Lower Saxony Football Association

Lower Saxony Football Association
Formation 3 July 1947
Type Football association
Headquarters Schillerstraße 4
Location
Membership
651,431 (2015)
Karl Rothmund
Parent organization
German Football Association
Website www.nfv.de

The Lower Saxony Football Association (German: Niedersächsischer Fussball-Verband), the NFV, is one of 21 state organisations of the German Football Association, the DFB, and covers the state of Lower Saxony.[1]

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DFB, its five regional and 21 state associations

The NFV is also part of the Northern German Football Association, one of five regional federations in Germany. The other member of the regional association are the Bremen Football Association, the Hamburg Football Association and the Schleswig-Holstein Football Association.[1]

In 2015, the NFV had 651,431 members, 2,668 member clubs and 18,936 teams playing in its league system. It is the third-largest of the German state associations.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Regional Associations DFB website - Map and details of the regional associations, accessed: 8 April 2015
  2. "Mitglieder-Statistik 2015" (PDF) (in German). Deutscher Fussball-Bund. Retrieved 2015-10-20.

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