Amateur-Oberliga Berlin


The Amateur-Oberliga Berlin was the second tier of the German football league system in the city of West Berlin in Germany from 1947 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, operating under the name of Amateurliga Berlin. After 1963, it was the third tier until 1991, when the league was disbanded. In 1974, the league changed its name from Amateurliga Berlin to Amateur-Oberliga Berlin.

Overview

The league was formed under the name of Amateurliga Berlin in 1947 as the second tier of play in the then still united city of Berlin, below the "old" Oberliga Berlin.
The league operated with two groups in the 1947-48 season, split into four groups the year after, returned to two in 1949-50 and run in one single group from then onwards. After this season, the East Berlin clubs left the Berlin league system to join that of East Germany instead.
It consisted of twelve teams from 1950, with the two first placed clubs gaining promotion to the Oberliga and the two bottom placed teams being relegated to the Landesliga. The number of clubs was extended to fifteen in 1952, with a third team being relegated from then on. In 1959, the number of clubs was extended to sixteen.
With the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963, the "old" Oberliga Berlin was disbanded and the new second-tier Regionalliga Berlin became the highest league in the city of West-Berlin, absorbing most of its clubs. Three clubs from the Amateurliga Berlin were admitted to the new Regionalliga in 1963, these being the Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin, Union 06 Berlin and Reinickendorfer Füchse.
The league continued with sixteen clubs and three relegated teams but only one promotion spot now to the Regionalliga. With the enlargement of the Regionalliga in 1965, six clubs from the Amateurliga were admitted and a second promotion spot was granted to the league from then on. In 1969, a seventeenth club was added, the year after an eighteenth.
With the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga Nord and the disbanding of the Regionalliga Berlin in 1974, the Amateurliga became the highest league in Berlin, still as the third tier of the German league system. Nine of the twelve clubs from the Regionalliga went to the Amateurliga which meant that the Amateurliga clubs placed ninth to eighteens were relegated to the Landesliga to keep the number of teams in the league to eighteen. With the reorganization of the Regionalligas in 1974, the league was renamed Amateur-Oberliga Berlin.
From 1974, the champions of the Amateurliga had to take part in a promotion play-off to determine the teams promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. In 1976, the league was reduced to sixteen clubs. Unlike the other Oberliga champions, the winner of the Berlin league was not directly promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga after this but had to play out a series against the runners-up of the Oberliga Nord, which they lost both times, in 1979 and 1980.
The inception of a single 2nd Bundesliga in 1981 meant no team was promoted from the Oberligas that year and after 1981, the Oberliga Berlin champion had to play-off with the winners of the Oberligas Nord, Westfalen and Nordrhein.
With the German reunion came the reorganization of the football in former East Germany. The Oberliga Berlin was disbanded and its clubs spread between the NOFV-Oberligas Nord and Mitte. The teams placed fifteens and sixteenth went to the new Verbandsliga Berlin.

League champions

The league champions:
SeasonClubClubClubClub
1947–48Minerva 93 BerlinSV Lichtenberg 47Viktoria 89 Berlin
1948–49Hertha BSC BerlinSC Tasmania 1900 BerlinVfB BritzVfL Nord
1949–50SV Lichtenberg 47Minerva 93 Berlin


Source:

Placings in the league 1963 to 1991

The complete list of clubs in the league and their final placings:
Club64656667686970717273747576777879808182838485868788899091
Hertha BSCBBRLRLRLBBBBBBBBBBBB2B2BB2B2B2B112B2BB
Blau-Weiß 90 BerlinRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRL44715131612B2BB2B2B2B2B
Tennis Borussia BerlinRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLB2BB2B2B2B2B13212B22831
Türkiyemspor Berlin5582
Hertha ZehlendorfRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRL210671542254348223
Spandauer SVRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRL12B3312910711113687374
Reinickendorfer FüchseRLRLRLRLRLRL7108557849911259354103115
Hertha BSC II 23111822644710841110696
Spandauer BC88151610116813111210996913117
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin II14168
Wacker 04 BerlinRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRL2B2B2B12B31544129
BFC Preußen31RLRL712211458145911101410
SC Charlottenburg312B211615411
SC Gatow22RL91514915121111131712
VfB Lichterfelde 3513
Marathon Berlin14
Rapide Wedding1171RLRLRLRLRLRLRLRL661212111014131213131314121315
Tasmania Berlin 1RLRLBRLRLRLRLRLRLRL91413783691016
SC Siemensstadt715
Frohnauer SC16
Traber FC Mariendorf171251367825101117
TSV Rudow141216
VfB Sperber Neukölln9121110154151412715
Lichterfelder SU 366RLRL145286461071216
FV Brandenburg-Lichterfelde 3131615
TuS Makkabi Berlin79614
Lichtenrader BC 25591415
SC Westend 012RL338881411141516
Neuköllner Sportfreunde161RL2RL131738101415
SC Union 06 BerlinRL9157416310819447121616
Preußen Wilmersdorf111615
BSC Rehberge Berlin11161716
BFC Viktoria 18891RLRL1557661216
Tennis Borussia Berlin II1557577955101015
Hellas Nordwest8141312121013813119131316
BSV 1892 BerlinRLRLRLRLRLRLRL1RLRLRL511111415
Rot-Weiß Neukölln2RL1516
Polizei SV Berlin1215126512101668311915
Wacker Siemensstadt8101216
SC Staaken55RLRL1RLRLRL3611414
BBC Südost3471RL1315
1. FC Neukölln101RLRLRLRLRLRLRLRLRL1218
Kickers 1900 Berlin982RLRLRLRL151413616
Alemannia 90 Berlin33RLRL1RLRLRLRL17
BFC SüdringRLRLRLRLRLRL45910218
RFC Alt-Holland412
TuS Wannsee6841RLRLRL913
SC Südwest139713131412111414
Meteor 06 Berlin711552RLRL2RL1218
SC Tegel43RL136769416
SC des Westens 971517
VfL Nord Berlin14843RL2RL1218
BFC Nordstern3127101068616
Normannia 08 Berlin18
VfB Hermsdorf134RLRLRL1517
Hertha 06 Berlin1011111117
VfL Schöneberg14916
Tasmania 1900 Berlin II *4216
Minerva Berlin1614
VfB Pankow1016

Founding members of the Amateurliga Berlin

The first proper season of the Amateurliga Berlin took place in 1950, after the East German clubs had left and the league was reduced to one group only. The founder members of this league were:
  • VfL Nord Berlin
  • BFC Nordstern
  • VfL Schöneberg
  • Hertha Zehlendorf
  • Frohnauer SC
  • Steglitzer SC Südwest
  • SC Tegel
  • SC Charlottenburg
  • SC Staaken
  • BSC Rehberge Berlin
  • Alemannia 06 Haselhorst
  • Hakoah Berlin

    Disbanding of the Oberliga Berlin

The league was disbanded in 1991, its clubs spread between the new NOFV-Oberligas Mitte and Nord and the Verbandsliga Berlin.
To the NOFV-Oberliga Nord:
  • Tennis Borussia Berlin
  • Spandauer SV
  • Reinickendorfer Füchse
  • Spandauer BC
  • Wacker 04 Berlin
  • BFC Preußen Berlin
To the NOFV-Oberliga Mitte:
  • Hertha BSC Berlin II
  • Türkiyemspor Berlin
  • VfB Lichterfelde
  • Hertha Zehlendorf
  • Türkspor Berlin
  • NSC Marathon 02
  • SC Charlottenburg
  • Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin II
  • SC Gatow
  • FV Wannsee
To the Verbandsliga Berlin:
  • Rapide Wedding
  • SV Tasmania 73 Neukölln
The Berlin-Liga is now the highest league in the city of Berlin. The NOFV-Oberliga Mitte existed for only three seasons, then its clubs were spread between the other two NOFV-Oberligas, Nord and Süd. All clubs on this level based in Berlin now play in the northern group.
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