He returned to Germany the next year, becoming the first of several Americans to sign with Regionalliga team Kickers Emden.
It is also used throughout Europe, although in Germany non-professional leagues are known as Regionalliga, as the leagues are all regional depending on the location of the town or city the team represents, unlike 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga all being national leagues.
The bottom three teams of each division are demoted to their respective Oberliga.
The football club FC Nöttingen played in the Fußball-Regionalliga in 2004, which was the third highest football league in Germany at that time.
In 2009-10, the club participates at the third tier of the German rugby union league system, the local Regionalliga Bavaria.
The following year, Krohne scored fourteen times as Cloppenburg finished second again, enough for promotion as the Regionalliga was being re-structured.
Regionalliga Nord | Regionalliga | Regionalliga West | Rugby-Regionalliga |
Five teams were due to be relegated, but Stuttgarter Kickers and Sportfreunde Siegen were repreived because two of the relegated teams from the 2. Bundesliga, SSV Reutlingen and SV Waldhof Mannheim, could not achieve a Regionalliga license, and dropped another level, to the Oberliga.
Magdeburg finished 10th in Ofodile's first season with the club, which, due to a restructuring of the Regionalliga, meant relegation to the fourth tier NOFV-Oberliga Süd.
After finishing as tenth and seventh in 1964 and 1965 respectively, Essen reached under Fritz Pliska the second place in 1965–66, qualifying for the promotion round for the Bundesliga, while Fortuna Düsseldorf won the Regionalliga West and Alemannia Aachen finished third.
Coordes entered coaching with OSC Bremerhaven in the Regionalliga North and worked his way through to the post of assistant coach at Bayern Munich by 1984.
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He began his career at Regionalliga North side TuS Bremerhaven 93 but quickly moved to the Bundesliga, playing the rest of his career at just two clubs: Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart as a defender.
In the 2009–10 pre-season, he was called to the professional squad by his coach Lucien Favre.
FT Adler took out the 2008 championship in the Regionalliga North but failed in the promotion round, losing on aggregate to RU Hohen Neuendorf.
Joy immediately became a fan favorite then won the Regionalliga Nord Championship with St. Pauli getting promotion to the German 2nd Bundesliga in his second season.
He made his debut for the club in a 2-2 home draw with Chemnitzer FC on 8 August 2009, and went on to make 26 league appearances for the club during the 2009-10 Regionalliga campaign, scoring one goal.
In September 2009 he took over the Head Coaching Position from Dejan Stankovic at the Austrian Regional League Club (Regionalliga Mitte, 3rd Austrian League) DSV Leoben.
At this time, DSC were the top club in Dresden: while Dynamo were being relegated to the Oberliga, Milde helped them to a second-place finish in the Regionalliga in 1999–2000.