West Germany. When the season started there were still two states, BRD and DDR, then in mid-season unification happened and at the end of the season Germany was one – but not in football yet, so the old championships remained, there was still DDR national team playing and the next season was still going to be separate somewhat. Players, however, moved freely from East German to West German clubs, not in flocks, but whoever was highly talented moved West. So, the West German system remained intact at the end of this season, including league movements for the next season.
A glimpse at the West German lower levels, the regional ones – only a pictorial fragment. Little known clubs, most of them, but also some recognizable names.
SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg
FV Offenburg
VfB Bad Rappena
Blumenthaler
FSV Frankfurt
SV Sandhausen
Wormatia (Worms). Top row from left: Masseur Panosiadis Choudalakes, Markus Braden, Manuel Padilla, Milos Ljusic, Heinz-Jürgen Schlösser, Stefan Steinmetz, Jürgen Klotz.
Middle row: Liga-Obmann Jürgen Krafczyck, Zeugwart Günter Reinhardt, Rainer Heilmann, Bernd Eck, Günter Braun, Jürgen Goschler, Co-Trainer Peter Klag, Trainer Dr. Stefan Lottermann, Geschäftsführender Vorsitzender Manfred Brassen.
Sitting: Slavko Klappan, Stefan Glaser, Frank Schuster, Armin Reichel, Günter Knecht, Marc Bals, Frank Spölgen, Marc Schall, Präsident Helmut Rödler.
Kickers (Offenbach)
TSV 1860 (Munich). Top row from left: Ralph Müller-Gesser, Markus Wolf, Martin Spanring, Jürgen Wolke, Norbert Rolshausen, Horst Schmidbauer, Reiner Maurer.
Middle row: Trainer Willi Bierofka, Co-Trainer Zittl, Roland Kneißl, Stephan Beckenbauer, Bernhard Meisl, Walter Hainer, Srdjan Colakovic, Masseure Hodrius und Lebmeier.
Front: Stephan Windsperger, Reinhold Breu, Andreas Wächter, Markus Lach, Bobby Dekeyser, Andreas Geyer, Albert Gröber, Armin Störzenhofecker.
Of course, the regional champions are important here – 9 of them, 5 in the North and 4 in the South, which played final promotion tournaments and the top 2 in them got promoted to the Second Division.
The Northern champions were:
Oberliga Nordrhein: Wupertaller SV; Oberliga Westfalen: Arminia (Bielefeld); Oberliga Berlin: Reinickerndirfer Füchse; Oberliga Nord (1st): VfB Oldenburg; Oberliga Nord (2nd): TSV Havelse.
The Southern champions:
Oberliga Bayern: 1.FC Schweinfurt 05; Oberliga Hessen:
Rot-Weiss (Frankfurt),
Oberliga Baden-Wurttemberg: SSV Reutlingen; Oberliga Sudwest: FSV Mainz 05.
In the South promotion earned:
FSV Mainz 05 and
1. FC Schweinfurt 05.
In the North, Arminia (Bielefeld) failed to win promotion. The promoted teams were:
TSC Havelse and
VfB Oldenburg.
Good luck to the newly promoted in the Second Division next season.
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