The leagues are operated by the Bayrischer Eissport Verband, the Bavarian association for ice sports.

In the current Bayernliga season, the EC 2000 Ulm/Neu-Ulm folded in December 2007, being unable to pay their players.

The Bavarian Eissport Verband (BEV) is the largest regional ice hockey association in Germany with 14.000 registered players in over 90 clubs.

Above the BEV there are currently five Bavarian teams in the DEL (German Ice Hockey League) (I), two in the 2nd Bundesliga (II) and twelve in the Oberliga (III).

This means, 19 of 56 clubs in the first three divisions of German ice hockey currently come from Bavaria.

The situation is actually very similar to the Canadian teams in the NHL, who provide the majority of players but win a minority of titles.

In the 2nd Bundesliga, Landshut and Riessersee hold 12 titles between them and in the Oberliga, Füssen, Tölz and Rosenheim have earned 20 German championship between them.

The EV Füssen is second only in numbers of titles to Berliner Schlittschuhclub, having won 16 German championships from 1949 to 1973.

Almost 40 percent of all stadiums in Germany are in Bavaria and twice as many as in the second-ranked state Nordrhein-Westfalen: Source:"Kunsteisbahnen Deutschland".

The year after, the league moved to its current modus of a sixteen team home-and-away season with play-offs at the end.

This modus for the 2007-08 season actually differs from the previous years, when after the first round of home-and-away games, the Landesligas were split into a top-four and a bottom-four group, with the latter determining the relegated team and the former playing for the group champion who would enter a four-team play-off for the Landesliga title and Bayernliga promotion.

For the 2016-17 season, the following clubs from Bavaria played in the top three German leagues: In the DEL: In the 2nd Bundesliga: In the Oberliga: