The five league champions and the runners-up from the south then entered the 1954 German football championship which was won by Hannover 96.FC Köln, winning its first eleven games, a mark later equaled by Hamburger SV in 1961–62 but never surpassed.The league's top scorer was Fritz Apel (Arminia Hannover) and Werner Heitkamp (FC St. Pauli) with 21 goals each.[1] Hannover 96 became the only team other than Hamburger SV to win the Oberliga Nord as the latter won 15 of the possible 16 league championships from 1947 to 1963 but missed out in 1953–54.The 1954 German football championship was contested by the six qualified Oberliga teams and won by Hannover 96, defeating 1.