Before being withdrawn from competition at the end of the 2013–14 season the team played in the tier four Regionalliga West.

The team spent the next seventeen seasons in the tier-three Oberliga Nordrhein, gradually improving its results.

In 1994 the Regionalliga was established as the new third tier of German football and the team won promotion to this level after an Oberliga championship in 1998.

[1] Bayer Leverkusen Amateure became a yo-yo team between the Regionalliga and Oberliga, winning promotion to the former in 1998, 2001 and 2005 but suffering relegation again each time, in 2000, 2003 and 2007.

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