Landesliga Hannover

Landesliga Hannover

Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
Founded	1979
Number of teams	16
Level on pyramid	Level 6
Promotion to	Niedersachsenliga
Relegation to	Bezirksliga Hannover 1-4
Current champions	Hannoverscher SC (2015–16)

The Landesliga Hannover, called the Bezirksoberliga Hannover from 1979 to 1994 and 2006 to 2010, is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the second highest league in the German state of Lower Saxony (German:Niedersachsen). It covers the region of the now defunct Regierungsbezirk Hanover.

It is one of four leagues at this level in Lower Saxony, the other three being the Landesliga Lüneburg, the Landesliga Weser-Ems and the Landesliga Braunschweig.

The term Landesliga can be translated as State league.

Overview

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Map of Lower Saxony:Position of the Hanover region highlighted

The league's history goes back to 1979, when four new Bezirksoberligas (Braunschweig, Hannover, Lüneburg and Weser-Ems) were formed in the state of Lower Saxony. The Bezirksoberligas (6th tier) were set below the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen (4th tier) and the two Landesligas (5th tier) in the German football league system. In 1994, the two old Landesligas were dissolved, while the four Bezirksoberligas were renamed into Landesliga Braunschweig, Landesliga Hannover, Landesliga Lüneburg, and Landesliga Weser-Ems respectively. Due to the introduction of the new Regionalliga (IV) the new Landesligas still remained at the 6th tier of German football, however.

In 2006, the Landesliga was renamed into Bezirksoberliga again. The new Bezirksoberliga Hannover was made up of sixteen clubs, eleven from the Landesliga and five from the two Bezirksligas. A decider had to be played between the two third-placed teams in the Bezirksligas, which SV Nienstädt 09 won 2-0 over SG Diepholz. No club from the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-West was relegated to the league that season, all three relegated sides went to Weser-Ems. The league was formed in a reorganisation of the league system in Lower Saxony, whereby the four regional Landsligas were replaced by the Bezirksoberligas. Below these, the number of Bezirksligas was increased. In Hannover, the two Bezirksligas were expanded to four, as in the other regions, except Weser-Ems, which was expanded to five.

The Bezirksoberliga, like the Landesliga before, was set in the league system below the Verbandsliga and above the now four Bezirksligas, which were numbered from one to four. The winner of the Bezirksoberliga was directly promoted to the Verbandsliga, while the bottom placed teams, in a varying number, were relegated to the Bezirksliga. The Bezirksoberligas of Weser-Ems and Hannover form the tier below the Verbandsliga West, while those of Lüneburg and Braunschweig form the tier below the eastern division of the Verbandsliga.

In the leagues first season, 2006–07, the runners-up of the league, TSV Stelingen, had to play-off with the runners-up of the Bezirksoberliga Weser-Ems, SV Holthausen-Biene, a game they won 1-0 and thereby gained promotion. In the following season, only the league champions were promoted while, in 2009, the SV Ramlingen-Ehlershausen moved up a level as runners-up.

At the end of the 2007-08 season, with the introduction of the 3. Liga, the Verbandsliga was renamed Oberliga Niedersachsen-West. For the Bezirksoberliga, this had no direct consequences.

After the 2009-10 season, the two Oberligas (English: Premier league) in Lower Saxony were merged to one single division. The four Bezirksoberliga champions that season were not be automatically promoted, instead they had to compete with the four teams placed ninth and tenth in the Oberliga for four more spots in this league.

On 17 May 2010, the Lower Saxony football association decided to rename the four Bezirksoberligas to Landesligas from the 1 July 2010. This change in name came alongside the merger of the two Oberliga divisions above it into the Niedersachsenliga.

Champions

Bezirksoberliga Hannover 1979–1994

2

Landesliga Hannover 1994–2006

2

Bezirksoberliga Hannover 2006–2010

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Third
2006–07	Heesseler SV	TSV Stelingen	SC Twistringen
2007–08	Preussen Hameln	Germania Egestorf	TSV Burgdorf
2008–09	VfL Bückeburg	SV Ramlingen-Ehlershausen	TuS Kleefeld
2009–10	Arminia Hannover	Germania Egestorf	TSV Burgdorf

Landesliga Hannover 2010–present

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Third
2010–11	VfL Bückeburg	1. FC Wunstorf	TSV Burgdorf
2011–12	Germania Egestorf	TSV Burgdorf	SV Bavenstedt
2012–13	1. FC Wunstorf	TSV Burgdorf	Arminia Hannover
2013–14	Arminia Hannover	Heesseler SV	SV Bavenstedt
2014–15	VfL Bückeburg	SV Ramlingen-Ehlershausen	Heesseler SV
2015–16	Hannoverscher SC	SV Bavenstedt	TuS Sulingen

• Promoted teams in bold.

References

Sources

• Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen, (German) An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga, publisher: DSFS
• Kicker Almanach, (German) The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937, published by the Kicker Sports Magazine
• Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945-2005 (German) History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables, publisher: DSFS, published: 2006

External links

• (German) Das deutsche Fussball Archiv Historic German league tables
• (German) The Niedersachsenligas at Fussball.de
• (German) The Lower Saxony Football Association (NFV)