In both promotion/relegation play-off groups, each club plays a home-and-away series with the other clubs.

The winners of the two divisions would determine the Oberliga champion in a home-and-away series.

The two schools met in a four year home-and-away series through 2008.

The top six played for the championship while the bottom four played against relegation, in another home-and-away series within each group.

In this edition, semifinals were played in home-and-away series and the final in a single game.

The United States won the first match, 7-0, in this home-and-away series.

Each team plays the other once in a round-robin format followed by four team playoff with home-and-away series.

All play-off games will be played in home-and-away series.

Teams play their permanent partners in a home-and-away series each year.

United has a cushion, but the Dynamo needs a victory in the return leg of its home-and-away quarterfinal series.