The 3.Liga is off to the races, with five rounds already completed. At the top, Unterhaching and Osnabrück are out of the blocks, with a perhaps stabilized Bielefeld looking good early.
The mini Stuttgart derby ended with a thumping win for the newly promoted Kickers.
Attendance was pretty decent this round (at least for 3.Liga standards). There are several attractive venues, and even the B squads of Stuttgart and Dortmund had respectable numbers this weekend.
The 3 relegated clubs have had mixed results. Aachen was doing fine, but stubbed their toe in the battle of ex-Bundesligists, despite a large home crowd. The Tivoli still draws them in despite Alemannia’s travails. Rostock has some work to do if they want to battle for re-promotion. Karlsruhe continues the mess from the 2.Liga relegation, and have yet to win a match.
Things ghave completely gone haywire for tailend Erfurt. They certainly expected to contend, but their poor start might have already put them out. 12 points down after only 5 matches pretty much makes promotion unlikely.
Wacker Burghausen - SV Darmstadt 98 1:0 (0:0) 2,700 VfL Osnabrück - Rot-Weiß Erfurt 1:0 (0:0) 9,500 VfB Stuttgart II - Stuttgarter Kickers 1:4 (1:2) 6,125 Hallescher FC - SpVgg Unterhaching 0:1 (0:0) 7,058 1. FC Heidenheim - SV Babelsberg 03 2:1 (2:1) 7,200 SV Wehen Wiesbaden - Preußen Münster 2:2 (1:0) 2,780 Borussia Dortmund II - 1. FC Saarbrücken 1:2 (0:1) 3,150 Alemannia Aachen - Kickers Offenbach 1:3 (0:2) 15,632 Arminia Bielefeld - Karlsruher SC 1:0 (1:0) 8,094 Sunday: Hansa Rostock - Chemnitzer FC 0:0 (0:0) 11,800 1 SpVgg Unterhaching 5 4 1 0 10:1 +9 13 2 VfL Osnabrück 5 4 1 0 7:1 +6 13 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Arminia Bielefeld 5 3 2 0 9:5 +4 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Preußen Münster 5 3 1 1 11:6 +5 10 5 1. FC Heidenheim 5 3 1 1 11:8 +3 10 6 Hallescher FC (N) 5 2 2 1 4:1 +3 8 7 Alemannia Aachen (A) 5 2 2 1 8:8 0 8 8 Chemnitzer FC 5 2 1 2 5:4 +1 7 9 VfB Stuttgart II 5 2 1 2 7:7 0 7 10 Hansa Rostock (A) 5 2 1 2 8:10 -2 7 11 SV Wehen Wiesbaden 5 1 3 1 7:7 0 6 12 1. FC Saarbrücken 5 2 0 3 6:7 -1 6 13 Wacker Burghausen 5 2 0 3 6:8 -2 6 14 Stuttgarter Kickers (N) 5 1 2 2 6:5 +1 5 15 Borussia Dortmund II (N) 5 1 2 2 5:7 -2 5 16 SV Babelsberg 03 5 1 1 3 6:9 -3 4 17 SV Darmstadt 98 5 1 1 3 3:7 -4 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Karlsruher SC (A) 5 0 3 2 3:6 -3 3 19 Kickers Offenbach 5 1 0 4 5:10 -5 3 20 Rot-Weiß Erfurt 5 0 1 4 2:12 -10 1