216:(county league) system was initiated as a system of 16 top-level divisions similar in strength that replaced the more than thirty previous top-level divisions. The champion of each Gauliga was qualified to play in the German championship tournament. With 10 teams each in the Gau leagues, the number of teams in the top flight was 160, a reduction from 400 to 500 teams until then. The number of Gau leagues increased to 31 in 1944, because of league division for economic reasons (transport costs) and territory annexion during World War II.
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Bundesliga. For that reason football in Germany was divided into seven regions which had their own regional championships (that were mostly played as a cup tournament, too). Only the regional champions and the defending German champion were qualified to play in the championship until 1924, when the number of final tournament participants was increased to 16.
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Soon it became obvious that the financial gap between the fully professionalised
Bundesliga and the five Regionalliga divisions, where many semi-professional and even amateur-like clubs competed, was too large. Teams relegated from the Bundesliga were often in serious danger of bankruptcy. Some clubs
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Starting from the 2012–13 season, the
Regionalliga was expanded to five regional divisions. The Northern Division was split into a Northern Division and a North-Eastern Division. The Western and the Southern Division were divided into a Western Division, a South/South-Western Division and a Bavarian
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Regionalliga was continued with an additional division (West) as fourth level of the league system. 54 teams compete in three regional divisions (North, West, South) of 18 teams each. These 54 teams consist of those Regionalliga teams that did not qualify for the 3. Liga after the 2007–08 season
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As the
Regionalligas were dissolved in 1974, with about one half of the former Regionalliga clubs relegated to their corresponding fully amateur state league pyramids, between 1974 and 1978, several amateur premier leagues, called Amateur-Oberliga, were established in every region, to narrow the gap
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As the league systems of the
Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic were merged in 1991, the number of teams competing in the Bundesliga was temporarily increased to 20 and to make room for 24 teams the 2. Bundesliga was again divided into a North and a South division of 12
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Football Association there had already been different regional and district championships' respective leagues and it was not until 1906 that there was a consistent mode to determine the participants of the German championship that was played as a final tournament
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In the first two years the
Bundesliga had 16 members but their number was increased to 18 in 1965. Two teams were relegated to the Regionalliga. The first two teams from each Regionalliga division and the champion of West Berlin competed in a promotion tournament in two groups, whose winners were
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Today, the German football league system consists refers to a series of hierarchically interconnected leagues for association football clubs in
Germany, in which all leagues are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation. As of 2015, the league systems spans up to 14 levels and
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In 1992 the number of competing teams in the
Bundesliga was re-decreased to 18 with four teams relegated and only two promoted from the second level. The 2. Bundesliga played one more season with 24 teams in one division before its size was decreased to 20 members in 1993 and 18 teams in 1994.
988:). Four teams were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga. At the beginning these were the four division champions, but later the champions of the Nord and Nordost division had to compete in a promotion play-off while one runner-up from the South or West division was promoted additionally.
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The champions and the runners-up of the 3. Liga are promoted to the 2. Bundesliga. The third placed team starts in a home and away play-off against the third-last team of the 2. Bundesliga. The teams finishing 18th to 20th in the 3. Liga are relegated to the Regionalliga.
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Since the late 1920s there had been plans to establish a nationwide professional top-level league, but they all failed because of the opposition by anti-professionalists and the relatively strong regional football associations. In summer 1962, under the influence of the
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consists of over 2,300 divisions in total, that stands at the end of a development starting around the year 1900 with different district leagues, was then organized over decades on a regional basis and saw the first edition of a nationwide league as late as 1963.
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consists of 20 teams. In the starting season the league consisted of the four lowest-ranked teams of the 2. Bundesliga after the 2007–08 season and the 3rd to 10th-place finishers in both the Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Süd after 2007–08 season.
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took power in Germany in January 1933. This also meant the end of attempts to invent professional football in Germany. But the football authorities did restructure and slightly centralise the football competition system. So in 1933 the
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After World War II the Oberliga system developed out of the occupation zone championships. The best teams of the five West German top-level divisions qualified for the German championship tournament. From 1949 until 1991 the
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From the late 1920s on there were efforts to install a nationwide professional league, but these efforts were never powerful enough to outreach the strong anti-professionalism from conservative and nationalist officials.
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by way of promotion and relegation. The next diagram shows how this works for the first five levels. Note that the actual number of clubs being promoted and relegated below the
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Division. The five Division winners along with the runner-up of the South-Western Division will compete for 3 promotions spots to the 3. Liga in a play-off round.
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From 2000 until 2008 there were two Regionalliga divisions (Nord and Süd), the champions and runners-up of each division were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga.
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2169:Bezirksklasse
2168:
2166:Bezirksklasse
2162:
2156:
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2140:
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2099:
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1782:
1781:2. Bundesliga
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1356:2. Bundesliga
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1034:2. Bundesliga
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1027:
1022:
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1018:
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1010:
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833:teams each.
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2266:Kreisliga ²
2242:Kreisliga ²
2239:Bezirksliga
2218:Kreisliga ²
2215:Bezirksliga
2191:Bezirksliga
2121:DDR 2.Liga
2089:Bezirksliga
1868:Bremen-Liga
1634:Bremen-Liga
1421:Bremen-Liga
2396:Categories
2349:References
2204:Kreisliga
2163:Landesliga
2118:▼ ???
2083:2.Oberliga
2051:Bundesliga
2048:Bundesliga
2045:Bundesliga
2042:Bundesliga
1913:Hessenliga
1765:Bundesliga
1697:Hessenliga
1515:Bundesliga
1469:Hessenliga
1465:Bayernliga
1338:Bundesliga
1174:Bundesliga
1016:Bundesliga
865:Bundesliga
703:Bundesliga
555:Bundesliga
424:Bundesliga
379:Bundesliga
36:Until 1933
2115:Kreisliga
2092:DDR Liga
2028:1903–1932
2023:1933–1945
2018:1945–1963
2013:1963–1974
2008:1974–1994
2003:1994–2008
1750:Division
1734:From 2017
1499:Division
1482:2012–2017
1322:Division
1289:2008–2012
1158:Division
1142:2000–2008
1000:Division
968:1994–2000
849:Division
828:1991–1994
687:Division
671:1981–1991
539:Division
519:with the
499:1974–1981
408:Division
365:1963–1974
292:Division
267:1947–1963
258:divisions
228:Division
204:1933–1944
60:Division
2382:fupa.net
2157:Oberliga
2132:Oberliga
2054:Oberliga
1451:NRW-Liga
816:Amateur-
809:Amateur-
802:Amateur-
792:Amateur-
782:Amateur-
775:Amateur-
756:Amateur-
659:Amateur-
652:Amateur-
645:Amateur-
635:Amateur-
625:Amateur-
618:Amateur-
599:Amateur-
2057:Gauliga
1981:Germany
1976:Germany
1956:Germany
1951:Germany
1797:3. Liga
1551:3. Liga
1374:3. Liga
1299:3. Liga
978:Nordost
256:Gauliga
214:Gauliga
2100:3.Liga
1941:Scheme
1745:Level
1494:Level
1317:Level
1153:Level
995:Level
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682:Level
534:Level
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287:Level
223:Level
55:Level
24:, see
1998:2008–
1993:Level
381:as a
2236:VIII
984:and
974:Nord
2302:XII
2209:VII
2097:III
1790:III
1543:III
1366:III
1202:III
1044:III
986:Süd
904:III
749:III
592:III
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