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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.
Club Division League/Level City State German champion Cup wins Inter-national trophies VfV 06 Hildesheim: Oberliga Niedersachsen: 5 Hildesheim: Lower Saxony
Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund has the highest average attendance of any football club in the world. [44] Out of Europe's five major football leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Ligue 1, and Serie A), the Bundesliga has the lowest ticket prices and the highest average attendance. Many club stadia have large terraced areas for standing fans.
After the German reunification in October 1990, the Bundesliga became the league for all of Germany. West German football clubs have entered European association football competitions since the 1955–56 season, when Rot-Weiss Essen took part in European Cup competition.
This is a list of the men's national association football teams in the world. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the world's most important governing body for association football. A majority of national association football teams in the world are members of FIFA or one of its affiliated continental confederations.
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.
This is a list of clubs in the Bundesliga. It records all 57 clubs who played in the 61 seasons of the Bundesliga since its introduction in 1963 . The placings section is split in two periods, before and after the German reunification , which took place during the league's 1990–91 season, in October 1990.
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