Bayernliga
The Bayernliga (English: Bavarian league) is the highest amateur football league and the second highest football league (under the Regionalliga Bayern) in the state of Bavaria (german: Bayern) and the Bavarian football league system. It is one o ...
, the second highest
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
league in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
, was the sixth season of the league at tier five (V) of the
German football league system
The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for Football in Germany, association football in Germany that in the 2016–17 Season (sports), season consisted of 2,235 Sports_leag ...
and the 69th season overall since establishment of the league in 1945. The regular season started on 19 July 2013 and finished on 24 May 2014, followed by relegation play-off games.Auf- und Abstieg 2014 - Alle Entscheidungen www.bfv.de, accessed: 23 May 2014 The league season was interrupted by a winter break, which lasted from late November 2013 to the early March 2014.
The league, operating in two regional divisions, north and south, was won by
SpVgg Bayreuth
SpVgg Bayreuth is a German football club based in Bayreuth, Bavaria. Apart from coming within two games of earning promotion to the Bundesliga in 1979, the club also reached the quarter finals of the DFB-Pokal twice, in 1977 and 1980.
History ...
(North) and
BC Aichach
The BC Aichach is a German association football club from the town of Aichach, Bavaria.
The club has been part of the Landesliga Bayern-Süd over most of the past five decades, playing 29 seasons there since 1963. Only ''TSV 1860 Rosenheim'' (3 ...
(South). It was the eights league title for SpVgg Bayreuth while BC Aichach won the league for the first time. Aichach did not take up its right for promotion, however, instead withdrawing from the Bayernliga to the
Kreisliga
The Kreisliga ( en, District League), along with the ''Kreisoberliga'' ( en, District Premier League) and the ''Kreisklasse'' ( en, District Class), are the lowest set of divisions in the German football league system, set at step 8 and below.
S ...
for financial reasons.Rückzug BC Aichach und Burghausen II ''BFV'' website, accessed: 23 May 2014
Modus
Each division of the Bayernliga consisted of 18 clubs who would play each other in a home-and-away format. No league games would be played between clubs from different divisions during the regular season. The champions of each division were directly promoted to the
Regionalliga
The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the four ...
, subject to fulfilling the licensing regulations of the later. No Bayernliga championship game was played between the two league winners. The runners-up of each league take part in promotion round with the 16th and 15th placed clubs in the Regionalliga. Should the runners-up not receive approval for a Regionalliga licence this playoff spot is passed down to the highest placed club with a licence approval. The four clubs play for one more spot in the Regionalliga in 2014–15 unless the Regionalliga champions,
FC Bayern Munich II
FC Bayern Munich II (''FC Bayern Munich Amateure'' until 2005) are the reserve team of German association football club FC Bayern Munich, they currently play in the Regionalliga Bayern. In 2010–11 they played in the 3. Liga, having qualified ...
win promotion to the 3. Liga, in which case two spots in the league become available.
The bottom two teams in each division are directly relegated while the 15th and 16th as well as the 14th placed team with the lesser points take part in the relegation playoffs with the Landesliga runners-up. However, this modus was affected by the voluntary Withdrew of BC Aichach and Wacker Burghausen II from the southern division, where both teams thereby filled the two direct relegation spots and no other team was directly relegated.
2013–14 Standings
Bayernliga Nord
The division featured four new clubs with
SpVgg SV Weiden
SpVgg SV Weiden, formerly just SpVgg Weiden, is a German association football club from the city of Weiden, Bavaria.
Playing in the tier-four Regionalliga Süd in 2010–11, the club had to declare insolvency after being more than Euro 1 milli ...
Landesliga
The Landesliga ( en, Football State League) is a tier of football in some states of the German football league system.
In Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hamburg, the Landesligas are set right below the Oberliga and therefore ...
while
SC Eltersdorf
The SC Eltersdorf is a German association football club from the Eltersdorf district of Erlangen, Bavaria.
An amateur club who has mostly played in the lower leagues of Bavaria, the club achieved its greatest success in 2011–12 when it earned ...
and
VfL Frohnlach
VfL Frohnlach is a German association football club from the municipality of Frohnlach in Ebersdorf bei Coburg, Bavaria.
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History
The club was established as ''Sports Club Arminia Frohnlach'' in 1919 and, after a 1925 merger with ''T ...
had been relegated from the Regionalliga. Additionally,
SSV Jahn Regensburg II
The SSV Jahn Regensburg II is a German association football club from the city of Regensburg, Bavaria. It is the reserve team of SSV Jahn Regensburg.
The team's currently plays in the southern division of the Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the Ge ...
had been transferred from the southern division to the northern.
Bayernliga Süd
The division featured six new clubs with
TSV Bogen
The TSV Bogen is a German association football club from the town of Bogen, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success came in 2013 when it qualified for the southern division of the Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system.
Hi ...
SV Raisting
The SV Raisting is a German association football club from the town of Raisting, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success came in 2013, when it qualified for the southern division of the Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league system ...
,
VfR Garching
The VfR Garching is a German association football club from the city of Garching, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success has been promotion to the Regionalliga Bayern in 2014, the fourth tier of the German football league system.
History
For most ...
and
FC Pipinsried
The FC Pipinsried is a German association football club from the town of Pipinsried, Bavaria.
The club's greatest success came in 2013 when it qualified for the southern division of the Bayernliga, the fifth tier of the German football league ...
having been promoted from the Landesliga while
FC Ismaning
FC Ismaning is a German association football club based in Ismaning by Munich, Bavaria.
History
The 700 member club was founded in March 1921 and played in lower-tier competition until the mid-90s when the footballers advanced for the first ti ...
Promotion/relegation play-offs were held at the end of the season for both the Regionalliga above and the Bayernliga: fupa.net, accessed: 23 May 2014
To the Regionalliga
First round
The 15th and 16th placed Regionalliga teams play the runners-up of the northern division and the third placed team in the south. Both Bayernliga teams failed to earn promotion while 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 retained its league place and TSV 1860 Rosenheim was relegated:
;First leg
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;Second leg
''Rosenheim won 3−2 on aggregate.''
''Schweinfurt won 7−3 on aggregate.''
Second round
The winners of the first round play each other for the one available spot in the Regionalliga:
;First leg
;Second leg
''Schweinfurt won 6–1 on aggregate.''
To the Bayernliga
The second placed teams of each of the five Landesliga division, together with the worst 14th placed team and the 15th and 16th placed teams from the two Bayernligas enter a play-off for the remaining three places in the 2014–15 Bayernliga.
Group A
Group A is a four team group:
;First round – first leg
;First round – second leg
''Viktoria Kahl won 4-1 on aggregate.''
''Alemannia Haibach won 5-2 on aggregate.''
;Second round – first leg
;Second round – second leg
''Alemannia Haibach won 3–2 on aggregate.''
Group B
Group B is a three team group:
;First round – first leg
;First round – second leg
''4-4 on aggregate. FC Affing won on away goals rule.''
;Second round – first leg
;Second round – second leg
''DJK Vilzing won 3–2 on aggregate.''
Group C
Group C is a three team group:
;First round – first leg
;First round – second leg
''TuS Holzkirchen won 2-1 on aggregate.''
;Second round – first leg
;Second round – second leg
''BCF Wolfratshausen won 2–1 on aggregate.''
References
External links
of the
Bavarian Football Association
The Bavarian Football Association (german: Bayerischer Fussball-Verband), the ''BFV'', is one of 21 regional organisations of the German Football Association, the ''DFB'', and covers the state of Bavaria.Bayernliga Nord 2013–14 on Fupa.net
on Fupa.net
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Bayern
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