Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
The southwest regional division was the second tier of German football from 1963 - there were 5 different districts, with some sort of playoff system at the end of each season to find 2 teams to promote. Mainz won the division in 1973 but missed out on returning to the top flight, where they had been until 1963. I still tend to agree that they were a pretty decent name in German football at the time.
The Oberliga Südwest was the highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1945 until 1963. It covered the two states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.

I've learnt more about the German league in the last hour than in my entire life