[2][3] All twenty-one winners qualified for the first round of the German Cup in the following season.
Three additional clubs also qualified for the first round of the German Cup, these being from the three largest state associations, Bavaria, Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
In Bavaria the winners of the Bavarian Regional League Cup [de] qualified for the DFB-Pokal while in Westphalia the best-placed Westphalian Regionalliga West team qualified.
[6] By the end of April 2021, a large number of state and regional associations had already cancelled or even annulled their league seasons from the Regionalliga downwards due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
Further handling was therefore up to each individual association, which should ultimately determine two finalists or a participant in the DFB-Pokal.