2023–24 Regionalliga

The 2023–24 Regionalliga was the 16th season of the Regionalliga, the twelfth under the new format, as the fourth tier of the German football league system.

Format
According to the promotion rules decided upon in 2019, the Regionalliga Südwest and West retained direct promotion spots. Based on a rotation principle, the Regionalliga Nordost received the third direct promotion spot this season, while the Regionalliga Bayern and Nord champions played a promotion play-off.

Regionalliga Nord
18 teams from the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein competed in the twelfth season of the reformed Regionalliga Nord. VfB Oldenburg and SV Meppen were relegated from the 2022–23 3. Liga. SC Spelle-Venhaus was promoted from the 2022–23 Oberliga Niedersachsen, Eimsbütteler TV from the 2022–23 Oberliga Hamburg and Kilia Kiel from the 2022–23 Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein.

Relegation play-offs

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Regionalliga Nordost
18 teams from the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia competed in the twelfth season of the reformed Regionalliga Nordost. FSV Zwickau was relegated from the 2022–23 3. Liga. Hansa Rostock II was promoted from the 2022–23 NOFV-Oberliga Nord and FC Eilenburg from the 2022–23 NOFV-Oberliga Süd.

Regionalliga West
18 teams from North Rhine-Westphalia competed in the twelfth season of the reformed Regionalliga West. FC Wegberg-Beeck was promoted from the 2022–23 Mittelrheinliga, SSVg Velbert from the 2022–23 Oberliga Niederrhein, and FC Gütersloh and SC Paderborn II both from the 2022–23 Oberliga Westfalen.

Regionalliga Südwest
18 teams from Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland competed in the twelfth season of the Regionalliga Südwest. Schott Mainz and TuS Koblenz were promoted from the 2022–23 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, Stuttgarter Kickers from the 2022–23 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg and Eintracht Frankfurt II from the 2022–23 Hessenliga.

Regionalliga Bayern
18 teams from Bavaria competed in the eleventh season of the Regionalliga Bayern. SpVgg Bayreuth was relegated from the 2022–23 3. Liga. Eintracht Bamberg was promoted from the 2022–23 Bayernliga Nord and SV Schalding-Heining and FC Memmingen from the 2022–23 Bayernliga Süd.

Relegation play-offs
Ordinarily, the relegation play-offs are played as two-legged matches between the 15th and 16th-placed teams of the Regionalliga Bayern and the runners-up of the two Bayernliga divisions. However, since only one team from the 2023–24 Bayernliga Süd, Schwaben Augsburg, applied for a Regionalliga license, thereby gaining direct promotion, the three remaining teams played a single round-robin tournament instead, with the top two qualifying for the next Regionalliga season.

Promotion play-offs
The order of the legs was determined in a draw. The matches were scheduled for 22 and 26 May 2024, but since Würzburger Kickers qualified for the final of the 2023–24 Bavarian Cup, scheduled for 25 May 2024, the matches were instead played on 29 May and 2 June 2024. 


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