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Verbandsliga

Field	Value
name	Verbandsliga
image	[[Image:Karte-DFB-Regionalverbände.png	100px	Map of state football associations in Germany]]
country	Germany
state	11 states
organisers	State associations of the DFB
leagues	21
promotion	Oberliga
relegation	Various (see text)
levels	Level 6 & 7

The Verbandsliga () is the tier-six football league in the German football league system, covering the area of a Bundesland or a regional part of such Bundesland.

As the German football league system below the tier-four Regionalliga is organised individually by the 21 state member associations of the nationwide governing body German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund), the league structure varies somewhat from state to state. Therefore the Verbandsliga does not exist in every Bundesland. In North Rhine-Westphalia (Middle Rhine and Lower Rhine), Saxony, Thuringia, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Bremen, and Bavaria, the corresponding sixth tier is called the Landesliga, whereas the Landesliga is only a tier-seven league in most of the other German states. North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Baden-Württemberg are divided into two or three state member associations, each running their own league system. Additionally, in some regions or states, as there are Hesse, Westphalia, and Schleswig-Holstein the Verbandsliga is operated in two or more groups running in parallel.

In recent years, a number of leagues have dropped the Verband out of their league name, preferring to call themselves just by the region or Bundesland they are from. The Verbandsliga Berlin became the Berlin-Liga, the Verbandsliga Brandenburg became the Brandenburg-Liga, the Verbandsliga Westfalen became the Westfalenliga and the Verbandsliga Rheinland became the Rheinlandliga. The Verbandsliga Mittelrhein became the Mittelrheinliga and the Verbandsliga Niederrhein became the Niederrheinliga, with both leagues elevated to Oberliga status in 2012.

Verbandsligas

The Verbandsligas:

League	Tier	Promotion to	Relegation to	Formed
Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord	VI	Hessenliga	Gruppenliga Fulda Gruppenliga Kassel 1 Gruppenliga Kassel 2	1964
Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte	Gruppenliga Wiesbaden Gruppenliga Gießen/Marburg
Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd	Gruppenliga Darmstadt Gruppenliga Frankfurt-West Gruppenliga Frankfurt-Ost
Verbandsliga Saarland Nordost Verbandsliga Saarland Südwest 1	VII	Saarlandliga	Landesliga Saarland-Nord/Ost Landesliga Saarland-Süd/West	1978
Rheinlandliga	VI	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar	Bezirksliga Rheinland-Ost Bezirksliga Rheinland-Mitte Bezirksliga Rheinland-West
Verbandsliga Südwest	Landesliga Südwest-Ost Landesliga Südwest-West
Verbandsliga Nordbaden	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg	Landesliga Mittelbaden Landesliga Odenwald Landesliga Rhein/Neckar
Verbandsliga Südbaden	Landesliga Südbaden 1 Landesliga Südbaden 2 Landesliga Südbaden 3
Verbandsliga Württemberg	Landesliga Württemberg 1 Landesliga Württemberg 2 Landesliga Württemberg 3 Landesliga Württemberg 4
Westfalenliga 1 Nordost Westfalenliga 2 Südwest2	Oberliga Westfalen	Landesliga Westfalen 1 Ost Landesliga Westfalen 2 Süd Landesliga Westfalen 3 West Landesliga Westfalen 4 Nord	1956
Berlin-Liga	NOFV-Oberliga Nord	Landesliga Berlin 1 Landesliga Berlin 2	1992
Brandenburg-Liga	Landesliga Brandenburg-Nord Landesliga Brandenburg-Süd	1990
Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Nord Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ost Landesliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-West	1991
Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt	NOFV-Oberliga Süd	Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt-Nord Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt-Süd	1990
Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Nord 3	VII	Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein	Kreisliga Flensburg Kreisliga Nordfriesland Kreisliga Rendsburg-Eckernförde Kreisliga Schleswig	2017
Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Ost	Kreisliga Kiel Kreisliga Plön	2017
Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Süd-West	Kreisliga Lauenburg Kreisliga Segeberg Kreisliga Stormarn	2008
Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Süd-Ost	Kreisliga Lübeck Kreisliga Ostholstein Kreisliga Segeberg Kreisliga Stormarn	2008
Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-West	Kreisliga Plön Kreisliga Rendsburg-Eckernförde Kreisliga West (Steinburg)	2017

Some of the Verbandsligen have existed prior to their mentioned formation date under a different name. Dates given are when the leagues changed to the name Verbandsliga.
1 The Verbandsliga Saarland is only a tier-seven league from 2009 onwards, after the Saarlandliga was introduced as the new tier-six league.
2 The Westfalenliga is operated in two parallel groups with teams probably re-allocated according to geographical needs every new season. The four groups of Landesliga below the can feed either Westfalenliga group according to geographical needs.
3 The Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein is a tier-seven league from 2017 onwards with the introduction of the Landesliga Schleswig-Holstein as the new tier-six league.

[[Sports club|Clubs]] in the Verbandsligen

Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord * Verbandsliga Hessen-Mitte * Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd * Verbandsliga Rheinland * Verbandsliga Saarland
Verbandsliga Südwest * Verbandsliga Nordbaden * Verbandsliga Südbaden * Verbandsliga Württemberg
Berlin-Liga * Brandenburg-Liga * Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern * Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt * Verbandsliga Westfalen 1 * Verbandsliga Westfalen 2
Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Nord * Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Ost * Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Süd-West * Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-Süd-Ost * Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein-West

References

[http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] {{in lang. de Historical German domestic league tables
[http://www.fussball.de/fussball-ergebnisse-die-top-ligen-bei-fussball-de/id_45692854/index Fussball.de – Ergebnisse] {{in lang. de Tables and results of all German football leagues {{webarchive. link. (7 December 2011)
[https://www.kicker.de/amateure/wettbewerbe Amateurligen] {{in lang. de The German amateur leagues at ''[[Kicker (sports magazine). kicker.de]]''
(31 May 2016). "Neue Ligenstruktur und Verjüngung". fupa.net.

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