Reserve teams from clubs in the Kreisliga and below play in separate, parallel leagues without promotion or relegation.
A reserve side can only enter the main league system when the first team gains entry to the Bezirksliga.
In the other regions of Germany, where reserve sides are fully integrated, there is further leagues below the B-Klasse, usually the C-Klasse.
The best known of those clubs, all from the western part of Upper Bavaria, are the FC Pipinsried and the TSV Landsberg.
[2] The Swabian league system also accommodates one club from Austria, the SV Kleinwalsertal, which plays in the A-Klasse Allgäu 4 since 2016–17.
[3] With the league reform at the end of the 2011–12 season, which included an expansion of the number of Landesligas from three to five, the Bezirksoberligas were disbanded.
In 2010, Swabia introduced the B-Klasse, disbanding the A-Klasse for a season in the process to make adjustments to the league system.
The record number of wins is held by FC Augsburg which won its thirteenth title in 2005.