Eligible teams to participate in the competition are the champion clubs of each of the Lower Austrian leagues.
After the temporary union of the Vienna Football Association and the NÖFV, the competition was set and reintroduced in 1931.
With a few brief interruptions, the football cup was held yearly until 1941, until it had to be stopped because of World War II.
As the "Bundesländer-Cup" was abolished, the NÖFV was the first Austrian national association in 1951 to decide to hold the cup competition indefinitely.
Instead of the former Landescup, the champions of the individual leagues, beginning with the lower divisions, participate in the Meistercup every year since 1984.