Country Austria Level on pyramid 4 | Number of teams 16 Relegation to Landesliga | |
Confederation Austrian Football Association Promotion to Austrian Regional League West | ||
The Vorarlbergliga is the highest football league of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It's the fourth highest soccer league in Austria. Exclusively limited to teams of the Vorarlberg Football Association (German: Vorarlberger Fussballverband, VFV).
Mode
The league consists of 16 teams. In each season, each club plays against each other club in one home and one away match. A season is therefore made up of 30 games.
The champion of the Vorarlbergliga is entitled to move up to the third-class Austrian Regional League West. If the champion refuses the promotion, this can lead to a relegation from the league, which has been implicated since the 2011/12 season. The number of teams that descend directly into the fifth class the Landesliga, depends on the number of teams which descend from the Regional League West from Vorarlberg. Every season, at least one club moves up. On the other hand, every year two teams move down directly to the Vorarlbergliga. In addition, since the 2014/15 season, at the end of the championship a relegation between the third placed team of the Landesliga and the lowest ranked non relegated team from the Vorarlbergliga is held. Relegation consists of a home and away game.