1. FC Saarbrücken was the last team in the 3rd football league to suffer their first defeat.
At the end of the ninth game day, the Saarlanders lost 0: 1 (0: 1) at newly promoted Rot-Weiss Essen and thus had to lose direct contact with the leading duo SV Elversberg and 1860 Munich in fourth place, at least for the time being.
Old champions Essen, on the other hand, held their ground in front of the relegation zone with their second success in the past three matches after newcomer Felix Götze’s winning goal (36th).