Regionalliga
Sign in to saveA '''''' (, plural ) is a regional league in numerous sports governing bodies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, usually located in the upper or middle tiers of the sports leagues.
Key facts
- Football league.logo
- Fußball-Regionalliga logo.svg
- Football league.pixels
- 175
- Football league.country
- Germany
- Football league.confed
- UEFA (Europe)
- Football league.teams
- 90
- Football league.organiser
- DFB
- Football league.level
- 2 (1963–1974)3 (1994–2008)4 (2008–present)
- Football league.champions
- TSV Havelse (Nord)Lokomotive Leipzig (Nordost)MSV Duisburg (West)TSG Hoffenheim (Südwest)1. FC Schweinfurt (Bayern)
- Football league.season
- 2024–25
- Football league.current
- 2025–26
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Follows
- 3. Liga
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Regionalliga-Staffeln ab 2012-13.png
- Organizer
- German Football Association
Show 11 more facts
- event interval
- 1
- season starts
- July
- topic's main category
- Category:Regionalliga
- inception
- 1963-00-00
- number of participants
- 93
- league level below
- Fußball-Oberliga
- league level above
- 2. Bundesliga
- league system
- German football league system
- sports league level
- 4
- competition class
- men's association football
- season ends
- May
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- History of the ''Regionalligen'' in Germany
- 1963–1974
- 1994–2000
- 2000–2008
- 2008–2012
- 2012–present
- Changes to promotion rules from 2018
- Maps
- Regionalliga in Austria since 1945
- League setup
- Licensing
- Promotion
- Relegation
- Squad rules
- Champions
- 1963–1974
- 1994–2000
- 2000–2008
- 2008–2012
- 2012–present
- References
- External links
A '''' (, plural ) is a regional league in numerous sports governing bodies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, usually located in the upper or middle tiers of the sports leagues.
The term is often associated with the German football league system where it is the fourth tier or one of the three divisions of Regionalliga in Austria, which represent the third tier in that country. Until 1974, Regionalliga was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was reintroduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new Germany-wide in 2008, it became the fourth tier. While all of the clubs in the top three divisions of German football are professional, the has a mixture of professional and semi-professional clubs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Regionalliga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.