| Oberliga Südhannover/Braunschweig |
|---|
| Südkreisliga |
| Founded |
| 1921 |
| Disbanded |
| 1933 |
| Nation |
 Weimar Republic |
 |
| State |
 Province of Hanover |
 Free State of Brunswick |
| Number of Seasons |
| 11 |
| Replaced by |
| Gauliga Niedersachsen |
| Level on Pyramid |
| Level 1 |
| Last Champions 1932–33 |
| SV Arminia Hannover |
TheOberliga Südhannover/Braunschweig, also known asSüdkreisliga andBezirksliga Südhannover/Braunschweig at various points,[1] was one of severalfirst tierassociation football leagues inGermany from 1921 to 1933. The league covered theFree State of Brunswick and the southern part of thePrussianProvince of Hanover.
Until 1920 various local championships were played in the area of theNorthern German Football Association. For the 1920–21 season, the number of first level leagues was greatly reduced to just twoVerbandsligas: a northern group coveringHamburg and the PrussianProvince of Schleswig-Holstein, and a southern group covering Brunswick,Bremen and the Province of Hanover.[2] However, after just one season the leagues were split-up again into several smallerBezirksligas to save costs duringhyperinflation.[3] Among those, theSüdkreisliga (later:Bezirksliga Südhannover/Braunschweig) covered the area of Brunswick and the southern part of the Province of Hanover.[4] From 1922 until 1928 theSüdkreisliga played in two groups, with the winners of each group playing each other for the championship. The champions, and since 1922–23 also the runners-up, qualified for theNorthern German football championship.
In the 1928–29 season no regular league matches were played in Northern Germany due to a conflict between the clubs and the Northern German FA. Some major clubs demanded the creation of a single, unified top-level league in Northern Germany, while smaller clubs feared to be left out. While some of the bigHamburg andSchleswig-Holstein clubs, includingHamburger SV,Holstein Kiel, andAltona 93, formed a rebel league, most clubs in the southern parts of Northern Germany sat out the season.[5][6] In the end six Northern GermanOberligas were formed as a compromise for the 1929–30 season. TheOberliga Südhannover/Braunschweig covered the same area as the oldBezirksliga, but from 1929 on was again played as a single division without groups. The top four of the Oberliga Südhannover/Braunschweig qualified for the Northern German football championship.
With the rise of theNazis to power, theGauligas were introduced as the highest level of football in Germany. In 1933, the Oberliga Südhannover/Braunschweig was therefore merged into the newGauliga Niedersachsen.
| Season | Winner | Runner-up |
| 1921–22 | SV Arminia Hannover | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 1922–23 | SV Arminia Hannover | Eintracht Hannover |
| 1923–24 | Eintracht Braunschweig | SV Arminia Hannover |
| 1924–25 | Eintracht Braunschweig | SV Arminia Hannover |
| 1925–26 | SV Arminia Hannover | Hannoverscher SC |
| 1926–27 | Hannover 96 | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 1927–28 | Hannover 96 | Hannoverscher SC |
| 1928–29 | not held | |
| 1929–30 | Hannover 96 | SV Arminia Hannover |
| 1930–31 | SV Arminia Hannover | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 1931–32 | SV Arminia Hannover | Eintracht Braunschweig |
| 1932–33 | SV Arminia Hannover | SV Algermissen 11 |
| Club | 1922 | 19232 | 19242 | 19252 | 19262 | 19272 | 19282 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV Arminia Hannover | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Eintracht Braunschweig | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Hannoverscher SC1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Hannover 96 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| Eintracht Hannover | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| VfB Peine | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| SpVgg. Hildesheim 07 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Sport Rot-Weiß Hannover1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| VfB Braunschweig | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| BV Werder Hannover | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | |||
| Germania Wolfenbüttel | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | |||||||
| Goslarer SC 08 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 10 | |||||
| Viktoria Burgdorf | 8 | ||||||||||
| Niedersachsen Döhren | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| SV Borussia 11 Hannover | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | |||||||
| MTV Wolfenbüttel | 8 | ||||||||||
| Lehrter SV | 5 | 8 | |||||||||
| RSV Hildesheim 06 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||||
| Leu Braunschweig | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | |||
| SV Linden | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | |||||||
| VfL Helmstedt | 7 | 7 | 8 | ||||||||
| Concordia Hildesheim | 5 | 4 | 9 | ||||||||
| SpVgg. Hannover 97 | 3 | 7 | 9 | ||||||||
| SV Hötensleben | 8 | 8 | |||||||||
| SV Algermissen 11 | 2 |
Source:Fußball in der Region Braunschweig. 60 Jahre NFV-Bezirk Braunschweig (2006)(in German), publisher: NFV-Bezirk Braunschweig, pages: 84–88