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29-601: The league was founded in 1946 as the Rheinbezirksliga (Rhine District League), the highest division for the area covered by the Middle Rhine football association. A year later another division was added. In 1949 it became a second tier to the 2. Oberliga West . In 1956 it was demoted to the third tier after Verbandsliga Mittelrhein was founded. The league still remained as feeder to the Verbandsliga with

58-557: A home-and-away round robin. In 1979 and 1980 there was no play-offs as the nine southern Amateurligas had merged to four Oberligas and therefore each champion was promoted directly. This fact was actually the main reason for the merger. In 1975 and 1976 the champions of the Amateurligas Niederrhein , Mittelrhein and the second placed team in the Oberliga Nord played out two promotion spots. The champion of

87-512: Is a German amateur football division administered by the Football association of the Middle Rhine , one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Middle Rhine state association, the league is currently a level 5 division of the German football league system . Until 1956, a total of ten Landesliga divisions, among them two divisions of Landesliga Mittelrhein were

116-675: Is carried out every year on a geographical basis. The champions of each group are promoted to the Oberliga Mittelrhein, provided they are not reserve teams of senior clubs or are financially sound. Should a winner or both winners be deemed ineligible or refuse promotion, the next best-placed teams in their groups will be promoted. The number of promotions to the Oberliga depend on the number of relegations and promotions in that league. Teams ranked 13th (or 14th) and below are relegated to their respective Bezirksliga and are replaced by

145-510: Is necessary because there are more third division champions than promotion spots available. Originally there were fifteen Amateurligas which were reduced to eight Amateur Oberligas in 1978. From 1981 the 2. Bundesliga was reduced to one single league. After the introduction of the Regionalliga in 1994, the promotion round was greatly reduced in length, generally only involving two teams. Eventually, after 2000, all promotion spots to

174-599: The 2. Oberliga West : From the Landesliga Gruppe 1 : From the Landesliga Gruppe 2 : Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga (Football) The Promotion to the 2. Bundesliga (German: Aufstiegsrunde zur 2. Bundesliga ) are an end-of-season competition, held annually to determine the clubs that were promoted from the Amateurligas , later the Amateur Oberligas to the 2. Bundesligas . It

203-413: The 3. Liga , can not earn promotion. Rot-Weiss Essen Greuther Fürth Kickers Offenbach LR Ahlen These were staged in the five seasons from 1996 to 2000 to determine which team was directly promoted. From 1998, the loser of this games got a second chance for promotion by playing the runners-up of the other two Regionalligas . All listed teams were promoted: With the introduction of

232-479: The Amateurliga Berlin , the champion of the Oberliga Nord and the winner of the decider of the two Westfalen champions played out another two spots. In 1977 and 1978 the top four teams of the Oberliga Nord , the champions of the Amateurligas Niederrhein , Mittelrhein , Westfalen 1 , Westfalen 2 and Berlin played out the four promotion spots in two groups of four. Beforehand, a decider between

261-637: The Bundesliga in 1963, the league was set below the new Regionalliga West but remained as the third tier. With the exception of 1963 and 1974, when the league systems were changed, the champion continued to have the opportunity to win promotion. The clubs from the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein remained mostly unsuccessful as that, only achieving promotion in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1976 and 1978. The league operated with 16 clubs throughout most of its existence, only occasionally altering

290-597: The Oberligas . Oberliga teams were now promoted to the Regionalligas instead. With the introduction of the four Regionalligas in 1994, the system for promotion was somewhat simpler. The champions of the Regionalligas Süd and West/Südwest were always directly promoted. The Regionalligas Nord and Nordost were considered a single entity for the purpose of promotion, therefore only one of

319-582: The Verbandsliga Mittelrhein in 2008 renamed to Mittelrheinliga and later in 2012 renamed to Mittelrheinliga . The Verbandsliga Mittelrhein was upon its inception the third tier of the German football league system . The league champion had to play-off the winners of the Verbandsliga Niederrhein and the two divisions of Verbandsliga Westfalen for two promotion spots to the 2. Oberliga West . Upon introduction of

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348-647: The 2. Bundesliga were direct with no deciders necessary. Since the 2008–09 season, after the introduction of the 3. Liga , a promotion round was reintroduced. Originally , there were two 2. Bundesligas , the second tier of the German football league system , these being: In 1981, these were reduced to just one league, the 2. Bundesliga . In 1975, there were 15 Amateurligas , the third level of German football, these being: In 1978, these were reduced to four Amateur Oberligas , these being: In 1978, these were reduced to four Amateur Oberligas , these being: The following three Oberligas were formed in 1991, after

377-529: The 4th placed team from the North and the runners-up of Westfalen reduced the number to eight out of those nine. In 1979 and 1980 there was no play-offs as the six northern leagues merged to form four Oberligas like in the south. The champions of the Oberligas Nord , Nordrhein and Westfalen were promoted directly, the winner of Oberliga Berlin had to play the runners-up of the Oberliga Nord for

406-677: The German reunion. From 1975 until 1978 the champions of the Amateurligas Bayern and Hessen were directly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga . The winners of the Amateurligas Nordbaden , Südbaden , Schwarzwald-Bodensee and Württemberg played out a third promotion spot. The winners of the Amateurligas Saarland , Südwest and Rheinland played out a fourth spot. Both these rounds were played in

435-673: The Landesliga was first established as second-rate below the Oberliga West and was later slipped five times down to the seventh level by the introduction of the aforementioned higher leagues. Since the league structural reform of 2012 and the related dissolution of the NRW-Liga in favor of the Oberliga Mittelrhein, however, the league moved up from the seventh to the sixth level. The Landesliga Mittelrhein consists of eastern and western groups of 16 clubs each. The exact number of teams

464-549: The Verbandsliga continued to be directly promoted but since there was now four Verbandsligen below the Oberliga, the runners-up did not have the option of promotion unless the league winner declined. The NRW-Liga existed for only four seasons before it was disbanded again in 2012 in the wake of the Regionalliga West becoming a league for clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia only. While the Oberliga Westfalen

493-489: The champions and runners-up from each Bezirksliga. A reserve team is also relegated if its senior team drops down to the Landesliga. The top two in the inaugural season: The league champions of the two divisions since 1948: Oberliga Mittelrhein The Mittelrheinliga (English: Middle Rhine League ), sometimes also referred to as Oberliga Mittelrhein after its elevation to Oberliga status in 2012,

522-401: The changes in the league system in 2000, the reduction of the numbers of Regionalligas from four to two, direct promotion was available to the 2. Bundesliga once more. The champions and runners-up of the two Regionalligas moved up without having to play a promotion round. In some instances, a promotion spot was held by a reserve team of a Bundesliga or 2. Bundesliga side, in those cases,

551-424: The highest amateur level in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . After the regular season, the ten Landesliga champions had to play-off for two promotion spots to 2. Oberliga West . Upon decision of the superior Western German football association , in 1956 four divisions of Verbandsliga were introduced, one of them being the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein . These four divisions of Verbandsliga still exist today, with

580-477: The last spot. From 1982 until 1991 the play-offs were split into a north and a south group. In the southern group the four Oberliga champions of Bayern , Baden-Württemberg , Hessen and Südwest played out two promotion spots. In 1982 this was done in a single round system, afterwards in a home-and-away round robin. In the northern group the winners of the four Oberligas Berlin , Westfalen , Nordrhein and Nord played out two promotion spots. In 1982 this

609-440: The main reasons for this move was to provide direct promotion for the tier-three champions again. This season's league winner, Viktoria Köln , was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga; the clubs placed two to ten in the league were admitted to the new Oberliga, these being: Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, together with Niederrhein, remained as a feeder league for the new Oberliga, but now as a tier-four competition. Its champion, and some years

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638-433: The next-best placed first team was promoted instead. In 2008, the 3. Liga was established as the new third tier, between Regionalligas and 2. Bundesliga . The top-two teams out of the third division are directly promoted. The third placed club has to play the 16th placed team of the 2. Bundesliga in a home and away round to determine who receives the last spot in the second division. Reserve sides, which also play in

667-605: The numbers to balance out promotion and relegation. With the replacement of the Regionalliga by the 2nd Bundesliga Nord in 1974, the league champion had to gain promotion through a play-off system with the winners of the other tier-three leagues in northern Germany. In 1978, the Amateur-Oberliga Nordrhein was formed as the third tier of football in the region compromising the area of the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein and Verbandsliga Niederrhein . One of

696-545: The replacement of the 2. Oberliga West by the old Regionalliga West in 1963. In turn the Regionalliga was replaced by 2. Bundesliga Nord in 1974. In 1978 it was slipped to the fourth tier under the Oberliga Nordrhein , in 1994 it was the fifth under the current Regionalliga West , and in 2008 it was the sixth under the NRW-Liga which took over after Oberliga was abolished. In the German football league system,

725-624: The runners-up, were directly promoted to the Oberliga Nordrhein. With the re-introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994, the league slipped to tier five but remained unchanged otherwise. From 2008, with the introduction of the 3rd Liga, the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein was downgraded to the sixth tier. The league above it was then the new NRW-Liga , a merger of the Oberligas Nordrhein and Westfalen . The champion of

754-506: The two winners could get directly promoted. From 1996, the two winners of the league had to play a home-and-away decider. The reason for this was that each of the first two Regionalligas covered areas with a population and playing strength roughly equal to the combined second two. The fourth promotion spot was allocated the following way: With the reduction of the numbers of Regionalligas in 2000 to two, play-offs became unnecessary and two teams from each league were directly promoted. After

783-475: Was 13 teams in four groups with the group winner gaining promotion. Qualified to this play-off were the ten Oberliga champions, the runners-up from Oberliga Nord and two teams from 2. Bundesliga . In 1993 and 1994 the ten Oberliga champions and the runners-up from Oberliga Nord played in three groups, two times four and one time three, for three promotion spots. in 1994 the four Regionalliga were introduced as an intermediate between 2. Bundesliga and

812-421: Was done in a single round system, afterwards in a home-and-away round robin. From 1984 the runners-up of the Oberliga Nord was also included in this play-off, taking the number of teams to five. After the reunification of Germany the number of teams was extended. In 1991 there was an additional two groups of four teams from East Germany . The winner of each of those four groups were promoted. In 1992 there

841-523: Was established again in one half of the state the regions of Lower Rhine and Middle Rhine opted to elevate the Niederrheinliga and Mittelrheinliga to Oberliga status instead of reforming the Oberliga Nordrhein. The league champions since 1956: Source: "Verbandsliga Mittelrhein" . Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv . Retrieved 19 March 2008 . The final league placings of all clubs in the league since receiving Oberliga status in 2012: From

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