 1897 Mannheim. The club captured the n ...
. It was VfR Mannheim's only national championship. The Oberliga Südwest, covering the French occupation zone in Germany, operated in two regional divisions, north and south, with a championship final at the end of season. In
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the
DDR-Oberliga The DDR-Oberliga (English: ''East German Premier League'' or ''GDR Premier League'') was the top-level association football league in East Germany. Overview Following World War II, separate sports competitions emerged in the Allied-occupied G ...
was established after the 1948–49 season in the Soviet occupation zone, set at the first tier of the
league system A league system is a hierarchy of sports league, leagues in a sport. They are often called pyramids, due to their tendency to split into an increasing number of regional divisions further down the system. League systems of some sort are used in ma ...
. In 1949 an Eastern zone championship, the '' 1949 Ostzonenmeisterschaft'', was held and won by ZSG Union Halle, but its winner did not advance to the German championship. In post-
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Germany many clubs were forced to change their names or merge. This policy was particularly strongly enforced in the Soviet and French occupation zones but much more relaxed in the British and US one. In most cases clubs eventually reverted to their original names, especially after the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. During the course of the 1948–49 league season the political landscape in Germany changed with the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as
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, established on 23 May 1949, followed by the
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, commonly referred to as
East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...
, on 7 October 1949. I t was the first tier of the football league system in the three western zones of Allied-occupied Germany.


Oberliga Nord

The 1948–49 season saw three new clubs promoted to the league, TuS Bremerhaven 93, Eimsbütteler TV and SC Göttingen 05. No team was relegated from the league at the end of season as the league was expanded to 16 teams in 1949–50.


Oberliga Berlin

The 1948–49 season saw three new clubs promoted to the league,
Viktoria 89 Berlin Berliner Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 was a German sports club based in the Tempelhof district of Berlin. Association football, Football, rugby football, rugby, and cricket came to continental Europe in the late 19th century, and these "English g ...
, SV Lichtenberg 47 and Minerva 93 Berlin.


Oberliga West

The 1948–49 season saw three new clubs promoted to the league, Rot-Weiß Essen, Rhenania Würselen and Preußen Münster.


Relegation play-offs

Group A Group B Group C


Oberliga Südwest


Northern group

The 1948–49 season saw three new clubs promoted to the league, Eintracht Trier, SpVgg Weisenau and BSC Oppau.


Southern group

The 1948–49 season saw two new clubs promoted to the league, SV Tübingen and FC 08 Villingen.


Finals

The winners of the two regional divisions of the Oberliga Südwest played a final to determine the league champion who was also directly qualified for the German championship: The runners-up of the two divisions determined the club who would face the loser of the championship final for the second place in the German championship:


Oberliga Süd

The 1948–49 season saw two new clubs promoted to the league, BC Augsburg and 1. Rödelheimer FC 02.


German championship

The 1949 German football championship was contested by the eight qualified Oberliga teams and won by
VfR Mannheim VfR Mannheim is a Football in Germany, German association football club based in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg formed in 1911 out of the fusion of Mannheimer FG 1896, Mannheimer FG 1897 Union, and FC Viktoria 1897 Mannheim. The club captured the n ...
, defeating
Borussia Dortmund Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund () or by its initialism BVB (), or just Dortmund by International fans, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is ...
in the final. It was played in a knock-out format and consisted of ten clubs.


References


Sources

* ''30 Jahre Bundesliga'' 30th anniversary special, publisher: '' kicker Sportmagazin'', published: 1993 * ''kicker-Almanach 1990'' Yearbook of German football, publisher: ''kicker Sportmagazin'', published: 1989, * ''DSFS Liga-Chronik seit 1945'' publisher: DSFS, published: 2005 * ''100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband'' 100 Years of the Southern German Football Federation, publisher: SFV, published: 1997


External links


The Oberligas on Fussballdaten.de
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