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35-680: With the reorganisation of the German league system in 2012, the NRW-Liga was disbanded once more as the Regionalliga West above it would then only contain clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia. The league was replaced by the three regional leagues, the Mittelrheinliga , Niederrheinliga and Oberliga Westfalen at this level. The NRW-Liga was established in 2008 as a feeder league to the also new Regionalliga West . The new Oberliga

70-410: A Regionalliga licence and relegated. This meant, the three last-placed teams in the league that season were after all reprieved and not relegated. For Rot-Weiss Essen this was especially bitter, having been the best-supported club in the league for the second year running, with 5,955 spectators per home game. The gap to the second best supported team however, the 1. FC Saarbrücken, was not as wide as in

105-434: A clear gap to a non-relegation rank, while 16th placed Borussia Mönchengladbach reserves was on equal points with no less than four other clubs. All three however were spared from relegation. The top goal scorers in the second season of the league were Ercan Aydogmus and Christian Knappmann, having both scored 16 goals each. At the end of the 2009–10 season, Rot-Weiss Essen, Waldhof Mannheim and Bonner SC were all refused

140-608: A format that could have enabled all Regionalliga champions to be promoted. On that date, the Bundestag delegates voted to grant the Südwest and West champions two direct promotions indefinitely starting in 2021. A third direct promotion place will be assigned according to a rotation principle among the Regionalliga Nord, Nordost and Bavarian champions. The representatives from the remaining two Regionalligen will determine

175-596: A two-legged promotion play-off for the last promotion spot. In 2020, the three direct promotion spots will go to the Südwest champions and the champions of the two leagues that participated in the promotion play-off in the previous season, while the Nordost and West champions participate in the play-off. This format was initially installed as a temporary solution until the DFB-Bundestag in September 2019 decided on

210-540: Is actually a merger of the Oberliga Nordrhein and the Oberliga Westfalen , giving the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen its first statewide league since the "old" Regionalliga West was disbanded in 1974. Due to the introduction of the 3. Liga in the same year, unlike the two old Oberliga groups who were set at tier four of the league system, the new league will be fifth tier. The league will retain

245-696: Is currently a level 4 division of the German football league system . It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern , Regionalliga Nordost , Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Südwest . The league came into existence in August 2008 and was formed from the five Regionalliga clubs in its region which did not achieve admittance to the new 3rd Liga and thirteen Oberliga clubs. The number of clubs in

280-623: The Oberliga Westfalen : From the Oberliga Südwest : From the Oberliga Nord : The winners and runners-up of the league are: The top goal scorers and spectator statistics for the league are: Final league positions for clubs from the region currently covered by the league: Final league positions for clubs from the regions formerly covered by the league: Oberliga Nordrhein The Oberliga Nordrhein

315-628: The Regionalligas was decided upon. The number of leagues was now expanded to five, with the Regionalliga West losing clubs from the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. The new system came into operation with the start of the 2012–13 season. It was also decided to limit the number of reserve teams per Regionalliga to seven. The later however is planned to be achieved through the shifting of clubs between leagues rather than restricting

350-751: The Verbandsliga Westfalen 2: The final placings in the league: . Regionalliga West The Regionalliga West is a German professional football division administered by the Western German Football Association based in Duisburg . It is one of the five German regional football associations. Being the single flight of the Western German state association, the Regionalliga

385-551: The Wuppertaler SV were relegated from the 3rd Liga to the Regionalliga . Wormatia Worms had left the league for the southern division to avoid an uneven number of teams between the three Regionalligas after two of the three 3rd Liga outgoers had been from the west. The 2010–11 season saw the league feature thirteen clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia, of which eight are from Westphalia. Of the other five, two were from

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420-641: The NRW-Liga gained direct entry to the Regionalliga while the teams placed fourth to seventh had to play-off with the four champions from the leagues below to determine four additional promoted teams. Remaining in the NRW-Liga: From the 3. Liga : From the Regionalliga West : From the Verbandsliga Niederrhein: From the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein: From the Verbandsliga Westfalen 1: From

455-741: The Oberliga Nordrhein had to compete with the winners of the Oberligas Nord , Berlin and Westfalen for two 2nd Bundesliga spots. Upon creation of the Regionalligas in 1994, the champions of the Oberligas were directly promoted again, however the Oberligas slipped to fourth tier in the German football league system. The top six teams in the Oberliga that year were qualified for the new Regionalliga West/Südwest , however,

490-422: The Saarland while the remaining three were from Rhineland-Palatinate. Unlike the previous two seasons, no club from outside those three states competes in the league this year. It also featured a record ten reserve teams, leaving only eight first teams in the league. The league was won by Preußen Münster , who finished with a ten-point gap to second-placed Eintracht Trier . In October 2010, another reform of

525-723: The Verbandsliga groups were renamed Niederrheinliga, Mittelrheinliga and 2 groups of Westfalenliga. With the end of the 2011-12 season, after four seasons of existence, the NRW-Liga was disbanded again. The place of the league as the fifth tier in North Rhine-Westphalia was then taken up by three regional leagues, the Mittelrheinliga and Niederrheinliga for the North Rhine region and the reformed Oberliga Westfalen for Westphalia. The top three clubs from

560-506: The best supported club in the league. Second in this ranking was Preußen Münster with 3,649 spectators per game while the reserve side of Bayer Leverkusen came last in this ranking, attracting only 247 spectators per home game. Sascha Mölders of Rot-Weiss Essen was by far the best scorer in the league scoring 28 times during the season, nine times more than the second-best, Christopher Kullmann . The reserve team of Fortuna Düsseldorf , 1. FC Saarbrücken and Bonner SC were promoted to

595-534: The champion, Fortuna Düsseldorf , won promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga and Bayer Leverkusen II declined, therefore only four teams went to the Regionalliga, the clubs being: Additionally to those four clubs, two teams from the Nordrhein region were relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga in 1994, entering the Regionalliga as well, these being the Wuppertaler SV and the Rot-Weiß Essen . With the reduction of

630-400: The four Verbandsliga groups of the two predecessor Oberliga groups as its feeder leagues, with the champion of each of those gaining direct promotion to the NRW-Liga. In turn, the top two teams of the NRW-Liga will gain promotion to the Regionalliga West. The league was made up from a set quota of teams from each of the two predecessor Oberliga groups and the four Verbandsliga groups. While

665-473: The fourth promoted club in two-legged playoffs. 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 the "numerous professional footballers" to continue practicing their profession. At that time, for example,

700-686: The game operations in the four remaining regional leagues had been stopped prematurely. The Regionalliga West was formed in 2008 with 18 clubs, five from the two Regionalligas (III), four each from the Oberligas Südwest, Nordrhein and Westfalen (IV) and one from the Oberliga Nord (IV). The founding members were: From the Regionalliga Nord : From the Regionalliga Süd : From the Oberliga Nordrhein : From

735-633: The league for the following season, while Waldhof Mannheim crossed over from the southern division to the west. The second edition of the competition was won by the 1. FC Saarbrücken, a club freshly promoted from the Oberliga who had played in the Bundesliga in the past but fallen down the ranks in the league system. 1. FCS beat Sportfreunde Lotte by eight points to the top spot. At the bottom end, Eintracht Trier and Wormatia Worms, two clubs from Rhineland-Palatinate, were in 17th and 18th spot with

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770-485: The league was the Preußen Münster , finishing fourth, 15 points clear of the champion. At the bottom of the table, 1. FC Kleve and BV Cloppenburg suffered relegation, while 16th placed Wormatia Worms was spared because FSV Oggersheim , in 12th place, did not apply for a licence for the next season. The league had an average number of 1,372 spectators by game, with Rot-Weiss Essen with 7,077 per game by far

805-505: The league. This moving-around of clubs was done to balance out the three Regionalligas in numbers. In 2010–11, in turn, Wormatia Worms , a club nominally belonging to the West, played in the South. In its first season, the league was won by the reserve team of Borussia Dortmund , which finished three points ahead of the reserve side of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern . The best non-reserve side in

840-566: The league: The Oberliga started in 1978 with 18 clubs from two regions and the 2. Bundesliga. From the 2. Bundesliga Nord : From the Verbandsliga Niederrhein : From the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein : At the end of the 2007–08 season, the Oberliga Nordrhein was disbanded and its clubs distributed to various leagues according to the season's final standings: To the Regionalliga West : To

875-502: The leagues below the Oberliga. Additionally, two teams from the 2nd Bundesliga were relegated to the new league, bringing the initial number of teams to eighteen. Originally, the league was called Amateur Oberliga Nordrhein, from 1994 this was shortened to just Oberliga Nordrhein. With the introduction of the unified 2nd Bundesliga in 1981, direct promotion for the Oberliga champions became impossible again because there were eight of them competing for four promotion spots. The champion of

910-504: The new Regionalliga West , clubs from place five to eleven went to the new Oberliga while the bottom seven teams were relegated to the Verbandsligas. The last round of games to be played in the league was on 18 May 2008. Throughout the league's existence the two leagues below the Oberliga were: The Schwarz-Weiß Essen is the only club to have played all 30 seasons in the league. The league champions: The final placings in

945-485: The new league was set at eighteen. Along with the formation of this league there was a merger of the Oberligas below it, with Nordrhein and Westfalen forming the new NRW-Liga , while the Oberliga Südwest remained independent. With the inception of the new Regionalliga West in 2008, there were now three Regionalligas which form the fourth tier of the German football league system, these were: The league covered

980-456: The next eligible club would be admitted. There was some dispute about the name of the league with the suggestion having been made to rather call it Oberliga West , a league of that name having already existed from 1947 to 1963, the "old" Oberliga West . The previous league of that name was a tier one league but covered the same region. It has however been decided to officially call it NRW-Liga , short for Nordrhein-Westfalen-Liga. Additionally,

1015-519: The number of Regionalligas from four to two in 2000, the Oberliga Nordrhein was now located below the Regionalliga Nord . With the creation of the 3rd Liga in 2008 the Oberliga Nordrhein was replaced by the Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen, which now is the fifth tier of the league system. The Oberliga Nordrhein ceased to exit after 30 seasons. Its clubs were split up over three league levels. The first four teams were promoted to

1050-401: The overall number of reserve teams. As four teams were relegated from the 3rd Liga starting at the end of the 2018–19 season, the Regionalliga West champions, along with their counterparts from the Nordost and Südwest, were promoted directly to the 3rd Liga. The West was chosen by a draw. The remaining two champions also determined by the same draw, from the Regionalliga Nord and Bayern, played

1085-451: The previous year, Saarbrücken attracting 4,796 spectators a game. Bayer Leverkusen II was once more the least-best supported team but managed to raise its average to 401 spectators by game. Overall, support for the league in its second yearwent up. The teams promoted from the Oberliga at the end of the season were FC 08 Homburg , SC Wiedenbrück and the reserves of Arminia Bielefeld . The reserves of Borussia Dortmund, 2009 champions, and

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1120-408: The same region, as the now defunct Regionalliga West/Südwest did from 1994 to 2000. It also shares its name with the "old" Regionalliga West , which operated from 1963 to 1974, but this league only covered the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2008–09, with BV Cloppenburg , it included a club from Lower Saxony , while in 2009–10, with Waldhof Mannheim , a club from Baden-Württemberg played in

1155-399: The top four clubs from Nordrhein and Westfalen were promoted to the Regionalliga, teams placed fifth to eleventh were headed go to the new NRW-Liga. The clubs placed twelve to eighteen were relegated to their Verbandsliga group. From the four Verbandsliga groups, the champions will each gain admittance, unless it would be a reserve team of a club already qualified for the Oberliga. In this case,

1190-581: The two regions of Mittelrhein and Niederrhein , which cover the western half of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. The main reason for the creation of this league was to allow its champion direct promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga Nord rather than having to go through a promotion play-off . It was created from nine clubs from the Verbandsliga Mittelrhein and seven clubs from the Verbandsliga Niederrhein which remained as

1225-474: Was the highest Football League in the region of Nordrhein which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 2008. In its last season, it was one of nine Oberligas in German football, the 4th tier of the German football league system . In 2008, it was replaced by the NRW-Liga (Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen), a new statewide league. The league was formed in 1978 as a highest level of play for

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