Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar

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Bezirksliga Rhein
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Founded 1927
Folded 1933
Replaced by

Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen

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State
Level on pyramid Level 1
Last champions

Rhein: Waldhof Mannheim

Saar: FK Pirmasens
(1932–33)

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.

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Overview

The league was formed in 1927, from the clubs of the Bezirksliga Rhein and the southern half of the Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar . The clubs from the Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar which did not become part of the new league were added to the new Bezirksliga Main-Hessen instead. While the majority of clubs originated from the Palatinate and the Saarland it also incooperated some clubs from the state of Baden, from the Mannheim area and from the Prussian Rhine Province, from Trier.

Bezirksliga Rhein

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.

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 Main-Hessen

The Bezirksliga Main-Hessen was the highest association football league in the German state of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1927 to 1933. The league was disbanded with the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933.

The league operated from the start in two regional divisions, the Rhein-division, named after the river Rhein and the Saar-division, named after the river of Saar. The first played with eleven, the second with ten clubs in its first season 1927-28. The clubs in each division played each other in a home-and-away round with the division winners advancing to the Southern German championship, which in turn was a qualification tournament for the German championship. A Bezirksliga final was not played.

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Saar (river) river in France and Germany

The Saar is a river in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows northwards into the Moselle near Trier. It has two headstreams, that both start near Mont Donon, the highest peak of the northern Vosges. After 246 kilometres (153 mi) the Saar flows into the Moselle at Konz (Rhineland-Palatinate) between Trier and the Luxembourg border. It has a catchment area of 7,431 square kilometres (2,869 sq mi).

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 second and third placed team in each division qualified for another round, the Bezirksliga runners-up round, to determine one more team which would gain entry to the German finals.

The leagues were reduced to nine teams each in the following season but remained unchanged in modus otherwise. For the 1929-30 season, both divisions then operated on a strength of eight teams, a system that also applied in the following season.

In the 1931-32 season, both divisions expanded in strength to ten teams. The Southern German finals were also reorganised with the top two teams from each division advancing to the Northwest finals group.

In its last season, 1932–33, both divisions operated on a strength of ten clubs.

With the rise of the Nazis to power, the Gauligas were introduced as the highest football leagues in Germany. In the region, the Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen replaced the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar as the highest level of play. The clubs from Mannheim however entered the new Gauliga Baden while the teams from Trier went to the Gauliga Mittelrhein .

Gauliga

A Gauliga was the highest level of play in German football from 1933 to 1945. The leagues were introduced in 1933, after the Nazi takeover of power by the Sports office of the Third Reich.

Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen football league

The Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen was the highest football league in the German state of Hesse,the Bavarian province of Palatinate, the Saarland and some parts of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1933 to 1941. From 1941, it also included parts of the occupied French region of Lorraine. Additionally, the league was from then on divided in the Gauligas Hessen-Nassau and Westmark.

Gauliga Baden

The Gauliga Baden was the highest football league in the German state of Baden from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the Gau Baden replaced the state Baden.

National success

Southern German championship

Qualified teams and their success:

German championship

Qualified teams and their success:

Founding members of the league

The 21 founding members of the league and their positions in the 1926-27 season were:

Saar division

Borussia Neunkirchen association football club

Borussia VfB Neunkirchen is a German association football club based in Neunkirchen, Saarland. The club SC Borussia Neunkirchen was founded out of the 1907 merger of FC 1905 Borussia and SC Neunkirchen.

SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken Sports club in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany

SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken is a German sports association based in Saarbrücken, Saarland. The largest club in the state, it is best known for its athletics department, and also fields an association football team.

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.

Rhein division

VfL Neckarau is a German association football club from the district of Neckarau in the city of Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg.

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).

FV Speyer association football club

FV Speyer was a German association football club from the town of Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier one Oberliga Südwest in 1952 and 1956, spending seven seasons at this level. In the Bundesliga era FV played in the tier two Regionalliga Südwest for six seasons from 1968 to 1974, when the league was disbanded.

Winners and runners-up of the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar

SeasonRheinSaar
1927–28 Waldhof MannheimFV Saarbrücken
1928–29 VfL Neckarau Borussia Neunkirchen
1929–30 Waldhof Mannheim FK Pirmasens
1930–31 Waldhof Mannheim FK Pirmasens
1931–32 Waldhof Mannheim FK Pirmasens
1932–33 Waldhof Mannheim FK Pirmasens

Placings in the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar 1927-33

Rhein division

Club 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
Waldhof Mannheim 1 21111
VfL Neckarau 21 2 3 2 3
VfR Mannheim 3 3 4 6 4 5
Ludwigshafener FG 4 8
Phönix Ludwigshafen 5 5 3 2 3 2
MFC Lindenhof 6 7 7 5 8 8
SpVgg Sandhofen 7 4 5 7 6 6
Pfalz Ludwigshafen 8 9
FV Speyer 9
Phönix Mannheim 10
Germania Friedrichsfeld 11
SpVgg Mundenheim 6 6 4 5 7
FG Rohrbach 8
SG Kirchheim 8 10
Amicitia Viernheim 7 4
SV Sandhausen 9
Germania Friedrichsfeld 9
VfR Kaiserslautern 10

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

Saar division

Club 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
FV Saarbrücken 1 5 3 2 2 5
Borussia Neunkirchen 21 4 4 7 3
Saar 05 Saarbrücken 3 3 6 5 5 8
1. FC Idar 4 2 7 3 6 6
FK Pirmasens 5 41111
Sportfreunde Saarbrücken 6 7 2 6 3 4
VfR Pirmasens 7 6 5 7 9
FC Kreuznach 8 9
SV Trier 9
Eintracht Trier 10 7
SV Saarbrücken 8 8 10
VfR Kaiserslautern 8
VfB Dillingen 8
1. FC Kaiserslautern 4 2
Westmark Trier 10
SV Völklingen 9

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

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