Football Oberliga Südwest 1998/99

Oberliga Südwest 1998/99
master	FK Pirmasens
Climbers	FK Pirmasens , SC 07 Idar-Oberstein
Relegation ↑	FK Pirmasens
Relegation ↓	TSG Pfeddersheim
Relegated	FSG Schiffweiler , SV Mettlach
Teams	18th
Games	306
Gates	908  (ø 2.97 per game)
spectator	122,850  (ø 401 per game)
Top scorer	Eduard Kacaci ( FSG Schiffweiler ; 23 goals)
← Oberliga Südwest 1997/98 Oberliga Südwest 1999/00 →
^ Regionalliga West / Southwest 1998/99 Association and national leagues: Rhineland League Association League Saar Association League Southwest ↓

The 1998/99 season of the Oberliga Südwest was the 21st season of the football Oberliga Südwest since its reintroduction in 1978 and the fifth as the fourth-highest division in Germany. After several negotiations and court rulings, FK Pirmasens was finally awarded the championship with one point ahead of SC 07 Idar-Oberstein at the “ Green Table ”. In a sporting way, Idar-Oberstein first won the championship two points ahead of Pirmasens and qualified for promotion to the Regionalliga West / Südwest . The board of the Regionalliga West / Südwest decided retrospectively that Pirmasens would also be promoted to the Regionalliga.

The two relegated athletes were FSG Schiffweiler and SV Mettlach . The TSG PFEDDERSHEIM participated in a relegation round part against the runner-up of the three state or federation leagues.

The climbers were the amateurs of 1. FSV Mainz 05 from the Association League Southwest , TuS Mayen from the Rhineland League and VfB Theley from the Association League Saar . In a relegation round of the three runners-up, Rot-Weiß Hasborn-Dautweiler from the Saar Association League prevailed against FV Rheinbrohl from the Rhineland League and Southwest Ludwigshafen from the Southwest Association League. Then Hasborn-Dautweiler won against the representative of the Oberliga Südwest, TSG Pfeddersheim. Hasborn thus rose as the fourth club, Pfeddersheim remained despite the defeat in the league. FC 08 Homburg was relegated from the Regionalliga West / Südwest . The Oberliga Südwest played exceptionally with 19 teams in the following season .

The top scorer was Eduard Kacaci from FSG Schiffweiler with 23 goals.

Complaints from FK Pirmasens, TuS Montabaur and SV Adler Osterfeld

Betzdorf Bingen Eisbach valley Halberg Brebach Hamm Hauenstein Idar- Oberstein Koblenz Mettlach Montabaur Neunkirchen Pfeddersheim Pirmasens Prüm Saarbrücken Schiffweiler Wirges Worms

Venues of the Oberliga Südwest in the 1998/99 season

While the SC 07 Idar-Oberstein won the championship of the Oberliga Südwest on May 29, 1999 after the end of the 34th and last match day and thus achieved promotion to the Regionalliga West / Südwest for the 1999/2000 season , FK Pirmasens qualified as Southwest Vice champion behind Idar-Oberstein for a relegation game against the vice champion of the Oberliga Nordrhein , SV Adler Osterfeld . The amateurs of FC Schalke 04 as runners-up in the Oberliga Westfalen had canceled participation due to scheduling reasons.

After a goalless 120 minutes, the FKP lost the promotion game on June 12, 1999 on a neutral pitch in Montabaur's Mons-Tabor Stadium with 3: 4 on penalties against Osterfeld. The victory did not result in promotion for the Osterfelder, the club was a victim of the promotion and relegation regulations at the time. Since the entire four relegation places in the second division season 1998/99 after the end of the 34th matchday on June 17, 1999 with FC Gütersloh , KFC Uerdingen 05 , SG Wattenscheid 09 and Fortuna Düsseldorf with clubs from the Regionalliga West / Südwest occupied and Eintracht Trier had missed promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in the promotion round between June 6 and 19, 1999, only the promotion of the champions from the Oberligen Westphalia, North Rhine and Southwest was planned - in the Oberliga Südwest this was the status Season end at the beginning of June for SC 07 Idar-Oberstein.

On June 30, 1999 it was revealed in an article in the Rhein-Zeitung that the player Dieter Bux from TuS Montabaur was not eligible to play for his club in the previous season due to an invalid contract. The FK Pirmasens who is not in the match of the sixth matchday on 6 September 1998 to his home place with a 2: 2 was also arrived draw against Montabaur, then submitted immediately protest against the validity of the game one. The Legal Council of the Rhineland Football Association then confirmed that there was no valid license to play, as Bux's contract had been terminated shortly after it was signed. The player had nevertheless played for TuS Montabaur.

Pirmasens successfully obtained a temporary injunction before the Kaiserslautern Regional Court ; the 2-2 draw against Montabaur was judged to be a 2-0 success. The remaining points of the Montabaurers were also in the balance, as Bux had also been used in 29 other games, from which the TuS had taken 40 of his 44 points. With the deduction of the points, TuS Montabaur would have been a clear relegation in the Rhineland League. However, a few days later TuS Montabaur got the right before the Koblenz district court that Bux had been allowed to play. The Rhineland Football Association initially appealed against this decision, but shortly afterwards reached an out of court agreement with the club. Bux was only not eligible to play in the away game at FK Pirmasens, but he was allowed to play in all other 29 games. With the 40 points scored there, it was enough to stay in the league.

Chronology of events

date	event
September 6, 1998	Pirmasens and Montabaur parted with a 2-2 draw
May 29, 1999	34th and last day of the Oberliga Südwest
June 6, 1999	Beginning of the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga
June 12, 1999	Promotion game between Pirmasens and Osterfeld (3: 4 n.E.)
June 17, 1999	34th and last day of the 2nd Bundesliga
June 19, 1999	End of the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga
June 30, 1999	Invalidity of Dieter Bux's contract with TuS Montabaur becomes public
	The action of FK Pirmasens is upheld
	The action of TuS Montabaur is upheld
July 30, 1999	Pirmasens is declared a league champion and promoted to the regional league
July 31, 1999	First game day of the Regionalliga West / Südwest
	Idar-Oberstein plays in the first regional league game against Salmrohr
August 1, 1999	Formal admission of Idar-Oberstein to the regional league
August 11, 1999	Pirmasens plays in the first regional league game against Bayer Leverkusen amateurs
September 3, 1999	The action brought by SV Adler Osterfeld is dismissed

Thus there were two closure tables; in one the SC 07 Idar-Oberstein was champion, in the other the FK Pirmasens. The board of the regional football association Southwest decided at a short-term extraordinary meeting one day before the start of the 1999/2000 regional league season to declare FK Pirmasens the champions of the 1998/99 league season. Since originally only 19 teams were supposed to compete, FK Pirmasens was added to the schedule as an opponent of the clubs that were originally planned as free of play. The Pirmasens started the season on the 3rd matchday and made up the first two matchdays.

For SC 07 Idar-Oberstein, this judgment also meant the revocation of the title, which was believed to be safe, and thus also the right to promotion. As a hardship, however, the club was also approved for the regional league on August 1, 1999 during the first day of the match. The game against FSV Salmrohr on the first day of the match was subject to a decision by the association.

The SV Adler Osterfeld remained in the Oberliga despite the success in the promotion game as runner-up in the Oberliga Nordrhein, since the regional league board saw no legal basis for the Osterfelder's request to be accepted into the regional league, as did Idar-Oberstein. The club appealed against this decision, but on September 3, 1999, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court rejected the relevant action.

table

Official final table

The table shows the placements after the valuation of the game between FK Pirmasens and TuS Montabaur (6th matchday; result: 2: 2) with three points and 2: 0 goals in favor of FK Pirmasens.

FK Pirmasens overtook SC 07 Idar-Oberstein, who had been leading up to that point and who was considered the league champions . For Montabaur, the game standings had no effect on the standings. Due to the constellation, it was decided that both Pirmasens and Idar-Oberstein would be promoted to the regional league.

Because there were two promoted teams in the regional league and no relegated teams from the regional league, only two teams, FSG Schiffweiler and SV Mettlach , were relegated directly. Hassia Bingen remained in the top division. The participation of the TSG PFEDDERSHEIM in the relegation round was obsolete.

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
01.	FK Pirmasens	34	22nd	8th	4th	63:22	+41	74
02.	SC 07 Idar-Oberstein	34	23	4th	7th	74:31	+43	73
03.	Borussia Neunkirchen	34	20th	9	5	73:37	+36	69
04th	Eisbachtal sports fans	34	19th	8th	7th	77:33	+44	65
05.	1. FC Saarbrücken II (N)	34	14th	10	10	54:32	+22	52
06th	VfL Hamm / victory	34	12	11	11	46:44	+ 02	47
07th	SpVgg EGC Wirges (N)	34	13	7th	14th	51:61	−10	46
08th.	SC Hauenstein	34	12	9	13	60:57	+ 03	45
09.	TuS Montabaur	34	11	11	12	43:46	- 03	44
10.	SG 06 Betzdorf (N)	34	13	4th	17th	39:65	−26	43
11.	SV Prüm	34	11	9	14th	45:50	- 05th	42
12.	Wormatia Worms (N)	34	11	8th	15th	54:56	- 02nd	41
13.	SC Halberg Brebach	34	12	5	17th	55:63	- 08	41
14th	TuS Koblenz	34	7th	17th	10	38:43	- 05th	38
15th	TSG Pfeddersheim	34	9	9	16	36:50	−14	36
16.	Hassia Bingen	34	8th	11	15th	30:44	−14	35
17th	FSG Schiffweiler	34	10	5	19th	45:87	−42	35
18th	SV Mettlach	34	3	7th	24	25:87	−62	16

Interim final table

The table shows the placements after the evaluation of all games of TuS Montabaur with the participation of the player Dieter Bux with three points and 2-0 goals in favor of the opponent.

FK Pirmasens overtook SC 07 Idar-Oberstein, who had been leading up to that point and who was considered the league champions. The question of promotion was unresolved at this point, as Pirmasens had already completed the relegation games and missed promotion.

Due to the numerous game ratings, Montabaur slipped behind and with only four points to the bottom of the table. The Montabaurers would have been the third relegated team after Schiffweiler and Mettlach. There were also various shifts in the middle of the table, among other things, Hassia Bingen managed to stay in the league after taking the scores into account.

The association finally decided that only those teams would be relegated that had been on a relegation zone after the 34th matchday in both this and the final sporting table.

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
01.	FK Pirmasens	34	22nd	8th	4th	64:22	+42	74
02.	SC 07 Idar-Oberstein	34	23	4th	7th	74:31	+43	73
03.	Borussia Neunkirchen	34	21st	9	4th	74:34	+40	72
04th	Eisbachtal sports fans	34	21st	6th	7th	80:31	+49	70
05.	1. FC Saarbrücken II (N)	34	15th	10	9	54:31	+23	55
06th	SpVgg EGC Wirges (N)	34	15th	5	14th	54:49	+ 05	50
07th	VfL Hamm / victory	34	13	10	11	48:44	+ 04	49
08th.	SG 06 Betzdorf (N)	34	15th	4th	15th	41:57	−16	49
09.	SC Halberg Brebach	34	14th	4th	16	55:59	- 03	46
10.	SC Hauenstein	34	12	9	13	58:56	+ 02	45
11.	SV Prüm	34	12	8th	14th	46:49	- 03	44
12.	TuS Koblenz	34	9	16	9	42:41	+ 01	43
13.	Wormatia Worms (N)	34	12	7th	15th	55:55	± 00	43
14th	Hassia Bingen	34	10	10	14th	34:43	- 09	40
15th	TSG Pfeddersheim	34	10	9	15th	38:45	- 07th	39
16.	FSG Schiffweiler	34	11	5	18th	48:85	−37	38
17th	SV Mettlach	34	4th	6th	24	24:84	−60	18th
18th	TuS Montabaur	34	1	1	32	06:76	−70	04th

Sporty final table

The table shows the placements after the end of the last day of the game, in which the game between FK Pirmasens and TuS Montabaur (6th game day) was rated 2: 2.

In the “athletic final table”, SC 07 Idar-Oberstein was one point ahead of Pirmasens and thus qualified for direct promotion to the regional league. FK Pirmasens qualified for a relegation game against SV Adler Osterfeld , the runner-up in the Oberliga Nordrhein , with a free starting place in the regional league .

In the initial situation of only one direct promoter to the regional league with a simultaneous relegation of a team from the regional league, the last three teams - namely Hassia Bingen, FSG Schiffweiler and SV Mettlach - were relegated. TSG Pfeddersheim qualified for a playoff against one of the association league runners-up for the league's whereabouts.

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
01.	SC 07 Idar-Oberstein	34	23	4th	7th	74:31	+43	73
02.	FK Pirmasens	34	21st	9	4th	63:24	+39	72
03.	Borussia Neunkirchen	34	20th	9	5	73:37	+36	69
04th	Eisbachtal sports fans	34	19th	8th	7th	77:33	+44	65
05.	1. FC Saarbrücken II (N)	34	14th	10	10	54:32	+22	52
06th	VfL Hamm / victory	34	12	11	11	46:44	+ 02	47
07th	SpVgg EGC Wirges (N)	34	13	7th	14th	51:61	−10	46
08th.	SC Hauenstein	34	12	9	13	60:57	+ 03	45
09.	TuS Montabaur	34	11	12	11	45:46	- 01	45
10.	SG 06 Betzdorf (N)	34	13	4th	17th	39:65	−26	43
11.	SV Prüm	34	11	9	14th	45:50	- 05th	42
12.	Wormatia Worms (N)	34	11	8th	15th	54:56	- 02nd	41
13.	SC Halberg Brebach	34	12	5	17th	55:63	- 08	41
14th	TuS Koblenz	34	7th	17th	10	38:43	- 05th	38
15th	TSG Pfeddersheim	34	9	9	16	36:50	−14	36
16.	Hassia Bingen	34	8th	11	15th	30:44	−14	35
17th	FSG Schiffweiler	34	10	5	19th	45:87	−42	35
18th	SV Mettlach	34	3	7th	24	25:87	−62	16

Legend
	Promoted to the Regionalliga West / Southwest
	Participant in the promotion games to the Regionalliga West / Südwest
	Participants in the relegation games to stay in the top division
	Relegated to the association or national leagues
(N)	Promoted from the association or regional league

Crosstab

The crosstab shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column, the visiting team in the top row.

1998/99
FK Pirmasens		4: 1	0: 1	2: 1	2: 1	3-0	2-0	2-0	2: 0 1	3-0	1: 1	2: 2	2-0	2-0	2: 1	2-0	1-0	2-0
SC 07 Idar-Oberstein	1-0		0: 4	1-0	2-0	3: 1	4: 1	2-0	5: 1	1-0	2-0	4: 1	3: 1	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	7-0	2-0
Borussia Neunkirchen	1: 1	0-0		4: 2	1-0	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	3: 1	4: 1	4: 1	5: 1	1-0	3: 2	1-0	2: 1	3: 1	0-0
Eisbachtal sports fans	0-0	4-0	3: 1		1: 3	2: 1	2-0	0: 1	0-0	4-0	0-0	3: 2	3-0	5: 1	4-0	2: 2	1-0	2-0
1. FC Saarbrücken II	2: 1	0: 3	1: 1	0-0		0: 1	1: 2	3: 1	4-0	6-0	1-0	2: 1	2: 2	3: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	0-0
VfL Hamm / victory	1: 2	0: 3	2: 1	0: 2	0-0		1: 2	1: 3	0-0	3-0	4: 5	1: 1	1: 1	0: 1	3: 2	1-0	1: 1	3: 1
SpVgg EGC Wirges	0: 3	3-0	1: 4	2: 4	0: 1	1: 1		5: 2	1: 1	3-0	2-0	1: 6	2: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2-0	6: 3	4-0
SC Hauenstein	1: 1	1: 3	1-0	3: 3	1-0	1: 2	3: 3		4: 1	2: 3	2-0	0: 2	3: 2	1: 1	4-0	3: 3	6-0	3: 1
TuS Montabaur	0: 1	1: 5	2-0	2: 1	1-0	0-0	0-0	4: 2		3-0	1: 2	1: 2	0-0	2-0	4-0	1-0	2-0	2: 4
SG 06 Betzdorf	2: 1	1-0	1: 5	1: 1	0: 2	1: 4	0-0	1: 2	2: 5		1-0	4-0	1: 1	0-0	2-0	3-0	2: 3	2: 1
SV Prüm	1: 1	0: 3	1: 2	1: 5	3: 1	3: 1	4-0	1: 1	1: 1	1-0		1: 3	4: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0: 1	2-0	3: 1
Wormatia worms	0: 2	1: 2	0: 2	2: 2	1: 3	0: 3	1: 1	3: 1	1: 1	0: 1	1: 1		1: 3	0-0	2-0	2-0	5: 3	4-0
SC Halberg Brebach	1: 4	1-0	3: 5	2-0	3: 1	0: 1	3: 1	1: 2	2: 4	1: 2	2: 1	0: 4		3: 4	1: 1	4: 1	2-0	3: 2
TuS Koblenz	0-0	1: 1	2: 2	0: 3	2: 2	1: 1	2: 1	0-0	0-0	2-0	2-0	0-0	1: 2		1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0-0
TSG Pfeddersheim	1: 2	0: 1	2: 2	0: 3	0: 2	0: 2	5: 2	1-0	2: 1	4-0	0: 1	2: 1	2-0	2: 2		0-0	1-0	2-0
Hassia Bingen	1: 1	2: 1	0-0	0: 2	0-0	2: 2	0: 1	2: 1	0-0	0: 2	2-0	0: 1	3-0	2-0	0: 2		0: 3	4: 2
FSG Schiffweiler	2: 4	0: 7	4: 3	1: 4	0: 8	1: 1	3-0	2: 2	1-0	1: 3	2: 5	3: 2	1: 3	0: 2	2: 1	1-0		2: 1
SV Mettlach	0: 5	0: 3	1: 5	1: 8	0: 3	0: 2	2-0	2: 2	1: 1	2: 3	0-0	2: 1	0: 6	0: 5	0-0	0: 1	1: 4

¹ The game between FK Pirmasens and TuS Montabaur (6th matchday; result: 2: 2) was retrospectively rated with three points and 2: 0 goals for Pirmasens, as Montabaur used an ineligible player.

Relegation round to the league

The three runners-up of the Rhineland League , FV Rheinbrohl, Verbandsliga Saar , Rot-Weiß Hasborn-Dautweiler and Verbandsliga Südwest , Südwest Ludwigshafen , first played a single round from a qualifier, who then met a representative of the Oberliga Südwest for another place in the the following season to be awarded.

In the first round, Rot-Weiß Hasborn-Dautweiler prevailed and qualified against the upper league representative TSG Pfeddersheim .

date		Result
22.5.	Southwest Ludwigshafen	0: 0 (2: 4 on perk)	Rot-Weiß Hasborn-Dautweiler
26.5.	FV Rheinbrohl	2: 3	Southwest Ludwigshafen
1.6.	Rot-Weiß Hasborn-Dautweiler	3-0	FV Rheinbrohl

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Rot-Weiß Hasborn-Dautweiler	2	1	1	0	3-0	+3	4th
2.	Southwest Ludwigshafen	2	1	1	0	3: 2	+1	4th
3.	FV Rheinbrohl	2	0	0	2	2: 6	−4	0

Hasborn-Dautweiler won the game on a neutral pitch in Kaiserslautern - Hohenecken just 1-0. Hasborn-Dautweiler thus secured promotion to the top division. The defeated TSG Pfeddersheim also remained in the league despite the defeat.

	Result (5.6.)
TSG Pfeddersheim	0: 1 (0: 0)	Rot-Weiß Hasborn-Dautweiler

Web links

• Oberliga Südwest 1998/99 at fussballdaten.de
• Oberliga Südwest 1998/99 at f-archiv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eduard Kacaci - player profile | Transfer market . ( transfermarkt.de [accessed on February 16, 2017]).