Venues of the Gauliga Südwest 1933/34 large map: Rhineland-Palatinate, small map: Saarland and Hesse
The Gauliga Südwest 1933/34 was the first season of the Gauliga Südwest in football. In the new division of Sportgau 13, which was introduced as one of Germany's 16 Gauligen as the highest league, twelve teams competed against each other, which had previously been at home in the Main / Hesse and Rhine / Saar seasons of the South German Championship 1932/33 . Originally, only ten teams were planned for the league, due to the protest of last year’s fourth of the district class Hessen, SV Wiesbaden, the SVW and Alemannia Worms were nominated and the division was reduced by one team each in the two following years. Kickers Offenbach won the first gaume championship and then represented the southwest in the final round of the German championship . The relegation battle was extremely close, with only two points between places 5 and 10 in the end. Ultimately, the goal quotient had to decide who would stay in the class, because the teams in positions 8 to 10 were tied at the end of the round. The transition to the second-rate Bezirksklasse finally had next to Alemannia Worms and FSV Mainz 05 of SV Wiesbaden compete. In order to gradually bring the number of teams to the “target strength” of 10, only two newcomers followed for the three relegated teams in the 1934/35 season , Union Niederrad and SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken .
the best-placed team from the Rhine group of the Rhein / Saar district league of the South German Football Championship 1932/33 , which is located in the newly created south-west district:
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