Landesliga

Division is in the German league system, the designation of a national league. Often it is thus the highest league in the field of national sports federation. Exists alongside the national league in a sport and region simultaneously a regional league, the League Association usually (not always) is the higher of the two leagues. Subordinated to the national league are the infrequent state classes, but more often the district leagues and district classes.

• 2.1 State leagues to the DFB national associations

Hockey

The division is in Germany, the fifth- highest division, and, except in Bavaria and North Rhine -Westphalia, the lowest division within the ice hockey league system in Germany. In Bavaria, the division is divided into two groups. Usually the division is purely a reporting League, ie each club of the state can sign up for the league. Often clubs from other states can sign up for the national league, such as teams from Rhineland-Palatinate both in Hesse, North Rhine -Westphalia, Baden- Württemberg or in their own division Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland can play.

Individual country leagues

• State League North for Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg
• Division Berlin
• Division Hesse
• Division Baden-Württemberg, with participants from Rhineland -Palatinate
• Division Bavaria, divided into groups north / east and south / west

Former national leagues:

• State League North / East Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (since 2010 Baltic League )
• Division NRW (2010 dawned in the NRW-Liga )
• Division Hamburg ( Hanseatic League since 2009 )
• Division Sachsen ( Saxony in the league merged )

Football

Since the introduction of the 3rd Liga in the 2008 /09 season, the division is in ten of the 21 regional associations of the German Football Association (DFB ), the seventh- highest division in football league system ( in men's football ). In seven regional associations is, however, located on the sixth level or in the Saarland on the eighth stage. In the regional associations of Hesse, Rhineland and Schleswig -Holstein the national league was dissolved. The division will be held in the respective regional associations regularly in several parallel scales that entitle equally for promotion to the next higher league. A single-track division, there are only in the regional associations of Bremen and Saxony.

Country leagues to the DFB national associations

• The division Baden is the seventh- highest division in the area of the Baden Football Association. Division Odenwald ( includes football circles Mosbach, Buchen and Tauberbischofsheim )
• Division Rhein-Neckar ( includes football circles Mannheim, Heidelberg and Sinsheim )
• Division Mittelbaden ( includes football circles Bruchsal, Karlsruhe and Pforzheim )

• Division Northwest ( including parts of the football districts of Middle Franconia, Upper Franconia and Lower Franconia )
• Division Northeast (Parts of football districts of Middle Franconia, Upper Franconia and Upper Palatinate )
• Division center (Parts of football districts of Middle Franconia, Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Upper Bavaria )
• State League South ( covers parts of the football districts of Upper Bavaria and Swabia )
• Division Southeast (Parts of football districts of Lower Bavaria and Upper Bavaria )

• State League Division 1
• State League 2nd Division

• State League North
• State League South

• Division Hansa
• Division Hammonia

• State League North
• National league east
• State League West

• State League Season 1
• State League Season 2

• State League Group 1
• State League Group 2
• State League Group 3

• Division Braunschweig ( Braunschweig includes the football circles, Gifhorn, Goslar, Göttingen, Helmstedt, Northeim - Einbeck, Osterode, Peine, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel and Wolfsburg)
• Division Hanover ( comprising the football circles Diepholz, Hameln / Pyrmont, Hannover -Land, Hanover Town, Hildesheim, wood Minden, Nienburg and Schaumburg )
• Division Lüneburg ( includes football circles Celle, Cuxhaven, Harburg, Lüchow -Dannenberg, Lüneburg, Holy Wood, Rotenburg, Soltau -Fallingbostel, Stade, Uelzen and Verden)
• Division Weser- Ems ( includes football circles Ammerland, Aurich, Bentheim, Cloppenburg, Delmenhorst, Emden, Emsland, Friesland, Leer, Oldenburg Land, Oldenburg City, Osnabrück country, Osnabrück City, Vechta, Weser Marsch, Wilhelmshaven and Witt mouth)

• Division Northeast ( includes football districts Homburg, Neunkirchen and St. Wendel )
• State League South (which includes football districts Merzig, Saarbrücken and Saarlouis )

• State League North
• State League South

• Division 1 ( includes the football districts of Baden -Baden and Offenburg )
• Division 2 ( includes the football districts of Freiburg and Upper Rhine )
• Division 3 ( includes the football districts Black Forest and Lake Constance )

• State League West
• National league east

• Landesklasse North
• Landesklasse East
• Landesklasse South

• State League Season 1 East
• State League Season 2 South
• State League West Season 3
• State League North Season 4

• Division 1 ( includes the football districts Enz / Murr, Hohenlohe, Rems / Murr and lowlands )
• Division 2 ( includes the football districts Danube / Iller, stove / Rems, Neckar / Fils and Stuttgart)
• Division 3 ( includes the football districts Alb, Böblingen / Calw, Northern Black Forest and Zollern )
• Division 4 ( includes the football districts Constance, Danube, crack and Black Forest)

Handball

The national leagues are the sixth- highest leagues in handball.