 The four regional divisions were named after the capital city of the district, being "Hanover", "Hildesheim", "Braunschweig" and "Osnabrück".Additionally, some clubs from Lower Saxony also played in the Amateurliga Bremen, a trend that continues to a lesser degree even today.The state of Lower Saxony had only recently then been formed in the British occupation zone and the status of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as an independent German state had not been fully confirmed yet.