Gauliga Bayern Gauliga Bayern The Gauliga Bayern was the highest association football league in the German state of Bavaria from 1933 to 1945. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the five "Gaue" "Bayreuth", "Munich-Upper Bavaria", "Swabia", "Main Franconia" and "Franconia" "de facto" replaced the state of Bavaria which remained only as a symbolic region. The league was introduced by the Nazi Sports Office in 1933, after the Nazi takeover of power in Germany and Bavaria. It replaced the "Bezirksliga Bayern" as the highest level of play in German football competitions. Up until
Central German Metropolitan Region Central German Metropolitan Region The Central German Metropolitan Region () is one of the so-called metropolitan regions in Germany. It is centered on the major cities of Leipzig and Halle, extending over Central German parts of the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony. The Central German metropolitan region is the only one located entirely within the former East Germany. Due to its poly-centric nature, it is not actually one metropolitan area in the geographic sense of the word as an agglomeration of nearby urban areas, rather it is a registered association, the "Europäische Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland e.V" whose membership is composed