2016–17 Oberliga

The Oberliga is organised in fourteen regional divisions with the league champions promoted to the level above, the Regionalligas while the relegated teams drop down to the Verbandsligas and Landesligas.

[1][2] Nine of the league champions earned direct promotion to the Regionalligas, SC Freiburg II, VfB Eichstätt, SSV Jeddeloh, FC Wegberg-Beeck, VSG Altglienicke, BSG Chemie Leipzig, KFC Uerdingen, TSV Schott Mainz and TuS Erndtebrück, while the Oberliga Westfalen runners-up, Westfalia Rhynern, Bayernliga Süd runners-up, FC Unterföhring and Hessenliga runners-up, Eintracht Stadtallendorf were also directly promoted.

In Northern Germany Bremer SV, Eintracht Northeim, Altona 93 and Eutin 08 competed for two more Regionalliga Nord places in a play-off, which Altona and Eutin won, while Röchling Völklingen, FSV Bissingen and Rot-Weiss Frankfurt did the same for the Regionalliga Südwest, with Völklingen earning promotion.

The other two Regionalligas, Nordost and West, did not hold play-off rounds, instead they operated with direct promotion only.

The teams that qualified were runners-up Viktoria Aschaffenburg in the north and third-placed FC Pipinsried in the south as southern champions SV Pullach did not apply for a Regionalliga licence and runners-up FC Unterföhring were promoted.