Under 17 Bundesliga
The U-17 League ( also B Youth League) is the highest German league for U-17 football teams. It was founded in 2007 and is divided into the seasons North / Northeast, South / Southwest and West, each with 14 teams. Their respective Season three winner and one of the runners-up play end of the season from the German B- Youth Champion.
Forerunner of the U-17 Bundesliga were the B- youth - regional leagues. In the summer of 2007, the regional leagues North and Northeast, and South and West were each combined into Bundesliga seasons. The Regional - scale Western has only been upgraded.
Season schedule
In the relay, North / Northeast teams will play the North German and the East German Football Association. The Bundesliga season are subordinate to the regional leagues north and northeast. The masters of these two regional leagues climb directly. The runner-up play in return game from the third climber.
In the relay, South / Southwest play teams of the South German and West German Football Association. The Bundesliga season are subordinate to the upper leagues Hessen and Baden- Württemberg, the Regionalliga Southwest and the Bavarian League. The masters of Bavaria League and the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg rise directly to the Bundesliga. The master of the Regionalliga Southwest and the Oberliga Hessen determine in return game the third climber.
In the relay West teams will play for the West German Football Association. The Bundesliga season, the Association leagues Westphalia, Lower Rhine, Middle Rhine subordinate whose master ascend to the Bundesliga.
Mode
Each team plays twice against all the other teams their season; once on a private place -and-away. A victory is rewarded with three, a draw with one point. The last-place at the end of the season, three teams of scale from increasing.
The semi-finals of the tournament will be played in the final round-trip game within a game. In the 2007 /08 season played in this tournament the three season winner and the runner-up of Season South for the German championship. Since the beginning of the season 2008/ 09, however, no longer qualifies automatically the vice champion of South - season, but the runner-up that season, the most successful participants in the final round presented in the previous three seasons. For their determination, a performance table is created in the German championship three points for the final participation will be awarded two points and one point each for the two losing semi-finalists. Based on the season, which has provided two participants, however, only the points of the top finishers will count. If two seasons have achieved the same score, decides the result of the previous season.
Performance table for the Cup in 2014 is calculated from the results of the game in 2011, 2012 and 2013:
This is the season north / northeast two representatives for the final round in 2014.
Season winner and champion
Participants 2013/14 season
Brandenburg 00FC Energie Cottbus Bremen 00SV Werder Bremen Hamburg 00Hamburger SV 00FC St. Pauli Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania 00kein representatives Lower Saxony 00Eintracht Braunschweig ( N) 00Hannover 96 00VfL Osnabrück 00VfL Wolfsburg Saxony 00SG Dynamo Dresden 00RB Leipzig Saxony-Anhalt 00kein representatives Schleswig-Holstein 00Kieler SV Holstein Thuringia 00FC Carl Zeiss Jena ( N)
Bavaria 00FC Augsburg 00SpVgg Greuther Furth 00FC Ingolstadt 04 ( N) 00FC Bayern Munich 00TSV 1860 Munich 001 FC Nuremberg Hesse 00Eintracht Frankfurt 00FSV Frankfurt ( N) Rhineland 00kein representatives Saarland 00kein representatives Südbaden 00SC Freiburg Southwest 001 FSV Mainz 05 001 FC Kaiserslautern Württemberg 00VfB Stuttgart
Lower Rhine 00MSV Duisburg 00BV 04 Dusseldorf (N) 00Rot -Weiss Essen 00Borussia Mönchengladbach Westphalia 00Arminia Bielefeld (N) 00VfL Bochum 00Borussia Dortmund 00FC Schalke 04 00Preußen Münster
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