The 1973–74 Rheinlandliga was the 22nd season of the highest amateur class of the Rhineland Football Association under the name of 1.
[1] With the introduction of the two-division 2nd soccer Bundesliga this season, there were no newcomers from the amateur league.
SV Leiwen represented Rhineland in the 1974 German Soccer Amateur Championship and lost in the first round to ASV Herzogenaurach (Bavaria).
SV Speicher, VfB Lützel, Alemannia Plaidt and FV Engers had to move down to the 2.
For the following 1974–75 season, Ahrweiler BC, TuS Bad Marienberg and FC Bitburg moved up from the 2.