1956–57 Oberliga
| Season | 1956–57 |
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| Champions | Hamburger SV Hertha BSC Berlin Borussia Dortmund 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1. FC Nürnberg |
| Relegated | Arminia Hannover Heider SV BFC Südring Rapide Wedding Schwarz-Weiß Essen Borussia München-Gladbach SpVgg Andernach Sportfreunde Saarbrücken Schwaben Augsburg Freiburger FC |
| German champions | Borussia Dortmund |
| Top goalscorer | Heinz Beck (34 goals) |
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The 1956–57 Oberliga was the twelfth season of the Oberliga, the first tier of the football league system in West Germany and the Saar Protectorate. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and the runners-up from the west, south, southwest and north then entered the 1957 German football championship which was won by Borussia Dortmund. It was Borussia Dortmund's second national championship, having won its first in the previous season and thereby becoming the first club to win back-to-back championships since Dresdner SC in 1943 and 1944.
During the season, on 1 January 1957, the Saar Protectorate officially joined West Germany, ending the post-Second World War political separation of the territory from the other parts of Germany, which had also seen the Oberliga Südwest clubs from the Saarland, 1. FC Saarbrücken, Borussia Neunkirchen, Sportfreunde Saarbrücken, Saar 05 Saarbrücken and SV Röchling Völklingen, leave the German league system from 1948 to 1951.
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