3.Liga, Round 35: Zebras leap to promotion spot

Round 35, May 2-3

It’s officially over for Regensburg, as Jahn becomes the first relegated side, losing in Halle. Next year the “Bayern-liga”

Duisburg is driving to the 2.Liga. The Zebras beat down Preußen Münster to vault over Kiel into 2nd. After a near collapse in teh relegation year, MSV has recovered and

Bielefeld was hoping to drive in the final nail for promotion, but was unable to beat down Kiel. The hosts were much improved from the midweek 0-4 Cup drubbing at the hands of Wolfsburg, but despite nursing the lead until the very end, they just weren’t able to put things away. Kiel remains on target, but they will have to battle out with Duisburg for the 2nd promotion spot.

Unterhaching showed great spirit in coming from behind constantly against Cottbus and wringing out a draw. However the fierce relegation struggle remains. Mainz-II got a critical win against in-form Sonnnehof, and was able to leap over the mini-Münch(en)kins

Stuttgarter Kickers are almost done. They needed a win, but were stunned at home by Dresden. Things looked especially grim as they were down 1-3 and down a man. But they put in a last great effort to level the score, only to lose at the end. Even with a point, things were looking grim for promotion, and it is just about finished now.

Dortmund-II took their last slim chance to save themselves and defeated VfB-II. It’s still going to be very difficult, but they have a chance. The Neon Bubis are coached by ex-US international David Wagner.

Erfurt gets a draw! Woo-hoo! OK, there was a tiny reason to celebrate for RWE in their draw at Fortuna Köln. If they had lost Erfurt would have broken the 3.Liga record for consecutive losses at 9 (dubious honor goes to Werder Bremen-II). Of course even this will come with some flak, since they blew a two goal lead and should have had a win…

Total attendance 83,651 (avg 8,365), 46.9% capacity


1. FSV Mainz 05 II   -   SG S-hof Großaspach	3:1 (2:1)      746
Hallescher FC	     -   Jahn Regensburg	2:1 (2:0)    6,054
Chemnitzer FC	     -   SV Wehen Wiesbaden	2:1 (1:1)    5,200
Arminia Bielefeld    -   Holstein Kiel	        2:2 (2:1)   24,249
Fortuna Köln	     -   Rot-Weiß Erfurt	2:2 (2:2)    1,623
Stuttgarter Kickers  -   Dynamo Dresden	        3:4 (1:2)    8,000
SpVgg Unterhaching   -   Energie Cottbus	3:3 (1:2)    3,000 	
Borussia Dortmund II -   VfB Stuttgart II	2:0 (0:0)    2,516
VfL Osnabrück	     -   Hansa Rostock	        1:0 (1:0)    9,500
MSV Duisburg	     -   Preußen Münster	2:1 (1:0)   22,763


 1  Arminia Bielefeld (A)	35   21  6   8 	  71:38  +33 	  69 
 2  MSV Duisburg	  	35   18  11  6 	  58:38  +20 	  65
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 3  Holstein Kiel	  	35   17  13  5 	  48:25  +23 	  64
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 4  Stuttgarter Kickers	  	35   16  10  9 	  56:45  +11 	  58 
 5  Preußen Münster	  	35   15  9  11 	  50:43  +7 	  54 
 6  Energie Cottbus (A)	  	35   14  11 10 	  47:44  +3 	  53 
 7  Hallescher FC	  	35   15  8  12 	  49:47  +2 	  53 
 8  Chemnitzer FC	  	35   15  7  13 	  40:35  +5 	  52 
 9  SV Wehen Wiesbaden	  	35   14  7  14 	  51:41  +10 	  49 
10  Dynamo Dresden (A)	  	35   13  8  14 	  42:44  -2 	  47 
11  VfL Osnabrück	  	35   13  8  14 	  46:50  -4 	  47 
12  Rot-Weiß Erfurt	  	35   13  8  14 	  46:52  -6 	  47 
13  Fortuna Köln (N)	  	35   11  10 14 	  36:38  -2 	  43 
14  SG Sonnenhof Großaspach (N)	35   11  10 14 	  37:56  -19 	  43 
15  Hansa Rostock	  	35   11  8  16 	  51:62  -11 	  41 
16  VfB Stuttgart II	  	35   11  7  17 	  42:53  -11 	  40 
17  1. FSV Mainz 05 II (N)	35   9 	 10 16 	  39:49  -10 	  37
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18  SpVgg Unterhaching	  	35   10  8  17 	  49:61  -12 	  36 
19  Borussia Dortmund II	35   6 	 15 14 	  34:47  -13 	  33 
20  Jahn Regensburg	  	35   7 	 6  22 	  38:62  -24 	  27

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

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