The Gauliga Niederrhein was the highest football league in the northern part of the Prussian Rhine Province from 1933 to 1945.

From 1935 to 1942, the modus and strength of the league did not alter, making it one of the few Gauligas which remained unaffected by the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

The Gauliga Niederrhein retained its single-division, ten-team format even for its last season, too, but after only having played one round, the league was halted and did not resume again.

With the end of the Nazi era, the Gauligas ceased to exist and the region found itself in the British occupation zone.

Top-level football did not resume straight away, unlike in Southern Germany, and only in 1947 was a new, highest league introduced, the Oberliga West, which covered all of the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia.