The 3. Liga, 3. Fußball-Liga in German, is the third division of football in Germany. The league started with the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it replaced the Regionalliga as the third tier football league in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga
and the semi-professional Regionalliga, which became the fourth
division and initially consisted of three groups of 18 clubs playing
separately. In Germany, the 3. Liga is the highest division that a football club's reserve team can play in.
The teams which are not reserve teams of Bundesliga teams among the 20
teams in the league compete for promotion to the 2. Bundesliga, while
the three bottom teams are relegated to one of the five Regionalligen: Regionalliga Nord, Regionalliga Nordost, Regionalliga West, Regionalliga Südwest, and Regionalliga Bayern.
If, however, a reserve team is playing in the 3. Liga and the
respective first team is relegated to the 3. Liga, the reserve team will
be relegated to the Regionalliga regardless of its league position.
The winner and runner-up in a given season is automatically promoted to
the 2. Bundesliga. The third place team enters a home/away playoff
against the 16th placed team of the 2. Bundesliga for the right to
enter/stay in the 2. Bundesliga. Teams placing in the bottom three are
automatically sent to the Regionalliga.The 2014–15 3. Liga is the seventh season of the 3. Liga, Germany's third-level football league.
The league consists of twenty teams: The teams placed fourth through seventeenth of the 2013–14 season, the lowest two teams from the 2013–14 2nd Bundesliga, the three promoted teams the 2013–14 Fußball-Regionalliga and the losers of the relegation play-off between the 16th-placed 2nd Bundesliga team and the third-placed 3rd Liga team.
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