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FC St. Pauli and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team Stuttgarter Kickers had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off.
Uerdingen and Hertha BSC were eventually joined in demotion by relegation/promotion play-off participant FC St. Pauli, who lost on aggregate against Stuttgarter Kickers.
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.
Loboué played in the youth of the Pforzheimer clubs SV Königsbach und VfR Pforzheim before joining Stuttgarter Kickers in 1996.