Football league season
Map of the five German Oberligas 1945 to 1963
The 1960–61 Oberliga was the sixteenth season of the Oberliga , the first tier of the football league system in West Germany . The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin , North , South , Southwest and West . The five league champions and the runners-up from the west, south, southwest and north then entered the 1961 German football championship which was won by 1. FC Nürnberg . It was 1. FC Nürnberg's eighth national championship and its first since 1948 .[ 2]
A similar-named league, the DDR-Oberliga , existed in East Germany , set at the first tier of the East German football league system . The 1960 DDR-Oberliga was won by ASK Vorwärts Berlin , after which the league reverted to the traditional autumn-spring format and held its next season in 1961–62 .[ 3]
Oberliga Nord
The 1960–61 season saw two new clubs in the league, VfB Oldenburg and Heider SV , both promoted from the Amateurliga. The league's top scorer was Uwe Seeler of Hamburger SV with 29 goals, the highest total for any scorer in the five Oberligas in 1960–61.[ 1]
Source:
RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(R) Relegated
Oberliga Berlin
The 1960–61 season saw two new clubs in the league, Kickers 1900 Berlin and BFC Südring , both promoted from the Amateurliga Berlin . The league's top scorer was Helmut Faeder of Hertha BSC Berlin with 17 goals.[ 1]
Source:
RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(R) Relegated
Oberliga West
The 1960–61 season saw two new clubs in the league, SV Sodingen and TSV Marl-Hüls , both promoted from the 2. Oberliga West . The league's top scorer was Jürgen Schütz of Borussia Dortmund with 27 goals.[ 1]
Source:
RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(R) Relegated
Oberliga Südwest
The 1960–61 season saw two new clubs in the league, TuS Neuendorf and SV Niederlahnstein , both promoted from the 2. Oberliga Südwest . The league's top scorer was Josef Christ of Sportfreunde Saarbrücken with 25 goals.[ 1]
Source:
RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(R) Relegated
Oberliga Süd
The 1960–61 season saw two new clubs in the league, Jahn Regensburg and SV Waldhof Mannheim , both promoted from the 2. Oberliga Süd . The league's top scorer were Rudolf Brunnenmeier , TSV 1860 München, and Erwin Stein , Eintracht Frankfurt, with 23 goals each.[ 4]
Source:
RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(C) Champions;
(R) Relegated
German championship
The 1961 German football championship was contested by the nine qualified Oberliga teams and won by 1. FC Nürnberg , defeating Borussia Dortmund in the final. The runners-up of the Oberliga Süd and Südwest played a pre-qualifying match. The remaining eight clubs then played a home-and-away round in two groups of four. The two group winners then advanced to the final.[ 5]
Qualifying
Group 1
Source:
RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Group 2
Source:
RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Final
References
Sources
30 Jahre Bundesliga (in German) 30th anniversary special, publisher: kicker Sportmagazin , published: 1993
kicker-Almanach 1990 (in German) Yearbook of German football, publisher: kicker Sportmagazin , published: 1989, ISBN 3-7679-0297-4
DSFS Liga-Chronik seit 1945 (in German) publisher: DSFS , published: 2005
100 Jahre Süddeutscher Fußball-Verband (in German) 100 Years of the Southern German Football Federation, publisher: SFV, published: 1997
External links
Domestic leagues Domestic cups League cups UEFA competitions Non-UEFA competitions