Bezirksoberligen Bayern

In the Bavarian Football League System, the seven Bezirksoberligas are the third highest level, below Oberliga and Landesliga. They are the 7th tier of the German football league system.

Overview

The seven Bezirksoberligas were introduced in 1988 to create a highest single-division playing level for each of the seven Bezirke. Before that the Bezirksligas were located right below the Landesliga in the pyramide. They were created upon suggestion of the 1. FC Sonthofen. It is somewhat ironic that it took this club till 1998 to gain promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben.

The winners of the seven Bezirksoberligas are automatically promoted to their respective Landesliga. The second placed teams face a series of play-off matches to determind one or two more promotion spots.

Teams relegated from the Bezirksoberliga drop into the Bezirksliga which there is usually two of, except Oberbayern were there is three.

Only two clubs have managed to win a Bezirksoberliga three times, TSV Kottern (Schwaben) and SV Erlenbach (Unterfranken).

The German term "Bezirksoberliga" is best translated as "County Premier League". The Bezirke are political and administrative unit similar to a County in size.

Relation of Bezirksoberligas to Landesligas

*Bezirksoberliga Schwaben - Landesliga Bayern-Süd
*Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern - Landesliga Bayern-Süd

*Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken - Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
*Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz - Landesliga Bayern-Mitte
*Bezirksoberliga Niederbayern - Landesliga Bayern-Mitte

*Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken - Landesliga Bayern-Nord
*Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken - Landesliga Bayern-Nord

Teams in the Bezirksoberligas

External links

* [http://www.bfv.de/ Bayrischer Fussball Bund (Bavarian FA)]
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fussball Archiv ]
* [http://www.bayliga.de/ Bavarian League tables and results]