1995–96 Regionalliga

Regionalliga

Season	1995–96
Champions	VfB Oldenburg (N) Tennis Borussia Berlin (NO) FC Gütersloh (W/SW) Stuttgarter Kickers (S)
Promoted	VfB Oldenburg FC Gütersloh Stuttgarter Kickers Rot-Weiß Essen
Relegated	VfL 93 Hamburg BV Cloppenburg Holstein Kiel Bischofswerdaer FV Hertha BSC (A) FSV Optik Rathenow 1. FC Kaiserslautern (A) SG Wattenscheid 09 (A) Borussia Neunkirchen Bonner SC SV Sandhausen Eintracht Frankfurt (A)
Amateur Championship	Tennis Borussia Berlin VfR Mannheim FC Homburg VfR Mannheim
Matches played	1260
Goals scored	3620 (2.87 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dragan Trkulja (SSV Ulm 1846) - 25
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

The 1995–96 Regionalliga was the second season of the Regionalliga as the third tier of German football. The league was organised in four regional divisions, Nord, Nordost, West-Südwest and Süd.

VfB Oldenburg, FC Gütersloh, Rot-Weiß Essen and Stuttgarter Kickers were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga while the three last placed in each division, except West/South-West, where it was the bottom four, were relegated to the Oberligas.

North

The Regionalliga Nord:

Pos	Table	Pl	W	D	L	Goals	Diff	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	VfB Oldenburg	34	20	7	7	56:36	+20	67	Qualified for the promotion playoff
2	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	18	6	10	63:35	+28	60
3	TuS Celle FC	34	16	11	7	63:40	+23	59
4	Kickers Emden	34	18	5	11	61:49	+12	59
5	VfL Osnabrück	34	13	13	8	52:42	+10	52
6	Hamburger SV II	34	12	13	9	45:42	+3	49
7	FC St. Pauli II	34	13	9	12	54:58	-4	48
8	Lüneburger SK	34	11	11	12	52:46	+6	44
9	VfL Herzlake	34	11	11	12	39:44	-5	44
10	SV Wilhelmshaven	34	11	10	13	40:40	±0	43
11	SV Lurup	34	11	9	14	42:49	-7	42
12	Concordia Hamburg	34	11	8	15	38:46	-8	41
13	1. SC Norderstedt	34	11	8	15	37:51	-14	41
14	SV Atlas Delmenhorst	34	8	14	12	42:51	-9	38
15	Werder Bremen II	34	7	15	12	37:44	-7	36
16	VfL 93 Hamburg	34	9	9	16	39:51	-12	36	Relegated to Oberliga
17	BV Cloppenburg	34	9	9	16	44:61	-17	36
18	Holstein Kiel	34	9	8	17	34:53	-19	35

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Hakan Cengiz	Atlas Delmenhorst	21
2.	Matthias Cordes	Lüneburger SK	19
3.	Leo Manzi	FC St. Pauli (A)	17
4.	Stephan Prause	Kickers Emden	15
5.	Özkan Koçtürk	Eintracht Braunschweig	14
6.	Hakan Biçici	TuS Celle	13
	Rainer Menzel	Holstein Kiel
8.	Ralf Balzis	VfL Osnabrück	12
	Olaf Blancke	BV Cloppenburg
	Jürgen Degen	VfL 93 Hamburg
	Vladan Milovanović	TuS Celle

North-East

The Regionalliga Nordost

Pos	Table	Pl	W	D	L	Goals	Diff	Pts
1	Tennis Borussia Berlin	34	25	4	5	72:25	+47	79
2	1. FC Union Berlin	34	21	9	4	72:23	+49	72
3	FC Energie Cottbus	34	21	8	5	67:23	+44	71
4	Dynamo Dresden	34	19	10	5	46:23	+23	67
5	FC Erzgebirge Aue	34	16	9	9	52:35	+17	57
6	FC Sachsen Leipzig	34	14	8	12	50:45	+5	50
7	Rot-Weiß Erfurt	34	13	11	10	31:26	+5	50
8	FSV Lok Altmark Stendal	34	13	5	16	32:47	-15	44
9	Reinickendorfer Füchse	34	11	10	13	36:33	+3	43
10	Spandauer SV	34	11	8	15	36:52	-16	41
11	Wacker Nordhausen	34	8	16	10	35:37	-2	40
12	Hertha Zehlendorf	34	9	12	13	31:47	-16	39
13	FC Berlin	34	9	8	17	44:68	-24	35
14	FC Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt	34	9	8	17	43:68	-25	35
15	FSV Velten	34	9	6	19	46:80	-34	33
16	Bischofswerdaer FV 08	34	6	14	14	24:41	-17	32
17	Hertha BSC Berlin II	34	8	6	20	46:61	-15	30
18	FSV Optik Rathenow	34	4	8	22	20:49	-29	20
Key
Qualified for the promotion playoff against the Northern champion
Relegated to the Oberliga

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Detlef Irrgang	Energie Cottbus	24
2.	Mikhail Rusyayev	Tennis Borussia Berlin	21
3.	Sergej Barbarez	1. FC Union Berlin	17
4.	Jacek Frackiewicz	1. FC Union Berlin	16
5.	Harun Isa	Tennis Borussia Berlin	15
	Igor Lazić	Dynamo Dresden
7.	Oleg Golowan	FC Sachsen Leipzig	14
8.	Marek Czakon	1. FC Union Berlin	13
	Mayk Goschin	FSV Velten
10.	Bernd Jopek	Spandauer SV	12
	Stephan Kuhlow	Reinickendorfer Füchse Hertha Zehlendorf
	Mikhail Pronichev	Tennis Borussia Berlin
	Jan Schmidt	Erzgebirge Aue

West/South-West

The Regionalliga West/Südwest:

Pos	Table	Pl	W	D	L	Goals	Diff	Pts
1	FC Gütersloh	36	23	8	5	80:36	+44	77
2	Rot-Weiß Essen	36	21	8	7	60:31	+29	71
3	FC Homburg	36	20	7	9	69:37	+32	67
4	Wuppertaler SV	36	20	5	11	57:42	+15	65
5	TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus	36	17	11	8	68:47	+21	62
6	Alemannia Aachen	36	17	9	10	65:53	+12	60
7	1. FC Saarbrücken	36	16	7	13	64:48	+16	55
8	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	36	14	12	10	42:33	+9	54
9	Preußen Münster	36	13	12	11	59:49	+10	51
10	SC Verl	36	13	10	13	56:55	+1	49
11	SpVgg Erkenschwick	36	11	13	12	42:40	+2	46
12	1. FC Bocholt	36	11	10	15	50:63	-13	43
13	FSV Salmrohr	36	9	13	14	43:52	-9	40
14	SC Hauenstein	36	8	14	14	36:47	-11	38
15	Eintracht Trier	36	9	11	16	38:53	-15	38
16	1. FC Kaiserslautern II	36	8	12	16	50:82	-32	36
17	SG Wattenscheid 09 II	36	9	7	20	47:69	-22	34
18	Borussia Neunkirchen	36	5	9	22	30:69	-39	24
19	Bonner SC	36	4	10	22	27:77	-50	22
Key
Promoted to the 2.Bundesliga
Relegated to the Oberliga

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Dirk van der Ven	FC Gütersloh	21
2.	Marcus Feinbier	Alemannia Aachen	20
3.	Jacques Goumai	FC Homburg	17
4.	Jürgen Serr	Preußen Münster	16
5.	Frank Holick	TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus	15
	Wolfram Klein	Rot-Weiß Essen
7.	Dieter Hecking	TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus	14
	Frank Scharf	1. FC Bocholt
9.	Gustav Policella	Eintracht Trier	12
	Achim Weber	Wuppertaler SV

South

The Regionalliga Süd:

Pos	Table	Pl	W	D	L	Goals	Diff	Pts
1	Stuttgarter Kickers	34	21	10	3	82:33	+49	73
2	VfR Mannheim	34	18	10	6	60:31	+31	64
3	SSV Ulm 1846	34	16	12	6	56:40	+26	60
4	SSV Reutlingen	34	17	7	10	55:39	+16	58
5	TSF Ditzingen	34	15	8	11	67:51	+16	53
6	TSV Vestenbergsgreuth	34	13	13	8	44:36	+8	52
7	SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg	34	14	14	10	58:55	+3	52
8	SpVgg Fürth	34	15	6	13	60:60	±0	51
9	Wacker Burghausen	34	11	16	7	51:35	+16	49
10	Hessen Kassel	34	12	8	14	44:57	-13	44
11	FC Augsburg	34	11	8	15	42:47	-5	41
12	SC Neukirchen	34	10	9	15	44:53	-9	39
13	Bayern Munich II	34	9	11	14	34:47	-13	38
14	SG Egelsbach	34	10	8	16	44:64	-20	38
15	SV Darmstadt 98	34	8	13	13	54:67	-13	37
16	SV Sandhausen	34	8	10	16	42:59	-17	34
17	Eintracht Frankfurt II	34	6	12	16	33:61	-28	30
18	FSV Frankfurt	34	3	7	24	29:65	-36	16
Key
Promoted to the 2.Bundesliga
Relegated to the Oberliga

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Dragan Trkulja	SSV Ulm 1846	25
2.	Markus Beierle	Stuttgarter Kickers	23
3.	Željko Dakić	VfR Mannheim	20
4.	Frank Türr	SpVgg Fürth	18
5.	Andreas Broß	TSF Ditzingen	16
6.	Marko Barlecaj	TSF Ditzingen Wacker Burghausen	15
7.	Hans-Peter Asbeck	Wacker Burghausen	14
	Carsten Lakies	SV Darmstadt 98
9.	Branko Granić	SpVgg Ludwigsburg	13
	Marcus Sorg	TSF Ditzingen

Promotion playoff

The last promotion place was contested between the champions of the North and North-East regions. VfB Oldenburg won on aggregate, and so were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tennis Borussia Berlin (NE)	2–3	VfB Oldenburg (N)	1–1	1–2 aet

External links

• Regionalliga Nord 1995–96 (German) at kicker.de
• Regionalliga Nordost 1995–96 (German) at kicker.de
• Regionalliga West/Südwest 1995–96 (German) at kicker.de
• Regionalliga Süd 1995–96 (German) at kicker.de