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Governing body of association football in Lower Saxony
The Lower Saxony Football Association (German: Niedersächsischer Fussball-Verband), the NFV, is one of 21 state organisations of the German Football Association, the DFB, and covers the state of Lower Saxony.
In 2017, the NFV had 642,556 members, 2,661 member clubs and 17,975 teams playing in its league system. It is the third-largest of the German state associations.
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^ Regional AssociationsDFB website - Map and details of the regional associations, accessed: 8 April 2015