Things remain tight at teh top, and the relegation zone clubs announced they’re not dead yet with points. The 3.Liga is the most exciting league in Germany at the moment.
Karlsruhe put in a decent display winning at Burghausen. The hosts gave a good effort, but in the end KSC’s superiority mertied the points.
A sold out Schüco-Arena witnessed the Westfalen derby between Bielefeld and Münster. It was a tense, entertaining affair, although lacking some of the technical kill one might expect for two good squads.
Osnabrück missed an opportunity to grab needed points, as they were unable to fight off pesky Chemnitz at home. The Purples keep a precarious hold on 2nd, but Bielefeld and Münster have a game in hand and are breathing down their neck.
Heidenheim perhaps lost some ground, but have to be somewhat happy, as they were staring a defeat at home to Wehen. But luckily the draw kings decided they wanted to continue their favorite result, so FCH managed to come back and grab a point.
Babelsberg got a huge away win at Aachen, and Darmstadt ignored the small crowd and recent squad infighting to do the same at Stuttgart B to get critical points. Not to be outdone, Dortmund B stunned Unterhaching to also get points. (This crowd was so small, it’s perhaps less than the average length of a line at a beer kiosk in the Signal-Iduna). Both Darmstadt and mini-Dortmund have makeup home matches on Tuesday, looking to pull even closer.
Erfurt got a critical win at Offenbach, to keep their head just above the zone. And in doing so they’ve dragged Offenbach done into the relegation mire. Certainly this is turning into a nightmare campaign for the Kickers. Halle was clearly the better side in a GDR derby with Rostock. Hansa needs to be careful not to get dragged into the relegation fight.
Total attendance this weekend was 77,488 (avg 7,749), with two sellouts, Bielefeld and Halle.
VfL Osnabrück - Chemnitzer FC 2:2 (1:1) 9,700 Alemannia Aachen - SV Babelsberg 03 1:2 (1:0) 8,711 Borussia Dortmund II - SpVgg Unterhaching 2:1 (2:0) 163 1. FC Saarbrücken - Stuttgarter Kickers 3:0 (1:0) 3,624 Kickers Offenbach - Rot-Weiß Erfurt 0:1 (0:0) 5,667 Wacker Burghausen - Karlsruher SC 1:2 (1:2) 3,020 1. FC Heidenheim - SV Wehen Wiesbaden 2:2 (0:1) 6,800 VfB Stuttgart II - SV Darmstadt 98 0:2 (0:1) 610 Arminia Bielefeld - Preußen Münster 1:1 (1:0) 26,500 * Sunday: Hallescher FC - Hansa Rostock 3:1 (3:1) 12,693 * 1 Karlsruher SC (A) 29 17 9 3 51:18 +33 60 2 VfL Osnabrück 29 17 6 6 48:25 +23 57 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Arminia Bielefeld 28 16 8 4 48:25 +23 56 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Preußen Münster 28 15 9 4 47:22 +25 54 5 1. FC Heidenheim 29 16 5 8 55:40 +15 53 6 SpVgg Unterhaching 28 12 6 10 40:40 0 42 7 Chemnitzer FC 28 11 8 9 39:35 +4 41 8 Hallescher FC (N) 29 10 7 12 30:38 -8 37 9 SV Wehen Wiesbaden 29 6 17 6 34:36 -2 35 10 Wacker Burghausen 27 10 5 12 33:37 -4 35 11 1. FC Saarbrücken 29 9 6 14 39:49 -10 33 12 VfB Stuttgart II 25 9 5 11 28:31 -3 32 13 Hansa Rostock (A) 27 9 5 13 26:38 -12 32 14 Kickers Offenbach 27 8 6 13 35:37 -2 30 15 Rot-Weiß Erfurt 26 7 7 12 30:44 -14 28 16 Stuttgarter Kickers (N) 27 7 6 14 28:35 -7 27 17 Alemannia Aachen (A) 27 6 9 12 27:38 -11 27 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 SV Babelsberg 03 27 7 6 14 21:36 -15 27 19 SV Darmstadt 98 27 5 9 13 22:38 -16 24 20 Borussia Dortmund II (N) 26 5 9 12 26:45 -19 24 A = Absteiger just Relegated N = Neuling just promoted 1st line: Promotion to 2.Liga 2nd line: Promotion Playoff with 2.Liga 16th place 3rd line: Relegation to Regionalliga Alemannia Aachen basically relegated due to pending insolvency.