Bezirksoberliga Schwaben

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Bezirksoberliga Schwaben
Founded
1988
Nation
Flag of Germany Germany
State
Flag of Bavaria Bavaria
Map of Bavaria: The seven Bezirksoberligas
Region
Schwaben
Promotion To
Landesliga Bayern-Süd
Relegation To
Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord
Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd
Number of Teams
16
Level on Pyramid
Level 7
Current Champions 2007-08
TSV Schwabmünchen


The Bezirksoberliga Schwaben is currently the 7th tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008 it was the 6th tier of the league system.

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[edit] Overview

The Bezirksoberligas in Bavaria were introduced in 1988 upon the suggestion of the 1. FC Sonthofen to create a highest single-division playing level for each of the seven Bezirke.

The term Bezirksoberliga translates fairly well into County Premier League, a Bezirk being a similar administrative entitiy to a County.

Before the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas, the Bezirksliga was the level of play below the Landesliga. The Bezirksliga Schwaben-Nord and Schwaben-Süd fed the Landesliga Bayern-Süd as they now feed the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben. From 1963 to 1968 there was only one common Bezirksliga in Schwaben, similar to what the Bezirksoberliga does now. From 1968 onwards the Bezirksligas were always split.

The winner of the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben, like the winner of the Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern, is directly promoted to the Landesliga Bayern-Süd. The two second placed teams out of those league's play-off for another promotion spot. The winner goes to Landesliga, the loser faces the 15th placed team out of the Landesliga for the last spot there. However, in some years additional promotion places are available in the Landesliga. In 1994, 2000 and 2004, three teams from Schwaben gained promotion to the Landesliga.

The three bottom teams of the Bezirksoberliga are relegated to the Bezirksliga, the team just above those faces a play-off against the second placed Bezirksliga teams.

The area covered by the Schwaben FA is not identical to the Bezirk Schwaben, mainly due to the fact that that the Bezirks borders, like everywhere in Bavaria, were altered in the 1970s in a border reform. Therefor there are quite a few clubs playing in Schwaben that are actually at home in Oberbayern. The TSV Landsberg and the FC Pipinsried are the most successful of those but others have made it into the Bezirksoberliga too. Also, some clubs from western Schwaben are playing in the Baden-Württemberg football league system. These are called the Iller Vereine after the river Iller that forms the border in this area. These mostly left the Schwaben FA in 1946, but some, like the SpVgg Lindau, have always played in Württemberg.

Another oddity is the club SV Casino Kleinwalsertal, playing in the Schwaben but being at home in Austria. The Kleinwalsertal can only be accessed by land via Germany.[1]

Schwaben, unlike virtually all of Germany, does not grant unrestricted access for reserve teams to the league system. Clubs below the two Bezirksligas have to have their reserve teams play in separate, parallel leagues without promotion or relegation. Only once a club rises to Bezirksliga can their reserves join the league system.

The Schwaben Cup, one of the seven Bezirks Pokale (Cups), features another oddity. It heavily favours low-level clubs. A lower-level club will always have home advantage to the higher one and will also only need a draw to advance. In 1994 the SC Altenmünster and in 1998 the BC Aichach both won the cup against higher classed Bayernliga club FC Memmingen by drawing after extra time. The rule was changed for the cup-final game after 1998.

The region of Schwaben is actually much larger then the Bavarian region of Schwaben, it compromises all of the state of Baden-Württemberg and event relates linguistically into Austria and Switzerland. In football however, the only region that carries the name is the Bavarian region of Schwaben.

[edit] Winners of Bezirksoberliga Schwaben

Season Club
1988-89 TSV Dasing
1989-90 TSG Thannhausen
1990-91 TSV Mindelheim
1991-92 TSV 1861 Nördlingen
1992-93 TSV Kottern
1993-94 SpVgg Kaufbeuren
1994-95 TSV Bobingen
1995-96 BC Aichach
1996-97 TSV Rain am Lech
1997-98 SpVgg Kaufbeuren
Season Club
1998-99 FC Pipinsried
1999-2000 SC Bubesheim
2000-01 TSV 1861 Nördlingen
2001-02 TSV Kottern
2002-03 DJK Lechhausen
2003-04 FC Augsburg II
2004-05 TSV Kottern
2005-06 FC Königsbrunn
2006-07 1. FC Sonthofen
2007-08 TSV Schwabmünchen
  • The TSV Kottern, a club from the suburbs of Kempten, holds the record number of league championships, three.
  • Despite being by far the biggest city in Schwaben, it took 15 years for a club from Augsburg to win the league, DJK Lechhausen doing so in 2003.
  • Having taken part in the creation of the Bezirksoberligas in Bayern, it is somewhat ironic that it took the 1. FC Sonthofen till 1998 to gain promotion to this league.
  • With the FC Pipinsried in 1999 the title of "Champion of Schwaben" went to Oberbayern.
  • When the FC Schrobenhausen gained promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben in 2006 it became the first and only club to have played in two different Bezirksoberligas, having spent the 1988-89 season in the Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern. Schrobenhausen left the Oberbayern league system in the early 2000s to join Schwaben.

[edit] Teams promoted from Bezirksoberliga Schwaben to Landesliga Süd via play-off games

Season Club
1988-89 FC Pipinsried
1991-92 TSV Aindling
1992-93 FC Enikon Augsburg
1993-94 FC Kempten & TSV Landsberg
1994-95 DJK Lechhausen
1995-96 BC Aichach
1996-97 FC Kempten
1998-99 FC Gundelfingen
1999-2000 FC Königsbrunn & TSV Schwabmünchen
2000-01 TSG Thannhausen
2001-02 TSV Neusäss
2002-03 TSV Schwabmünchen
2003-04 TSG Thannhausen & TSV Nördlingen
2004-05 FC Affing
2006-07 TSV Gersthofen

[edit] Placings in the BOL Schwaben

Club 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
TSV Aindling ♦ 4 5 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
TSV Rain am Lech 5 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
FC Kempten 11 11 3 9 6 2 ♦ ♦ 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
FC Pipinsried 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 8 5 3 6 3 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
FC Augsburg II * 12 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
TSG Thannhausen 1 ♦ 6 14 13 12 8 2 ♦ ♦ 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
TSV 1861 Nördlingen 3 3 4 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 11 4 9 1 ♦ 5 3 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
FC Affing 4 2 ♦ ♦ ♦
FC Königsbrunn ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 6 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 6 1 ♦ ♦
1. FC Sonthofen 10 7 6 8 6 5 8 3 1 ♦
TSV Gersthofen 14 4 2 2 ♦
TSV Schwaben Augsburg ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 14
TSV Kottern 13 16 5 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ 3 9 11 10 13 1 ♦ 12 1 ♦ ♦ 9
DJK Lechhausen 6 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 5 4 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ 8 3
SC Bubesheim 9 14 8 3 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 5 6 5
TSV Neusäss 5 5 4 4 9 15 6 7 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ 8 15
TSV Schwabmünchen 9 3 ♦ 3 2 ♦ 16 9 1
FC Gundelfingen ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 6 3 10 4 10
TSV Bobingen 6 7 11 11 11 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 3 9 7 6 13 11
BC Aichach ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 2 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 14 13 14
TSV Mindelheim 6 5 1 ♦ ♦ 4 6 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 16
SpVgg Kaufbeuren 7 8 6 6 4 1 ♦ 7 4 1 ♦ 5 3 10 7 7 10 9 7 7
TSV Landsberg ♦ ♦ 2 3 3 3 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 13 4 5 4 8 12 15 8
FC Enikon Augsburg * 2 ♦ ♦
TSV Dasing 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 16
VfL Günzburg ♦ 13
FC Memmingen II 14 11 10 5 6 5 15 5 4 3 2
TSV Durach 10 4
TSV Marktoberdorf 8 13 11 13 7 5 6
Türkspor Augsburg 11 11 12
TSG Thannhausen II 13
FC Schrobenhausen 15
SSV Höchstädt 12 16
TSV Haunstetten 17 12 16
TSV Friedberg 15 3 6 7 2 13 9 14
TSV Hilgertshausen 13 11 16
FC Stätzling 9 6 10 14
TSV Pöttmes 15
TSV Babenhausen 12 15 15 10 14
TSV Krumbach 11 15
ASV Fellheim 13 9 9 8 16
BC Rinnenthal 12 17
FC Lauingen 15 12 12 13
SVO Germaringen 5 2 8 7 7 9 14 12 10 13 14
TSV Betzigau 11 15
TSV Wemding 15 11 7 16
TSV Leitershofen 7 8 11 8 15
SpVgg Wiesenbach 14 7 8 11 14 14 16
SSV Glött 16
FC Heimertingen 10 5 7 17
FC Zell-Bruck 10 13 13 10 9 8 10 14
TSV Ziemtshausen 13 16
SSV Dillingen 14 12 16
TSV Göggingen 10 14 11 14
SV Grasheim 9 15 12 16
SC Altenmünster 13 10 10 12 15
TSV Burgau 15 12 15
TSG Augsburg 8 7 9 8 12 13 16
BSC Memmingen 4 12 11 12 8 16
TSV Friesenried 10 16
Stadtwerke SV Augsburg 10 12 15
SV Klingsmoos 16
TSV Wertingen 9 9 14
VfL Kaufering 15
TSV Ottobeuren 16
TG Viktoria Augsburg 16
  • ♦ denotes club played in a league higher then the Bezirksoberliga.
  • The FC Augsburg II withdrew from the league in 1989.
  • The FC Enikon Augsburg withdrew from the Oberliga in 1995.

[edit] Overall table

The SpVgg Kaufbeuren' leads the overall table of this league, 298 points ahead of the TSV 1861 Nördlingen, third placed is the TSV Kottern. The SV Klingsmoos holds the 63rd and last place with 16 points[2]. The SpVgg Kaufbeuren has spent 18 out of a possible 20 seasons in the Bezirksoberliga, only interrupted by two one-year stints in the Landesliga.

[edit] Teams in the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben for 2007/08

German Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) Football Clubs (2007-08)
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TSV Schwaben Augsburg | Türkspor Augsburg | TSV Bobingen | SC Bubesheim | VfB Durach   FC Gundelfingen | SSV Höchstädt | TSV Kottern | SpVgg Kaufbeuren | TSV Landsberg   DJK Lechhausen | TSV Marktoberdorf | FC Memmingen II | FC Schrobenhausen   TSV Schwabmünchen| TSG Thannhausen II

[edit] See also

Schwaben football league system

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ SV Kleinwalsertal. SV Kleinwalsertal. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
  2. ^ Overall table of the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben 1988-2007. FC Gundelfingen. Retrieved on 2007-12-15.


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Bavarian Bezirksoberligas
League system: Bavarian football league system
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Schwaben football leagues
Bezirksoberliga: Bezirksoberliga Schwaben
Cup competition: Schwaben Cup
League systems: Bavarian football league system  · Schwaben football league system