page_title: Baden Football Association
section_title: The BFV
hierarchical_section_title: Baden Football Association / History / The BFV
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of regional soccer associations in Germany, members of the Federal Soccer Federation DFB Deutsch: DFB-Regional- und Landesverbände
context_page_description: The Baden Football Association, the BFV, is one of 21 state organisations of the German Football Association, the DFB, and covers the north of Baden, the north-western part of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
  The Baden FA is also part of the Southern German Football Association, the SFV, one of five regional federations in Germany. The other members of the SFV are the football associations of Hesse, Bavaria, South Baden and Württemberg. The SFV is the largest of the five regional federations and based in Munich.
context_section_description: Post-Second World War Germany saw Baden become part of the US occupation zone. As travel within the occupation zone was restricted, the reestablishment of a Southern German federation seemed initially impossible. 
  In September 1945, a regional football league was established, the Oberliga Süd, which was made up of 16 of the foremost football clubs of Southern Germany. The organisers of this competition had also received the permission to reestablish the SFV from the US authorities. Below the Oberliga, the not yet officially reestablished SFV degreed that Landesligas were to be established for each of the states. On 4 November 1945, the new Oberliga played its first round. 
  To alleviate any friction between the Southern German and the state association, the state associations became a member of the SFV but the football clubs remained members of their state associations only, not the SFV. The SFV had the responsibility to organise the Oberliga and the new 2nd Oberliga, all other leagues were part of their state associations.
  The Badischer Fußball-Verband was formed on 7 July 1946 in Eppelheim.
caption: DFB, its five regional and 21 state associations
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