Westkreis-Liga

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Last champions FC Phönix Mannheim
(1917–18)

The Westkreis-Liga (English: Western district league) was the highest association football league in the Bavarian region of Palatinate, the northern parts of the Grand Duchy of Baden, the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province and parts of Lorraine from 1908 to 1918. The league was disbanded with the introduction of the Kreisliga Pfalz, Kreisliga Saar and Kreisliga Hessen in 1919.

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History

The league was formed in a move to improve the organisation of football in Southern Germany in the early 1900s. Within the structure of the Southern German football championship, four regional leagues were gradually established from 1908, these being:

Until then, regional leagues had existed which send their champions to the Kreis finals and, from there, the winners went on to the Southern and German championships.

In 1908, the Westkreis-Liga was established, consisting of seven clubs from the Palatinate, playing a home-and-away season, these clubs being: [1]

FC 1900 Kaiserlautern, the first league champion, qualified thereby for the Southern German championship, where it did not impress, finishing last with only one point out of six games. [2]

In its second year, the league expanded to nine clubs, now spanning a wider area and including clubs from Mannheim and Darmstadt. [3] In 1909-10, the league played in an unchanged format, but was reduced to eight clubs for the next season, a format it maintained until 1914.

In the last pre-First World War season, 1913–14, with the SpVgg Metz, a club from Lorraine joined the league. [4]

The war starting in August 1914 meant an end to the league, no championship was played in 1914-15 at all. In the following three seasons, regional leagues operated, like before 1908. A Westkreis championship as well as a Southern German one was played, but no national title games were held. [5]

With the end of the war in November 1918, football came to a halt once more. Lorraine ceased to be a part of Germany and the German football league system, being awarded to France. New leagues started to operate from 1919 and in the parts of the Westkreis still with Germany, the Kreisliga Pfalz, Kreisliga Saar and Kreisliga Hessen were formed. [6]

National success

The Westkreis was one of the weaker regions as football was concerned in this era, taking out no Southern German championships at the time and never qualifying for the German championship.

Southern German championship

Qualified teams and their success:

German championship

None qualified.

Winners and runners-up of the Westkreis-Liga and championship

SeasonWinnerRunner-Up
1908–09FC 1900 KaiserlauternFC Pfalz Ludwigshafen
1909–10Mannheimer FG Union 97FV Kaiserslautern
1910–11Mannheimer FG Union 97Mannheimer FC Viktoria 97
1911–12FC Phönix MannheimFV Kaiserslautern
1912–13VfR MannheimFC Phönix Mannheim
1913–14VfR MannheimFC Phönix Mannheim
1914–15not held
1915–16FC Pfalz LudwigshafenFC Phönix Mannheim
1916–17FC Pfalz LudwigshafenFC Phönix Mannheim
1917–18FC Phönix MannheimFC Alemannia Worms
1918–19not held

Placings in the Westkreis-Liga 1908-14

Club190919101911191219131914
FC 1900 Kaiserlautern 11
FC Pfalz Ludwigshafen 284465
Palatia Kaiserslautern 13
Ludwigshafener FG 03 476536
Germania Ludwigshafen 5997
Revida Ludwigshafen 6
Bavaria Kaiserslautern 17
Mannheimer FG Union 97 211
FV Kaiserslautern 123254
FC Phönix Mannheim 37122
Union VfB Mannheim 97 45
FC Olympia Darmstadt 5868
Mannheimer FC Viktoria 97 262
VfR Mannheim 311
Phönix Ludwigshafen 843
Borussia Neunkirchen 77
SpVgg Metz 38

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References

  1. ↑ Verband Süddeutscher Fussball Vereine 1909 (in German), accessed: 17 May 2009
  2. ↑ Süddeutschlands Fussball in Tabellenform 1897 - 1988, (in German) author: Ludolf Hyll, page: 35, accessed: 17 May 2009
  3. ↑ Verband Süddeutscher Fussball Vereine 1910 (in German), accessed: 17 May 2009 Archived June 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Verband Süddeutscher Fussball Vereine 1914 (in German), accessed: 17 May 2009 Archived February 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Süddeutschlands Fussball in Tabellenform 1897 - 1988, (in German) author: Ludolf Hyll, page: 54-56, accessed: 21 April 2009
  6. ↑ Süddeutschlands Fussball in Tabellenform 1897 - 1988, (in German) author: Ludolf Hyll, page: 62, accessed: 17 May 2009

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