Hessenliga
Hessen-Liga
Organising bodyHessian Football Association
Founded1945
CountryGermany
StateHesse
Other club(s) fromBavaria
Number of teams20
Level on pyramidLevel 5
Promotion toRegionalliga Südwest
Relegation to
Domestic cup(s)Hessenpokal
Current championsEintracht Frankfurt II
(2022–23)

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. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fourth tier of the league system, until the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 the third tier.

Overview

The league was formed in 1945 and except for its first two seasons it has always played as one single division. The league was called Landesliga-Hessen until 1950 and actually formed the second tier of southern German football. With the introduction of the 2nd Oberliga Süd in 1950, the Landesliga-Hessen was renamed Amateurliga Hessen. From 1978, it was called Amateur Oberliga Hessen and finally, in 1994 it was renamed Oberliga Hessen.

Since introduction of the Regionalliga Süd in 1994, the winner of the Oberliga Hessen is automatically promoted to this league. Until 1994 the winners of the Oberligas had to play-off for the four promotion spots to the 2. Bundesliga with the other Oberliga winners.

In 1994, with the introduction of the Regionalliga, six clubs from Hesse were qualified for the new league, based on their performance over the last three seasons, these clubs being:

Originally, FSV Frankfurt, champions of 1994, would have also been qualified but gained promotion to the 2. Bundesliga instead.

The Oberliga Hessen still remained below the Regionalliga Süd after the reduction of the number of Regionalligas from four to two in 2000 but this reduction meant that the Oberliga champions in that year were not promoted.

With the changes in the league system in 2008, four clubs from the Hessenliga were promoted to Regionalliga Süd after the 2007–08 season, nominally the top four teams, however, there was also financial requirements to receive a Regionalliga licence. The four clubs were:

The Hessenliga is fed by the three Verbandsligen. The winners of those are directly promoted to the Hessenliga, the three runners-up play-off for one more promotion spot.

The Hessenliga also, at times, accommodated teams from Bavaria, Viktoria Aschaffenburg and FC Bayern Alzenau. In the 2011–12 season, Viktoria played in the league while Alzenau played one level above in the Regionalliga.

From 2012 onwards, the league became a feeder league to the new Regionalliga Südwest, together with the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar. The previous league the Hessenliga was set below at, the Regionalliga Süd, was disbanded after the 2011–12 season.[1]

Champions

The league champions since 1945:

  • The record number of league championships is held by FSV Frankfurt, with eight titles to their name (including one won by their reserve team, FSV Frankfurt II).
  • In 2014 champions TGM SV Jügesheim declined promotion and no other team that applied for a Regionalliga licence finished high enough in the league to qualify.
  • In 2017 champions Hessen Dreieich declined promotion. Runners-up TSV Eintracht Stadtallendorf were promoted instead.
  • In 2021 there was no champion or promotion because of the decision to curtail the season during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

League placings

The complete list of clubs and placings in the league since being renamed to Hessenliga in 2008:

Club 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
TSV Steinbach Haiger1RRRRRRRR
Viktoria AschaffenburgR10RRR1R21RRRRR
KSV Hessen KasselRRRRRRRRRR32RRR
SG Barockstadt Fulda-Lehnerz5411R
Eintracht Frankfurt IIRRRRRR1
FC Gießen11R41RRR2
Türk Gücü Friedberg13115143
FSV 1926 Fernwald121393710181074
Eintracht Stadtallendorf84815911952RR1R25
KSV Baunatal53321RR1291071213166
Rot-Weiß Walldorf93127
FC Hanau 93144158
SV Steinbach14171611179
1. FC Erlensee20510
FC Eddersheim178319411
FC Bayern Alzenau2R1RR14415422RR1112
SC Waldgirmes122141459107813
SV Adler Weidenhausen14
Viktoria Griesheim10161481314118171315
TuS Dietkirchen15151016
SV Unter-Flockenbach17
SV Neuhof1714918
SpVgg Hadamar134631066466619
TSV Steinbach II20
SC Hessen Dreieich1311R723
FV Bad Vilbel10131218
Hünfelder SV10916819151819
VfB Ginsheim8651620
SV Zeilsheim921
SV Buchonia Flieden1613113158171214822
FSC Lohfelden19961212411912
FC Ederbergland1715121316
SpVgg 03 Neu-Isenburg1117
TSV Lehnerz42373
Borussia Fulda171157
Rot-Weiß Frankfurt11714172315
OSC Vellmar9156711211141016
Sportfreunde Seligenstadt8798
Rot-Weiß Darmstadt11812131615
Viktoria Kelsterbach16
Viktoria Urberach311751517
1. FC Eschborn6841R3106
SV Wiesbaden957
SpVgg Oberrad1316
SV Wehen IIRRR6576
1. FC Schwalmstadt141717
TGM SV Jügesheim1021
FSV Frankfurt II1RRR5
Kickers Offenbach II455121318
FSV Braunfels16
1. FCA Darmstadt121618
Eintracht Wetzlar1018
RSV Würges14615
VfB Marburg1218
KSV Klein-Karben716
Germania Ober-Roden1517
TSG Wörsdorf1318
SVA Bad Hersfeld19
KSV Hessen Kassel II18

1 Formerly Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg.

Key

Symbol Key
OL
B		 Oberliga Süd (1945–63)
Bundesliga (1963–present)
2O
RL
2B		 2nd Oberliga Süd (1950–63)
Regionalliga Süd (1963–74)
2. Bundesliga (1974–present)
3L 3. Liga (2008–present)
R Regionalliga Süd (1994–2012)
Regionalliga Südwest (2012–present)
1 League champions
Place Played in the a different Oberliga division
Place League
Blank Played at a league level below this league

References

  1. ↑ DFB-Bundestag beschließt Reform der Spielklassen (in German) DFB. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2011.

Sources

  • Deutschlands Fußball in Zahlen, (in German) An annual publication with tables and results from the Bundesliga to Verbandsliga/Landesliga. DSFS.
  • Kicker Almanach, (in German) The yearbook on German football from Bundesliga to Oberliga, since 1937. Kicker Sports Magazine.
  • Süddeutschlands Fußballgeschichte in Tabellenform 1897–1988 (in German) History of Southern German football in tables, by Ludolf Hyll
  • Die Deutsche Liga-Chronik 1945–2005 (in German) History of German football from 1945 to 2005 in tables. DSFS. 2006.
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