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34-472: Until 2005 the team played as FSV Frankfurt Amateure during the times the senior side played in professional football. During the times the first time was outside professional football and permanently since 2005 the team played under the name of FSV Frankfurt II. The team's greatest success has been a championship in the Hessenliga in 2010 which took the club up to Regionalliga level for three seasons. At

68-495: A Regionalliga licence. The four clubs were: The Hessenliga is fed by the three Verbandsligen. The winners of those are directly promoted to the Hessenliga, the three runners-up play-off for one more promotion spot. The Hessenliga also, at times, accommodated teams from Bavaria , Viktoria Aschaffenburg and FC Bayern Alzenau . In the 2011–12 season, Viktoria played in the league while Alzenau played one level above in

102-534: A fixed direct promotion. Another direct promotion place is assigned according to a rotation principle among the Regionalligen Nord , Nordost and Bayern champions. The representatives from the remaining two Regionalligen determine the fourth promoted club in two-legged playoffs. The history and development of the Regionalligen in maps: In Austrian soccer, Regionalliga represents

136-603: A large number of insolvencies. These were caused by a lack of media interest in the leagues combined with large expenses and infrastructure demands. The five Regionalligen from 2012 are: Some regional football associations also made changes to the league system below the Regionalliga in their area. From the 2012–13 season, the Bavarian Football Association split the Bayernliga into

170-580: A northern and a southern division, and increased the number of Landesligen from three to five. At the end of March 2023, the Western German Football Association (WDFV) confirmed the Regionalliga West 's status as a professional league for the first time with regard to the 2023–24 season's licensing procedure. North Rhine-Westphalia had already classified the league as such in the 2020–21 season to enable

204-439: A result, the third division has had four relegation places. At the 97th DFB-Bundestag in 2019, a working group under DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth unsuccessfully proposed a system involving four rather than five regional leagues. Instead, the delegates reformed the promotion scheme from the 2020–21 season, in which there continued to be four promotions to the 3. Liga . The Regionalliga West and Südwest each provide

238-467: A return to Landesliga level in 2005 and won the league in 2008–09, the first season after it had been renamed to Verbandsliga. In the Hessenliga for the first time FSV Frankfurt II won this league as well in 2010 and earned promotion to the tier four Regionalliga. It finished in the relegation zone in the Regionalliga Süd in 2010–11 and 2011–12 but was rescued by insolvencies of other clubs in

272-605: Is BV Cloppenburg , who was assigned to the Western division for the 2008–09 season despite being located in Lower Saxony. In October 2010, yet another reform of the Regionalligen was decided upon, with the number of leagues expanding to five and beginning play in the 2012–13 season. Under this new format, the old Regionalliga Nordost would be re-established and the new Regionalliga Südwest and Regionalliga Bayern would be created. The Südwest would take clubs from

306-536: The 2. Bundesliga was regulated without much continuity. It was a problematic rule, as becoming champion of a division did not automatically mean promotion for that team. The champions of the South and West/Southwest divisions were automatically promoted, however, along with one of the two runners-up. The champions of the North and Northeast divisions had a play-off to decide who would get the fourth promotion spot. This rule

340-474: The 2. Bundesliga with the other Oberliga winners. In 1994, with the introduction of the Regionalliga, six clubs from Hesse were qualified for the new league, based on their performance over the last three seasons, these clubs being: Originally, FSV Frankfurt , champions of 1994, would have also been qualified but gained promotion to the 2. Bundesliga instead. The Oberliga Hessen still remained below

374-555: The 3. Liga and promotions from the Oberliga . As clubs in the Regionalliga must have their teams licensed by the DFB on a per-season basis, a team may also be relegated by having its license revoked or by going into administration . Reserve teams are also relegated when the respective first team is relegated to the 3. Liga . Matchday squads in the Regionalliga must include at least six players of German nationality and under

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408-550: The German football league system . Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fourth tier of the league system, until the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 the third tier. The league was formed in 1945 and except for its first two seasons it has always played as one single division. The league was called Landesliga -Hessen until 1950 and actually formed the second tier of southern German football. With

442-520: 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 3. Liga in 2008, it became

476-470: The "numerous professional footballers" to continue practicing their profession. At that time, for example, the game operations in the four remaining regional leagues had been stopped prematurely. At the 96th DFB-Bundestag in December 2017, delegates decided to change the promotion rules and, without success, reduce the number of leagues to four. To achieve this, a temporary solution was put into place for

510-406: The 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons. Four teams were promoted and there were three guaranteed promotion places from the champions of the five regional leagues. The champion of the southwest league, which gave up its second playoff place, were promoted automatically in the next two seasons. Additionally there were two teams promoted from the other four regional leagues. In the 2018–19 season, the champion of

544-400: The DFB but rather by the regional football associations. In regards to reserve teams, initially only seven were permitted per league, however, this rule may be subject to change under certain circumstances. Reserve sides of 3. Liga teams are not permitted in the Regionalliga . The reorganisation of the Regionalligen so soon after the last changes in 2008 became necessary because of

578-559: The Erste Liga (second tier). A club that wants to play in the Regionalliga must meet two conditions. First, the team must qualify for the league. Second, the club must obtain a license from the DFB . This license is granted if the club can prove that they are financially sound, that their stadium conforms to the security regulations, and that they have a working youth section. The champions of three divisions are automatically promoted;

612-532: The Regionalliga Süd after the reduction of the number of Regionalligas from four to two in 2000 but this reduction meant that the Oberliga champions in that year were not promoted. With the changes in the league system in 2008, four clubs from the Hessenliga were promoted to Regionalliga Süd after the 2007–08 season, nominally the top four teams, however, there was also financial requirements to receive

646-561: The Regionalliga. From 2012 onwards, the league became a feeder league to the new Regionalliga Südwest , together with the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar . The previous league the Hessenliga was set below at, the Regionalliga Süd, was disbanded after the 2011–12 season. The league champions since 1945: The complete list of clubs and placings in

680-508: The club's academy while, even at Oberliga level, it still had taken up 55 percent. The club's honours: The recent season-by-season performance of the club: Hessenliga The Hessenliga (until 2008 Oberliga Hessen ) is the highest football league in the state of Hesse and the Hessian football league system. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of

714-508: The end of the 2013–14 season the team was disbanded after a rule change that freed professional clubs from having to field a reserve side. Playing at regional amateur level FSV Frankfurt II first rose to higher league levels in 1985 when it won promotion to the tier four Landesliga Hessen-Süd , at a time when the senior team had dropped out of professional football two years earlier. It was relegated from this league after only one season and disappeared into regional football again. The team made

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748-401: The first instance and by a league reform in the second. The team entered the new Regionalliga Südwest for 2012–13 and finished once more on a relegation spot, now dropping back to the Hessenliga again. It finished fifth in the league in 2013–14 and the team was disbanded at the end of it as professional sides were no longer required to field reserve teams. The mother club had decided to withdraw

782-422: The fourth tier of football in Germany after the introduction of a new nationwide 3. Liga . However, there was an expansion to three divisions: "Covering" meant that the single divisions were annually re-aligned to geographic location by a DFB committee in order to have 18 teams assigned to each division every year. This led to teams assigned to a division other than their geographical one. An example for this

816-465: The fourth tier. While all of the clubs in the top three divisions of German football are professional, the Regionalliga has a mixture of professional and semi-professional clubs. From the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 until the formation of the 2. Bundesliga in 1974, there were five Regionalligen , forming the second tier of German Football: The champions and runners-up of

850-617: The introduction of the 2nd Oberliga Süd in 1950, the Landesliga-Hessen was renamed Amateurliga Hessen. From 1978, it was called Amateur Oberliga Hessen and finally, in 1994 it was renamed Oberliga Hessen. Since introduction of the Regionalliga Süd in 1994, the winner of the Oberliga Hessen is automatically promoted to this league. Until 1994 the winners of the Oberligas had to play-off for the four promotion spots to

884-458: The league since being renamed to Hessenliga in 2008: Formerly TSV Lehnerz Formerly Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg Regionalliga A Regionalliga ( German pronunciation: [ʁeɡi̯oˈnaːlˌliːɡa] , plural Regionalligen ) is a regional league in numerous sports governing bodies in Germany , Austria and Switzerland , usually located in the upper or middle tiers of

918-399: The northeast league was also promoted directly. The winner of the third guaranteed promotion place was decided by the drawing of lots. The remaining two regional league champions of the 2018–19 season faced off in a two-legged playoff determining the fourth promotion place. The two regional leagues whose teams took part in the playoff automatically had promotion places for the 2019–20 season. As

952-425: The remaining two take part in the promotion round to the 3. Liga at the end of the season for the fourth promotion. Reserve teams are also eligible for promotion unless the respective first team is playing in the 3. Liga . At least the bottom two teams of each division are demoted to their respective Oberliga . The actual number of teams relegated from every division depends on the number of relegations from

986-478: The respective divisions played out two promotion spots to the Bundesliga in two groups after the end of the season. In 1974, the two 2. Bundesligen , Süd and Nord became the second tier of German Football and the Regionalligen ceased existing for the next 20 years. In 1994, the Regionalligen were re-introduced, this time as the third tier of German Football. There were initially four Regionalligen : Between 1994 and 2000, promotion to

1020-411: The side for financial reasons, similar to Eintracht Frankfurt II and Bayer 04 Leverkusen II . The management of FSV Frankfurt stated that, since 2008, only one player from the reserve side had managed to advanced to the first team while a much larger number had moved up directly from the under 19 team. Additionally, fielding the reserve side in the Regionalliga had taken up 70 percent of the budged of

1054-646: The southern portion of the Regionalliga West and also everything from the Regionallia Süd outside of Bavaria. It was also decided to limit the number of reserve teams per Regionalliga to seven. The five league champions and the runners-up of the Regionalliga Südwest play-off for the three promotion spots in a home-and-away series. The new leagues consist of up to 22 clubs in their inaugural seasons but were reduced to between 16 and 18 clubs. The Regionalligen are not administered by

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1088-408: The third highest tier, after Austrian Bundesliga (top tier) and Erste Liga (second tier). Unlike the two top tiers, which are true national leagues, Regionalliga is organized in three regional divisions: Ost (East), Mitte ("Middle"), and West (West). A short playoff circle omg the three winners of each division at the end of the season (played as home and away games) determines the team to move up to

1122-471: Was justified because there are more clubs in the southern part of Germany than the north. In 1998, the promotion rule was changed again: the winner of the play-off between the North and Northeast division champions was promoted, while the loser faced the runners-up from the West/Southwest and South divisions in another play-off for the remaining promotion spot. In 2000 the number of Regionalligen

1156-499: Was reduced to two: The new divisional alignment was not bound to certain states any more so teams were moved between the divisions in order to balance club numbers. This led to some clubs in the Southern division being geographically further north than some northern clubs, and vice versa. The champions and the runners-up of both divisions were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga . In 2008, the Regionalligen were demoted to become

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