The Futsal Bundesliga is the highest League in the German futsal league system. The league is largely

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, and the first season was played in 2021.

History

The

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has been playing a German Futsal Championship since 2006. Until 2014, the competition was called the

DFB Futsal Cup The Deutsche Futsal-Meisterschaft ''(until 2015: DFB Futsal Cup)'' was the top futsal championship in Germany. It was founded in 2006. The championship which is played under UEFA rules, consists of the champion and runner-up of each Futsal-Region ...

, before the competition was renamed the Deutsche Futsal Meisterschaft. On the 27th September 2019, the introduction of the Futsal Bundesliga from the 2021/22 season was unanimously decided at the DFB Bundestag in

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. The aim is to further promote the futsal in Germany in order to be internationally competitive. For the opening season, the champions of the five regional leagues as well as the vice champions of the regional leagues North, Northeast, South and West qualified directly. Tenth place went to the winner of a qualifying round, in which the third-place winners of the regional leagues North, Northeast, South and West and the vice champion of the Regional League Southwest participated. The inaugural champion was Stuttgarter Futsal Club.

References

{{reflist Futsal competitions in Germany