Football league 1996/97

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Oberliga 1996/97
Geographical division of the major leagues for the 1996/97 season
← Oberliga 1995/96
↑ Regionalliga 1996/97
21 association and national leagues of
the national associations with
a total of 27 relays ↓

The 1996/97 season of the Oberliga was the third season of the Oberliga as the fourth highest division in football in Germany after the introduction of the initially four-track - later three- and two-track - Regionalliga as the third highest division for the 1994/95 season.

Major Leagues

Promotion to the regional league

North

The runners-up of the Lower Saxony / Bremen seasons, SV Arminia Hannover , and Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein, Heider SV , played the third promoted team in the Regionalliga Nord in two games after the end of the season . The first leg in Hanover ended in a goalless draw before the Hanoverians clearly won the second leg in Heide 4-0 and secured promotion to the Regionalliga.

total First leg (1.6.) Second leg (8/8)
SV Arminia Hanover 4-0 Heider SV 0-0 4: 0 (0: 0)

Northeast

The table runners-up in the north seasons, the amateurs from Hansa Rostock , and south, Dresdner SC , played the third promoted team in the Regionalliga Nordost in two games after the season ended . The first leg in Rostock ended with a narrow 1-0 win for the hosts, and the Rostock team also won the second leg in Dresden.

total First leg Return leg
Hansa Rostock amateurs 2-0 Dresdner SC 1-0 1-0

south

The runners-up of the Oberligen Hessen , Kickers Offenbach , Baden-Württemberg , 1. FC Pforzheim , and the Bayernliga , FC Memmingen , played another promoted player in the Regionalliga Süd in two rounds in knockout mode . FC Memmingen received a bye for the first round.

In the first round, Kickers Offenbach won against 1. FC Pforzheim on penalties on a neutral spot in Mannheim's Rhein-Neckar Stadium and reached the second round.

Result (5/30)
1. FC Pforzheim 2: 2 n.V.
(1: 2 n. E.) 		Kickers Offenbach

The game of the second round between Memmingen and Offenbach also took place on a neutral pitch in Mannheim's Rhein-Neckar Stadium. Due to the complete failure of the floodlights in the 89th minute of the game when the score was 3: 2 for FC Memmingen, the match was canceled after a 40-minute interruption at the urging of the police.

Result (6.6.)
Kickers Offenbach 2: 3 (0: 2)
(cancel) 		FC Memmingen

Since the demolition game had not been properly ended by the referee, a replay was scheduled four days later, which took place in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart . Offenbach won 2-0 and was promoted to the regional league.

Result (10.6.)
Kickers Offenbach 2: 0 (0: 0) FC Memmingen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Gieselmann : Offenbach vs. Memmingen 1997: "Suddenly we were sitting in the dark". Der Spiegel , 2007, accessed February 11, 2013 .