From the 2012–13 season onwards, the league champion will be promoted to one of the Landesligas, depending on geographic location. The bottom three teams of each group are relegated to one of the Kreisligas. At the same time the Kreisliga champions were promoted to the Bezirksliga. The runners-up of the Kreisligas faced a play-off with each other and the 13th placed teams in the Bezirksliga. The Bezirksliga Mittelfranken 1 is fed by the following Kreisligas:  From 1995, the league was generally operated with a strength of 16 clubs and rarely deviated from this until 2012, when the number was increased to 18. In 2019, it was decreased back to 16. The league went through the following timeline of positions in the league system: The winners and runners–up of the league:  The league champions and runners–up while being a feeder league to the Landesliga:  The league champions and runners–up while being a feeder league to the Bezirksoberliga: The league champions and runners–up while being a feeder league to the Landesliga once more:   The clubs in the league in the 2019–20 season and their 2018–19 final positions: