 While the first and third placed team from the 1993-94 season gained entry to the new Regionalliga, the other twelve clubs of the top-fourteen were promoted to the "Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen".Only the bottom five teams of the field of nineteen of that season actually remained in the "Verbandsligen".The first season of the new separated leagues saw a strong imbalance of clubs, "West" operated on sixteen, "East" on twenty-one teams.