The 1950–51 Oberliga was the sixth season of the
Oberliga, the first tier of the
football league system in
West Germany
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. The league operated in five regional divisions,
Berlin
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,
North
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Etymology
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South
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,
Southwest
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and
West. The five league champions and the runners-up from the south, north and west then entered the
1951 German football championship which was won by
1. FC Kaiserslautern. It was 1. FC Kaiserslautern's first-ever
national championship.
The 1950–51 season was the first without clubs from
East Berlin
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in the Oberliga, with
VfB Pankow and
Union Oberschöneweide having left the league, the latter to be replaced by the
West Berlin
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club
Union 06 Berlin, formed by former Oberschöneweide players who had moved to the West. It was also the last without the clubs from the
Saar Protectorate, which had left the West German league system in 1948, but returned in 1951–52, with
1. FC Saarbrücken and
Borussia Neunkirchen rejoining the Oberliga Südwest. Eventually, on 1 January 1957, the Saar Protectorate would officially join West Germany, ending the post-
Second World War
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political separation of the territory from the other parts of Germany.
A similar-named league, the
DDR-Oberliga, existed in
East Germany
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, set at the first tier of the
East German football league system. The
1950–51 DDR-Oberliga was won by
BSG Chemie Leipzig.
Oberliga Nord
The 1950–51 season saw three new clubs in the league,
FC Altona 93,
Itzehoer SV and
Eintracht Osnabrück, all promoted from the Amateurliga. The league's top scorer was
Herbert Wojtkowiak of Hamburger SV with 40 goals, the highest total for the five Oberligas in 1950–51 and throughout the 16-year history of the Oberliga Nord.
Oberliga Berlin
The 1950–51 season saw four new clubs in the league,
Union 06 Berlin,
Minerva 93 Berlin,
SC Westend 01 and
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin, all promoted from the
Amateurliga Berlin. The league's top scorer was
Paul Salisch of SC Union 06 Berlin with 29 goals.
Oberliga West
The 1950–51 season saw four new clubs in the league,
Fortuna Düsseldorf,
Sportfreunde Katernberg,
Rheydter SV and
Borussia München-Gladbach, all promoted from the
2. Oberliga West. The league's top scorer was
Hans Kleina of FC Schalke 04 with 25 goals.
Oberliga Südwest
The 1950–51 season saw two new clubs in the league,
TuRa Ludwigshafen and
Eintracht Kreuznach, both promoted from the Amateurliga. The league's top scorer was
Ottmar Walter of 1. FC Kaiserslautern with 29 goals.
Oberliga Süd
The 1950–51 season saw four new clubs in the league,
VfL Neckarau and
SV Darmstadt 98, both promoted from the Landesligas, while
SSV Reutlingen
SSV Reutlingen 05 is a Football in Germany, German association football club from Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg.
History
The club was founded as FC Arminia Reutlingen and was renamed SV Reutlingen 1905 in 1910. The club merged with 1. Schwimmv ...
and
FC Singen 04 moved across from the southern division of the Oberliga Südwest. The league's top scorer was
Max Morlock
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of 1. FC Nürnberg with 28 goals.
German championship
The 1951 German football championship was contested by the eight qualified Oberliga teams and won by
1. FC Kaiserslautern, defeating
Preußen Münster in the final. The eight clubs played a home-and-away round of matches in two groups of four. The two group winners then advanced to the final.
Das Finale der Deutschen Meisterschaft 1950/1951
Fussballdaten.de, accessed: 21 December 2015
Group 1
Group 2
Final
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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