The league started out with eight clubs from the two states and the Prussian province in the region, but without clubs from the Ulm, who were playing in the Bezirksliga Bayern and Mannheim, who played in the Bezirksliga Rhein instead. The eight clubs played each other in a home-and-away round with the top team advancing to the Southern German championship, which in turn was a qualification tournament for the German championship.
For the second and third seasons, 1924–25 and 1925–26, the modus remained unchanged.
For the 1926-27 season, the league was expanded to ten teams. The top team was again qualified for the finals. The runners-up of the Bezirksligas in the south from then on also played a championship round to determine a third team from the region to go to the German finals with the Karlsruher FV from the region qualifying for this.
After this season, the league was split into a Württemberg and a Baden group, the first having nine and the second eight teams. No final was played between the two group winners as both went on to the Southern German championship. The second and third placed team of each division would also advance to the separate round of the runners-up like in the previous season.
The 1928-29 season saw no change in modus but both leagues now operated on a strength of eight clubs. The qualification system for the finals also remained unchanged. This system remained in place until 1931.
For the 1931-32 season, both divisions were expanded to ten teams. The top-two teams from each league then advanced to the Southern German finals, which were now staged in two regional groups with a finals game between the two group winners at the end. The same system applied for the final season of the league in 1932-33.
With the rise of the Nazis to power, the Gauligas were introduced as the highest football leagues in Germany. In Württemberg-Baden, the Gauliga Württemberg and the Gauliga Baden replaced the Bezirksliga as the highest level of play.
National success
The clubs from the Bezirksliga Württemberg-Baden did not manage to win a German championship in this era and were dominated by the much stronger competition from the Bezirksliga Bayern.
Southern German championship
1924:
Stuttgarter Kickers, 3rd place
1925:
Stuttgarter Kickers, 4th place
1926:
Karlsruher FV, 6th place
1927:
Karlsruher FV, 2nd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round
VfB Stuttgart, 5th place
1928:
Phönix Karlsruhe, 8th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Union Böckingen, 6th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
SC Freiburg, 5th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
VfB Stuttgart, 4th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Stuttgarter Kickers, 5th place
Karlsruher FV, 4th place
1929:
Freiburger FC, 8th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Phönix Karlsruhe, 6th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
VfB Stuttgart, 5th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Stuttgarter Kickers, 4th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Germania Brötzingen, 6th place
Karlsruher FV, 5th place
1930:
Union Böckingen, 8th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Phönix Karlsruhe, 7th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Karlsruher FV, 4th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
VfR Heilbronn, 3rd place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Freiburger FC, 8th place
VfB Stuttgart, 5th place
1931:
Phönix Karlsruhe, 8th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
FV Rastatt, 7th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Stuttgarter Kickers, 5th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
1. FC Pforzheim, 4th place in the Bezirksliga-runners-up round southwest division
Union Böckingen, 8th place
Karlsruher FV, 5th place
1932:
VfB Stuttgart, 8th place southwest division
FV Rastatt, 7th place southwest division
1. FC Pforzheim, 4th place southwest division
Karlsruher FV, 3rd place southwest division
1933:
Union Böckingen, 8th place northsouth division
Phönix Karlsruhe, 6th place northsouth division
Karlsruher FV, 5th place northsouth division
Stuttgarter Kickers, 4th place northsouth division
German championship
No team from the region qualified for the German championship finals in this era.