[2][3] The 1949–50 season was the last with clubs from East Berlin in the Oberliga, with VfB Pankow and Union Oberschöneweide leaving the league at the end of the season, thereby ending unified German league football for the next four decades.[4] For the Oberliga Südwest, covering the whole of the French occupation zone in Germany, it was the last season of the league being divided into two regional divisions, north and south.The 1949–50 DDR-Oberliga, the inaugural season of the league, was won by ZSG Horch Zwickau.The winners of the two regional divisions of the Oberliga Südwest played a final to determine the league champion who was also directly qualified for the German championship:[7] The runners-up of the two divisions determined the club who would face the loser of the championship final for the second place in the German championship: The third-placed teams of the two divisions determined the club who would face the loser of the second-place final for the third place in the German championship: The 1949–50 season saw two new clubs promoted to the league, SpVgg Fürth and Jahn Regensburg.The 1950 German football championship was contested by the eight qualified Oberliga teams and won by VfB Stuttgart, defeating Kickers Offenbach in the final.