Regionalliga West
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| Country | Germany |
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| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Confederation | Western German Football and Athletics Association |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Number of teams | 18 |
| Level on pyramid | Level 4 |
| Promotion to | 3. Liga |
| Relegation to |
Oberliga Niederrhein Oberliga Mittelrhein Oberliga Westfalen |
| Current champions |
Sportfreunde Lotte (2015–16) |
 2016–17 Regionalliga West
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The Regionalliga West is a German semi-professional football division administered by the Western German Football and Athletics Association based in Duisburg. It is one of the five German regional football associations. Being the single flight of the Western German state association, the Regionalliga is currently a level 4 division of the German football league system. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern, Regionalliga Nordost, Regionalliga Nord and the Regionalliga Südwest.
The league came into existence in August 2008 and was formed from the five Regionalliga clubs in its region which did not achieve admittance to the new 3. Liga and thirteen Oberliga clubs. The number of clubs in the new league was set at eighteen. Along with the formation of this league there was a merger of the Oberligas below it, with Nordrhein and Westfalen forming the new NRW-Liga, while the Oberliga Südwest remained independent.
With the inception of the new Regionalliga West in 2008, there were now three Regionalligas which form the fourth tier of the German football league system, these were:
The league covered the same region, as the now defunct Regionalliga West/Südwest did from 1994 to 2000. It also shares its name with the "old" Regionalliga West, which operated from 1963 to 1974, but this league only covered the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 2008-09, with the BV Cloppenburg, it included a club from Lower Saxony while, in 2009-10, with Waldhof Mannheim, a club from Baden-Württemberg played in the league. This moving-around of clubs is done to balance out the three Regionalligas in numbers. In 2010-11, in turn, Wormatia Worms, a club nominally belonging to the West, played in the South.
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