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The Regionalliga Bayern (English: Regional league Bavaria ) is the highest association football league in the state of Bavaria ( German : Bayern ) and the Bavarian football league system . It is one of five Regionalligas in German football, the fourth tier of the German football league system , below the 3. Liga .

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66-590: The league was established at the end of the 2011–12 season and replaced the Regionalliga Süd at this level in Bavaria. The German league system, having gone through its last adjustment in 2008, when the 3. Liga was established and the number of Regionalligas increased from two to three, required another adjustment in 2011. The reason for this was the large number of insolvencies on the fourth level, caused by high cost and infrastructure requirements while, at

132-585: A decision. The 2019–20 season was interrupted by the coronavirus disease pandemic in Germany that broke out in March 2020. It was later suspended until 31 August, necessitating a cancellation of the 2020–21 season as the BFV approved a resumption of the preceding one with 17 teams after 1 September and its extension to mid-2021. The top goal scorers and spectator statistics for the league are: The first-ever round of

198-524: A league the additional ones would have to be moved to a different Regionalliga. Reserve teams of 3. Liga clubs are not permitted to play in the Regionalliga from 2012–13 onwards. The make up of the clubs entering the new Regionalligas from the leagues below was left to the regional football association and not regulated by the DFB . Specifically, this would have meant that, for Bavaria, should one or more of

264-586: A licence. The BFV planned to complete the licensing procedure by 20 April 2012 and notify all clubs of the outcome by that date, but this process was delayed. On 20 April 2012 the FSV Erlangen-Bruck opted to withdraw its Regionalliga application because of ongoing financial issues. All Bayernliga and Regionalliga clubs had their licence applications approved by 27 April 2012 while the Landesliga clubs had to wait another week before being notified of

330-544: 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

396-489: A rotation principle among the Regionalliga Nord, Nordost and Bavarian champions. The representatives from the two remaining Regionalligen will determine the fourth promoted club in two-legged playoffs. Because the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the 2019–20 season, it brought extraordinary circumstances about promotion. The team that led the table before the season was suspended, Türkgücü München , were promoted to

462-512: The 1860 Munich first team not being able obtaining a licence for the 2017–18 3. Liga and subsequently being admitted to the Regionalliga Bayern for the 2017-18 season. Originally they had finished the season in second place. 18th placed Bayern Hof were also relegated. The league was expanded for the 2017–18 season to admit TSV 1860 Munich. This meant that this year's league was held with 19 teams instead of 18. As no Bavarian team

528-724: 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

594-567: The 2021–22 3. Liga . The new league nominally plays with 18 clubs, however, in its first, transitional season the DFB permitted up to 22 clubs in the league, with the number eventually settling at 20. All Bavarian clubs from the current Regionalliga Süd were directly qualified for the league. Additionally, any Bavarian club relegated from the 3. Liga in 2012 would also have been qualified, however this did not eventuate. Restrictions existed however on reserve sides. No more than seven reserve teams were permitted per Regionalliga, should there be more in

660-539: The 3. Liga in 2008, the Regionalliga slipped to fourth tier, but also lost most of its top teams to the new league. In 2008–09, the team performed much better, finishing sixth in the league. The club enjoyed a very successful 2012–13 season, now in the Regionalliga Bayern , where it won the league championship and qualified for the play-offs to the 3. Liga but missed out on promotion when it lost to SV Elversberg 3–4 on aggregate. The following two seasons

726-569: The Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern . The team missed out on another promotion the following year, when it came equal second in the Bezirksoberliga but lost a decider to FC Miesbach. It took until 1995 for the side to return for another attempt at promotion, when a second-place finish meant a return to the Landesliga. Back in the Landesliga, the team won another promotion on first try, winning the league and moving up to

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792-629: The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg , decided to follow Aschaffenburg's example and switched to the Bavarian league system from the 2012–13 season onwards. Both Aschaffenburg and Illertissen fulfilled the qualifying norm and gained entry to the Regionalliga for 2012–13. The level below the new Regionalliga continued to be taken up by the Bayernliga, but now in two regional divisions, north and south. The league would consist of all

858-623: 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

924-404: The Regionalliga Nordost , the formation of the Regionalliga Bayern and a shift of the Regionalliga Süd to the new Regionalliga Südwest . The suggestion for the league reform had come from Bavaria, where, in a meeting of the Bavarian top-level amateur clubs at Wendelstein , the financial survival of the leagues and clubs in the current system was questioned. It resulted in the publication of what

990-536: The SpVgg Selbitz . Of those BC Aichach, for example, had finished only eighth in its league but as two licences were available and only BC Aichach and FC Augsburg II had applied for one from this league, the two clubs were automatically qualified for the play-off, without regards to the final position. Apart from the nine directly qualified clubs from the Bayernliga only the SV Heimstetten qualified for

1056-736: 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

1122-489: 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

1188-515: 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

1254-404: The 3. Liga for the 2020–21 season, and there was no official champion in 2020. As the BFV also curtailed competition in 2020–21, Bavaria were represented in a promotion play-off by FC Schweinfurt , who were fourth at the time the league was cancelled but subsequently won a regional play-off series . Schweinfurt were then defeated by TSV Havelse , the Regionalliga Nord champions, who won a place in

1320-490: 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

1386-415: The Bayernliga and, possibly, Regionalliga Süd clubs who failed to gain entry to the new Regionalliga Bayern. Additionally, the six Landesliga champions and runners-up who failed to qualify for the Regionalliga were also to be grouped in the Bayernliga. From the three Landesligas, the clubs placed third to eighth would also be directly qualified. Further places in the two Bayernligas were then determined between

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1452-412: The Bayernliga at the end of the 2011–12 season gained direct entry to the new Regionalliga. The clubs placed tenth to fifteenth took part in a promotion play-off with six Landesliga clubs, nominally the champions and runners-up of each of the three Landesligas, in a home-and-away knockout format for three additional clubs in the Regionalliga. The losers of these games would remain on Bayernliga level. Of

1518-435: The Bayernliga for the first time since 1963. There, 1860 won its fourth promotion in four years, taking out another league title and moving up to the tier-three Regionalliga Süd . The team spend the next four seasons in the Regionalliga, earning mid-table results in its first three seasons, but suffering relegation in 2001. Three years in the Bayernliga followed, in which the team finished runners-up twice before taking out

1584-541: The Bayernliga or Landesliga. Viktoria Aschaffenburg decided to take up this option in November 2011, voting to join the Bavarian association from 2012. Playing in the Hessenliga , the club, finishing in the top nine, was automatically qualified for the Regionalliga Bayern. If it finished tenth or worse, it would have been grouped in the northern division of the Bayernliga. In December 2011 FV Illertissen , playing in

1650-495: The Landesliga clubs placed ninth to 13th and the Bezirksoberliga champions. For the league's first season, 2012–13 , 20 clubs qualified to play in it, these being: Final league positions of all clubs who have played in the league: 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

1716-526: The Landesliga runners-up were entitled to participate in a Bayernliga promotion round, but the 1860 club itself was struck by disaster and its reserve team was withdrawn instead. What happened was that TSV 1860 had its 2. Bundesliga licence revoked and was forcefully relegated to the tier-three Amateur Oberliga Bayern , the Bayernliga . The team started its road to recovery when it won the tier-six Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Süd in 1990, to earn promotion to

1782-497: The Landesliga, 1860 narrowly avoided relegation to the Bezirksliga, finishing twelfth in the league. It turned fortunes around the following season, coming second behind SpVgg Kaufbeuren , but only the champion of the league was promoted in this era. Another runners-up finish followed in 1967, this time to FC Bayern Munich II. The team finished in mid-field in the following years but suffered another relegation in 1971, now to

1848-789: The Nordost and the West champions participate in the play-off. This format was installed initially as a temporary solution until the DFB-Bundestag in September 2019 decided on 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

1914-401: The Regionalliga through the play-offs. The other two available spots went to FC Augsburg II and Würzburger Kickers, who thereby jumped directly from the sixth to the fourth tier of the league system. The qualifying modus allowed for Bavarian clubs not playing in the states league system to qualify for the league too, should they finish on a direct qualification rank in their equivalent league to

1980-422: The Südwest and West, were promoted directly to the 3. Liga. The West was chosen by a draw. The remaining two champions also determined by the same draw, Bayern and Nord, played a two-legged promotion play-off for the last promotion spot. For 2020, the three direct promotion spots went to the Südwest champions and the champions of the two leagues that participated in the promotion play-off in the previous season, while

2046-454: The bottom of the table newly promoted FC Amberg and TSV Rain am Lech were both relegated again. The biggest home win in the league's history was recorded: 12–0, by FC Augsburg II against SV Seligporten. Marco Richter scored seven goals. Meanwhile, the biggest away win was 8–1, for SpVgg Unterhaching over VfR Garching. Unterhaching won the league for the first time, beating SV Elversberg for promotion. 1860 Munich II were relegated due to

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2112-427: 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

2178-422: The eighteen Bayernliga clubs, fifteen applied for a Regionalliga licence, with only Aindling, Gerstofen and Unterhaching II opting not to. FSV Erlangen-Bruck later withdrew its application. Only eight Landesliga clubs opted to apply for a Regionalliga licence, the clubs being FC Augsburg II , BC Aichach , SV Schalding-Heining , SSV Jahn Regensburg II , SpVgg Landshut , SpVgg Bayreuth , Würzburger Kickers and

2244-549: The financial risk the Regionalliga meant to them, breaking with a basic principle of German football that league champions would almost always be promoted. In a special conference of the German Football Association , the DFB , in October 2010, 223 of 253 delegates voted for a reform of the league system on the fourth level. The number of Regionalligas was to be expanded to five, with the reestablishment of

2310-542: The five league winners and the runners-up of the Süd/Südwest would play-off for three promotion spots. The promotion round will be played in home-and-away format, whereby the two clubs from the Süd/Südwest region can not be paired against each other. As the 3. Liga relegated four teams starting at the end of the 2018–19 season, the champions of the Regionalliga Nordost, along with their counterparts from

2376-475: The introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008, it 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

2442-518: The league again only contained clubs from 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

2508-475: 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,

2574-423: The league are: The following clubs have played in the league and achieved the following final positions: Source: "Regionalliga Süd" . Das deutsche Fussball-Archiv . Retrieved 9 December 2007 . TSV 1860 Munich II The TSV 1860 Munich II ( German : TSV 1860 München II ) is the reserve team of German football club TSV 1860 Munich , from the city of Munich , Bavaria . Until 2005,

2640-433: The league title in the second season of the league but was, like the reserve of 1860 Munich the year before, unable to win promotion in the promotion round to the 3. Liga. TSV Rain am Lech, Bayern Hof and Viktoria Aschaffenburg were directly relegated while FC Schweinfurt 05 and TSV 1860 Rosenheim entered the relegation round, with the former defending its league place while the later was relegated. The FV Illertissen was, for

2706-520: The league's logo. In March 2012 the BFV announced that the league champions, apart from having the opportunity to compete in the promotion round to the 3. Liga, would also qualify directly for the first round of the German Cup . Due to the ban of reserve teams in the German Cup, this spot would be handed to the best placed first team should the champions be a reserve side. With the deadline for

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2772-467: 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

2838-467: 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

2904-425: The licence applications for the new league set for 1 April 2012, 32 clubs had applied for the new league. Of those, one came from the 3. Liga, six from the Regionalliga, eight from the Landesliga and two from leagues outside Bavaria. Of the 18 Bayernliga clubs, 15 applied for a licence, with only TSV Gersthofen , TSV Aindling and SpVgg Unterhaching II deciding not to apply. Of the Landesliga clubs, eight applied for

2970-615: The make-up of the new league. It also meant that Bayernliga side SpVgg Unterhaching II and the Landesliga sides SSV Jahn Regensburg II and Wacker Burghausen II could not gain entry to the Regionalliga unless the first teams won promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. As Jahn Regensburg did indeed earn promotion the club's reserve side could have entered the league but finished only third in its Landesliga division and thereby narrowly missed out. The seventh Bavarian Regionalliga club, FC Bayern Alzenau , traditionally playing in Hesse 's league system,

3036-412: The most spectators per game, being seen by 12,000 spectators on each occasion. The 2015–16 season saw a new Regionalliga Bayern record set when 15,224 spectators attended Jahn Regensburg's home match in their new stadium against FC Bayern Munich II. Regensburg, relegated from the 3. Liga the previous season, won the league and gained promotion by defeating VfL Wolfsburg II in the promotion play-off. At

3102-487: The new Regionalliga Bayern while the others joined 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

3168-485: The new Regionalliga Bayern kicked off on 19 July 2012 with the opening game held at Bamberg , ending with a 1–0 home victory for FC Eintracht Bamberg against SpVgg Bayern Hof . Alexander Deptalla of Bamberg became the first ever goal scorer in the league. While the league attendance in the early rounds was below 900 spectators a match an attendance record was set when the reserve teams of Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 met in front of 6,000 spectators on 5 August 2012. The league

3234-423: The other three Bavarian clubs in the league, 1860 Munich II , Greuther Fürth II and Ingolstadt 04 II . However, as their first teams played in the 2. Bundesliga and could possibly have been relegated to the 3. Liga after the 2011–12 season, the reserve sides would then be barred from entry to the Regionalliga Bayern. As no Bavarian team was relegated from the 2. Bundesliga or 3. Liga, this clause had no effect on

3300-580: The same time, the clubs at this level complained about low incomes and little interest from TV broadcasters. Some Regionalliga requirements were seen as causing too much of a financial strain on amateur clubs, for example stadiums had to have at least 1,000 seats, and a separate stand with separate entrance for away spectators. Many clubs also struggled to cope with the 400-pages long license application, having to rely on volunteers rather than being able draw on permanent staff. This led to Oberliga champions even, at times, declining their right for promotion to avoid

3366-433: The second consecutive season the best non reserve side in the league and thereby qualified for the first round of the German Cup again. The league was won by Würzburger Kickers which thereby qualified for the promotion round to the 3. Liga and also the first round of the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal . Second and third place were taken up by the reserve teams of Bayern and TSV 1860 Munich. The encounters of these two teams also attracted

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3432-426: 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

3498-409: The side already to join other clubs. With this loss, the team was uncompetitive the following season, finishing fourteenth in the league and narrowly avoiding relegation. With the reorganisation of the German football league system in 1963, it became part of the new tier-four Landesliga Bayern-Süd after finishing fifteenth in the league when a top-seven finish was needed. In its first season in

3564-573: The team finished third in the Regionalliga. Because the first team relegated to 3. Liga and subsequently failed to pay the required license fee in June 2017, they relegated to Regionalliga Bayern and the reserve team, although finishing the 2016–17 season as second, relegated to Bayernliga Süd , the fifth German football tier. The club's honours: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. List coaches of

3630-407: The team played under the name of TSV 1860 München Amateure . In the 2023-24 season, the team plays in the tier-five Bayernliga Süd . Within the club, it operates as an under-21 side, designated to develop players from the youth to the first-team stage. 1860's amateur team first won promotion to Bavarias highest football league, then the tier-three Amateurliga Südbayern , in 1959, when it took out

3696-427: The third division, five points behind TSV Schwaben Augsburg . The following season, 1960–61, the team won its league, with Bayern Munich's reserve side coming second. 1860's amateur side was however ineligible for promotion as reserve teams could not rise above third division level. The team also declined participation in the Bavarian championship finals against northern champions 1. FC Haßfurt as nine players had left

3762-506: The three 3. Liga clubs from the state, SSV Jahn Regensburg , SpVgg Unterhaching or Wacker Burghausen , be relegated at the end of the 2011-12 season, they would directly enter the new Regionalliga Bayern. Additionally, the Bavarian Regionalliga clubs FC Memmingen , 1. FC Nürnberg II and Bayern Munich II would be directly qualified for the league, unless they earned promotion to the 3. Liga. The same rule also applied to

3828-492: The tier-five Bezirksliga. The team's decline went in line with the club's first team's relegation from the Bundesliga in 1970. 1860 Amateure returned to the Landesliga in 1973 and earned another runners-up finish in its first year back. In 1976, the team once more was relegated to the Bezirksliga. The team once more returned from the Bezirksliga in 1980 and finished as runners-up in the Landesliga in 1981-82. Since 1981,

3894-673: The title in the 2. Amateurliga Oberbayern and then won the Oberbayern final against FSV Pfaffenhofen. The Amateurliga Südbayern was then one of two leagues at this level in Bavaria, covering the southern half of the state while the Amateurliga Nordbayern existed in parallel in the north. TSV 1860 München Amateure, as the team was then known as, was the third reserve side to reach this level in Bavaria, pre-dated only by 1. FC Nuremberg II and FC Bayern Munich II . The team finished an excellent second in its first year in

3960-407: The title once more in 2004. Back in the Regionalliga, the side became a struggler against relegation. In 2005, the team, like all reserve sides of Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams, changed its name permanently from Amateure to Second team, becoming TSV 1860 München II. In case of 1860, the team had already carried that name during the first team's time in the Bayernliga. With the establishment of

4026-624: Was called the Wendelsteiner Anstoß , which demanded a clear demarcation between professional football on the first three tiers of German football and amateur football below that. For this purpose, the paper also demanded the reestablishment of the German amateur football championship as an incentive and goal for top amateur clubs who did not want to turn professional. On 16 December 2011, the Bavarian Football Association (German abbreviation: BFV) introduced

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4092-434: Was grouped in the new Regionalliga Süd/Südwest, at their own request. Of the 3. Liga clubs, only the SpVgg Unterhaching considered it necessary to apply for a Regionalliga licence, as both Wacker and Jahn were placed in the top third of the 3. Liga at the time of the deadline and were unlikely to suffer relegation. Eventually, Unterhaching was able to finish above a relegation rank in the 3. Liga, too. The top nine clubs from

4158-469: Was made up from clubs from 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,

4224-416: Was relegated from the 3. Liga after the season, the number of teams was restored to 18 in the 2018–19 season. 1860 Munich captured the league title and, after a one-goal aggregate victory against 1. FC Saarbrücken in the promotion play-offs, earned promotion to the 3. Liga. The new five Regionalligas with their five league champions will not have the right to direct promotion to the 3. Liga anymore. Instead,

4290-420: Was to create a highest regional league for 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

4356-495: Was won by the reserve team of 1860 Munich , while FV Illertissen finished as the best non-reserve side and thereby earned the title of Bavarian amateur champion, which qualified the club for the first round of the German Cup . The league champions in turn qualified for the promotion round to the 3. Liga, in which it met the runners-up of the Regionalliga Südwest, SV Elversberg , and lost. FC Bayern Munich II won

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