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 third tier of the
German football league system
The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for association football in Germany that in the 2016–17 season consisted of 2,235 leagues in up to 13 levels having 31,645 teams ...
in the state of
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 ...
at the time, was the 37th season of the league.
Overview
The league champions,
FC Augsburg
Fußball-Club Augsburg 1907 e. V., commonly known as FC Augsburg () or Augsburg, is a German football club based in Augsburg, Bavaria. FC Augsburg play in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system. The team was founded as ...
2. Bundesliga
The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...
after successfully competing in the promotion round. For Augsburg it was their third Bayernliga title after 1972–73 and 1979–80.
Runners-up
FC Schweinfurt 05
1. Fussball-Club Schweinfurt 1905, Verein für Leibesübungen e.V., called 1. FC Schweinfurt 05, Schweinfurt 05, or simply FC 05, is a German association football club established in Schweinfurt (Bavaria) in 1905. It has sections for netball, f ...
qualified for the
German amateur championship
The German amateur football championship was a national football competition in Germany organized by the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund; DFB) and in existence from 1950 to 1998.
History
Overview
The championship was ...
, where the club lost to
Hertha Zehlendorf
The Hertha Zehlendorf is a German football club from the suburb of Zehlendorf in Berlin.
The club is one of the largest football clubs in the country and has a strong youth department which has won two national youth championships. The depar ...
in the first round.
The bottom five clubs were directly
relegated
In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are often called open leagues. ...
from the league while 15th placed SC Fürstenfeldbruck had to enter the relegation round with the Landesliga runners-up where it lost to
SpVgg Landshut
The SpVgg Landshut is a German association football club from the city of Landshut, Bavaria. Both the clubs men and women's football teams have in the past played in the highest state league, the Bayernliga.
History
The club was formed in 191 ...
in the first round. Fürstenfeldbruck returned to the Bayernliga in 1985 while, of the other relegated clubs, ATS Kulmbach never played in the Bayernliga again.
FC Amberg
FC Amberg is a German football club from the city of Amberg, Bavaria. The team was established on 6 April 1921 as ''Amberg Fußballverein'' and on 17 January 1939 adopted the name ''Verein für Leibesübungen Amberg''.
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History
Followi ...
won promotion back to the Bayernliga in 1986,
ESV Ingolstadt
The ESV Ingolstadt is a general sports club in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, formed on 15 February 1919.
Until 2004, the club operated a football department but after a merger with local rival MTV Ingolstadt to form FC Ingolstadt 04 the footballers left ...
TSV Ampfing
TSV Ampfing is a German football club from the city of Ampfing, Bavaria.
History
The club was established 19 May 1927 as the gymnastics club ''Turn- und Sportverein Ampfing'' and first formed a football department in 1931. The club was lost in ...
was the league's top scorer with 29, his second of five top scorer awards in the league, achieved between 1980 and 1988.
Table
The 1981–82 season saw six new clubs in the league,
SpVgg Unterhaching
Spielvereinigung Unterhaching () is a German sports club in Unterhaching, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division association football league ...
,
1. FC Bamberg
The 1. FC Bamberg was a German association football club from the town of Bamberg, Bavaria.
In 2006, the club merged with TSV Eintracht Bamberg to form 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg. 1. FC Eintracht went bankrupt in 2010 and a new club was formed, F ...
,
FC Vilshofen
The FC Vilshofen is a German association football club from the town of Vilshofen an der Donau, Bavaria.
The club's most successful era was from 1978 to 1985, when it spent six seasons in the tier three Fußball-Bayernliga, with a ninth place ...
Landesliga Bayern
The Landesliga Bayern sits at step 6 of the German football league system and is the third highest level in the Bavarian football league system, below the Bayernliga and organised in five regional divisions. The current Landesligas were formed in ...
, while
FC Augsburg
Fußball-Club Augsburg 1907 e. V., commonly known as FC Augsburg () or Augsburg, is a German football club based in Augsburg, Bavaria. FC Augsburg play in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system. The team was founded as ...
and
ESV Ingolstadt
The ESV Ingolstadt is a general sports club in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, formed on 15 February 1919.
Until 2004, the club operated a football department but after a merger with local rival MTV Ingolstadt to form FC Ingolstadt 04 the footballers left ...
had been relegated from the 2. Bundesliga Süd to the league.
For SpVgg Unterhaching it was the first-ever season in the league while Bamberg had last played in the league in 1976 and Vilshofen in 1980. Schwaben Augsburg, the first team to win Bayernliga promotion as a Landesliga runners-up after promotion/relegation play-off had been introduced in the previous season, had last played in the Bayernliga in 1960. Of the two clubs relegated to the league FC Augsburg had won it in 1979–80 and Ingolstadt the season before, both thereby earning promotion to the 2. Bundesliga.
2. Bundesliga promotion round
In the southern group the champions of the
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg
The Oberliga Baden-Württemberg is the highest association football league in the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg football league system. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German foot ...
,
Oberliga Hessen
The Hessenliga (until 2008 ''Oberliga Hessen'') is the highest football league in the state of Hesse and the Hessian football league system. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier of the German football league system. ...
, Oberliga Südwest and the Bayernliga competed for two promotion spots to the 2. Bundesliga:
Bayernliga promotion round
The 15th placed Bayernliga team had to face the runners-up of the three Landesligas for one more place in the Bayernliga.''Die Bayernliga'', p. 117