Association football league

Football league
The 2. Bundesliga ( Zweite Bundesliga [ ˈtsvaɪtə ˈbʊndəsˌliːɡa ] ) is the second division of master football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the initiation of the Fußball- Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. [ 1 ] The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below the Bundesliga and above the 3. Liga in the german football league system. All of the 2. Bundesliga clubs qualify for the DFB-Pokal, the annual german Cup contest. A total of 127 clubs have competed in the 2. Bundesliga since its initiation.

The decisiveness to establish the league as the moment grade of football in West Germany was made in May 1973. The league started operate in August 1974, then with two divisions of 20 clubs. It was reduced to a single division in 1981. From the 1991–92 season onwards clubs from former East Germany started participating in the league, briefly expanding it to two divisions again. It returned to a single division format again at the end of that season and has had 18 clubs as its intensity since 1994. Two clubs from the 2. Bundesliga are immediately promoted to the Bundesliga, while a third base promote club is determined through play-offs, from 1974 to 1991 and again since 2008. between 1991 and 2008 the third-placed club in the league was immediately promoted. The bottom clubs in the league are relegated to the third base division ; from 1974 to 1994 the Oberliga, from 1994 to 2008 the Regionalliga and since 2008 the 3. Liga. The count of banish club has fluctuated over the years. Since 2008 two clubs are immediately relegated while the third-last team has the opportunity to defend its league station in play-offs against the third base identify team of the 3. Liga. 1. FC Nürnberg, SC Freiburg, 1. FC Köln, Arminia Bielefeld and VfL Bochum hold the record act of championships in the league with four each. Bielefeld besides holds the record for number of promotions from the 2. Bundesliga to the Bundesliga, with eight. For the 2018–19 season, an average of 19,128 spectators watched 2. Bundesliga matches, making the 2. Bundesliga the earth ‘s second gear most-watched secondary football league, after the EFL Championship in England .

history [edit ]

setting [edit ]

With the execution of the Bundesliga in 1963, [ 2 ] five Regionalligen were besides founded as the 2nd highest playing floor, South, Southwest, West, North and Berlin. The two top ranking teams from each Regionalliga at the goal of a season were placed into groups to play against the relegation teams from the Bundesliga. With the transition from the former Oberliga to the newly created Bundesliga and Regionalliga, however, it became clear that the foundation of the Bundesliga was both sportingly and economically debatable and that delegating from the Bundesliga could easily ruin a cabaret economically. This situation was partially responsible for the Bundesliga scandal in 1971, in which, due to manipulations in indicate games in the delegating struggle, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Arminia Bielefeld managed to remain in the Bundesliga. As a consequence of the scandal, the DFB-Bundestag in Frankfurt decided on 30 June 1973 to introduce a 2. Bundesliga, divided into a north and a confederacy season, for the 1974/75 season, which should close the gap between professional and amateurish areas. According to an elaborate point system, [ 3 ] the clubs should be able to qualify for the fresh divisions. not only the placements of the previous five seasons were decisive, but besides economic and geomorphologic requirements. There was besides a five-year evaluation, with the first two years being single, the adjacent two years double and the last year trio. In the event of a tie, the end year should apply. With this regulation, however, the DFB had overlooked that the ten regional leagues participating in the annual promotion turn to the Bundesliga had not qualified for the newly 2. Bundesliga from the beginning due to their placement in the 1973/74 season. In the shell of 1. FC Saarbrücken, this mean that the golf club was accepted into the 2 Bundesliga South after failing in the promotion round and took the position of SV Alsenborn, which besides came from the Regionalliga Südwest. SV Alsenborn, a “ village club ” sponsored by Fritz Walter, had failed three times in the Bundesliga promotion round in 1968, 1969 and 1970 and had intelligibly qualified for the new division. The DFB found that there were no conditions suitable for the irregular part in Alsenborn and that they could not be achieved in the foreseeable future and downgraded SV Alsenborn to the then third-class amateur league Southwest, although the club had a successful participation in one of the three rounds of promotion to the Bundesliga Special license would have been allowed to play even in the top division ( of course not in Alsenborn, but in Kaiserslautern or Ludwigshafen ) .

formation [edit ]

The decision to establish the 2. Bundesliga as a fully master league below the Bundesliga was made at the annual convention of the German Football Association, the DFB, in Frankfurt on 30 June 1973. The league replaced the five Regionalligas that were at this level from 1963 to 1974. Each Regionalliga had a set quota of clubs that could qualify for the new league with the Regionalliga Süd receiving thirteen spots, the Regionalliga West twelve, the Regionalliga Nord and Regionalliga Südwest seven and the Regionalliga Berlin one. The restricted teams were established through a ranking that took the last five seasons of the Regionalliga into account. [ 4 ] The new 2. Bundesliga was split into a northern and a southern class with 20 clubs each. Each division had its champion directly promoted to the Bundesliga while the two runner-up would contest a two-leg play-off to determine the third promote team. The bottom four clubs in each league were relegated, however, as the act of clubs relegated from the Bundesliga to each division could vary, so could the number of clubs in the league and therefore the number of teams relegated. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]

2. Bundesliga North and South 1974 to 1981 [edit ]

The first-ever bet on of the league was played on Friday, 2 August 1974 between 1. FC Saarbrücken and Darmstadt 98 and ended in a 1–0 winnings for Saarbrücken, with Nikolaus Semlitsch scoring the first-ever finish of the modern league in the 18th moment of the game. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The inaugural champions of the league were Hannover 96 in the union and Karlsruher SC in the south, both early Bundesliga clubhouse. The play-offs for the third gear Bundesliga point were contested by FK Pirmasens and Bayer Uerdingen, with Uerdingen winning 6–0 at home after a four-all draw in the first gear leg. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The three promoted teams however proved uncompetitive in the Bundesliga with Hannover and Uerdingen being relegated straight away again while Karlsruhe lasted for entirely two seasons. [ 12 ] The second season saw league championships for Tennis Borussia Berlin and 1. FC Saarbrücken, with Tennis Borussia lasting for lone one season and 1. FCS for two. The contest for the third promotion spot pitted two far bigger names of german football against each other, with Borussia Dortmund edging out 1. FC Nürnberg with two wins, ending Dortmund ‘s four-year second division spell. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The concluding rung of the season in the south besides saw an all-time goal marking record per round when 55 goals were scored in ten games. The northern division incidentally set the second best grade when it scored 51 goals the day before. [ 15 ] In 1976–77 the league champions were FC St. Pauli and VfB Stuttgart while the third gear promotion position went to 1860 Munich, having had to play a third gear game after Arminia Bielefeld and TSV 1860 each won their home games 4–0, with the decider ending 2–0 in favor of the southerly team. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Ottmar Hitzfeld set an all-time 2. Bundesliga read in May 1977 when he scored 6 goals in a league match for VfB Stuttgart against Jahn Regensburg. [ 18 ] Bielefeld won forwarding as the champions of the northerly class in the following season, as did southern champion SV Darmstadt 98, entering the Bundesliga for the first time in its history. third plaza went to 1. FC Nürnberg who overcame Rot-Weiss Essen with a 1–0 home winnings and a two–all disembowel away. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] For Nürnberg it ended a nine-year absence from the Bundesliga. [ 12 ] Horst Hrubesch set an all-time record that season for goals in one season, 41 scored for Rot-Weiss Essen. [ 21 ] In 1978–79 direct forwarding went to 1860 Munich and Bayer Leverkusen while the play-off was won, once more, by Bayer Uerdingen, which defeated SpVgg Bayreuth 2–1 at home after a draw away. In the north, two clubs were relegated from the league for fiscal reasons, Westfalia Herne, which had finished fifth and former Bundesliga side FC St. Pauli, which had come sixth. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The trace seasons saw 1. FC Nürnberg and Arminia Bielefeld clinch another forwarding from the 2. Bundesliga, as did Karlsuher SC which overcame Rot-Weiss Essen by winning 5–1 at home after losing 3–1 away. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Arminia Bielefeld set an all-time 2. Bundesliga record when it defeated Arminia Hannover 11–0 in May 1980, the biggest-ever succeed in the league. [ 26 ] The 1980–81 season, the seventh of the league, was besides its survive in this format. From 1981 it played as a single division of 20 teams after a decisiveness taken on 7 June 1980, when, at a particular convention of the DFB, the insertion of the single division 2. Bundesliga was decided upon with a majority of 84 votes to 77. [ 27 ] The northern division was unusually strong that season, having received all three relegated teams of the 1979–80 Bundesliga season, SV Werder Bremen, Eintracht Braunschweig and Hertha BSC, and playing with 22 teams. Bremen won the league while Braunschweig came second. Hertha missed out despite scoring 123 goals. In the south, the league was won by SV Darmstadt 98 for a second time while runner-up Kickers Offenbach lost out to Braunschweig in the play-offs. The reduction of the league to a single part meant 22 teams were relegated while no team was promoted to the 2. Bundesliga that temper. [ 28 ] [ 29 ]

Single division earned run average 1981 to 1991 [edit ]

The new individual division league of 20 teams saw only a minor change in modus. The crown two in the league were promoted while the third station team played the sixteenth placed Bundesliga side in a home-and-away play-off for one more spot in the Bundesliga. The bottom four in the league were relegated. The inaugural temper saw FC Schalke 04 compete in the 2. Bundesliga for the first fourth dimension, and win it. moment target went to Hertha BSC while third base placed Kickers Offenbach missed out on promotion after losing both play-off games to Bayer Leverkusen. Fourth place went to 1860 Munich, one point behind Offenbach, but the club found itself relegated after the DFB refused it a license for the trace season. This decision kept 17th placed SG Wattenscheid 09, the best-placed team on a relegation rank, in the league. [ 30 ] The play along season finally saw Kickers Offenbach win forwarding from the 2. Bundesliga, behind champions SV Waldhof Mannheim who had never played in the Bundesliga before. Bayer Uerdingen, in third place, won promotion through the play-offs for a third gear time, this time overcoming the former seasons 2. Bundesliga champions FC Schalke 04. [ 12 ] [ 31 ] Schalke bounced back immediately, coming moment behind Karlsruher SC in 1983–84. third place went to MSV Duisburg wo were decisively beaten 0–5 by Bundesliga english Eintracht Frankfurt at home. At the other end, Rot-Weiss Essen, after having failed to win promotion to the Bundesliga through the play-offs doubly from the 2. Bundesliga, was relegated to amateur football that season. [ 32 ] 1. FC Nürnberg took out the backing of the single part 2. Bundesliga for the inaugural clock time in 1985, with Hannover 96 coming second gear. Third placed 1. FC Saarbrücken besides won promotion courtesy to a 2–0 home win over Arminia Bielefeld after a guide away. Kickers Offenbach, impertinently relegated from the Bundesliga came entirely 19th in the 2. Bundesliga, suffered another relegation, as did another erstwhile Bundesliga side, FC St. Pauli, having returned to the league for the first time after having had its license revoked in 1979. [ 33 ] In 1985–86, three clubs from Berlin competed in the league, but none the come season, with Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin achieving its one and only promotion to the Bundesliga while Hertha BSC and Tennis Borussia were relegated to amateur football. The league champions were FC 08 Homburg, besides promoted to the Bundesliga for the beginning meter. arguably one of the most celebrated play-off contests in 2. Bundesliga history however were the games between third placed Fortuna Köln and Borussia Dortmund. Köln won 2–0 at home, followed by a 3–1 for Dortmund, making a third base game necessity as the aside goal rule did not apply to the Bundesliga versus 2. Bundesliga play-offs at the time. This third base crippled was won 8–0 by Borussia Dortmund in front man of 50,000 in impersonal Düsseldorf. In the delegating zone MSV Duisburg followed the two Berlin clubs into amateur football as a third former Bundesliga slope that season. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Hannover 96 and Karlsruher SC won promotion once more in 1987 while third placed FC St. Pauli, newly promoted from amateur football again, missed out by a goal in the play-offs against FC Homburg. At the bottom end Eintracht Braunschweig became another former Bundesliga side and champion to drop into the third division. [ 36 ] FC St. Pauli ended a ten-year expect for Bundesliga retort in 1988 when it finished runner-up to Stuttgarter Kickers who were promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time. Third placed SV Darmstadt 98 missed out on penalties in the deciding third game against SV Waldhof Mannheim after each side had won their family game by a goal. Arminia Bielefeld came a distant stopping point and was relegated while 17th placed SpVgg Bayreuth was rescued when Rot-Weiß Oberhausen was refused a license. [ 37 ] Fortuna Düsseldorf won the league backing in 1988–89, with two clubs from the Saarland coming second base and third, FC Homburg and 1. FC Saarbrücken. Saarbrücken however was unable to overcome Eintracht Frankfurt in the former club ‘s second successful play-off defense of its Bundesliga space. SpVgg Bayreuth finished 17th again but was again spared from delegating when Kickers Offenbach was refused a license. besides relegated were Union Solingen after 14 consecutive seasons in the league. [ 38 ] At the end of the season Spanish-born Joaquín Montañés retired from 2. Bundesliga football after 479 games for Alemannia Aachen in the league from 1974 to 1989, a record for any player with a one club in the league. [ 39 ] In 1990 Hertha BSC completed its rejoinder from amateur football to the Bundesliga with a 2. Bundesliga title, followed up by SG Wattenscheid 09, who entered the Bundesliga for the first time. 1. FC Saarbrücken failed in the play-offs for a moment consecutive meter when it missed out to VfL Bochum, thereby ensuring a Bochum bowler hat in the Bundesliga between VfL and Wattenscheid for the trace season. In the delegating zone SpVgg Bayreuth failed to get reprieved for a third gear consecutive season and dropped into amateur football, as did Alemannia Aachen, a establish member of the 2. Bundesliga who had played all 16 seasons of the league until then. [ 40 ] The tenth season of the single division 2. Bundesliga was to be the last in its stream format for a time as the german reunion in 1991 lead to changes to the league after this season. With FC Schalke 04 and MSV Duisburg two long-run Bundesliga teams finished at the crown of the league. In third base station Stuttgarter Kickers had to play FC St. Pauli three times to earn forwarding, the beginning two contests having ended 1–1 while Stuttgart won the third base 3–1. FC Schweinfurt 05 in last locate became one of the worst clubs in the league history when it only won two games all season. Rot-Weiss Essen had its license revoked which allowed SV Darmstadt 98 to avoid relegation. [ 41 ]

german reunion 1991–92 [edit ]

In the 1991–92 temper, the league was expanded to 24 teams in two regional divisions, north and south, to accommodate six new east german clubs which joined the league that season. The east german clubs were diffuse very raggedly, with one going to the north and five to the south, caused by the geographic placement of those clubs. only the league champions were promoted to the Bundesliga that year, which were Bayer Uerdingen in the north and 1. FC Saarbrücken in the south. The bottom three in each division were relegated, three of which were from erstwhile East Germany. The other two were former Bundesliga clubs, Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin and 1860 Munich, with the late having played its first season back in the 2. Bundesliga after their license was revoked in 1982. At the end of this season the league returned to the single division format, but with hush 24 clubs as its potency. [ 42 ] [ 43 ]

Single division era 1992 to present [edit ]

The 1992–93 season was a momentous one, with 24 teams competing in a single league and each cabaret playing 46 games. Three clubs were promoted immediately, as would be the case from then on until 2008, with the play-offs having been abolished. SC Freiburg won the league and promotion for the beginning time. Behind it, MSV Duisburg made a return to the Bundesliga while third gear placed VfB Leipzig became the beginning former east german baseball club to earn forwarding from the 2. Bundesliga. Seven clubs were relegated from the league to reduce its military capability to 20 clubs again from the following season. Of those Eintracht Braunschweig, Fortuna Düsseldorf and SV Darmstadt 98 were former Bundesliga sides. [ 44 ] The following season saw changes again as it was the last with 20 clubs. Promoted were VfL Bochum, Bayer Uerdingen and 1860 Munich, which had merely won promotion from the third base division the year before and returned to the Bundesliga for the beginning fourth dimension since 1981. At the bottom goal, five clubs were relegated, four of those early Bundesliga sides and the fifth one, Carl Zeiss Jena, from former East Germany. [ 45 ] The league level below the 2. Bundesliga was changed profoundly in 1994 with the Oberligas replaced by the new Regionalligas, which allowed for direct promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the first base prison term since 1980. The league itself was now reduced to 18 clubs with no play-offs, three promoted and four demote teams, a system it would maintain until 2008, when the play-offs were reintroduce. Hansa Rostock won the 2. Bundesliga for the first time in 1995 and FC St. Pauli and Fortuna Düsseldorf followed it up to the Bundesliga. In the delegating zone FSV Frankfurt came a distant last with merely three wins to its name while the two Saarland sides FC Homburg and 1. FC Saarbrücken accompanied it. The subsequently, despite finishing seventh, had its license revoked, thereby sparing FSV Zwickau from relegation. [ 46 ] The 1995–96 temper saw VfL Bochum win the league again with second gear placed Arminia Bielefeld winning promotion directly after having been promoted from the Regionalliga the year earlier. third target went to MSV Duisburg while Hannover 96, 1. FC Nürnberg and SG Wattenscheid 09 were all former Bundesliga clubs now suffering relegation to the one-third division. [ 47 ] The 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Eintracht Frankfurt had suffered their first-ever delegating from the Bundesliga in 1996. The erstwhile won the league and bounced back immediately while Frankfurt remained at this level for another season. Kaiseslautern was accompanied up by VfL Wolfsburg, who won promotion for the first time, and Hertha BSC. Kaiserslautern would besides become the first and entirely clubhouse to win the Bundesliga as a impertinently promoted side the stick to year. [ 48 ] The 1. FC Kaiserslautern and SV Meppen besides set a record for number of goals in a game, 13, when Kaiserslautern defeated Meppen 7–6. [ 49 ] Eintracht Frankfurt won the league in 1998 with SC Freiburg coming moment while 1. FC Nürnberg, newly returned from the Regionalliga, came third. At the bottom end VfB Leipzig was one of three clubs from the east to be relegated, aboard SV Meppen, which dropped out of the league after football team back-to-back seasons there. [ 50 ] The 1998–99 season saw the 1. FC Köln in the league for the first time, having been relegated from the Bundesliga after 35 consecutive seasons there from the start of the league in 1963. Köln only managed to come tenth, while the league was won by Arminia Bielefeld. Behind Arminia Bielefeld, SpVgg Unterhaching and SSV Ulm 1846 entered the Bundesliga for the identical first time. last locate in the league went to Fortuna Düsseldorf, which was accompanied to the Regionalliga by SG Wattenscheid 09, KFC Uerdingen 05, once Bayer Uerdingen, and FC Gütersloh. [ 51 ] The beginning season of the newly millennium saw the end of an earned run average, with Fortuna Köln being relegated after 26 straight seasons in the league since the beginning in 1974. local anesthetic equal 1. FC Köln won the league while VfL Bochum came second and FC Energie Cottbus, in third base place, moved up to the Bundesliga for the first base time. Fortuna Köln was accompanied to the Regionalliga by Karlsruher SC, Kickers Offenbach and Tennis Borussia Berlin, who had their license revoked. [ 52 ] In 2000–01, the league was won by 1. FC Nürnberg once again, with Borussia Mönchengladbach earning promotion back to the Bundesliga after a biennial absence. FC St. Pauli was the third base promote team. SSV Ulm 1846, newly relegated from the Bundesliga, finished the season in 16th place and became bankrupt. [ 53 ] Hannover 96, Arminia Bielefeld and VfL Bochum were the advertise teams in 2002, [ 54 ] while the following season saw 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt competing and succeeding for promotion again, behind league champions SC Freiburg. [ 55 ] In 2004, 1. FC Nürnberg and Arminia Bielefeld earned another one of their many promotions while third gear placed 1. FSV Mainz 05 was a newcomer to the Bundesliga. [ 56 ] Like in 2003, 2005 saw 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt win forwarding while between them, in second place, MSV Duisburg moved up, excessively. At the bed end three of the four relegated clubs shared similar names, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Rot-Weiss Essen and Rot-Weiß Erfurt with the one-fourth team relegated being Eintracht Trier. [ 57 ]

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VfL Bochum won the league again in 2006 while FC Energie Cottbus returned to the Bundesliga for a second three-year stretch. In second place Alemannia Aachen returned to the Bundesliga for the first time since 1970. Relegated that class were Dynamo Dresden, former East german power house, after a biennial stint in the league. [ 58 ] 2006 besides saw the retirement of Willi Landgraf from 2. Bundesliga football. Landgraf had played a record 508 2. Bundesliga games from 1986 to 2006, playing in the league for Rot-Weiss Essen, FC 08 Homburg, FC Gütersloh and Alemannia Aachen. [ 39 ] [ 59 ] Karlsruher SC ended an absence from the Bundesliga that had lasted since 1998 when it won the league in 2007 and was followed up by Hansa Rostock and MSV Duisburg. [ 60 ] Freshly relegated Borussia Mönchengladbach won the league the succeed class, with newly Bundesliga cabaret TSG 1899 Hoffenheim second gear and 1. FC Köln third. [ 61 ] The 2008–09 season saw the return of play-offs. The one-third located team in the 2. Bundesliga immediately played the 16th placed team in the Bundesliga for a spot in that league. At the other end of the table, the 16th placed 2. Bundesliga side would now besides play the third place team in the new 3. Liga, which had replaced the Regionalliga as the third base class. SC Freiburg and 1. FSV Mainz 05 were directly promoted that season while 1. FC Nürnberg had to enter the play-offs in which it defeated FC Energie Cottbus 5–0 on aggregate. At the relegation end, VfL Osnabrück lost its 2. Bundesliga place to SC Paderborn from the 3. Liga. [ 62 ] 1. FC Kaiserslautern ended a four-year spell in the 2. Bundesliga in 2010 with a league backing, with FC St. Pauli coming second. The FC Augsburg finished third but was ineffective to overcome 1. FC Nürnberg in the play-offs and lost 3–0 on aggregate. Hansa Rostock, in 16th target, dropped out of the 2. Bundesliga when it lost both play-off games to Ingolstadt 04. [ 63 ] Hertha BSC and FC Augsburg were immediately promoted to the Bundesliga in 2010, the late for the first meter, while VfL Bochum in third place missed out on promotion against Borussia Mönchengladbach. VfL Osnabrück found itself unsuccessfully defending its league place again, losing to Dynamo Dresden in extra time in the second gear leg. [ 64 ] After 15 straight seasons in the 2. Bundesliga a numerous attempts at forwarding Greuther Fürth finally won the league in 2012. Eintracht Frankfurt came second and Fortuna Düsseldorf returned to the Bundesliga for the foremost time since 1997 when it defeated Hertha BSC in the play-offs. Karlsruher SC failed to remain in the 2. Bundesliga when it was relegated on aside goal rule after two tie games against Jahn Regensburg. [ 65 ] Hertha BSC won the 2. Bundesliga for the second clock time in three seasons in 2012–13 and was accompanied up by Eintracht Braunschweig, who had not played in the Bundesliga since 1985. Third placed 1. FC Kaiserslautern lost both games to 1899 Hoffenheim and thereby failed to get promoted. Dynamo Dresden became the first 2. Bundesliga side in five attempts to hold onto their league place while 3. Liga slope VfL Osnabrück missed out in the play-offs for a third clock in three attempts. [ 66 ] The 2013–14 season ended with 1. FC Köln winning the league, followed up by SC Paderborn who won forwarding to the Bundesliga for the foremost time. Relegated where Energie Cottbus and Dynamo Dresden, both early Bundesliga sides. Third placed SpVgg Greuther Fürth failed to gain promotion after two draws with Bundesliga baseball club Hamburger SV. At the bottomland end two eastern clubs were relegated, Dynamo Dresden and Energie Cottbus, while Arminia Bielefeld entered the relegation round. The 2014–15 season saw Ingolstadt 04 win the league and earn Bundesliga promotion for the first meter while SV Darmstadt 98 finished second and returned to the Bundesliga for the first time since 1982. Third placed Karlsruher SC faced Hamburg for another Bundesliga spot while TSV 1860 Munich had to play Holstein Kiel to retain their topographic point in the 2. Bundesliga. Both the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga clubs retained their league membership. The two clubs directly relegated from the league where Erzgebirge Aue and VfR Aalen. [ 67 ] In the 2015–16 the league was won by SC Freiburg, with RB Leipzig finishing runner-up and earning its first-ever Bundesliga forwarding, while 1. FC Nürnberg had to enter the promotion play-off where it lost on aggregate to Eintracht Frankfurt. At the bed end of the table SC Paderborn suffered consecutive relegations, becoming the one-sixth club to drop from the Bundesliga to the third tier in consecutive seasons. FSV Frankfurt was the second base team directly relegated while MSV Duisburg entered the relegation play-off where it was abortive. [ 68 ] All the clubs promoted to the 2. Bundesliga had played there before but while Dynamo Dresden and Erzgebirge Aue had only experienced a short circuit absence the third gear club, Würzburger Kickers, had not played at this flat for about 40 years. [ 69 ]
Logo used from 2010 to 2011 to 2016–17 seasons In December 2016, it was announced that for the beginning time, the 2. Bundesliga would be given its own logo, taking effect at the beginning of the 2017–18 season. previously, the 2. Bundesliga had borrowed the Bundesliga logo for promotional and media purposes. The 2. Bundesliga gained its own logo to “ strengthen the visibility of the contest ” and to better identify the league with fans, the media, and sponsors. [ 70 ] After their delegating, the 2018–19 season was Hamburger SV ‘s first season outside of the german exceed flight in their 55-year history. [ 71 ]

all-time table [edit ]

The most reproducible team in the league, as of 2020–21, is SpVgg Greuther Fürth, having won 1,667 points from 1,126 games. In second gear target sits FC St. Pauli, best placed of the stream 2. Bundesliga clubs. Alemannia Aachen comes third in the all-time board, while last place, number 127, goes to Spandauer SV with merely ten points to its name. [ 72 ]

Members of the 2. Bundesliga ( 2021–22 season ) [edit ]

For details on the 2. Bundesliga 2021–22 season, see here.

Division set-up [edit ]

Changes in class set-up [edit ]

  • Number of clubs
    • Current (since 1994–95): 18 teams
    • From 1974 to 1975 to 1980–81: two divisions (Nord and Süd)
      • From 1974 to 1975 to 1978–79: 20 teams each
      • 1979–80: 20 teams (Nord), 21 teams (Süd)
      • 1980–81: 22 teams (Nord), 20 teams (Süd)
    • From 1981 to 1982 to 1990–91: 20 teams
    • 1991–92: two divisions (Nord and Süd) of 12 teams each, divisions split into promotion/relegation groups of 6 teams each after 22 rounds
    • 1992–93: 24 teams
    • 1993–94: 20 teams
  • Teams promoted to the Bundesliga: 3; 1981–1991 there was a promotion/relegation round, in 1991–92 there was 1 promotion per group.
  • Number of relegations into the Regionalliga (until 1994: Oberliga): 4; 1991–92: 2–3 per group (inclusive relegation); 1992–93: 7.

promotion and relegation [edit ]

  • From the 1992–93 season to the 2008–09 season, the top three teams gained promotion into the Bundesliga; after this, and to the present, only the top two teams are promoted automatically, and the third placed team plays a two-leg playoff against the team that finishes 16th in the Bundesliga.
  • Until the 2007–08 season, the bottom four teams were relegated into the Regional leagues. Since the 2008–09, following the inception of the 3. Liga, only the bottom two teams are relegated into the 3. Liga automatically; the third from bottom team can avoid relegation by winning a two-leg playoff against the team that finishes in third place in the 3. Liga.

league rules [edit ]

Since the 2006–07 season there is no longer a specify on non-EU players in the league. alternatively clubs are required to have 8 players on the squad who have come up through the young arrangement of a german club, 4 of which have to come from the club ‘s own youth system. [ 73 ] Seven substitutes are permitted to be selected, from which three can be used in the duration of the game .

League champions [edit ]

second Bundesliga [edit ]

second Bundesliga [edit ]

  • Bold denotes team earned promotion.

Promoted and relegated teams [edit ]

The list of teams that earned promotion to and from the 2. Bundesliga or were relegated from the league :

Records [edit ]

musician records [edit ]

Appearances [edit ]

As of end of 2020–21 season.[95]

crown scorers [edit ]

As of 21 November 2021[96]

Boldface indicates a musician placid active in the 2. Bundesliga .

match records [edit ]

Spectators [edit ]

The spectator pump figures since 1992, when the league returned to the one division format :

top scorers [edit ]

The most late top finish scorers in the league : [ 131 ]

second division in the european Cup [edit ]

then far, clubs of the 2. Bundesliga have participated in the european Cup six times :

References [edit ]