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Club Division League/Level City State German champion Cup wins Inter-national trophies VfV 06 Hildesheim: Oberliga Niedersachsen: 5 Hildesheim: Lower Saxony
The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for association football in Germany that in the 2016–17 season consisted of 2,235 leagues in up to 13 levels having 31,645 teams, in which all divisions are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation.
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.
Clubs are sorted by the name of the city they are from. Football in Germany is governed by the DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association). The founding clubs of the DFB are listed here. The senior football circuit in Germany is the Bundesliga. A list of clubs from the rest of the world is available here
The Dresden English Football Club is considered the first modern football club in Germany and probably the first in continental Europe. [6] [7] It was founded in 1874 by Englishmen living and working around Dresden. In the following 20 years the game achieved a growing popularity. Football clubs were founded in Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart. [8]
The Westfalenstadion, the largest football stadium in Germany and home of Borussia Dortmund. The following is a list of football stadiums in Germany with a total capacity of at least 20,000 spectators (seating and standing). Below a list of stadiums with a capacity of at least 10,000.
This category sub-divides the Category:Football clubs in Germany into the sixteen separate states, where the clubs come from. This is a container category . Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories .
DFB, its five regional and 21 state associations. The Süddeutscher Fussball-Verband was formed as the Verband Süddeutscher Fußball-Vereine on 17 October 1897 in Karlsruhe in a meeting of the eight leading football clubs in Southern Germany, these being the Karlsruher FV, Phönix Karlsruhe, Fidelitas Karlsruhe, 1.