Bezirksliga Rhein

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Bezirksliga Rhein
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Founded 1923
Folded 1927
Replaced by Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar
CountryFlag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg  Germany
State
Level on pyramid Level 1
Last champions VfL Neckarau
(1926–27)

The Bezirksliga Rhein was the highest association football league in the northern part of the German state of Baden and the Bavarian region of Palatinate from 1923 to 1927, when the league was replaced by the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar .

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Overview

The league was formed in 1923, after a league reform which was decided upon in Darmstadt, Hesse. [1] It replaced the Kreisliga Odenwald and the Kreisliga Pfalz as the highest leagues in the region.

Darmstadt Place in Hesse, Germany

Darmstadt is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area. Darmstadt had a population of around 157,437 at the end of 2016. The Darmstadt Larger Urban Zone has 430,993 inhabitants.

Hesse State in Germany

Hesse or Hessia, officially the State of Hesse, is a federal state (Land) of the Federal Republic of Germany, with just over six million inhabitants. The state capital is Wiesbaden; the largest city is Frankfurt am Main.

Kreisliga Odenwald

The Kreisliga Odenwald was the highest association football league in the northern part of the German state of Baden and the southern part of the state of Hesse from 1919 to 1923. The league was disbanded with the introduction of the Bezirksliga Rhein in 1923.

The Bezirksliga Rhein, named after the river Rhine (German: Rhein), started out with eight teams, playing each other in a home-and-away round with the league winner advancing to the Southern German championship, which in turn was a qualification tournament for the German championship.

Rhine river in Western Europe

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Southern German football championship German association football championship

The Southern German football championship was the highest association football competition in the South of Germany, established in 1898. The competition was disbanded in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis to power.

The league modus remained unchanged for its first three seasons, 1923–24, 1924–25 and 1925-26. For its last edition however, it expanded to ten clubs. Additionally, the leagues runners-up also qualified for a "consolidation" round with the other runners-up of the southern Bezirksligas. The winner of this round was awarded the third entry spot for the south to the German finals.

In an attempt to bring all Southern German leagues to a similar system, the Bezirksligas were reorganised in 1927. For the Bezirksliga Rhein, this meant, it joined with the southern clubs of the Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar to form the new Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar . In practice, this meant little change for the league as the new Bezirksliga was immediately sub-divided into two independent, regional divisions. Out of the ten clubs in the league, eight went to the new Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar - Rhein division, only the FK Pirmasens found itself grouped into the Saar division of the new league while the SV Darmstadt 98 went to the new Bezirksliga Main-Hessen .

Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar

The Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar was the highest association football league in the German state of Saarland, the Rheinhessen part of the state of Hesse and parts of the Bavarian region of Palatinate and the Prussian Rhine Province from 1923 to 1927, when the league was replaced by the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar and the Bezirksliga Main-Hessen.

Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar

The Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar was the highest association football league in the German state of Saarland, the Bavarian region of Palatinate and the northernmost part of Baden from 1927 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933.

FK Pirmasens association football club

FK Pirmasens is a German association football club in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team was formed as the football section of the gymnastics and sports club TV Pirminia Pirmasens in 1903 and became independent in 1914. They took on their current name in 1925. FK is one of the few teams that uses the German Klub in their name as opposed to the commonly affected English-style term Club.

National success

Southern German championship

Qualified teams and their success:

German championship

Qualified teams and their success:

Founding members of the league

The league was formed from eight teams:

VfR Mannheim association football club

VfR Mannheim is a 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 national title in 1949 with a victory over Borussia Dortmund. They have played through most of its recent history as an unheralded local amateur side and were, until 2015, part of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (V).

Winners and runners-up of the Bezirksliga Rhein

SeasonChampionsRunners-Up
1923–24 Waldhof Mannheim VfR Mannheim
1924–25 VfR Mannheim Phönix Lugwigshafen
1925–26 VfR Mannheim Phönix Lugwigshafen
1926–27 VfL Neckarau VfR Mannheim

Placings in the Bezirksliga Rhein 1923 to 1927

Club 1924 1925 1926 1927
Waldhof Mannheim 1 3 4 4
VfR Mannheim 211 2
Phönix Ludwigshafen 3 2 2 3
FK Pirmasens 4 5 8 5
Pfalz Ludwigshafen 5 8
VfTuR Feudenheim 6 7
Ludwigshafener FG 7 5 7
Phönix Mannheim 8 10
VfL Neckarau 4 31
SV Darmstadt 98 6 6 6
SpVgg Mannheim 7
FV Speyer 8
SpVgg Sandhofen 9

Source: "Bezirksliga Rhein". Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv. Retrieved 2008-07-26. 

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References

  1. ↑ History of the Offenburger Fußballverein Archived March 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine . (in German) Page 5, accessed: 23 July 2008

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