Vorarlbergliga

The Vorarlbergliga is the highest football league of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It's the fourth highest football league in Austria. Exclusively limited to teams of the Vorarlberg Football Association (German: Vorarlberger Fussballverband, VFV).

Vorarlbergliga
Organising body
CountryAustria
ConfederationUEFA
Number of teams16
Level on pyramid4
Promotion toRegionalliga West
Relegation toLandesliga (Vorarlberg)
Current champions?
(2016–17)

Vorarlbergliga was part of the 4th highest level which called Austrian Landesliga. However, inside Vorarlberg state, Landesliga was the name of the fifth-tier which teams of Vorarlbergliga relegated to.

Mode

The league consists of 16 teams. In each season, each club plays against each other club in one home and one away match. A season is therefore made up of 30 games.[1]

The champion of the Vorarlbergliga is entitled to move up to the third-tier, the Regionalliga West. If the champion refuses the promotion, this can lead to a relegation from the league, which has been implicated since the 2011–12 season.[2] The number of teams that descend directly into the fifth class the Landesliga, depends on the number of teams from Vorarlberg which descend from the Regionalliga West. Every season, at least one club moves up. On the other hand, every year two teams move down directly to the Vorarlbergliga. In addition, since the 2014–15 season, at the end of the championship a relegation between the third placed team of the Landesliga and the lowest ranked non relegated team from the Vorarlbergliga is held. Relegation consists of a home and away game.[3]

References
  1. "Auf- und Abstiegsbestimmungen für 2015/2016" (PDF) (in German). Vorarlberger Nachrichten. 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  2. Elsner, Horst (2014-07-09). "VFV ändert die Auf- und Abstiegsbestimmungen" (in German). Vorarlberger Fussballverband. Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  3. "Auf- und Abstiegsbestimmungen für 2014/2015" (PDF) (in German). Vorarlberger Fussballverband. 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
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