The 1960–61 Oberliga was the sixteenth season of the Oberliga, the first tier of the
football league system
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in
West Germany
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. The league operated in five regional divisions,
Berlin
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,
North
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,
South
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,
Southwest
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and
West
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. The five league champions and the runners-up from the west, south, southwest and north then entered the 1961 German football championship which was won by 1. FC Nürnberg. It was 1. FC Nürnberg's eighth
national championship
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and its first since
1948
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A similar-named league, the
DDR-Oberliga
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Overview
Following World War II, separate sports competitions emerged in the Allied-occupied G ...
, existed in
East Germany
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ASK Vorwärts Berlin
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, after which the league reverted to the traditional autumn-spring format and held its next season in 1961–62 .
Oberliga Nord
The 1960–61 season saw two new clubs in the league,
VfB Oldenburg
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History
Founded by a gro ...
and Heider SV, both promoted from the Amateurliga. The league's top scorer was
Uwe Seeler
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of Hamburger SV with 29 goals, the highest total for any scorer in the five Oberligas in 1960–61.
Amateurliga Berlin
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. The league's top scorer was Helmut Faeder of Hertha BSC Berlin with 17 goals.
The 1960–61 season saw two new clubs in the league, Jahn Regensburg and
SV Waldhof Mannheim
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, both promoted from the 2. Oberliga Süd. The league's top scorer were
Rudolf Brunnenmeier
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Career ...
, TSV 1860 München, and
Erwin Stein
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Borussia Dortmund
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in the final. The runners-up of the Oberliga Süd and Südwest played a pre-qualifying match. The remaining eight clubs then played a home-and-away round in two groups of four. The two group winners then advanced to the final.Das Finale der Deutschen Meisterschaft 1960/1961
Fussballdaten.de
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The website offers statistics on every Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga
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, accessed: 15 December 2015
Qualifying
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