Relegation via league cup? TSV Gilching and other state league teams skeptical after BFV announcement

The national soccer leagues in Bavaria are getting an additional competition. TSV Gilching-Argelsried could win promotion or relegation in a league cup.

Gilching - Stefan Schwartling is surprised by the call. "I hear about it for the first time," says the head of the TSV Gilching-Argelsried. The surprise after the conversation with the Starnberg Mercury is also great among the other Upper Bavarian national soccer leagues of the Südwest group. "I don't know anything," says Reinhold Miefanger, head of department at SC Olching. Christoph Saller, sports director and trainer of 1. FC Garmisch-Partenkirchen, reports: "I only found out from the Internet."

They all talk about the content of a press release that the Bavarian Football Association (BFV) sent out on Thursday evening. It announces that instead of the canceled 2020/21 season, an attractive additional competition for the still running but interrupted 2019/20 season will be introduced in the state leagues in Bavaria.

The procedure of the league cup of the national leagues

The responsible BFV working group recommends a league cup with a preliminary, intermediate and final round (flexible design depending on the pandemic course possible) for each of the five regional league seasons, which is played during the game-free times of league operations and at the end of which Winners in a relegation round play a total of three direct promotion places to the Bayern League In addition, a dovetailing with the season 2021/22 in the Toto Cup competition at association level is planned. In the additional competition, no points can be earned for the table in the league.

If a team in the League Cup that has already made it through the league is successful, a successor principle applies. If a team that would be relegated via the league emerges as the winner of the league cup competition, it does not advance to the Bayern league, but holds the class as a reward. The next step is the further content and schedule of the League Cup competition. For this purpose, a further working group is set up, to which all interested Landesliga club representatives are invited to participate.

Criticism of the communication of the BFV

"But nobody spoke to us," says Schwartling. Andreas Fink from 1. FC Sonthofen, a club representative from the south-west, was involved in the development so far. "I would have expected to be asked about it," says Schwartling.

Garmischs Saller also says: "At least we could have been informed about the digital mailbox and asked for cooperation." He found the new League Cup to be interesting, however. “Everyone starts from scratch and there is an attractive goal.” Schwartling first wants to wait for the precise elaboration. "But it would be important to have income from additional home games," he says.

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