 This practice has since stopped.The region covered by the Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord is not traditionally a part of the Southern German Football Association, it only became part of it with the formation of the state of Hesse in 1945.Along with the renaming of the "Oberliga Hessen" to "Hessenliga" in 2008, the "Landesliga" was renamed Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord.