Football league season
Map of the five GermanOberligas 1945 to 1963 The1954–55 Oberliga was the tenth season of theOberliga , the first tier of thefootball league system inWest Germany and theSaar Protectorate . The league operated in five regional divisions,Berlin ,North ,South ,Southwest andWest . The five league champions and the runners-up from the west, south, southwest and north then entered the1955 German football championship which was won byRot-Weiss Essen . It was Essen's solenational championship while, for losing finalist1. FC Kaiserslautern , it was the fourth final it played in five seasons.[ 2] [ 3]
On the strength of this title Rot-Weiss Essen and1. FC Saarbrücken , the best-placed Oberliga team from the Saar Protectorate, participated in thefirst edition of theEuropean Cup , going out toHibernian F.C. in the first round, as did Saarbrücken againstAC Milan .[ 4]
A similar-named league, theDDR-Oberliga , existed inEast Germany , set at the first tier of theEast German football league system . The1954–55 DDR-Oberliga was won bySC Turbine Erfurt .[ 5]
The 1954–55 season saw two new clubs in the league,VfL Wolfsburg andVfB Oldenburg , both promoted from the Amateurliga. The league's top scorer wasGünter Schlegel of Hamburger SV with 30 goals.[ 1]
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The 1954–55 season saw two new clubs in the league,Hertha BSC Berlin andBFC Südring , both promoted from theAmateurliga Berlin . The league's top scorer wasWerner Nocht of Viktoria 89 Berlin with 18 goals.[ 1]
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RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(R) Relegated
The 1954–55 season saw two new clubs in the league,Westfalia Herne andDuisburger SV , both promoted from the2. Oberliga West . The league's top scorer wasHeinz Lorenz of Preußen Dellbrück with 23 goals.[ 1]
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RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
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The 1954–55 season saw two new clubs in the league,Eintracht Bad Kreuznach andSportfreunde Saarbrücken , both promoted from the2. Oberliga Südwest . The league's top scorer wasHerbert Martin of 1. FC Saarbrücken with 27 goals.[ 1]
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RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
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The 1954–55 season saw two new clubs in the league,SSV Reutlingen andSchwaben Augsburg , both promoted from the2. Oberliga Süd . The league's top scorer wasErnst-Otto Meyer of VfR Mannheim with 36 goals, a title he would take out twice more, in 1955–56 and 1958–59.[ 6] Meyer was also the top scorer for all five Oberligas in 1954–55.[ 1]
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RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
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German championship [ edit ] The 1955 German football championship was contested by the nine qualified Oberliga teams and won byRot-Weiss Essen , defeating1. FC Kaiserslautern in the final. The runners-up of the Oberligas, except Berlin, played pre-qualifying matches to determine which three of the four would go on to the group stage. The remaining eight clubs then played a home-and-away round of matches in two groups of four. The two group winners then advanced to the final.[ 7]
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RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
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RSSSF.com Rules for classification: 1) Points;
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
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