The 2011–12 season of the

NOFV-Oberliga The NOFV- Oberliga is a division at step 5 of the German football league system. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, it became the successor of the DDR-Oberliga, and functions today as a 5th division in the former territory of East Germany and the ...

was the fourth season of the league at tier five (V) of the

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. The NOFV-Oberliga is split into two divisions, the NOFV-Oberliga Nord and the NOFV-Oberliga Süd. Due to league restructuring and the re-introduction of the Regionalliga Nordost for the

2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

season, there were a number of teams which were ineligible for promotion from the NOFV-Oberliga this season.

F.C. Hansa Rostock II FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the forme ...

were champions of the NOFV-Oberliga Nord, but

1. FC Union Berlin II 1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V., commonly known as 1. FC Union Berlin () or Union Berlin, is a professional German football club in Köpenick, Berlin. The club's origins can be traced to 1906, when its predecessor FC Olympia Oberschöneweid ...

, FSV Optik Rathenow and

TSG Neustrelitz TSG Neustrelitz is a German association football club from Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The football side is part of a sports club that also has departments for gymnastics and chess. __TOC__ History The earliest roots of the associatio ...

were promoted. From the NOFV-Oberliga Süd, champions FSV Zwickau were promoted, along with

VfB Auerbach VfB Auerbach is a German football club from the city of Auerbach, Saxony. The club also has a tennis department. History The association was founded as the ''Auerbacher Fußball Club'' on 17 May 1906 making it the second-oldest side in Vogtlan ...

and sixth-placed team

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is a German football club based in the locality of Probstheida in the Südost borough of Leipzig, Saxony. The club may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Lei ...

. Due to results and placings in the higher league tiers, seven berths were available for teams from the 2011–12 NOFV-Oberliga for the 2012–13 Regionalliga Nordost season. Beside the six directly promoted teams, the seventh and final remaining berth was decided in a playoff between the fourth-highest respectively eligible teams from each division, Torgelower SV Greif and

VfB Fortuna Chemnitz VfB Fortuna Chemnitz is a German association football club from Chemnitz, Saxony. The club was formed in 2005 out of the fusion of ''VfB Chemnitz'' and ''SV Fortuna Furth Glösa''. __TOC__ History The older of these two sides is ''VfB'' which ...

. Torgelower SV Greif won 3–1 over two legs to confirm their promotion.

North

Top goalscorers

South

Top goalscorers

NOFV applicants for the 2012–13 Regionalliga Nordost

As of 20 April 2012, a total of 26 clubs had applied for a license for the

Regionalliga Nordost: *

(OL Süd) * SV Babelsberg 03 (3. Liga) *

FSV Budissa Bautzen The Fußballspielvereinigung Budissa Bautzen is a German association football club from Bautzen, Saxony. Founded as ''Fußballclub Budissa Bautzen'' on 24 May 1904, the club participated in East German football after World War II. History '' ...

(OL Süd) *

Berliner AK 07 Berliner AK 07 is a German football club based in the locality of Moabit of the borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The team competes in the fourth tier Regionalliga Nordost. History The association was established on 15 December 1907 in t ...

(RL) *

Berliner FC Dynamo Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V., commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo () or BFC (), alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin, is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Berli ...

(OL Nord) * Hertha BSC II (RL) *

(OL Nord) * BFC Viktoria 1889 (OL Nord) *

(OL Süd) * FC Energie Cottbus II (RL) *

FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt is a German association football club based in Erfurt, Thuringia. History Foundation to World War II The club has roots that go back to a cricket club founded in 1895. As they broadened their interests they came to be calle ...

(II. team ineligible for promotion) *

VfB Germania Halberstadt VfB Germania Halberstadt is a German football club from Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt. History The club was founded on 26 October 1949 as ''Betriebssportgemeinschaft Reichsbahn Halberstadt'' before being renamed ''BSG Lokomotive Halberstadt'' ...

(RL) *

Hallescher FC Hallescher FC, sometimes still called by its former popular name Chemie Halle, is a German association football club based in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt. The club currently plays in the 3. Liga, the third highest level in the German footb ...

(RL) *

FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Obe ...

(3. Liga) *

(OL Süd) * RB Leipzig (RL) *

FSV 63 Luckenwalde FSV 63 Luckenwalde is a German football club based in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, currently playing in the Regionalliga (IV). History The earliest forerunner of FSV 63 Luckenwalde was founded in 1906 as ''BV 06 Luckenwalde'', which became ''S ...

(OL Süd) *

1. FC Magdeburg 1. FC Magdeburg is a German association football club based in the city of Magdeburg. The club was founded in 1965 and spent all but one season in East Germany top flight, the DDR-Oberliga, winning three championships and seven cup titles. It ...

(RL) * ZFC Meuselwitz (RL) *

(OL Nord) * VFC Plauen (RL) * FSV Optik Rathenow (OL Nord) *

(OL Nord) *

SV Germania Schöneiche SV Germania Schöneiche is a German association football club from Schöneiche in Brandenburg. History The earliest predecessor of today's association was the gymnastics club ''MTV Germania Kleinschönbeck Schöneiche'' founded in 1894. In th ...

(OL Nord) * Torgelower SV Greif (OL Nord) * FSV Zwickau (OL Süd) Hence, the remaining NOFV-affiliated clubs have waived their rights to promotion (or play in a higher league).

Promotion playoffs

Torgelower SV Greif beat

3–1 over two legs in the playoffs to win the final remaining promotion berth to the

Regionalliga Nordost.

First leg

Second leg

References

External links

NOFV-Online
– official website of the North-East German Football Association {{DEFAULTSORT:Nofv-Oberliga 2011-12 NOFV-Oberliga seasons NOFV