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.
Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Tom Sanne Hamburger SV II 242 Stanislav Fehler Holstein Kiel II21 Lars Gindorf Hannover 96 II 4 Marek Janssen SV Meppen 20 5 Christopher Schepp SV Meppen 18
Relegation play-offs
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.
Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Elias Löder Carl Zeiss Jena 252 Soufian Benyamina Greifswalder FC21 Tim Heike Energie Cottbus 4 Tolcay Ciğerci VSG Altglienicke 20 5 Lucas Cini Viktoria Berlin 15
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.
Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Anton Heinz Alemannia Aachen 202 Malek Fakhro 1. FC Bocholt15 Moritz Stoppelkamp Rot-Weiß Oberhausen4 Charlison Benschop Wuppertaler SV13 Shpend Hasani FC Wegberg-Beeck
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.
Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Phil Harres FC 08 Homburg 24 2 Dejan Galjen VfB Stuttgart II 213 Noel Futkeu Eintracht Frankfurt II16 Raul Paula VfB Stuttgart II 5 Sercan Sararer Hessen Kassel 15
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.
Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Julian Kania 1. FC Nürnberg II 24 2 Saliou Sané Würzburger Kickers 19 3 Ricky Bornschein Greuther Fürth II 17 4 Yannick Glessing FV Illertissen 16 5 Andreas Jünger DJK Vilzing 13
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.
All times Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
References
External links Regionalliga DFB.de Regionalliga Nord nordfv.de Regionalliga West wdfv.de Regionalliga Bayern bfv.de