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The Verbandsliga Württemberg is a German amateur football division administered by the Württemberg Football Association , one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Württemberg state association, the Verbandsliga is currently a level 6 division of the German football league system .

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32-543: The Verbandsliga Württemberg was introduced along with the superordinate Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 1978 as a merger between the Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg and the Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee . The top five teams of both divisions were promoted to the new Oberliga while the teams ranked six to twelve remained at Verbandsliga level. Both 13th ranked teams had to play a decider for

64-585: A place in the Regionalliga. The available last place then went to the SpVgg Unterhaching II. After a 2008–09 season with a large number of new clubs, the league returned to a normal promotion/relegation system, with the winner moving up to the 3. Liga and the three last-placed teams being relegated to the Oberliga, while the three southern Oberliga champions were promoted in turn. In 2008–09, two clubs from

96-616: Is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German football league system . Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fourth tier of the league system, and until the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 the third tier. The league was formed in 1978 as the highest level of play in the state. Previous to that, the four Amateurligas Nordwürttemberg , Schwarzwald-Bodensee , Südbaden and Nordbaden formed

128-688: The 2. Bundesliga : From the Regionalliga West/Südwest : From the Regionalliga Nordost : With the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 and of a third Regionalliga, the Regionalliga West , the league became the fourth tier of German football. The clubs from the regions which joined in 2000 left again and the Regionalliga Süd was once more only made up from clubs from Bavaria, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg. The make up of

160-537: The Amateurliga Nordwürttemberg : From the Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee : From the Amateurliga Nordbaden : From the Amateurliga Südbaden : Regionalliga S%C3%BCd (1994%E2%80%932012) The Regionalliga Süd (English: Regional League South ) was the fourth tier of the German football league system from 2008 to 2012. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008, it

192-669: The Oberliga Bayern : From the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg : From the Oberliga Hessen : The "new" Regionalliga Süd was actually a reformation of the "old" Regionalliga Süd which operated from 1963 to 1974 in the same region but then as the second tier of German football. Unlike the "old" Regionalliga, the new one allowed reserve teams to compete in it. Its first season saw the SpVgg Unterhaching winning

224-595: The Regionalliga Süd was introduced, and the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is automatically promoted to this league. In the inaugural season, five clubs from Baden-Württemberg were qualified for the new league, based on their performance over the last three seasons, these clubs being: Originally, a sixth place for the Oberliga was available but because the Stuttgarter Kickers , a club from Württemberg,

256-648: The Stuttgarter Kickers , which were promoted to the 3. Liga, the FC Bayern Alzenau which, despite being from Bavaria, opted to play in the Regionalliga Süd/Südwest and Karlsruher SC II which was ineligible for the Regionalliga after the first team of the club was relegated to the 3. Liga. No other team was relegated. The winners and runners-up of the league are: Source: "Regionalliga Süd" . Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv . Retrieved 19 March 2008 . The top goal scorers and spectator statistics for

288-477: The 18th club in the Regionalliga Süd, but due to its insolvency, the club was demoted to the Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen or below for the 2008–09 season. 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg was admitted to the Regionalliga in their stead, as the fifth-placed team in the largest of the southern football associations. Due to the refusal of a licence to Bayernliga champion SpVgg Bayreuth , Bamberg was awarded

320-400: The 2007-08 season, nominally the top four teams, however, there was also financial requirements to receive a Regionalliga license. The four clubs were: The winners of the three Verbandsligas gain automatic promotion to the Oberliga. The runners-up of North Baden then plays the runners-up of South Baden in a home-and-away series. The winner of this games faces the runners-up of Württemberg for

352-559: The 2009–10 season, 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg and SSV Reutlingen both declared insolvency, forcing them to be automatically relegated. In October 2010, another reform of the Regionalligas was decided upon. The number of leagues were now to be expanded to five, with the Bavarian clubs to leave the Regionalliga Süd and form their own Regionalliga Bayern. In their stead, the south western clubs from Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland would re-join

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384-545: The 2012-13 season, the Regionalliga Süd was disbanded, and the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg became a feeder league to the new Regionalliga Südwest , together with the Hessenliga and the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar . The league champions since 1979: Source: "Oberliga B/W" . Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv . Retrieved 7 March 2008 . The Oberliga started in 1978 with 20 clubs from four regions. From

416-542: The 3. Liga were relegated to the league. This would have increased the number of teams to 19. However, Waldhof Mannheim was transferred to the Regionalliga West for the next season. Hessen Kassel, who had hoped to join the Regionalliga Nord for 2009–10 had to remain in the south. Viktoria Aschaffenburg, which finished on a non-relegation rank, withdrew from the league, allowing Karlsruher SC II to remain in it. In

448-618: The Oberliga. The runners-up must play-off against the winner of the Verbandsliga Nordbaden versus Südbaden runners-up series for one additional promotion. In 1981 no extra spot and in 1994 three extra spots were available due to league format changes. Feeder leagues to the Verbandsliga Württemberg Usually, the teams ranked last four in the Verbandsliga are relegated to Landesliga directly. The winners of each of

480-702: The Württemberg football league system. At last the SpVgg Au/Iller played in the Verbandsliga during the 2009-10 season. Au/Iller is a part of the town Illertissen. The FV Illertissen also played in the Verbandsliga and even gained promotion to Oberliga in 2008 before leaving the Württemberg system in 2012 by joining the Bavarian Football Association upon introduction of the Regionalliga Bayern . The Verbandsliga champions gain direct promotion to

512-427: The club in the 2010–11 season were declared void. The SSV Ulm 1846 suffered a similar fate, but was able to complete its fixtures as friendlies. Nevertheless, the club was relegated and its record expunged. At the end of the season , the league became defunct with the Bavarian clubs joining the new Regionalliga Bayern while the remainder of the league members joined the new Regionalliga Südwest . The exceptions were

544-424: The clubs from the southwest of Germany to form the new Regionalliga Südwest . From 1963 to 1974, a Regionalliga Süd existed as the second tier of the German football league system, but this league is not directly related to the current one. The Regionalliga Süd was introduced in 1994 along with three other Regionalligas , those being: The reason for its introduction was to create a highest regional league for

576-490: The final Oberliga spot. Feeder Leagues to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg In the past two clubs which played in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg were not based in the state. TSV Amicitia Viernheim ( Hesse ) and SpVgg Au/Iller ( Bavaria ) both were in the Oberliga for a number of years. The separation of Nordbaden and Südbaden is not traditional. It results from the end of World War II when North Baden

608-401: The four Landesliga divisions win direct promotion to the Verbandsliga. The fifth-last team of the Verbandsliga have to play-off against the best Landesliga runner-up for one spot in the Verbandsliga. The number of direct relegations can vary depending on the number of Württembergian teams relegating from the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg to the Verbandsliga. The league champions and runners-up of

640-518: The last Verbandsliga spot. All other team were relegated to the Landesliga . Since its introduction, the Verbandsliga always was at the top of the Württemberg football league system and was set at level 4 of the German football league system originally. After the introduction of both the Regionalliga Süd in 1994 and of the 3. Liga in 2008, as of today has been downgraded to level 6 of the system. There are some clubs from western Bavaria playing in

672-467: The league and being promoted to the 2. Bundesliga while three out of the four teams relegated came from Hessen. After six seasons, in 2000, the number of Regionalligas was reduced from four to two. Only the Regionalligas Süd and Nord survived. The clubs of the other two were spread according to their geographical location. To make room for these extra clubs without expanding past the 18 team number,

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704-477: The league. Source: "Verbandsliga Württemberg" . Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv . Retrieved 12 March 2008 . The complete list of clubs in the league and their league placings since 1994. Oberliga Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is the highest association football league in the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg football league system. It

736-467: The league. The new system is due to come into operation in the 2012–13 season. It was also decided to limit the number of reserve teams per Regionalliga to seven. In the 2010–11 season, SpVgg Weiden declared insolvency due to more than Euro 1 million in debts. Unable to raise enough funds to continue competing in the league, Weiden declared on 30 November 2010 that it would withdraw its Regionalliga team and thereby automatically be relegated. All games for

768-461: The leagues was: When the 2007–08 season finished on 31 May 2008, the following teams had fulfilled the on-the-field qualification for the Regionalliga . However, financial qualification was also necessary. Remaining in the Regionalliga Süd : From the Oberliga Bayern : From the Oberliga Hessen : From the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg : Sportfreunde Siegen were intended to be

800-426: The seven bottom placed teams were supposed to be relegated. However, FC Augsburg (8th) did not receive a license for the next season and Karlsruher SC II (12th) had to drop down because the first team was relegated to the Regionalliga and regulations forbid two teams from the same club to compete in the same league at this level. The relegated clubs were: In their stead, the following seven teams were admitted: From

832-404: The south of Germany and to allow its champions, and some years the runners-up too, to be directly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga . Previous to the introduction of the four Regionalligas, below the second division were ten Oberligas. Those ten Oberliga champions had to go through a promotion play-off rather than being directly promoted. The Regionalliga Süd originally was made up from clubs from

864-468: The three original states. However, in 2010–11, the Wormatia Worms , a club from Rhineland-Palatinate, competed in the league. The Regionalliga Süd was formed in 1994 with 18 clubs, originally with six from each of the three Oberligas. However, Baden-Württemberg lost one spot due to the Stuttgarter Kickers being relegated from the 2. Bundesliga. The founding members were: From 2. Bundesliga : From

896-475: The three southern states of Bavaria , Hesse and Baden-Württemberg . In 2000, with the reduction of the number of Regionalligas to two, the league also covered the states of Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland and Thuringia . It also incorporated one club from Northrhine-Westphalia , the Sportfreunde Siegen . From 2008, with re-expansion to three Regionalligas, the league again only contained clubs from

928-548: The tier right below the 2nd Bundesliga . The Amateurligas changed their name since into Verbandsliga. The Amateurligas Nordwürttemberg and Schwarzwald-Bodensee merged to form the Verbandsliga Württemberg . The three Verbandsliga's now feed the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. Until 1994, the winners of the Oberligas had to play-off for the four promotion spots to the 2nd Bundesliga with the other Oberliga winners. In 1994,

960-637: Was in the American occupation zone and South Baden in the French . Inter zone travel was difficult then and two separate leagues developed. Until 1950 the clubs from the South Baden and the Schwarzwald-Bodensee regions actually played in the southwest league system, the old (1945–1963) Oberliga Südwest , only after that were they integrated into the southern league system, where they geographically belonged. For

992-455: Was relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga that year, the club took up this spot. After the reduction of the number of Regionalligas from four to two in 2000, the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg still remained below the Regionalliga Süd, but this reduction meant that the Oberliga champions in that year were not promoted. With the changes in the league system in 2008, there was four clubs from the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg promoted to Regionalliga Süd after

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1024-475: Was the third tier. It was the highest regional league for the southern part of Germany . It covered the states of Bavaria , Hesse and Baden-Württemberg and was one of three leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga West . The league was disbanded at the end of the 2011–12 season, with the Bavarian clubs joining the new Regionalliga Bayern while the others joined

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