West Germany. The Bundesliga was in its 20th season. Time flies, it was becoming a league of maturity. The occasion celebrated, of course, and there was the team of the Bundesliga Stars.
Not everything was a venerable veteran, though – Udo Lattek was still active coach. Was it the best of the best? There is never such team, for one or another reason – one can object to the inclusion of Bernard, Konietzka, and Volkert, for instance. Netzer isn’t here. But no matter, one can easily see what kind of players graced the Bundesliga and if some huge German names were not included, the reason is that had little or no impact on the Bundesliga, for they were either too old to play in it (Fritz Walter, for example), or spent their careers elsewhere (Haller and Schnelinger played mostly in Italy). But celebration is a momentary occasion, the season is the long and important reality.
Down in the semi-professional third level, the vast world of regional leagues had its winners and they went to the play-offs for promotion to Second Division. 4 teams going up and they were at the end:
VfR Burstadt,
Blau-Weiss,
FC St. Pauli, and
FC Homburg.