The
Landesliga Sachsen was established in 1990 from twelve clubs as the highest league for the German state of Saxony, which was established after the league in October 1990, and the Saxon Football Association, SFV (German:
Sächsischer Fußball Verband). It compromised the area of the three
Bezirksligen of
Chemnitz,
Dresden and
Leipzig. Each of those three leagues contributed four clubs to the new league. The
Sachsenliga was established within the
East German football league system and incorporated in the league system of the united Germany at the end of its first season, in 1991. The league has been a feeder league, together with the
Thüringenliga and
Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt, to the
NOFV-Oberliga Süd, which its champion is directly promoted to. As such, it was the fourth tier of the German league system. After the first season, the number of clubs in the league was increased to fourteen; in 1996 the league was again enlarged, to sixteen. In 1994, with the establishment of the
Regionalliga Nordost as the new third tier of the league system, the
Sachsenliga fell to tier five in the system but remained unchanged otherwise. In 2008, the league was again demoted one level when the
3. Liga was established. However, this changed nothing in the league's status as a feeder league to the
NOFV-Oberliga. The league is sponsored by door and window maker WEKU and carries therefore the official name of
WEKU Sachsenliga. This is an unusual fact in Germany as football leagues don't normally carry sponsorship names. The league had, in the 2007–08 season, the unique distinction of having a former
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finalist in its ranks, the re-formed
1. FC Lok Leipzig, loser of the 1987 final. The
Landesligen of Thuringia and Saxony are unique in their naming as every other league in Germany of this standing carries the name
Verbandsliga. This was done so simply by choice of the local
football associations (German:
Fußballverband) in Saxony and Thuringia and the name could be changed to
Verbandsliga if they wish to do so. Due to the changes to the German league system, the runner-up in 2007–08, Lok Leipzig was also promoted after winning a play-off round with the runner-up from the
Verbandsliga Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
FC Schönberg 95. ==League champions==