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11 unusual facts about Oberliga


1970–71 DDR-Oberliga

Dresden's Hans-Jürgen Kreische became the top scorer of the competition, scoring 17 goals.

2002–03 Regionalliga

Five teams were due to be relegated, but Stuttgarter Kickers and Sportfreunde Siegen were repreived because two of the relegated teams from the 2. Bundesliga, SSV Reutlingen and SV Waldhof Mannheim, could not achieve a Regionalliga license, and dropped another level, to the Oberliga.

Benedikt Höwedes

Until October 2007, however, he only played for Schalke's second team in the Oberliga (fourth division).

Bernd Stumpf

Bernd Stumpf (* 16. June 1940 in Jena) is a football referee from Jena who served as a match official in the first division DDR-Oberliga of the former East Germany.

Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam

From November 2004 to November 2008 he worked as Culture Advisor and Linguist for the US forces in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and from January 2004 to November 2004 he served as a Main Awareness Trainer, Admin and Logistic Officer and Medical Assistant at the Demobilization Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) project of the United Nations in Kabul.

Northern German Football Association

Until 1963, the NFV had the jurisdiction on the Oberliga Nord, the regional division of the former lop level German Oberliga.

Oberliga

DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of football in East Germany until 1990, replaced by the NOFV-Oberliga.

NOFV-Oberliga, replaced the DDR-Oberliga in 1990, now the fifth tier of football in the region.

Regionalliga

The bottom three teams of each division are demoted to their respective Oberliga.

Rocco Milde

At this time, DSC were the top club in Dresden: while Dynamo were being relegated to the Oberliga, Milde helped them to a second-place finish in the Regionalliga in 1999–2000.

Western German Football and Athletics Association

Until 1963, it had the jurisdiction on the Oberliga West, the regional division of the former lop level German Oberliga.


1991 DFB-Supercup

Hansa Rostock had won both the NOFV-Oberliga and the NOFV-Pokal, so the losing cup finalists, Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt, took the fourth place in the competition.

Ice hockey in Germany

The Oberliga was replaced 1958 by the reintroduced Ice Hockey Bundesliga, before 1963 the Deutsche Eishockey-Bund was created, which remained under the umbrella of the Deutschen Eissport-Verbandes.

Neale Marmon

He began his professional football career in Germany with VfL Osnabrück in the German 2. Bundesliga in 1985, having won the Oberliga championship the previous year.

NOFV-Oberliga Nord

The league was formed from clubs from five different leagues: Three clubs from the Oberliga Nordost, the former DDR-Oberliga, eight clubs from the NOFV-Liga, the former East German second division, one club from the Bezirksliga Schwerin, one of the regional leagues of the old East German third league level, one from the Verbandsliga Brandenburg, a new league, and six clubs from the Amateur-Oberliga Berlin, the West-German third division for the city of Berlin.

Rainer Rauffmann

Born in Kleve, North-Rhine Westphalia, Rauffmann moved at the age of 16 to FC Amberg, a local team playing in the German third division, but only managed to stay a season there, before moving to the seventh level.

Ralph Bany

In 1993, he left the Karlsruher SC and changed to the Oberliga club TSF Ditzingen.

SSV Markranstädt

Rudi Glöckner worked as a referee in East Germany's top flight DDR-Oberliga from 1959–1977 and officiated in the final of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.

Tomislav Marić

He was born to Bosnian Croat parents in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg and started his first-team career in 1992 at amateur side SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg from the nearby Ludwigsburg in then third-division Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.

Verbandsliga Südwest

While the Oberliga covers the two states of Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz, the Verbandsliga covers only the southern half of Rheinland-Pfalz.