This article deals with the current four-track state league in Lower Saxony men's football. For the two-track Lower Saxony State League, which existed from 1979 to 1994, see Lower Saxony Football State League (1979 to 1994) .
The division Lower Saxony (until the 2009/10 season Bezirksoberliga ) is in the men's area, the second-highest division within the Lower Saxony Football Association (NFA) and the sixth-highest league in Germany .
In 1979 the Lower Saxony Football Association carried out a league reform. The previous eight districts were merged into four districts. The district upper leagues were introduced as the highest divisions of the districts, which in Lower Saxony represented the third highest division after the association and state league. In 1994, the Lower Saxony Association League became the two-track Lower Saxony League and the four regional upper leagues became state leagues. This name was retained until 2006, when the state leagues became district upper leagues again. In 2010 it was renamed the Landesliga.
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The Landesliga Niedersachsen is organized by the four NFV districts on their own responsibility. It is therefore not a league at association level. The individual national leagues have relay strengths that were between 16 and 19 teams in the 2010/11 season. The member associations of the NFV are each assigned to one of the 33 districts. The individual districts are each assigned to a district whose highest division is the state league. Which club competes in which regional league therefore depends on the district membership of its district. The districts largely correspond to the municipal districts. An exception to this is the Hanover region , which has the Hanover-Land and Hanover-City football districts. The allocation to the districts corresponds to the allocation of the districts to the four former Lower Saxony government districts from 1978 to 2004.
This regulation is deviated from in years in which league reforms lead to increased promotion or relegation from the next higher division. In the past few years, a second team from the regional leagues rose several times, sometimes after a promotion match against another team from another regional league (or "regional upper league" at the time). The districts of Braunschweig and Lüneburg always played for a free place in the then Lower Saxony League East and the districts of Hanover and Weser-Ems for a place in the then Lower Saxony League West.
When the single-track Oberliga Niedersachsen was introduced for the 2010/11 season, the champions of the 2009/10 season did not rise directly, but played with four teams from the Oberliga for five places in the Oberliga.
At the end of the season, the national leagues have to take on the relegated from the major league and the promoted from the seventh-class district leagues. The Weser-Ems regional league has five district leagues as its base, the other districts play with four district leagues. Their masters rise to the national league.
Therefore, the number of relegated teams in the individual national leagues is different and depends on the respective announcement of the district. The districts of Braunschweig, Hanover and Lüneburg are aiming for a state league with 16 teams, the Weser-Ems district one with 18 teams. Therefore, the number of relegated teams according to the tender depends on how many teams have to be relegated to reach the target strength. However, an overhang above the nominal thickness is also accepted at times.
Braunschweig regional league
Braunschweig
Calberlah
Goettingen
Bad Harzburg
Isenbüttel
Kaestorf
Landolfshausen
Lengede
Norten-Hardenberg
Osterode am Harz
Salzgitter
Schöningen
Wolfsburg
Season North (blue) and Season South (red) Braunschweig = Acosta & Eintracht & Lamme & Vahdet; Göttingen = 05 & Hainberg; Osterode: Petershütte; Salzgitter = grid & Vahdet; Wolfsburg = Reislingen & Vorsfelde;
Participant season 2020/21
In the 2020/21 season, the Braunschweig regional league is divided into 2 seasons. The division was made according to regional criteria.
