1950–51 Oberliga

The 1950–51 Oberliga was the sixth season of the Oberliga, the first tier of the football league system in West Germany. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and the runners-up from the south, north and west then entered the 1951 German football championship which was won by 1. FC Kaiserslautern. It was 1. FC Kaiserslautern's first-ever national championship.

Oberliga
Season1950–51
ChampionsHamburger SV
Tennis Borussia Berlin
FC Schalke 04
1. FC Kaiserslautern
1. FC Nürnberg
RelegatedFC Altona 93
VfB Oldenburg
Itzehoer SV
VfB Britz
BFC Südring
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
Borussia München-Gladbach
Duisburger SV
ASV Landau
SpVgg Andernach
FC Singen 04
SSV Reutlingen
German champions1. FC Kaiserslautern
1st German title
Top goalscorerHerbert Wojtkowiak
(40 goals)

The 1950–51 season was the first without clubs from East Berlin in the Oberliga, with VfB Pankow and Union Oberschöneweide having left the league, the latter to be replaced by the West Berlin club Union 06 Berlin, formed by former Oberschöneweide players who had moved to the West. It was also the last without the clubs from the Saar Protectorate, which had left the West German league system in 1948, but returned in 1951–52, with 1. FC Saarbrücken and Borussia Neunkirchen rejoining the Oberliga Südwest. Eventually, on 1 January 1957, the Saar Protectorate would officially join West Germany, ending the post-Second World War political separation of the territory from the other parts of Germany.

A similar-named league, the DDR-Oberliga, existed in East Germany, set at the first tier of the East German football league system. The 1950–51 DDR-Oberliga was won by BSG Chemie Leipzig.

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