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What If? Current pre-Bundesliga Oberliga Tables

What if Eusebio hadn’t dismantled Nuremburg in the European Cup in 1962? Or Yugoslavia hadn’t erased the miracle of Berne by sending West Germany home early at the 1962 World Cup? No we probably wouldn’t still have the Oberliga system! But if we did, this is what it would look like currently.

I have done 18 team leagues for West and South as they were the biggest leagues, and still have the most representation down the leagues. For SW, North and East Germany, I did 12 team leagues. Rank by league is the order. (r)=Regionalliga followed by south, west or north and (o)=Oberliga.

Just to note Herr Klinsmann, you cannot use this this table to keep your job.

Oberliga West
1. Bayer Leverkusen (1)
2. Schalke 04 (1)
3. Borussia Dortmund (1)
4. FC Köln (1)
5. Arminia Bielefeld (1)
6. VfL Bochum (1)
7. Borussia Mönchengladbach (1)
8. Rot-Weiss Ahlen (2)
9. MSV Duisburg (2)
10. Alemannia Aachen (2)
11. Rot-Weiss Oberhausen (2)
12. SC Paderborn 07 (3)
13. Fortuna Düssledorf (3)
14. Wuppertaler SV Borussia (3)
15. Rot-Weiss Essen (rw)
16. Preussen Münster (rw)
17. SC Verl (rw)
18. FC Kleve (rw)

Oberliga Sud (the bold is to shame Mark)
1. TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (1)
2. VfB Stuttgart (1)
3. Bayern Munich (1)
4. Karlsruhe (1)
5. Eintracht Frankfurt (1)
6. SC Freiburg (2)
7. SpVgg Greuther Fürth (2)
8. FC Ingolstadt 04 (2)
9. FSV Frankfurt (2)
10. FC Nuremburg (2)
11. TSV 1860 Munich (2)
12. FC Augsburg (2)
13. SV Wehen Wiesbaden (2)
14. SV Sandhausen (3)
15. SpVgg Unterhaching (3)
16. Kickers Offenbach (3)
17. SV Wachher Burghausen (3)
18. VfR Aalen (3)

Oberliga Nord
1. Hamburg SV (1)
2. Werder Bremen (1)
3. Wolfsburg (1)
4. Hannover 96 (1)
5. VfL Osnabrück (2)
6. St. Pauli (2)
7. Kickers Emden (3)
8. Eintracht Braunschweig (3)
9. Holstein Kiel (rn)
10. SV Wilhelmshaven (rn)
11. VfB Lübeck (rn)
12. FC Oberneuland (rn)

Oberliaga SW
1. FC Kaiserslautern (2)
2. Mainz 05 (2)
3. Tus Koblenz (2)
4. Eintracht Trier (rw)
5. Wormatia Worms (rw)
7. TuS Mechtersheim (o)
8. SV Roachbach Weid 1968 (o)
9. FK Pirmasens (o)
10. FC Saarbrücken (o)
11. FC 08 Homburg Saar (o)
12. SV 1920 Mettlach (o)

Over in East Germany
1. Energie Cottbus (1)
2. Hansa Rostock (2)
3. Rot-Weiss Erfurt (3)
4. Dynamo Dresden (3)
5. FC Erzgerbirge Aue (3)
6. Carl Zeiss Jena (3)
7. SV Babelsberg (rw)
8. Hallescher FC (rw)
9. VFC Plauen (rw)
10. FC Magdeburg (rw)
11. Chemnitzer FC (rw)
12. FC Sachsen Leipzig (rw)

And as for Berlin
1. Hertha
2. Union
3. Turkiyemspor
4. FC Dynamo
5. Tennis Borussia
6. Ankaraspor

Enjoy!

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