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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

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Qualified teams and their success:

1928:
Borussia Neunkirchen, 8th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Saar 05 Saarbrücken, 7th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Ludwigshafener FG, 4th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
VfL Neckarau, 3rd place in theBezirksliga-runners-up round
FV Saarbrücken, 8th place
Waldhof Mannheim, 7th place
1929:
1. FC Idar, 7th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Saar 05 Saarbrücken, 6th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
VfR Mannheim, 3rd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Waldhof Mannheim, 2nd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Borussia Neunkirchen, 8th place
VfL Neckarau, 3rd place
1930:
FV Saarbrücken, 8th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
VfL Neckarau, 7th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Sportfreunde Saarbrücken, 4th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Phönix Ludwigshafen, 2nd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Waldhof Mannheim, 6th place
FK Pirmasens, 4th place
1931:
1. FC Idar, 7th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
VfL Neckarau, 6th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
FV Saarbrücken, 4th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
Phönix Ludwigshafen, Winner of the Bezirksliga-runners-up round, loser division final
FK Pirmasens, 6th place
Waldhof Mannheim, 4th place
1932:
Waldhof Mannheim, 7th place northwest division
FK Pirmasens, 6th place northwest division
FV Saarbrücken, 5th place northwest division
VfL Neckarau, 4th place northwest division
1933:
1. FC Kaiserslautern, 8th place eastwest division
FK Pirmasens, 7th place eastwest division
Phönix Ludwigshafen, 6th place eastwest division
Waldhof Mannheim, 5th place eastwest division




= German championship

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Qualified teams and their success:

1928:
none qualified
1929:
none qualified
1930:
none qualified
1931:
none qualified
1932:
none qualified
1933:
none qualified




Founding members of the league


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




= Saar division

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FV Saarbrücken, Runners-up Bezirksliga Rheinhessen/Saar
Borussia Neunkirchen, 7th Bezirksliga Rheinhessen/Saar
SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken, 9th Bezirksliga Rheinhessen/Saar
1. FC Idar, 6th Bezirksliga Rheinhessen/Saar
FK Pirmasens, 5th Bezirksliga Rhein
Sportfreunde Saarbrücken
VfR Pirmasens
FC Kreuznach
SV Trier
Eintracht Trier, 10th Bezirksliga Rheinhessen/Saar




= Rhein division

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Waldhof Mannheim, 4th Bezirksliga Rhein
VfL Neckarau, Winner Bezirksliga Rhein
VfR Mannheim, Runners-up Bezirksliga Rhein
Ludwigshafener FG, 7th Bezirksliga Rhein
Phönix Ludwigshafen, 3rd Bezirksliga Rhein
MFC Lindenhof
SpVgg Sandhofen, 9th Bezirksliga Rhein
Pfalz Ludwigshafen
FV Speyer, 8th Bezirksliga Rhein
Phönix Mannheim, 10th Bezirksliga Rhein
Germania Friedrichsfeld
All teams without a 1926-27 placing were promoted from the second tier this season.




Winners and runners-up of the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar






Placings in the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar 1927-33






= Rhein division

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




= Saar division

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




References






= Sources

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Fussball-Jahrbuch Deutschland (in German) (8 vol.), Tables and results of the German tier-one leagues 1919-33, publisher: DSFS
Kicker Almanach, (in German) The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine
Süddeutschlands Fussballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897-1988 (in German) History of Southern German football in tables, publisher & author: Ludolf Hyll




External links


The Gauligas (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv
German league tables 1892-1933 (in German) Hirschi's Fussball seiten
Germany - Championships 1902-1945 at RSSSF.com

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• 1. FC Saarbrücken
• Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar
• Bezirksliga Rhein
• 1. FC Saarbrücken
• Bezirksliga Rheinhessen-Saar
• Borussia Neunkirchen
• SV Waldhof Mannheim
• 1. FC Kaiserslautern
• 1932–33 Bezirksliga Bayern
• Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen
• VfR Mannheim