District League

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The Kreisoberliga , Kreisliga or Kreisklasse is in most German sports associations the designation for the lowest divisions in the league system . The organizer of the league is the district association responsible for the area of ​​a district , an independent city or an area that has emerged from the association's history as an organization subordinate to the national sports association or the regional state association. Often only one of the game class designations exists in the area of ​​a district association. Where both divisions exist, the district league is usually the higher division. In some regions of Germany, the district league is sometimes referred to as the city league in larger cities .

ice Hockey

In Bavaria in the 1970s was from the late 1940s to early below the division , the top division in the area of the then Bavarian ice sports federation , the name of the leagues was Kreisliga , Kreisklasse and sometimes from district class . As part of the league reform at the beginning of the 1970s, the teams from these leagues were combined and divided into (artificial ice) Bayern leagues and regional or natural ice leagues . At the end of the 1980s, a non-interlocking district league was reintroduced below the state league, which in 1991 became the district league .

Soccer

The county league was in the football league system in Germany until 1978, usually the sixth-highest division, for example in the area of West German Football Association settled after the Bundesliga , the second Bundesliga , the Association League , the division and the district league . Due to numerous reforms of the league system both at the level of the DFB and at the level of the regional and state associations affiliated to the DFB, the district league is now located between the seventh and tenth league level, depending on the state association.

Within the respective district associations, the district league is regularly played in a hierarchical league system, with the district league A (or, if it exists, the district league) as the highest division level, followed by the district league B and the district league C, depending on the number of teams participating in the district association's play and District League D or with the 1st District Class as the highest level, followed by the 2nd District Class, the 3rd District Class and the 4th District Class. There is no district league or district league in the Baden Football Association. The regional league follows directly after the association league and regional league. Then come the district classes A, B and C.

These divisions did not usually receive much media attention until the emergence of social media sites such as Kreisligafussball - The Beer Wins on Facebook or Kreisligafussball.de on Instagram . The opinion of the operators of the sites is that the lower amateur leagues would receive too little attention, which the millions of amateur footballers should be entitled to. With a total of almost 800,000 followers , the channels have a higher number of fans and reach than some Bundesliga clubs can show. Before the mentioned pages existed, the lower divisions received attention for the first time through the new start of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in 2004 in the 3rd district class (11th division), and with the associated audience boom, this division became the center of attention nationwide for the first time. As a result, there was a weekly program in the district class for a few months in 2004 and 2005 on the television station DSF , today Sport1 . From 2005 to 2006, the TV station kabel eins accompanied the Dortmund suburb SSV Hacheney with team manager Manfred Burgsmüller in the weekly program Heroes of the District Class .

Futsal

The futsal district league is the fourth highest division in the league system in Germany. The first futsal district league in Germany was launched in 2016 in the Harburg district and started its first season in 2016/17. In the hierarchical system, the futsal district league is arranged below the district league .

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Web links

Wiktionary: Kreisliga  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Kreisklasse  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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