The Oberliga Niederrhein (or is it the Niederliga Oberrhein?) didn’t end up with promotion for Wuppertal, but of course after going into voluntary administration and relegation, that wasn’t really the plan. The idea was to stabilize the club and start sorting out the finances, and it seems things are moving in the correct direction. Life in the 5th division is rough at the box-office, although actually renewed fan interest gave WSV numbers about the same as previous Regionalliga campaign. (Certainly there was more season ticket purchase). WSV did decently in other areas though. The “A-Jugend”, the U18 squad, were in the U18-Bundesliga-West, and the last match drew 6,600 for the game against Schalke’s U18. This set a national record for the youth leagues.
Nevertheless, it was largely disappointing on the field in the sense that WSV was very inconsistent, and that the samll number of WSV Hooligans caused problems that made all the smaller clubs fear Wuppertal showing up, despite the increased gate. (And of course in Homberg the idiots cost the match, as by throwing crap on the field the league penalized WSV with a loss).
The champions, from the ex-nuclear reactor villages of Hönnepel-Niedermörmter, were the best team in the league, and deservedly get promoted. Most of the other teams you’ve never even heard of, the exception being Schwarz-Weiss Essen and perhaps the another Essen squad, FC Kray.
1 SV Hönnepel-Niedermörmter 38 24 8 6 80:39 +41 80 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 FC Kray (A) 38 22 8 8 88:56 +32 74 3 Wuppertaler SV (A) 38 21 8 9 76:54 +22 71 4 TV Jahn Hiesfeld 38 19 12 7 69:43 +26 69 5 MSV Duisburg II (A) 38 20 8 10 84:49 +35 68 6 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen II 38 20 7 11 82:62 +20 67 7 Schwarz-Weiß Essen 38 18 9 11 67:42 +25 63 8 TuRU Düsseldorf 38 19 5 14 86:60 +26 62 9 VfB Homberg 38 16 12 10 62:58 +4 60 10 SC Kapellen-Erft 38 15 12 11 68:53 +15 57 11 TuS Bösinghoven 38 14 9 15 70:76 -6 51 12 Rot-Weiss Essen II (N) 38 13 11 14 69:74 -5 50 13 VfB Hilden (N) 38 13 10 15 81:64 +17 49 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Sportfreunde Baumberg 38 13 10 15 76:68 +8 49 15 Ratinger SV 38 13 10 15 57:60 -3 49 16 SV Sonsbeck 38 11 10 17 56:77 -21 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 VfL Rhede 38 9 6 23 46:82 -36 33 18 VfB Speldorf 38 7 5 26 41:87 -46 26 19 SV Uedesheim 38 4 7 27 39:95 -56 19 20 PSV Wesel-Lackhausen (N) 38 3 5 30 32:130 -98 14 Champion is promoted to Regionalliga West. Bottom 4 are relegated 14-16 could be relegated depending on Regionalliga West results: Looks like Velbert coming down, so Sonsbeck is in trouble. Uerdingen also likely down, which means Ratingen could drop as well Top goal scorers: 29 - Andre Trienenjost (Hönnepel-Niedermörmter 28 - Gökan Lekesiz (MSV Duisburg II) 27 - Kevin Dauser (Bösinghoven) 25 - Timur Karagülmez (FC Kray) 24 - Marvin Ellmann (Wuppertal) Attendance: WSv dominated here. The league drew 125,373 fans (avg 330). The largest crowd was 3,110 when WSV hosted Hönnepel-Niedermörmter, and then 3,025 for WSV-Kray. All the other top matches were WSV games as well. 01 Wuppertaler SV 1,869 02 FC Kray 374 03 SC Kapellen-Erft 339 04 ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen 329 05 SV Sonsbeck 326 06 TV Jahn Hiesfeld 296 07 SV Hönnepel-Niedermörmter 292 08 VfB Homberg 289 09 PSV Wesel-Lackhausen 282 10 VfB 03 Hilden 268 11 Germania Ratingen 04/19 254 12 TuRU Düsseldorf 248 13 VfL Rhede 236 14 TUS 64 Bösinghoven 233 15 VfB Speldorf 208 16 MSV Duisburg II 207 17 Rot-Weiss Essen II 205 18 Sportfreunde Baumberg 191 19 SV Uedesheim 175 20 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen II 136 WSV was the biggest road-draw, averaging 900+ per away-game.