The 2009–10 Regionalliga season was the sixteenth since its re-establishment after German reunification and the second as a fourth-level league within the German football league system. It was contested in three divisions with eighteen teams each. The competition began on 7 August 2008 with the first matches of each division and ended on 29 May 2010.

Regionalliga
Season2009–10
Champions
Relegated

Team changes from 2008–09

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Movement between 3. Liga and Regionalliga

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The champions of the three 2008–09 Regionalliga divisions were promoted to the 2009–10 3. Liga. These were Holstein Kiel (North), Borussia Dortmund II (West) and 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 (South).

VfR Aalen and Stuttgarter Kickers were relegated from the 2008–09 3. Liga after finishing the season in the bottom two places. 18th-placed Wacker Burghausen were eventually spared from relegation after 5th-placed Kickers Emden voluntarily retracted their application for a license because of financial issues.[1] Since Emden did not apply for a Regionalliga license, they were eventually moved to the fifth-tier Oberliga Niedersachsen.

Movement between Regionalliga and fifth-level leagues

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Altona 93, Sachsen Leipzig, Energie Cottbus II (all North), BV Cloppenburg, 1. FC Kleve (both West), TSV Großbardorf and SpVgg Unterhaching II (both South) were relegated at the end of the 2008–09 season. Furthermore, FSV Oggersheim (West) and Viktoria Aschaffenburg (South) withdrew from the league due to financial issues.

The relegated teams were replaced by teams from the fifth-level leagues of the German league pyramid and allocated to one of the three divisions. SC Goslar 08 as winners of a round between the champions of the fifth-level leagues on the territory of the former Oberliga Nord, Tennis Borussia Berlin as NOFV-Oberliga Nord champions and ZFC Meuselwitz as winners of the NOFV-Oberliga Süd joined the Northern division. NRW-Liga champions Bonner SC and runners-up Fortuna Düsseldorf II, along with Oberliga Südwest champions 1. FC Saarbrücken were included to the Western division. Finally, SG Sonnenhof Großaspach as winners of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, SpVgg Weiden as Bayernliga champions and FC Bayern Alzenau as Hessenliga runners-up were added to the Southern division; Alzenau were granted promotion because Hessenliga champions SC Waldgirmes were not able to meet the necessary licensing criteria.

Movement between divisions

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In order to achieve a size of eighteen teams for each division, Waldhof Mannheim were moved from the Southern to the Western division for this season.

Regionalliga Nord

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 SV Babelsberg 03 (C, P) 34 23 8 3 54 18 +36 77 Promotion to 3. Liga
2 VfL Wolfsburg II 34 21 7 6 60 20 +40 70
3 Chemnitzer FC 34 18 7 9 58 34 +24 61
4 Hallescher FC 34 14 14 6 47 25 +22 56
5 Hamburger SV II 34 15 10 9 45 34 +11 55
6 1. FC Magdeburg 34 14 9 11 57 38 +19 51
7 VFC Plauen 34 14 8 12 49 39 +10 50
8 Hannover 96 II 34 13 10 11 62 41 +21 49
9 VfB Lübeck 34 14 7 13 47 48 −1 49
10 ZFC Meuselwitz 34 10 13 11 40 50 −10 43
11 Hertha BSC II 34 11 9 14 57 55 +2 42
12 F.C. Hansa Rostock II (R) 34 11 7 16 36 60 −24 40 Relegation to Oberliga[a]
13 Türkiyemspor Berlin 34 10 9 15 51 64 −13 39
14 SV Wilhelmshaven 34 10 9 15 45 59 −14 39
15 Tennis Borussia Berlin (R) 34 8 10 16 33 55 −22 34 Relegation to Oberliga[b]
16 FC Oberneuland 34 9 6 19 37 71 −34 33
17 FC St. Pauli II (R) 34 7 9 18 34 67 −33 30 Relegation to Oberliga
18 Goslarer SC 08 (R) 34 4 8 22 33 67 −34 20
Source: kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ F.C. Hansa Rostock decided to withdraw from the Regionalliga, citing the high cost.[2]
  2. ^ Tennis Borussia Berlin filed for administration on 11 May 2010 and voluntarily withdrew from the league after the end of the season.[3]

Top goalscorers

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Final standings; Source: kicker

29 goals
19 goals
16 goals
15 goals
14 goals
13 goals
12 goals

Regionalliga West

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 1. FC Saarbrücken (C, P) 34 20 9 5 53 33 +20 69 Promotion to 3. Liga
2 Sportfreunde Lotte 34 17 10 7 48 31 +17 61
3 VfL Bochum II 34 16 9 9 50 32 +18 57
4 1. FC Köln II 34 15 10 9 50 37 +13 55
5 Rot-Weiss Essen (R) 34 14 10 10 44 32 +12 52 Relegation to Oberliga[a]
6 Preußen Münster 34 14 9 11 47 37 +10 51
7 SV 07 Elversberg 34 14 8 12 41 34 +7 50
8 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 34 14 7 13 43 37 +6 49
9 SC Verl 34 12 11 11 41 41 0 47
10 Bonner SC (R) 34 10 13 11 48 45 +3 43 Relegation to Oberliga[b]
11 Fortuna Düsseldorf II 34 11 8 15 35 51 −16 41
12 FC Schalke 04 II 34 11 7 16 42 43 −1 40
13 Bayer Leverkusen II 34 9 13 12 38 45 −7 40
14 Waldhof Mannheim (R) 34 10 10 14 36 43 −7 40 Relegation to Oberliga[c]
15 1. FSV Mainz 05 II 34 10 10 14 37 45 −8 40
16 Borussia Mönchengladbach II 34 11 7 16 37 53 −16 40
17 Wormatia Worms 34 7 9 18 35 58 −23 30
18 Eintracht Trier 34 7 8 19 33 61 −28 29
Source: kicker
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Rot-Weiss Essen were not granted a license for the new season.[4]
  2. ^ Bonner SC were not granted a license for the new season and relegated to the NRW-Liga. However, the club was not permitted to compete in the league in 2010–11 and instead entered the tier-seven Landesliga Mittelrhein 1 for 2011–12.[5][6]
  3. ^ Waldhof Mannheim were not granted a license for the new season.[7]

Top goalscorers

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Final standings; Source: kicker

16 goals
14 goals
11 goals
10 goals

Regionalliga Süd

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 VfR Aalen (C, P) 34 22 8 4 51 19 +32 74 Promotion to 3. Liga
2 1. FC Nürnberg II 34 18 9 7 55 30 +25 63
3 SC Freiburg II 34 17 10 7 63 34 +29 61
4 Hessen Kassel 34 15 14 5 63 41 +22 59
5 Karlsruher SC II 34 15 7 12 50 51 −1 52
6 SSV Ulm 1846 34 13 12 9 52 45 +7 51
7 TSV 1860 München II 34 13 10 11 51 39 +12 49
8 Eintracht Frankfurt II 34 12 12 10 57 41 +16 48
9 Stuttgarter Kickers 34 11 15 8 43 39 +4 48
10 SpVgg Weiden 34 15 3 16 57 67 −10 48
11 SpVgg Greuther Fürth II 34 14 5 15 44 58 −14 47
12 SG Sonnenhof Großaspach 34 13 7 14 53 44 +9 46
13 SC Pfullendorf 34 10 11 13 39 41 −2 41
14 SSV Reutlingen (R) 34 11 7 16 43 56 −13 40 Relegation to Oberliga[a]
15 SV Darmstadt 98 34 8 10 16 39 49 −10 34
16 SV Wehen Wiesbaden II 34 7 8 19 32 56 −24 29
17 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg (R) 34 6 10 18 40 76 −36 28 Relegation to Oberliga[b]
18 FC Bayern Alzenau (R) 34 5 4 25 23 69 −46 19 Relegation to Oberliga
Source: kicker
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Reutlingen filed for administration on 23 March 2010 and voluntarily withdrew from the league after the end of the season.[8][9]
  2. ^ Eintracht Bamberg filed for administration on 11 May 2010 and voluntarily withdrew from the league after the end of the season.[10]

Top goalscorers

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Final standings; Source: kicker

19 goals
18 goals
16 goals
15 goals
14 goals
13 goals
12 goals

References

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  1. ^ Emden: Neuanfang in der Oberliga (in German) kicker.de, published: 10 June 2009, accessed: 22 November 2015
  2. ^ "F.C. Hansa Rostock meldet zweite Mannschaft für die Oberliga" [F.C. Hansa Rostock registers reserve team for the Oberliga]. Official site (in German). F.C. Hansa Rostock. 2010-06-04. Archived from the original on 7 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
  3. ^ "Verein stellt Insolvenzantrag" [Club files for administration]. Official site (in German). Tennis Borussia Berlin e.V. 2010-05-21. Archived from the original on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
  4. ^ "RWE-Vorstand stellt Insolvenzantrag" [RWE board files for administration]. Official site (in German). Rot-Weiss Essen. 2010-06-04. Archived from the original on 7 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-04. Es ist RWE nicht gelungen, die Bedingungen des DFB für die Regionalliga-Lizenzerteilung zu erfüllen. [RWE did not succeed in meeting the conditions of the DFB for the Regionalliga license]
  5. ^ "Der Kampf um die Lizenz ist verloren" [The fight for the license has been lost]. Official site (in German). Bonner SC. 2010-06-04. Archived from the original on 7 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
  6. ^ Bei Insolvenz ein Jahr Pause (in German) www.reviersport.de, published: 18 July 2010, accessed: 19 August 2011
  7. ^ "DFB erteilt keine Regionalligalizenz" [DFB grants no Regionalliga license]. Official site (in German). SV Waldhof Mannheim 07 e. V. 2010-06-08. Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
  8. ^ "Insolvenz-Antrag ist eingereicht" [Administration paperwork handed in] (in German). Schwäbisches Tagblatt. 23 March 2010. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  9. ^ Bleeser (19 March 2010). "SSV meldet Insolvenz an" [SSV to go into administration] (in German). Schwäbisches Tagblatt. Archived from the original on 22 March 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  10. ^ "Bamberg meldet Insolvenz an" [Bamberg files for administration] (in German). kicker. 11 May 2010. Archived from the original on 14 May 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
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