1998–99 Regionalliga

The 1998–99 Regionalliga was the fifth season played in the Regionalliga as the third tier of German football.

As in the previous season, the competition was organized in four divisions: Nord, Nordost, West/Südwest and Süd. Each division had 18 teams with the exception of the West/Südwest division with only 17.

Nord

VfL Osnabrück remained in the Regionalliga, because they lost in the play-offs against Chemnitzer FC. As the loser of the North-Northeast play-offs, Osnabrück competed in another play-off against Eintracht Trier and Kickers Offenbach, but could not qualify for promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. Kickers Emden, VfL Hasetal Herzlake and Sportfreunde Ricklingen were relegated to the Oberliga.

Final table
Position	Club	Games	W	D	L	Goals	GD	Points
1	VfL Osnabrück	34	23	6	5	67:26	+41	75
2	VfB Lübeck	34	23	4	7	73:33	+40	73
3	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	18	10	6	71:42	+29	64
4	SV Werder Bremen Amateure	34	17	5	12	81:54	+27	56
5	Eintracht Nordhorn	34	15	7	12	55:54	+1	52
6	TuS Celle FC	34	14	9	11	59:54	+5	51
7	SV Wilhelmshaven	34	13	10	11	53:50	+3	49
8	Lüneburger SK (N)	34	12	10	12	51:49	+2	46
9	VfB Oldenburg	34	12	10	12	59:58	+1	46
10	BV Cloppenburg (N)	34	14	3	17	53:53	±0	45
11	SV Meppen (R)	34	13	6	15	42:46	-4	45
12	1. SC Norderstedt	34	12	9	13	41:51	-10	45
13	Arminia Hannover	34	12	7	15	37:42	-5	43
14	Holstein Kiel (N)	34	11	8	15	44:60	-16	41
15	Hamburger SV Amateure	34	11	5	18	38:60	-22	38
16	Kickers Emden	34	7	13	14	49:65	-16	34
17	VfL Hasetal Herzlake	34	6	7	21	44:83	-39	25
18	Sportfreunde Ricklingen	34	7	3	24	33:70	-37	24

Key

	Qualified for the play-offs against the winners of the Nordost division for promotion to 2. Bundesliga.
	Relegated to the Oberliga
(R)	Team relegated from 2. Bundesliga last season
(N)	Team promoted from Oberliga last season

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Daniel Bärwolf	VfB Lübeck	26
2.	Daniel Thioune	VfL Osnabrück	26
3.	Marinus Bester	Lüneburger SK	17
4.	Christian Claaßen	VfL Osnabrück	16
	Carsten Minich	Eintracht Nordhorn
4.	Garip Capin	TuS Celle	15
	Markus Erdmann	Arminia Hannover
6.	Collins Etebu	VfB Oldenburg	14
	Dennis van Dijk	Werder Bremen (A)
10.	Hakan Cengiz	Kickers Emden	12
	Mike Göbel	Holstein Kiel
	Geert Goolkate	Eintracht Nordhorn
	Klaus Osterkamp	BV Cloppenburg

Nordost

Chemnitzer FC won promotion to the 2. Bundesliga by beating VfL Osnabrück in the play-offs. Spandauer SV and SD Croatia Berlin are relegated to the Oberliga.

Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl remains in the league due to the forcible relegation of Spandauer SV.

Final table
Position	Club	Games	W	D	L	Goals	GD	Points
1	Chemnitzer FC	34	23	8	3	59:12	+47	77
2	VfB Leipzig (R)	34	21	7	6	59:28	+31	70
3	1. FC Magdeburg	34	18	10	6	55:35	+20	64
4	FSV Zwickau (R)	34	19	7	8	54:35	+19	64
5	VFC Plauen	34	16	11	7	56:42	+14	59
6	1. FC Union Berlin	34	17	6	11	57:27	+30	57
7	FC Erzgebirge Aue	34	15	8	11	49:39	+10	53
8	FC Berlin	34	15	8	11	48:38	+10	53
9	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (R)	34	13	9	12	36:38	-2	48
10	Rot-Weiß Erfurt	34	12	9	13	41:46	-5	45
11	Dynamo Dresden	34	10	8	16	43:44	-1	38
12	FSV Lok Altmark Stendal	34	11	5	18	35:58	-23	38
13	Dresdner SC (N)	34	9	9	16	31:51	-20	36
14	FC Sachsen Leipzig	34	8	11	15	41:62	-21	35
15	SV Babelsberg 03	34	7	13	14	36:50	-14	34
16	Spandauer SV	34	6	9	19	31:54	-23	27
17	Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl	34	4	11	19	31:62	-31	23
18	SD Croatia Berlin (N)	34	6	3	25	20:61	-41	21

Key

	Qualified for play-offs against winner of the Nord division for promotion to 2. Bundesliga
	Relegated to the Oberliga
(R)	Team relegated from 2. Bundesliga last season
(N)	Team promoted from Oberliga last season

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Rainer Wiedemann	FSV Lok Altmark Stendal	19
2.	Veselin Popović	FSV Zwickau	16
3.	Steffen Menze	1. FC Union Berlin	14
4.	Almir Filipović	FC Sachsen Leipzig	13
5.	Marco Dittgen	VfB Leipzig	12
	Nico Patschinski	Dynamo Dresden
7.	Heiko Brestrich	FC Berlin	11
	Hendryk Lau	SV Babelsberg 03
	Rocco Milde	FSV Zwickau
	Arnd Spranger	VFC Plauen
	Mirko Ullmann	Chemnitzer FC

West/Südwest

Alemannia Aachen was promoted to the 2. Bundesliga.

Eintracht Trier took part in the play-offs against VfL Osnabrück and Kickers Offenbach, but was not promoted.

FSV Salmrohr, SpVgg Erkenschwick and FC Remscheid were relegated to the Oberliga.

Wuppertaler SV and FC 08 Homburg were forcibly relegated.

Final table
Position	Club	Games	W	D	L	Goals	GD	Points
1	Alemannia Aachen	32	20	4	8	56:38	+18	64
2	Eintracht Trier	32	18	6	8	62:37	+25	60
3	Sportfreunde Siegen	32	15	9	8	48:24	+24	54
4	Preußen Münster	32	14	11	7	60:36	+24	53
5	1. FC Saarbrücken	32	15	8	9	53:38	+15	53
6	LR Ahlen	32	15	8	9	55:41	+14	53
7	SC Paderborn 07	32	15	8	9	51:39	+12	53
8	Wuppertaler SV	32	16	5	11	62:54	+8	53
9	Bayer 04 Leverkusen Amateure (N)	32	13	10	9	58:47	+11	49
10	SC Verl	32	13	8	11	55:56	-1	47
11	1. FC Kaiserslautern Amateure	32	11	12	9	62:48	+14	45
12	SV Elversberg (N)	32	9	12	11	35:40	-5	39
13	FC 08 Homburg	32	8	12	12	29:49	-20	36
14	Borussia Dortmund Amateure (N)	32	8	9	15	46:57	-11	33
15	FSV Salmrohr	32	8	5	19	38:59	-21	29
16	SpVgg Erkenschwick	32	2	9	21	30:77	-47	15
17	FC Remscheid	32	2	4	26	23:83	-60	10

Key

	Promoted to the 2. Bundesliga
	Relegated to the Oberliga
(N)	Team promoted from the Oberliga last season

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Daniel Graf	1. FC Kaiserslautern (A)	19
2.	Vlado Papić	Eintracht Trier	17
	Christian Timm	Borussia Dortmund (A)
4.	Zorislav Jonjić	Sportfreunde Siegen	16
	Gerrit Meinke	Wuppertaler SV
6.	Ersin Demir	Bayer Leverkusen (A)	15
7.	Holger Karp	LR Ahlen	14
8.	Carsten Gockel	Preußen Münster	13
	Frank Wagner	FSV Salmrohr
10.	Antonio Di Salvo	SC Paderborn 07	12

Süd

SV Waldhof Mannheim was promoted to the 2. Bundesliga.

Kickers Offenbach took part in the play-offs against VfL Osnabrück and Eintracht Trier and was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga.

SC Weismain and SC Neukirchen 1899 were relegated to the Oberliga.

Final table
Position	Club	Games	W	D	L	Goals	GD	Points
1	SV Waldhof Mannheim	34	21	8	5	57:25	+32	71
2	Kickers Offenbach	34	19	11	4	71:38	+33	68
3	SSV Reutlingen 05	34	14	14	6	54:30	+24	56
4	VfB Stuttgart Amateure (N)	34	15	8	11	54:48	+6	53
5	1. FC Schweinfurt 05 (N)	34	13	12	9	52:44	+8	51
6	SV Wehen	34	15	6	13	48:57	-9	51
7	Wacker Burghausen	34	13	11	10	50:42	+8	50
8	FC Bayern Munich Amateure	34	13	10	11	53:41	+12	49
9	TSV 1860 München Amateure	34	12	9	13	49:51	-2	45
10	VfR Mannheim	34	9	13	12	33:45	-12	40
11	Karlsruher SC Amateure	34	10	9	15	51:52	-1	39
12	TSF Ditzingen	34	10	9	15	43:57	-14	39
13	Borussia Fulda	34	11	6	17	45:69	-24	39
14	FC Augsburg	34	10	8	16	42:57	-15	38
15	FSV Frankfurt (N)	34	11	5	18	45:62	-17	38
16	SC Pfullendorf (N)	34	10	7	17	38:37	+1	37
17	SC Weismain	34	8	12	14	42:53	-11	36
18	SC Neukirchen 1899	34	9	8	17	43:62	-19	35

Key

	Promoted to the 2. Bundesliga
	Relegated to the Oberliga
(N)	Team promoted from the Oberliga last season

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Marijo Marić	SSV Reutlingen	23
2.	Oliver Roth	Kickers Offenbach	16
	Thorsten Seufert	1. FC Schweinfurt 05
4.	Marco Fladung	Borussia Fulda	13
	Fred Klaus	SC Weismain
	Heiko Liebers	SC Neukirchen
7.	Marko Barlecaj	1860 Munich (A) / SC Pfullendorf	12
	Jörg Kirsten	SV Waldhof Mannheim
	Sascha Maier	VfR Mannheim
	Andreas Rüppel	FSV Frankfurt
	Richard Walz	SV Wehen

Play-offs

Nord division winner vs Nordost division winner

Chemnitzer FC	–	VfL Osnabrück	2–0
VfL Osnabrück	–	Chemnitzer FC	0–1

Play-off loser vs Süd and West/Südwest runners-up

Kickers Offenbach	–	Eintracht Trier	2–0
Eintracht Trier	–	VfL Osnabrück	2–3
VfL Osnabrück	–	Kickers Offenbach	1–2

Chemnitzer FC and Kickers Offenbach promoted to 2. Bundesliga.

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