This is a List of clubs in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, including all clubs and their final placings from the inaugural season 1978–79, then under the name of Amateur-Oberliga Südwest, to the current one. The league, is the highest football league in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz) and Saarland. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fourth tier of the league system, until the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 the third tier.