Leagues
Bavarian derbies listed here were and are played in the following leagues:
- Fußball-Bundesliga (I) from 1963
- Oberliga Süd (I) 1945 to 1963
- 2nd Oberliga Süd (II) 1950 to 1963
- Regionalliga Süd (II) 1963 to 1974
- 2. Bundesliga Süd (II) 1974 to 1981
- 2. Bundesliga (II) from 1981
- 3. Liga (III) from 2008
- Regionalliga Süd (III-IV) 1994 to 2012
- Regionalliga Bayern (IV) from 2012
Below these leagues, as the highest level of play in the state of Bavaria until 2012, sat the Bayernliga. This league was formed in 1945 and went through a number of name changes during its existence. Since 2012 the Regionalliga Bayern is the highest football league in the state.
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Famous quotes containing the word leagues:
“By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summon’d am to a tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
Methinks it is no journey.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 57–60)
“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)