with Nordrhein and Westfalen forming the new NRW-Liga, while the Oberliga Südwest remained independent. With the inception of the new RegionalligaWest in
RegionalligaWest/Südwest was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Nordrhein-Westfalen from
which reduced the RegionalligaWest to clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia only and disbanded the NRW-Liga below it, the Oberliga Westfalen was reintroduced
four Regionalligas, these five formed the second tier of German football until 1974: RegionalligaWest, covering the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen Regionalliga