No surprises. Heidenheim won the title with a solid win over Unterhaching. They led pretty much wire to wire, but slacked off after promotion was assured. Still, a deserved champion. Elversberg is relegated, as they got owned in Dortmund. Of course, it wouldn’t have mattered, as Kiel got an impressive win at Dramstadt, who will had nothing to play for. Since Osnabrück was unable to win, Wehen held to the 4th spot for DFB Cup qualification.
Actually there still is a bit of drama. The DFL, which regulates the Bundesliga and 2.Liga, has declared that RB Leipzig must meet certain requirements for the 2.Liga. Among them are changing the club logo. In Germany, clubs cannot be wholly owned by a company or individual (Bayer Leverksuen is an exception, grandfathered in, but they started back in 1904.) Among other things, the club logo cannot be commercial. (It’s OK as a *sponsor* on the jersey, but not the club logo). And the company cannot name the club. Of course, Red Bull owns RB Leipzig, and they get around the regulation by being officially “Rasenballsport”. This has been tried before, notably with LR Ahlen (“Leichtathletik und Rasensport Ahlen e.V.”, although owned by the LR cosmetics company until bankruptcy, now simply “Rot-Weiss Ahlen”). Anyway, the DFL stated that the regulations will be enforced. Red Bull has stated that they won’t comply, even it means they have to withdraw from the 2.Liga (Haha, what a bunch of wankers. I’d like to see them do that!). Most likely there will be some court cases, and we’ll see what happens. But in an extreme case, all clubs would get moved up a notch, which means direct promotion for Darmstadt, playoffs for Wehen and perhaps direct DFB Cup qualification for Osnabrück.
Total attendance 73,536 (avg 7,354)
1. FC Heidenheim - SpVgg Unterhaching 2:0 (2:0) 12,600 Jahn Regensburg - VfL Osnabrück 0:0 (0:0) 3,156 Chemnitzer FC - VfB Stuttgart II 0:0 (0:0) 4,562 Borussia Dortmund II - SV Elversberg 3:0 (2:0) 1,350 SV Darmstadt 98 - Holstein Kiel 1:3 (1:2) 12,500 Hansa Rostock - SV Wehen Wiesbaden 1:1 (0:1) 8,100 1. FC Saarbrücken - Rot Weiß Erfurt 0:1 (0:0) 2,728 Stuttgarter Kickers - RasenBallsport Leipzig 1:3 (0:2) 5,800 Hallescher FC - Wacker Burghausen 2:4 (1:1) 8,278 MSV Duisburg - Preußen Münster 0:1 (0:1) 14,462 1 1. FC Heidenheim 38 23 10 5 59:25 +34 79 2 RasenBallsport Leipzig (N) 38 24 7 7 65:34 +31 79 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 SV Darmstadt 98 38 21 9 8 58:29 +29 72 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 SV Wehen Wiesbaden 38 15 11 12 43:44 -1 56 5 VfL Osnabrück 38 15 10 13 50:39 +11 55 6 Preußen Münster 38 13 14 11 55:50 +5 53 7 MSV Duisburg (A) 38 13 13 12 43:43 0 52 8 Stuttgarter Kickers 38 13 12 13 45:46 -1 51 9 Hallescher FC 38 14 9 15 50:55 -5 51 10 Rot Weiß Erfurt 38 14 8 16 53:49 +4 50 11 Jahn Regensburg (A) 38 12 13 13 51:51 0 49 12 Chemnitzer FC 38 12 13 13 43:46 -3 49 13 Hansa Rostock 38 13 10 15 45:55 -10 49 14 Borussia Dortmund II 38 12 10 16 47:55 -8 46 15 VfB Stuttgart II 38 12 10 16 45:54 -9 46 16 Holstein Kiel (N) 38 10 15 13 42:38 +4 45 17 SpVgg Unterhaching 38 11 10 17 50:65 -15 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 SV Elversberg (N) 38 10 10 18 32:54 -22 40 19 Wacker Burghausen 38 9 10 19 39:58 -19 37 20 1. FC Saarbrücken 38 8 8 22 38:63 -25 32 A = Absteiger just relegated N = Neuling just promoted 1st line: Promotion to 2.Liga 2nd line: Promotion Playoff with 2.Liga 16th place (Darmstadt defeats Bielefeld) 3rd line: Relegation to Regionalliga Goal scorers 27 - Dominik Stroh-Engel (SV Darmstadt 98) 19 - Daniel Frahn (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 14 - Kingsley Onuegbu (MSV Duisburg) 13 - Marc Schnatterer (1. FC Heidenheim) 13 - Dominik Kaiser (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 12 - Timo Furuholm (Hallescher FC) 12 - Anton Fink (Chemnitzer FC) 12 - Vincenzo Marchese (Stuttgarter Kickers) 12 - Marvin Ducksch (Borussia Dortmund II) 12 - Adriano Grimaldi (VfL Osnabrück) Attendance Total attendance 2,302,045 (avg 6,058) 1 RasenBallsport Leipzig 16,734 2 MSV Duisburg 12,599 3 Hansa Rostock 9,989 4 1. FC Heidenheim 8,803 5 VfL Osnabrück 8,634 6 Preußen Münster 8,057 7 Hallescher FC 7,999 8 SV Darmstadt 98 7,069 9 Rot-Weiß Erfurt 5,903 10 Holstein Kiel 5,374 11 Chemnitzer FC 5,142 12 1. FC Saarbrücken 4,697 13 Stuttgarter Kickers 3,993 14 SSV Jahn Regensburg 3,480 15 SV Wehen Wiesbaden 3,282 16 Borussia Dortmund II 2,413 17 SpVgg Unterhaching 2,211 18 Wacker Burghausen 2,144 19 SV 07 Elversberg 1,606 20 VfB Stuttgart II 1,029