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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.
Bundesliga clubs are required to be majority-owned by German club members (known as the 50+1 rule to discourage control by a single entity) and operate under tight restrictions on the use of debt for acquisitions (a team only receives an operating licence if it has solid financials); as a result 11 of the 18 clubs were profitable after the 2008 ...
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
During the first years of European competitions, Germany was divided into West and East Germany, so initially German football was represented by two countries and two different championships, the Bundesliga and the DDR-Oberliga. After the German reunification in October 1990, the Bundesliga became the league for all of Germany.
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]
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 .
However, should a club drop out of the Landesliga, its reserve side would have to return to reserve football. [5] With the introduction of the Bezirksoberliga in 1988, reserve teams from this league were permitted to enter regular league football, too. Some years later, this right was also awarded to Bezirksliga clubs.