2016–17 Regionalliga

The 2016–17 Regionalliga was the ninth season of the Regionalliga, the fifth under the new format, as the fourth tier of the German football league system.

Regionalliga

Season	2016–17
Champions	SV Meppen (Nord) FC Carl Zeiss Jena (Nordost) FC Viktoria Köln (West) SV Elversberg (Südwest) SpVgg Unterhaching (Bayern)
Promoted	SV Meppen FC Carl Zeiss Jena SpVgg Unterhaching
Relegated	Lupo Martini Wolfsburg SV Eichede FC Schönberg 95 Rot Weiss Ahlen FC Schalke 04 II TSG Sprockhövel Sportfreunde Siegen FK Pirmasens FC 08 Homburg 1. FC Kaiserslautern II Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg SV Eintracht Trier 05 FC Nöttingen TSV 1860 Munich II SpVgg Bayern Hof
Withdrawn	RB Leipzig II
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Regionalliga Nord

18 teams from the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein competed in the fifth season of the reformed Regionalliga Nord; 15 teams were retained from last season and 3 were promoted from the Oberliga, namely 2015–16 Niedersachsenliga champions Lupo Martini Wolfsburg^[1] and promotion round winners SV Eichede, 2015–16 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga champions,^[2] and 1. FC Germania Egestorf/Langreder, Niedersachsenliga runners-up. The season started on 31 July 2016.^[3]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	SV Meppen (C, O, P)	34	25	4	5	81	35	+46	79	Qualification to promotion play-offs
2	ETSV Weiche	34	19	9	6	56	35	+21	66
3	VfL Wolfsburg II	34	15	10	9	53	40	+13	55
4	VfB Lübeck	34	16	7	11	49	38	+11	55
5	Hamburger SV II	34	15	7	12	57	52	+5	52
6	TSV Havelse	34	13	11	10	44	36	+8	50
7	FC Eintracht Norderstedt 03	34	13	11	10	46	41	+5	50
8	VfB Oldenburg	34	13	8	13	50	43	+7	47
9	SV Drochtersen/Assel	34	12	10	12	44	33	+11	46
10	1. FC Germania Egestorf/Langreder	34	13	7	14	47	49	−2	46
11	Hannover 96 II	34	11	10	13	43	47	−4	43
12	Eintracht Braunschweig II	34	12	7	15	41	51	−10	43
13	Lüneburger SK Hansa	34	11	9	14	30	35	−5	42
14	FC St. Pauli II	34	9	13	12	40	48	−8	40
15	VfV 06 Hildesheim	34	9	12	13	33	41	−8	39
16	BSV Schwarz-Weiß Rehden	34	8	11	15	31	58	−27	35
17	Lupo Martini Wolfsburg (R)	34	7	8	19	32	49	−17	29	Relegation to Oberliga
18	SV Eichede (R)	34	6	4	24	29	75	−46	22

Source: kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Top goalscorers

As of 20 May 2017.^[4]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Benjamin Girth	SV Meppen	20
2	Törles Tim Knöll	Hamburger SV II	17
	Marcel Reichwein	VfL Wolfsburg II
4	Deniz Undav	TSV Havelse	16
5	René Guder	ETSV Weiche	15

Regionalliga Nordost

18 teams from the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony and Thuringia competed in the fifth season of the reformed Regionalliga Nordost; 15 teams were retained from the last season and 2 teams were promoted from the Oberliga. FC Energie Cottbus was relegated from the 2015–16 3. Liga.^[5] 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and FSV Union Fürstenwalde qualified by winning the NOFV-Oberliga Süd and the NOFV-Oberliga Nord respectively.^[6][7] The season started on 31 July 2016.^[8] The fixtures were published on 29 June 2016.^[9]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Carl Zeiss Jena (C, O, P)	34	23	6	5	68	25	+43	75	Qualification to promotion play-offs
2	FC Energie Cottbus	34	19	9	6	58	26	+32	66
3	RB Leipzig II	34	17	9	8	67	42	+25	60	Withdrawal[a]
4	FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin	34	15	11	8	63	47	+16	56
5	SV Babelsberg 03	34	16	7	11	55	42	+13	55
6	Berliner AK 07	34	16	7	11	54	42	+12	55
7	FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen	34	14	9	11	47	47	0	51
8	FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf	34	13	9	12	41	33	+8	48
9	Hertha BSC II	34	12	12	10	46	48	−2	48
10	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	34	13	8	13	53	49	+4	47
11	FC Schönberg 95 (R)	34	13	8	13	53	60	−7	47	Relegation to Landesliga[b]
12	VfB Auerbach	34	11	12	11	47	50	−3	45
13	FSV Union Fürstenwalde	34	12	9	13	49	59	−10	45
14	ZFC Meuselwitz	34	11	11	12	37	36	+1	44
15	BFC Dynamo	34	12	8	14	51	54	−3	44
16	FSV 63 Luckenwalde	34	5	9	20	35	75	−40	24
17	FSV Budissa Bautzen	34	3	9	22	29	68	−39	18
18	TSG Neustrelitz	34	2	5	27	30	80	−50	11

Source: ^[12]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. RB Leipzig withdrew their second team after this season.^[10]
2. For financial reasons, FC Schönberg 95 entered the Landesliga for next season.^[11]

Top goalscorers

As of 20 May 2017.^[13]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Federico Palacios Martínez	RB Leipzig II	22
2	Andis Shala	SV Babelsberg 03	21
3	Dennis Srbeny	BFC Dynamo	18
4	Myroslav Slavov	Berliner AK 07	16
5	Ümit Ergirdi	FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin	15

Regionalliga West

18 teams from North Rhine-Westphalia competed in the fifth season of the reformed Regionalliga West; 14 teams were retained from the last season and 4 were promoted from the Oberliga. Wuppertaler SV was promoted from the 2015–16 Oberliga Niederrhein, Sportfreunde Siegen and TSG Sprockhövel from the 2015–16 Oberliga Westfalen and Bonner SC from the 2015–16 Oberliga Mittelrhein.^{[14][15][16][17]} The season started on 29 July 2016.^[18] The fixtures were published on 5 July 2016.^[19]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Viktoria Köln (C)	34	23	3	8	91	42	+49	72	Qualification to promotion play-offs
2	Borussia Dortmund II	34	16	15	3	54	25	+29	63
3	Borussia Mönchengladbach II	34	17	11	6	71	42	+29	62
4	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	34	18	5	11	69	50	+19	59
5	Rot-Weiss Essen	34	14	13	7	48	35	+13	55
6	1. FC Köln II	34	15	6	13	59	54	+5	51
7	Alemannia Aachen	34	16	11	7	51	39	+12	50[a]
8	SG Wattenscheid 09	34	14	8	12	51	44	+7	50	Qualification to DFB-Pokal play-off
9	Bonner SC	34	14	6	14	60	61	−1	48
10	SV Rödinghausen	34	13	9	12	55	57	−2	48
11	Wuppertaler SV	34	10	12	12	47	47	0	42
12	Fortuna Düsseldorf II	34	10	11	13	44	51	−7	41
13	SC Verl	34	9	13	12	37	49	−12	40
14	SC Wiedenbrück	34	9	12	13	43	52	−9	39
15	Rot Weiss Ahlen (R)	34	8	8	18	43	66	−23	32	Relegation to Oberliga
16	FC Schalke 04 II (R)	34	8	6	20	32	48	−16	30
17	TSG Sprockhövel (R)	34	5	9	20	31	73	−42	24
18	Sportfreunde Siegen[b] (R)	34	5	6	23	31	82	−51	21

Source: kicker.de
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Alemannia Aachen was given a 9-point penalty for insolvency.^[20]
2. Sportfreunde Siegen did not apply for a licence to play the 2017–18 season and was relegated.^[21]

Westphalia DFB-Pokal play-off

As the Westphalian Football and Athletics Association is one of three regional associations with the most participating teams in their league competitions, they were allowed to enter a second team for the 2017–18 DFB-Pokal (in addition to the Westphalian Cup winners). A play-off took place between the best-placed eligible (non-reserve) Westphalian team of the Regionalliga West, SG Wattenscheid, and the best-placed eligible team of the Oberliga Westfalen, TuS Erndtebrück, with the winners qualifying for the DFB-Pokal.

SG Wattenscheid	1–4	TuS Erndtebrück
Keita-Ruel 34'	Report	Jaeschke 15', 62' (pen.) Tabaku 77' Andrijanić 90+2'

5 June 2017 (2017-06-05)

15:00 CEST

Lohrheidestadion, Bochum

Attendance: 2,773

Referee: Jörn Schäfer

Top goalscorers

As of 20 May 2017.^[22]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mike Wunderlich	FC Viktoria Köln	29
2	Lucas Musculus	Bonner SC	20
	Roman Prokoph	1. FC Köln II
4	Hamadi Al Ghaddioui	Borussia Dortmund II	19
5	Simon Engelmann	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	14
	Mike Feigenspan	Borussia Mönchengladbach II
	Cihan Yılmaz	Rot Weiss Ahlen

Regionalliga Südwest

19 teams from Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland competed in the fourth season of the Regionalliga Südwest; 13 teams were retained from last season and 4 were promoted from the Oberliga. VfB Stuttgart II and Stuttgarter Kickers were relegated from the 2015–16 3. Liga.^[23] TuS Koblenz was promoted from the 2015–16 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg from the 2015–16 Hessenliga and SSV Ulm 1846 from the 2015–16 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.^[24][25][26] The runners-up of the other Oberligas had a playoff round which was won by FC Nöttingen.^[27] The season started on 5 August 2016.^[28] The fixtures were published on 5 July 2016.^[29]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	SV Elversberg (C)	36	23	9	4	62	22	+40	78	Qualification to promotion play-offs
2	SV Waldhof Mannheim	36	23	7	6	60	34	+26	76
3	1. FC Saarbrücken	36	21	6	9	61	42	+19	69
4	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II	36	16	9	11	69	40	+29	57
5	TSV Steinbach	36	16	8	12	52	39	+13	56
6	Wormatia Worms	36	13	13	10	44	37	+7	52
7	VfB Stuttgart II	36	15	7	14	58	55	+3	52
8	TuS Koblenz	36	15	7	14	40	39	+1	52
9	SSV Ulm 1846	36	14	9	13	46	43	+3	51
10	KSV Hessen Kassel	36	13	10	13	41	49	−8	49
11	FC Astoria Walldorf	36	13	8	15	48	56	−8	47
12	Kickers Offenbach	36	14	11	11	49	39	+10	44[a]
13	Stuttgarter Kickers	36	11	11	14	53	51	+2	44
14	FK Pirmasens (R)	36	12	6	18	38	55	−17	42	Relegation to Oberliga
15	FC 08 Homburg (R)	36	12	5	19	41	59	−18	41
16	1. FC Kaiserslautern II (R)	36	9	9	18	46	59	−13	36
17	Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg (R)	36	10	5	21	42	68	−26	35
18	SV Eintracht Trier 05 (R)	36	9	6	21	44	58	−14	33
19	FC Nöttingen (R)	36	8	4	24	43	91	−48	28

Source: ^[31]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Kickers Offenbach was given a 9-point penalty due to financial problems.^[30]

Top goalscorers

As of 20 May 2017.^[32]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Muhamed Alawie	SV Eintracht Trier 05	22
	Patrick Schmidt	1. FC Saarbrücken
3	Sargis Adamyan	TSV Steinbach	16
4	Edmond Kapllani	SV Elversberg	15
5	Maximilian Oesterhelweg	SV Elversberg	13

Regionalliga Bayern

18 teams from Bavaria competed in the fifth season of the Regionalliga Bayern; 14 teams were retained from the last season and 4 were promoted from the Bayernliga. VfR Garching was promoted from the Bayernliga Süd and SV Seligenporten from the Bayernliga Nord.^[33][34] SpVgg Bayern Hof and TSV 1860 Rosenheim were also promoted as they beat SV Viktoria Aschaffenburg in the 2015–16 Bayernliga promotion playoff.^[35] The fixtures were published on 20 June 2016.^[36]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	SpVgg Unterhaching (C, O, P)	34	25	8	1	95	23	+72	83	Qualification to promotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal
2	FC Bayern Munich II	34	15	13	6	62	40	+22	58
3	FC Augsburg II	34	15	12	7	71	36	+35	57
4	FC Memmingen	34	15	7	12	62	48	+14	52
5	FV Illertissen	34	15	6	13	46	46	0	51
6	1. FC Nürnberg II	34	14	7	13	72	67	+5	49
7	FC Ingolstadt 04 II	34	12	12	10	49	51	−2	48
8	1. FC Schweinfurt 05	34	14	6	14	57	61	−4	48
9	TSV 1860 Rosenheim	34	14	6	14	47	51	−4	48
10	SV Wacker Burghausen	34	13	8	13	46	54	−8	47
11	VfR Garching	34	13	7	14	56	64	−8	46
12	SpVgg Bayreuth	34	12	6	16	49	59	−10	42
13	TSV Buchbach	34	11	8	15	43	62	−19	41
14	SV Schalding-Heining	34	10	10	14	57	64	−7	40
15	SpVgg Greuther Fürth II (O)	34	7	10	17	39	58	−19	31	Qualification to relegation playoffs
16	SV Seligenporten (O)	34	7	8	19	41	76	−35	29
17	SpVgg Bayern Hof (R)	34	3	3	28	35	87	−52	12	Relegation to Bayernliga
18	TSV 1860 Munich II[a] (R)	34	18	9	7	0	0	0	0

Source: ^[38]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. 1860 Munich II was placed at the end of the table with 0 points and thereby relegated to the Bayernliga because the first team was relegated to the 2017–18 Regionalliga Bayern due to not obtaining a license for the 2017–18 3. Liga.^[37] Originally they had completed the season in second place with 63 points and 45:35 goals.

Top goalscorers

As of 20 May 2017.^[39]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Stephan Hain	SpVgg Unterhaching	32
2	Stefan Schimmer	FC Memmingen	26
3	Marco Richter	FC Augsburg II	24
4	Dominic Baumann	FC Ingolstadt 04 II	19
	Sascha Bigalke	SpVgg Unterhaching
5	Juvhel Tsoumou	Wacker Burghausen	16

Promotion play-offs

The draw for the 2016–17 promotion play-offs was held on 8 April,^[40] with another draw between the Regionalliga Südwest teams held on 5 May 2017.^[41]

Summary

The first legs were played on 28 May, and the second legs were played on 31 May and 1 June 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Viktoria Köln (W)	3–3 (a)	Carl Zeiss Jena (NO)	2–3	1–0
SpVgg Unterhaching (B)	5–2	SV Elversberg (S1)	3–0	2–2
Waldhof Mannheim (S2)	0–0 (3–4 p)	SV Meppen (N)	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)

Matches

All times Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Viktoria Köln	2–3	Carl Zeiss Jena
Wunderlich 72' (pen.) Lanius 87'	Report	Thiele 21', 67' Sucsuz 28'

28 May 2017 (2017-05-28)

14:00

Sportpark Höhenberg, Cologne

Attendance: 6,241

Referee: Martin Petersen

Carl Zeiss Jena	0–1	Viktoria Köln
	Report	Candan 81'

1 June 2017 (2017-06-01)

17:00

Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld, Jena

Attendance: 13,800

Referee: Robert Schröder

3–3 on aggregate. Carl Zeiss Jena won on away goals.

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SpVgg Unterhaching	3–0	SV Elversberg
Müller 59' Bigalke 64' Steinherr 74'	Report

28 May 2017 (2017-05-28)

14:00

Alpenbauer Sportpark, Unterhaching

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: René Rohde

SV Elversberg	2–2	SpVgg Unterhaching
Dobros 78' Perstaller 90'	Report	Stahl 45+1' Steinherr 76'

31 May 2017 (2017-05-31)

20:30

Ursapharm-Arena an der Kaiserlinde, Spiesen-Elversberg

Attendance: 8,552

Referee: Lasse Koslowski

SpVgg Unterhaching won 5–2 on aggregate.

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Waldhof Mannheim	0–0	SV Meppen
	Report

28 May 2017 (2017-05-28)

14:30

Carl-Benz-Stadion, Mannheim

Attendance: 24,186

Referee: Guido Winkmann

SV Meppen	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Waldhof Mannheim
	Report
Penalties
Kremer Posipal Vržogić Vidović Born	4–3	Korte Amin M. Seegert Tüting Gärtner

31 May 2017 (2017-05-31)

19:00

Hänsch-Arena, Meppen

Attendance: 13,815

Referee: Benjamin Cortus

0–0 on aggregate. SV Meppen won 4–3 on penalties.