| 11. | Automatic promotion up to Form 5 has been in place since 1996.
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| 12. | A victory in the First Division in 1994 brought them automatic promotion.
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| 13. | 2 There was no automatic promotion in the 1955-56 season.
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| 14. | 1 There was no automatic promotion in the 1973-74 season.
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| 15. | 9 There was no automatic promotion in the 1986-87 season.
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| 16. | 14 There was no automatic promotion in the 2011-12 season.
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| 17. | 10 There was no automatic promotion in the 2011-12 season.
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| 18. | The winners of the three Verbandsligas gain automatic promotion to the Oberliga.
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| 19. | There is no automatic promotion from the third to the second tier.
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| 20. | Sunderland missed automatic promotion by one place in Wembley.
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