Regional football league 2017/18

This article covers the 2017/18 men's regional league season. For the regional league season for women, see Football Regionalliga 2017/18 (women) .

Regionalliga 2017/18
Teams	3 × 18 (north, northeast, west) 2 × 19 (Bavaria, southwest)
Games	3 × 306 (north, northeast, west) 2 × 342 (Bavaria, southwest)  + 6 relegation games
← Regionalliga 2016/17 Regionalliga 2018/19 →
↑ 3rd league 2017/18 Oberliga 2017/18 ↓

The 2017/18 season of the Regionalliga was the tenth season of the Regional Football League as the fourth-highest division in Germany.

Regional leagues

• Regionalliga Bayern 2017/18 with 19 teams from the Bavarian Football Association (BFV)
• Regionalliga Nord 2017/18 with 18 teams from the North German Football Association (NFV)
• Regionalliga Nordost 2017/18 with 18 teams from the Northeast German Football Association (NOFV)
• Regionalliga Südwest 2017/18 with 19 teams from the Football Regional Association Southwest and the South German Football Association (SFV) with the exception of the Bavarian Football Association
• Regionalliga West 2017/18 with 18 teams from the West German Football Association (WDFV)

Promotion Games

The champions of the five regional leagues and the runner-up of the Regionalliga Südwest took part in the promotion games to the 3rd division . The winners of the three drawn promotion games with a return leg rose.

The following teams qualified for the promotion games:

• Champion of the Regionalliga Bayern: TSV 1860 Munich
• Champion of the Regionalliga Nord: SC Weiche Flensburg 08
• Champion of the Regionalliga Nordost: Energie Cottbus
• Champion of the Regionalliga Südwest: 1. FC Saarbrücken
• Vice champion of the Regionalliga Südwest: SV Waldhof Mannheim
• Champion of the Regionalliga West: KFC Uerdingen 05

The draw took place on April 7, 2018 in the half-time break of the third division game between 1. FC Magdeburg and Karlsruher SC . A meeting between the two qualifiers of the Regionalliga Südwest was not possible. In order to avoid distortions of competition in the last games of the season, the two Südwest representatives were drawn only on April 27th.

The first leg took place on May 24 and the second leg on May 27, 2018.

	total		First leg	Return leg
1. FC Saarbrücken	4: 5	TSV 1860 Munich	2: 3 (1: 1)	2: 2 (1: 0)
SC switch Flensburg 08	2: 3	Energy Cottbus	2: 3 (0: 3)	0-0
KFC Uerdingen 05	3-0	SV Waldhof Mannheim	1: 0 (0: 0)	2: 0 1

¹The return match between SV Waldhof Mannheim and KFC Uerdingen was interrupted after 81 minutes when the score was 1: 2, initially for 20 minutes, after which the restart was finally canceled. The reason for this were fans of SV Waldhof Mannheim who used pyrotechnics. The DFB sports court rated the game on May 29, 2018 retrospectively with 0: 2 from the Mannheimers' perspective.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Promotion games to the 3rd division: Draw on April 7th live on MDR. In: dfb.de. DFB , accessed on March 25, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Promotion games to the 3rd division on May 24th and 27th. In: dfb.de. DFB , accessed on December 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Sports court evaluates canceled game with 2: 0 for KFC Uerdingen. In: dfb.de. DFB , accessed on May 29, 2018 .