Oberliga Südwest 1961/62

In 1961/62 the seventeenth championship was played in the Oberliga Südwest, one of the five highest classes in the West German football. Borussia Neunkirchen was champion and FK Pirmasesn vice champion.Both clubs qualified for the finals for the national title . Both clubs were last in their group.

The city of Ludwigshafen counted this year four clubs: Tura, SC Phönix and Oppau. This is outside Berlin and Hamburg, the only city that after the Second World War had four clubs from the same city in the highest class.