The Hamburg Football Association ( German : Hamburger Fußball-Verband ), the HFV , is one of 21 state organisations of the German Football Association , the DFB , and covers the state of Hamburg and some parts of southern Schleswig-Holstein .
4-834: The HFV is also part of the Northern German Football Association , one of five regional federations in Germany . The other members of the regional association are the Bremen Football Association , the Lower Saxony Football Association and the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association . In 2017, the HFV had 181,233 members, 469 member clubs and 3,371 teams playing in its league system. This Hamburg -related article
8-507: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Northern German Football Association The Northern German Football Association ( German : Norddeutscher Fußball-Verband ; NFV ) is one of the five regional associations of the German Football Association ( German : Deutscher Fußball-Bund ; DFB ) and covers the four German states of Bremen , Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein . In 2017,
12-692: The NFV had 1,052,406 members, 3,800 member clubs and 27,686 teams playing in all its men, women and junior league systems. Since the 2012–13 season, at the top of the NFV men's league system sits the Regionalliga Nord , a level four division in the German football league system . The NFV itself is formed by the following state associations: The NFV was founded in 1905 as a merger of several local football associations in Northern Germany and used to administer
16-620: The Northern German football championship for the next decades. In 1933, the association along with all other regional associations was disbanded by the Nazi government, with all German football competitions now organized by the Reich . Soon after World War II , football competitions in Northern Germany typically restarted on an informal basis, with the NFV officially reintroduced in 1948. Until 1963,
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