“You'll Never Walk Alone” is a fervent motto in life, and not just for fans of Liverpool FC or Borussia Dortmund. One floor above, shirts from district rivals Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 are arranged harmoniously next to each other. Three to two for Germany five minutes to go the end of the game. Below the Oberliga, the second highest association league is the Westphalia league, which is played in two seasons with a target strength of 16 teams each. The lowest league of the FLVW is the Westphalia district league, which is played in twelve seasons with a target strength of 16 teams each. In the year In 1914, the USFSA promptly established Olympique Lillois as the joint champion of all associations under the CFI umbrella. However, the individual associations still held their respective championships (two in 1904/05, three in 1905 to 1910, four in 1910 to 1914). While the Marienhospital Steinfurt is being taken over by the Mathias Foundation in Rheine and the Greven Hospital by the St. Franziskus-Stiftung Münster, the Emsdetten Hospital is already scheduled to close by the end of June 2015 at the latest. The Lüdinghausen district was last dissolved in 2015. The Westphalia League was introduced in 1956 as the Westphalia Association League and was renamed the Westphalia League in 2008.

Below the district league is the district league A as the highest division of the 29 district associations affiliated to the FLVW. Since the 2012/13 season, the highest division of the Westphalian association has again been the Oberliga Westfalen, which is located on the fifth level of the German league system and has a target strength of 18 teams. The top division for women is the Westfalenliga. In contrast to the men's Westphalia League, the women's Westphalia League is single-track. In the music video for Welcome to the Ruhrpott, the two performers as well as a crying clown, a boy, a woman and several men can be seen in an old industrial plant in the Ruhr area. The champions of the two seasons are promoted to the Oberliga, while the teams placed 14th or higher have to be relegated to the Landesliga Westfalen. The teams placed 14th or higher are relegated from the district leagues. Since the 2013/14 season, the total number of promoted teams to the district league has been 36 teams. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of district leagues was increased to 14 for the 2021/22 season. If the target strength of individual squadrons is exceeded or fallen short of in a season, the number of relegated teams from these squadrons increases or decreases accordingly so that the target strength is reached again in the following season. The runners-up will identify further promoted teams as needed if the target strength is not reached after promotion and relegation to the national league.

If, after promotion and relegation in the Westphalia league, there are still free places to be filled up to the target strength, the winners of the promotion games played among the runners-up in the state leagues will qualify here. The champions are promoted, while the runners-up determine further promoted teams if necessary. The champions of the district leagues are promoted to the state league. The district leagues were called the district class until October 1977 and were then renamed due to a Germany-wide standardization of the leagues. All FLVW leagues at association level are reclassified year after year according to geographical aspects. In 1894, the USFSA held the first "national championship round" (Coupe Gordon Bennett, named after the cup's founder, the editor of the New York Herald) – with only six Parisian clubs. As in 2005, Felix Magath is on FM 11 see who is the first person to be on the cover twice. The official jersey of the German team for the 2021 European Championship (actually 2020, of course) is reminiscent with its thin black stripes on a white background, the round emblem on the chest and the narrow Cut to the 70s – the time when jerseys first became fashion objects. If the champions and cup winners are two different teams, both teams will wear this logo on their jersey.

Since not each of the 33 district associations has enough teams for their own district leagues, several districts form joint district leagues. In 1958, the Ahaus and Coesfeld districts merged to form the Ahaus/Coesfeld district. The Hamm district joined the Unna district. The Wittgenstein district joined the Siegen district. The Warendorf district joined the Münster district. The Bentheim district switched to the Lower Saxony Football Association in 1951. To complete the confusion, the Catholic association FGSPF and other small associations founded the Comité Français Interfédéral (CFI) as a common umbrella organization in 1907, which vehemently spoke out against paid sports and was accepted into the international football association FIFA in 1908/09 instead of the USFSA. But even under the one on the 7thWhen the unified French Football Association (FFFA, later FFF) was founded in April 1919, it took until 1926/27 (determination of several champions per season), in fact until 1932/33, before an equivalent French championship (in a single national league, Division 1, on a professional basis). ↑ abcde sb: Westphalian football history – key data from 1945 to today. The game against Austria went down in football history as the “Gijón Non-Aggression Pact” and a scandalous game. In addition, FLVW and LVN are represented together in the North Rhine-Westphalia State Sports Association as Athletics NRW eV.