Twelve year rating

Selection of the Bundesliga clubs

The twelve-year evaluation was a key developed by the German Football Association (DFB) to help identify the 16 founding members of the Bundesliga in 1963. Depending on the final position, a club was awarded points. Additional points were awarded for reaching the championship finals or the DFB Cup final . Deviating from this, specialist journals such as Kicker presented their readers with other calculation options, namely a self-developed ten and five-year evaluation.

The Bundesliga committee, which was to select the sixteen Bundesliga teams from the 46 applications received (minus two withdrawn), was bound by a regional key. Apart from that, his mandate was very general:

"To illuminate the applicant's options from three sides: according to sporting (performance in previous years, tradition), economic (wealth, economic support from private, entrepreneurial and public authorities) and technical (type of stadium, capacity)"

- Quotation in an edition of "Kicker" at the time

mode

On October 6, 1962, the DFB advisory board determined the qualification mode. In each league season, the champion received 16 points, the second in the table 15 points and so on. The points scored in the seasons 1951/52 to 1954/55 counted single, those scored between 1955/56 and 1958/59 double and those scored between 1959/60 and 1962/63 triple. In addition, each club was credited three points for each season played in the top division. If a club reached the final round of the German championship, further points were awarded. The group winner received eight points, the second six, and so on. Anyone who failed to qualify for the finals received no points. The German champions and the DFB Cup winners in one season received 20 points, the inferior finalists 10 points. The German championship in 1963 and the DFB-Pokal in 1963 were not taken into account. Regardless of the number of points achieved, the champions of the five league seasons of the 1962/63 season were considered athletically qualified. If Borussia Neunkirchen had reached the final of the German championship in 1963, the Bundesliga would have started with 18 clubs. In this case, a sixth team from the Oberliga Süd would have been added to Neunkirchen. Teams that were a maximum of 50 points apart in the twelve-year evaluation were regarded by the DFB as being of equal rank. Here the placement decided in the 1962/63 season.

Appointment of the Bundesliga club

In order to identify the 16 clubs in the Bundesliga, the DFB set up a five-person committee chaired by Ludwig Franz , the President of 1. FC Nürnberg . The other members were Franz Kremer (president of 1. FC Köln ), Walter Baresel (chairman of the game committee of the North German Football Association ), Willi Hübner from Essen and Hermann Neuberger (chairman of the Saarland Football Association ). The substitute assessors were Dr. Barrelet (Hamburg) and Rudolf Gramlich (Frankfurt). The then DFB President Hermann Gösmann was aware of the difficulty of the task even then. Gösmann is quoted as saying "Choose 16 times and don't make enemies". The DFB set an application deadline for the 74 upper division clubs on December 1, 1962. 46 clubs submitted the documents on time. A week later, the DFB decided that the new league would include five clubs from West and South Germany , three from North Germany , two from South-West Germany and one club from Berlin . The southern German regional association protested and wanted to get seven places.

On January 11, 1963, the DFB appointed the first nine Bundesliga clubs. The places went to Hertha BSC , Werder Bremen , Borussia Dortmund , Eintracht Frankfurt , Hamburger SV , 1. FC Cologne, 1. FC Nürnberg, 1. FC Saarbrücken and FC Schalke 04 . For the remaining seven places, the DFB allowed 20 clubs and rejected 15 other clubs. The latter clubs included clubs such as the later Bundesliga clubs Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Borussia Mönchengladbach or ex-champions such as SpVgg Fürth . The Sportfreunde 05 Saarbrücken and Wuppertal SV withdrew their applications. The remaining seven Bundesliga clubs were announced on May 6, 1963. Eintracht Braunschweig , 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Karlsruher SC , Meidericher SV , TSV 1860 Munich , Prussia Münster and VfB Stuttgart qualified . The award of the last seven licenses was controversial. While the first nine nominated clubs were correctly selected even after the twelve-year ranking, some clubs were not taken into account in the selection of the last seven clubs despite promising placements.

Many of the clubs that were not taken into account felt that they had been treated improperly and protested against the decision of the DFB advisory board. However, all protests were unsuccessful. The rejected clubs were VfL Osnabrück , Hannover 96 , FC St. Pauli , Holstein Kiel (all north), Alemannia Aachen , Fortuna Düsseldorf , Westfalia Herne , Schwarz-Weiß Essen , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (all west), and FK Pirmasens , Borussia Neunkirchen (all south-west) as well as Kickers Offenbach and FC Bayern Munich (all south). The Bundesliga committee described the failure to consider Offenbacher Kickers and Alemannia Aachen as hardship cases and recommended that the DFB advisory board increase the number of Bundesliga clubs to 18.

After the announcement of the remaining Bundesliga clubs, the specialist magazine Kicker decided not to publish letters to the editor and suggested increasing the league to 20 clubs, which should be successively reduced to 16 clubs. 17th place should be determined by playoffs between Kickers Offenbach and Bayern Munich. Alemannia Aachen should get another place. Borussia Neunkirchen and FK Pirmasens should play for 19th place, while the last place should be played in playoffs between a representative from Northern Germany and Tasmania Berlin.

“German football took decades to create a Bundesliga. Measured against this, a transition period of one or two years is almost a necessary evil. "

- Comment from the magazine "Kicker"

Oberliga Nord

In Northern Germany, in addition to the series champion Hamburger SV, who completed 15 of the 16 league seasons as champions, and Werder Bremen, Eintracht Braunschweig was also accepted, although the club only finished seventh in the twelve-year ranking. The clubs VfL Osnabrück, FC St. Pauli, Hannover 96 and Holstein Kiel, which were placed in front of Braunschweig in the twelve-year standings, protested the decision. The DFB justified its decision by stating that the clubs named “are to be regarded as equivalent due to their sporting past” and therefore “this year's table should be decisive”. Braunschweig was third in the Oberliga Nord in the 1962/63 season and received the Bundesliga license.

VfL Osnabrück received a rejection because the DFB was of the opinion that Eintracht Braunschweig was "economically more stable" than VfL. The President of VfL Osnabrück, Friedel Schwarze, said he was “standing in front of the ruins of his life's work”. FC St. Pauli was refused entry into the Bundesliga because, according to the DFB, only one club from each city would be accepted. Hannover 96 had better technical conditions than Braunschweig, but was out of the question because of the mediocre performance in the 1962/63 season.

The fact that Holstein Kiel was not accepted into the Bundesliga is attributed to the proportional characteristics of the North German Football Association . After the first two licenses went to a club from Hamburg and Bremen, third place had to go to Lower Saxony , as the Lower Saxony Football Association was larger than the other three state associations ( Schleswig-Holstein , Hamburg and Bremen ) in terms of members and number of teams is.

Oberliga West

The first two of the five places in West Germany went to 1. FC Köln and Borussia Dortmund. Both teams faced each other on June 29, 1963 in the final final of the German championship, which Dortmund won 3-1. The remaining three places went to FC Schalke 04, Preußen Münster and Meidericher SV. Especially at Alemannia Aachen, which took fourth place in the twelve-year ranking of the Oberliga West, the rejection of the DFB met with fierce resistance. The DFB advisory board responsible for awarding the licenses, which included the president of 1. FC Köln Franz Kremer, decided in favor of Meiderich and against Aachen for reasons of association policy, as otherwise no club from the Lower Rhine regional association would have moved into the Bundesliga. According to Alemannia, Franz Kremer wanted 1. FC Köln to be the only representative of the Middle Rhine regional association in the Bundesliga.

Oberliga Südwest

The allocation of the two Bundesliga places in the Oberliga Südwest was heavily controversial. When the first nine Bundesliga clubs were announced on January 11, 1963, a place was awarded to 1. FC Saarbrücken, although 1. FC Kaiserslautern could not have been ousted from first place in the twelve-year ranking of the Oberliga Südwest. The decision for Saarbrücken was made in the official DFB statement because Saarbrücken is the largest city compared to the competition and has better motorway connections . Kaiserslautern was the second club to receive a Bundesliga license through the championship title. The decision in favor of Saarbrücken, which came second in the twelve-year ranking, was heavily criticized in particular by the clubs Borussia Neunkirchen, which were the only finals not included in the Bundesliga in 1963, and FK Pirmasens. It is often argued that Hermann Neuberger , who originally came from Saarland and was a member of the DFB Presidium at the time, wanted to bring "his" club into the Bundesliga with 1. FC Saarbrücken.

Oberliga Süd

In the south, only the early decision for 1. FC Nürnberg and Eintracht Frankfurt was undisputed. The fact that TSV 1860 Munich was considered the fifth team after Karlsruher SC and VfB Stuttgart was particularly hotly debated. The Munich “Lions” had secured the championship title of the previous season in 1962/63, but were well behind Kickers Offenbach and their city rivals FC Bayern in the twelve-year standings. In Offenbach in particular, the decision to grant the last champions of the Oberliga Süd a place in the Bundesliga caused horror. With the exception of the last season, the OFC had always occupied a place in the top third of the table and, as fifth in the twelve-year ranking, firmly expected the award. The specialist magazine Kicker wrote that “there is no key at all that locks Offenbach's Bundesliga”. The fact that the then president of Eintracht Frankfurt - Rudi Gramlich - was on the responsible DFB advisory board fueled conspiracy theories that still exist today.

Those in charge of FC Bayern demanded a place in the Bundesliga, since TSV 1860 was included solely because of the placement in the 1962/63 season, and third-placed FC Bayern also did better than the competitors from Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. They started an urgency request to increase the Bundesliga, which was rejected by the association. The DFB justified its decision against FC Bayern by stating that it was “not advisable that two clubs from the same city should be included”. In addition, according to the DFB, Bayern lacked a "sporting past".

City League Berlin

In Berlin, three clubs had applied for a place in the Bundesliga. With Hertha BSC, the champions of the 1962/63 season were granted the license. Runner-up Tasmania 1900 , three times champion in the last five years of the city league, protested against the decision and accused Hertha of falsifying accounts . The third applicant was the two-time German champions BFC Viktoria 1889 , who was only penultimate in the 1962/63 season and even relegated after three relegation games against the Reinickendorfer Füchse , thus not qualifying for the new Berlin Regionalliga.

The individual twelve-year ratings

Legend

Club : Mention the name of the club that applied for admission to the Bundesliga. Clubs in bold were given a license for the Bundesliga.
Playing times : states the playing times that were taken into account in the determination.
Years : The number of years the club has played in the major league.
Points : states the number of points the club has collected.

The top line lists the positions achieved by the club in the final table. The superscript number indicates the placement of the club in the final round of the German championship (e.g. ² = 2nd place). A superscript M indicates the German champion, a superscript V the runner-up. A superscript P denotes the DFB Cup winner, a superscript F the inferior cup finalists. The down arrow ( ) indicates that the club played in a lower league for the season. The points achieved in the season are listed in the lower line with a blue background. ${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$

North

society	Playing times												Years	Points
society	51/52	52/53	53/54	54/55	55/56	56/57	57/58	58/59	59/60	60/61	61/62	62/63	Years	Points
Hamburger SV	1. ³	1. ³	11.	1. ²	1. ^F2	1. ^V	1. ^V	1. ²	1. ^M	1. ³	1. ³	1.	12	518
Hamburger SV	20th	20th	6th	22nd	48	50	50	38	76	52	52	48	36	518
Werder Bremen	7th	3.	5.	3.	6th	5.	7th	2. ⁴	2. ²	2. ^P2	2. ^Q	2.	12	396
Werder Bremen	10	14th	12	14th	22nd	24	20th	32	51	71	45	45	36	396
VfL Osnabrück	2. ³	4th	12.	9.	10.	6th	4th	4th	3.	3.	7th	7th	12	313
VfL Osnabrück	19th	13	5	8th	14th	22nd	26th	26th	42	42	30th	30th	36	313
Hannover 96	11.	7th	1. ^M	5.	2. ⁴	3.	10.	6th	6th	5.	13.	9.	12	309
Hannover 96	6th	10	44	12	32	28	14th	22nd	33	36	12	24	36	309
FC St. Pauli	3.	9.	2.	7th	13.	4th	9.	7th	4th	4th	4th	6th	12	303
FC St. Pauli	14th	8th	15th	10	8th	26th	16	20th	39	39	39	33	36	303
Holstein Kiel	5.	2. ⁴	9.	10.	4th	2. ^Q	8th.	10.	9.	7th	5.	5.	12	294
Holstein Kiel	12	17th	8th	7th	26th	30th	18th	14th	24	30th	36	36	36	294
Eintracht Braunschweig	14th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	4th	6th	11.	7th	2. ³	5.	8th.	9.	6th	3.	11	276
Eintracht Braunschweig	3	0	13	11	12	20th	34	24	27	24	33	42	33	276
SV Arminia Hanover	9.	12.	6th	12.	3.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	10.	7th	103
SV Arminia Hanover	8th	5	11	5	28	4th	0	0	0	0	0	21st	21st	103

west

society	Playing times												Years	Points
society	51/52	52/53	53/54	54/55	55/56	56/57	57/58	58/59	59/60	60/61	61/62	62/63	Years	Points
1. FC Cologne	5.	2. ³	1. ^F2	8th.	7th	3.	2. ⁴	2. ²	1. ^V	1. ³	1. ^M	1.	12	466
1. FC Cologne	12	19th	32	9	20th	28	32	36	66	52	76	48	36	466
Borussia Dortmund	4th	1. ²	5.	5.	1. ^M	1. ^M	5.	5.	3.	2nd ^V.	8th.	2.	12	440
Borussia Dortmund	13	22nd	12	12	60	60	24	24	42	63	27	45	36	440
FC Schalke 04	2. ⁴	6th	3.	6. ^F.	2. ²	4th	1. ^M	11.	4th	3.	2. ³	6th	12	396
FC Schalke 04	17th	11	14th	21st	36	26th	60	12	39	42	49	33	36	396
Alemannia Aachen	3.	5. ^F.	9.	11.	3.	5.	3.	10.	9.	8th.	11.	5.	12	285
Alemannia Aachen	14th	22nd	8th	6th	28	24	28	14th	24	27	18th	36	36	285
Prussia Munster	7th	7th	4th	9.	12.	13.	6th	7th	10.	9.	7th	4th	12	251
Prussia Munster	10	10	13	8th	10	8th	22nd	20th	21st	24	30th	39	36	251
Meidericher SV	8th.	4th	11.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	7th	4th	8th.	8th.	11.	5.	3.	11	250
Meidericher SV	9	13	6th	2	0	20th	26th	18th	27	18th	36	42	33	250
Fortuna Dusseldorf	12.	9.	10.	7th	6th	6. ^F.	8. ^F.	3.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	9. ^F.	13.	11	225
Fortuna Dusseldorf	5	8th	7th	10	22nd	32	28	28	6th	0	34	12	33	225
Westfalia Herne	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	13.	13.	11.	12.	1. ³	2. ⁴	5.	6th	14th	9	222
Westfalia Herne	0	0	0	4th	8th	12	10	36	47	36	33	9	27	222
SC Viktoria Cologne ¹	9.	8th.	13.	10.	14th	12.	9.	14th	7th	10.	10.	8th.	12	201
SC Viktoria Cologne ¹	8th	9	4th	7th	6th	10	16	6th	30th	21st	21st	27	36	201
Black and white food	11.	13.	6th	12.	8th.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$ ^P	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	4th	7th	9	167
Black and white food	6th	4th	11	5	18th	4th	0	20th	3	0	39	30th	27	167
Borussia Monchengladbach	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	14th	12.	14th	11.	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	13.	14th ^P.	6th	13.	11.	10	155
Borussia Monchengladbach	0	3	5	3	12	2	0	8th	29	33	12	18th	30th	155
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	11.	12.	13.	4th	3.	10.	6th	154
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	10	12	39	42	21st	18th	154
Hamborn 07	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	12.	7th	12.	12.	7th	101
Hamborn 07	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	15th	30th	15th	15th	21st	101
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	6th	10.	7th	3.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	9.	6th	88
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	11	7th	10	14th	4th	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	18th	88
Wuppertal SV	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	10.	9.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	15th	4th	52
Wuppertal SV	0	0	0	0	14th	16	4th	0	0	0	0	6th	12	52

¹Until 1957 SC Preußen Dellbrück .

southwest

society	Playing times												Years	Points
society	51/52	52/53	53/54	54/55	55/56	56/57	57/58	58/59	59/60	60/61	61/62	62/63	Years	Points
1. FC Kaiserslautern	3.	1. ^M	1. ^V	1. ^V	1. ³	1. ³	2. ^Q	3.	5.	4. ^F.	4th	1.	12	464
1. FC Kaiserslautern	14th	44	34	34	36	36	30th	28	36	49	39	48	36	464
1. FC Saarbrücken	1. ^V	3.	5.	3.	3.	2. ⁴	8th.	4th	3.	1. ⁴	3.	5.	12	384
1. FC Saarbrücken	34	14th	12	14th	28	32	18th	26th	42	50	42	36	36	384
FK Pirmasens	5.	7th	2.	5.	4th	8th.	1. ³	1. ³	1. ⁴	3.	2. ⁴	3.	12	382
FK Pirmasens	12	10	15th	12	26th	18th	36	36	50	42	47	42	36	382
Borussia Neunkirchen	7th	6th	8th.	10.	6th	5.	3.	2. ^FQ	2. ³	2. ^Q	1. ⁴	2.	12	376
Borussia Neunkirchen	10	11	9	7th	22nd	24	28	40	49	45	50	45	36	376
Wormatia worms	4th	4th	11.	2. ⁴	11.	9.	5.	14th	7th	7th	5.	4th	12	278
Wormatia worms	13	13	6th	17th	12	16	24	6th	30th	30th	36	39	36	278
SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	9.	4th	9.	9.	7th	9.	9.	9.	8th.	9.	9.	11	229
SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken	0	8th	13	8th	16	20th	16	16	24	27	24	24	33	229
Sportfreunde 05 Saarbrücken	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	6th	10.	6th	8th.	6th	7th	160
Sportfreunde 05 Saarbrücken	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	22nd	21st	33	27	33	21st	160

south

society	Playing times												Years	Points
society	51/52	52/53	53/54	54/55	55/56	56/57	57/58	58/59	59/60	60/61	61/62	62/63	Years	Points
1. FC Nuremberg	2. ²	8th.	4th	9.	7th	1. ³	2. ²	3.	6th	1. ^M	1st ^PV	2.	12	447
1. FC Nuremberg	21st	9	13	8th	20th	36	36	28	33	76	86	45	36	447
Eintracht Frankfurt	4th	1. ²	2. ³	4th	6th	5.	3.	1. ^M	3.	2. ²	2. ²	4th	12	420
Eintracht Frankfurt	13	22nd	19th	13	22nd	24	28	60	42	51	51	39	36	420
Karlsruher SC	9.	4th	5.	5. ^P	1st ^PV	3.	1. ²	9.	1. ^F2	3.	9.	5.	12	419
Karlsruher SC	8th	13	12	32	70	28	38	16	64	42	24	36	36	419
VfB Stuttgart	1. ^M	2nd ^V.	1. ^P2	13.	2. ³	4th	9. ^P.	5.	7th	7th	5.	6th	12	408
VfB Stuttgart	44	33	42	4th	34	26th	36	24	30th	30th	36	33	36	408
Kickers Offenbach	3.	6th	3.	1. ³	4th	2. ²	5.	2nd ^V.	2.	4th	4th	7th	12	382
Kickers Offenbach	14th	11	14th	20th	26th	36	24	48	45	39	39	30th	36	382
FC Bayern Munich	8th.	7th	9.	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	10th ^P.	7th	4th	5.	8th.	3.	3.	11	288
FC Bayern Munich	9	10	8th	1	0	34	20th	26th	36	27	42	42	33	288
TSV 1860 Munich	13.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	16.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	6th	6th	4th	6th	7th	1.	9	229
TSV 1860 Munich	4th	2	0	0	2	0	22nd	22nd	39	33	30th	48	27	229
VfR Mannheim	5.	13.	10.	10.	3.	7th	10.	8th.	10.	9.	10.	12.	12	227
VfR Mannheim	12	4th	7th	7th	28	20th	14th	18th	21st	24	21st	15th	36	227
SpVgg Fürth	6th	3.	11.	11.	13.	6th	4th	7th	11.	11.	12.	9.	12	224
SpVgg Fürth	11	14th	6th	6th	8th	22nd	26th	20th	18th	18th	15th	24	36	224
1. FC Schweinfurt 05	14th	5.	8th.	3.	8th.	12.	8th.	10.	12.	14th	14th	11.	12	185
1. FC Schweinfurt 05	3	12	9	14th	18th	10	18th	14th	15th	9	9	18th	36	185
FC Bayern Hof	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	13.	10.	6th	13.	4th	90
FC Bayern Hof	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	21st	33	12	12	90
TSV Schwaben Augsburg	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	8th.	12.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	13.	15th	6th	61
TSV Schwaben Augsburg	2	0	0	9	10	4th	0	0	0	0	12	6th	18th	61
KSV Hessen Kassel	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	13.	15th	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	10.	3	36
KSV Hessen Kassel	0	0	4th	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21st	9	36

Berlin

society	Playing times												Years	Points
society	51/52	52/53	53/54	54/55	55/56	56/57	57/58	58/59	59/60	60/61	61/62	62/63	Years	Points
Hertha BSC	4th	13.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	7th	10.	1. ⁴	6th	3.	2.	1. ⁴	2.	1.	11	346
Hertha BSC	13	4th	0	10	14th	34	22nd	28	45	50	45	48	33	346
SC Tasmania 1900	12.	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	${\ displaystyle \ Downarrow}$	9.	6th	5.	1. ⁴	1. ³	2.	1. ²	2.	9	324
SC Tasmania 1900	5	0	0	0	16	22nd	24	34	52	45	54	45	27	324
BFC Victoria 1889	3.	4th	7th	1. ⁴	1. ⁴	4th	2.	4th	7th	6th	9.	9.	12	318
BFC Victoria 1889	14th	13	10	18th	34	26th	30th	26th	30th	33	24	24	36	318

literature

Carsten Töller (Ed.): Football in Germany since 1945 . Self-published, Mettmann 2009, p. 113 .
Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 1: From the Crown Prince to the Bundesliga. 1890 to 1963. German championship, Gauliga, Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-85-1 .
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Individual evidence

↑ cf. "Robert Becker turns the spotlight", in: Kicker from January 14, 1963, pp. 2 and 4.
↑ Quoted from: Kicker, January 14, 1963, p. 2.
↑ ^a ^b Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 , p. 110.
↑ DFB advisory board laid down Bundesliga guidelines in Pforzheimer Zeitung of December 10, 1962, p. 4.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Hardy Grüne , Hansjürgen Jablonski, Jürgen Rink and Frank Willig: Which of the 74 top division clubs can join the Bundesliga? . In: Zeitspiel, No. 10, pp. 30–31.
↑ ^a ^b cf. Grüne (1996), p. 410.
↑ www.ndr.de
↑ cf. Skrentny, p. 115.
↑ cf. Grüne (1996), p. 412.
↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 , p. 115.
↑ cf. Grüne / Karn (2009), p. 371.
↑ René Martens: There are always miracles. The history of FC St. Pauli . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-673-7 , p. 75 .
↑ Lorenz Peiffer, Gunter A. Pilz: Hannover 96. 100 years - power on a leash . Schlütersche, Hannover 1996, ISBN 978-3-87706-475-7 , p. 160 ff .
↑ Werner Skrentny, Jens Reimer Prüß : With the diamond in the heart. The great history of Hamburger SV. Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-620-1 , p. 207.
^ Alemannia-aachen.de: History of Alemannia - 1950–1969 The Golden Years ( Memento from June 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
↑ cf. Grüne / Karn (2009), p. 409.
^ Spiegel Online : The Hermann battle. February 23, 1981.
↑ cf. Grüne / Karn (2009), p. 364.
↑ cf. Grüne (1996), p. 414.
↑ Michael Jahn: We're not going home, the story of Hertha BSC Berlin . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-535-5 , p. 88 ff .
↑ Sports magazine No. 24a / 1963. The results were 5: 0, 1: 2 and 3: 6.

[1] . "Robert Becker turns the spotlight", in: Kicker from January 14, 1963, pp. 2 and 4.

[2] Quoted from: Kicker, January 14, 1963, p. 2.

[teufelsangst110-3] Werner Skrentny (Ed.): Teufelsangst vorm Erbsenberg. The history of the Oberliga Südwest 1946–1963. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-394-5 , p. 110.

[4] DFB advisory board laid down Bundesliga guidelines in Pforzheimer Zeitung of December 10, 1962, p. 4.

[zeitspiel-5] Hardy Grüne , Hansjürgen Jablonski, Jürgen Rink and Frank Willig: Which of the 74 top division clubs can join the Bundesliga? . In: Zeitspiel, No. 10, pp. 30–31.

[Grüne410-6] . Grüne (1996), p. 410.

[7] www.ndr.de

[8] . Skrentny, p. 115.

[9] . Grüne (1996), p. 412.

[10] Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 , p. 115.

[11] . Grüne / Karn (2009), p. 371.

[12] René Martens: There are always miracles. The history of FC St. Pauli . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89533-673-7 , p. 75 .

[13] Lorenz Peiffer, Gunter A. Pilz: Hannover 96. 100 years - power on a leash . Schlütersche, Hannover 1996, ISBN 978-3-87706-475-7 , p. 160 ff .

[14] Werner Skrentny, Jens Reimer Prüß : With the diamond in the heart. The great history of Hamburger SV. Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-620-1 , p. 207.

[15] Alemannia-aachen.de: History of Alemannia - 1950–1969 The Golden Years ( Memento from June 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

[16] . Grüne / Karn (2009), p. 409.

[17] Spiegel Online : The Hermann battle. February 23, 1981.

[18] . Grüne / Karn (2009), p. 364.

[19] . Grüne (1996), p. 414.

[20] Michael Jahn: We're not going home, the story of Hertha BSC Berlin . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-535-5 , p. 88 ff .

[21] Sports magazine No. 24a / 1963. The results were 5: 0, 1: 2 and 3: 6.