Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar

Bezirksliga Rhein
Country  Germany
State
Founded 1927
Folded 1933
Replaced by

Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen

Gauliga Baden

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Rhein division

Winners and runners-up of the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar

Season Rhein Saar
1927–28 Waldhof Mannheim FV 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 2 1 1 1 1
VfL Neckarau 2 1 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 2 1 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 4 1 1 1 1
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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