The Kreisliga Schwaben-Mitte is currently the eighth tier 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 ...
in the central region of the
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 ...
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Regierungsbezirk
A ' () means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany. Four of sixteen ' ( states of Germany) are split into '. Beneath these are rural and urban districts.
Saxony has ' (directorate districts) with more res ...
'' of
Swabia
Swabia ; german: Schwaben , colloquially ''Schwabenland'' or ''Ländle''; archaic English also Suabia or Svebia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.
The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of ...
(German: ''Schwaben''). Until the disbanding of the
Bezirksoberliga Schwaben
The Bezirksoberliga Schwaben was the seventh tier of the German football league system in the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Swabia (german: Schwaben). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the sixth tier of the league system, unt ...
in 2012 it was the ninth tier. From 2008, when the '' 3. Liga'' was introduced, was the eighth tier of the league system, until the introduction of 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 ...
s'' in 1994 the seventh tier.
Overview
The winner of the Kreisliga Schwaben-Mitte, like the winner of the Kreisliga Schwaben-Süd and the
Kreisliga Schwaben-Augsburg
The Kreisliga Schwaben-Augsburg is currently the eighth tier of the German football league system in the Augsburg region of the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Swabia (German: ''Schwaben''). Until the disbanding of the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben ...
, is directly promoted to the
Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd
The ''Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd'' is currently the seventh tier of the German football league system in the northern half of the Bavarian ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Swabia (German: ''Schwaben''). Until the disbanding of the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben ...
. The second placed teams out of those leagues and the 13th placed team out of the Bezirksliga play-off for the last spot there.
The teams relegated from the Kreisliga have to step down to the
Kreisklasse
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 ...
. The Kreisliga Schwaben-Mitte is fed by the Kreisklasses Schwaben-Mindelheim and Schwaben-Memmingen.
Until 1998, the ''Kreisliga Mitte'' was called ''A-Klasse Mitte''. Until 2010, reserve teams of clubs in the league had to enter a parallel reserves division without promotion or relegation but have since been allowed to join the regular
league system
A league system is a hierarchy of leagues in a sport. They are often called pyramids, due to their tendency to split into an increasing number of regional divisions further down the system. League systems of some sort are used in many sports in ...
.
League champions
The league champions since 1993 were:
Current clubs
The clubs in the league in the 2019–21 season and their final positions:Kreisliga Mitte ''