 FC Augsburg formed four years earlier in a merger of BC Augsburg and the football department of TSV Schwaben Augsburg, would go on to win the Regionalliga Süd in the following season and narrowly miss out on Bundesliga promotion.Runners-up ESV Ingolstadt qualified for the German amateur championship, where the club was eliminated by eventual winners SpVgg Bad Homburg in the semi-finals.The bottom three teams in the league were directly relegated.