 In 1913–14 the league was played as a second tier competition after the introduction of the short-lived "Verbandsliga Norddeutschland", a new first tier league that covered all of Northern Germany.Eintracht Braunschweig was the only club from the Duchy of Brunswick that qualified for the new league.However, due to the outbreak of World War I only one season of the Verbandsliga was ever played.