2024–25 3. Liga

3. Liga
Season	2024–25
Dates	2 August 2024 – 17 May 2025
Champions	Arminia Bielefeld (2nd title)
Promoted	Dynamo Dresden; Arminia Bielefeld
Relegated	Borussia Dortmund II; Hannover 96 II; SV Sandhausen; SpVgg Unterhaching
Matches	380
Goals	1,103 (2.9 per match)
Top goalscorer	Fatih Kaya; (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Mannheim 5–0 Rostock
Biggest away win	Wiesbaden 1–5 Hannover; Hannover 0–4 Ingolstadt; Munich 0–4 Verl
Highest scoring	Sandhausen 4–6 Aue
Longest winning run	5 games; Cologne
Longest unbeaten run	9 games; Sandhausen
Longest winless run	19 games; Unterhaching
Longest losing run	6 games; Sandhausen
Highest attendance	31,858; Dresden v Aue
Lowest attendance	650; Stuttgart v Unterhaching; Stuttgart v Cologne
Attendance	4,394,605 (11,565 per match)
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The 2024–25 3. Liga was the 17th season of the 3. Liga. It started on 2 August 2024 and concluded on 17 May 2025.^[1]

Season2024–25

Dates2 August 2024 – 17 May 2025

ChampionsArminia Bielefeld (2nd title)

PromotedDynamo Dresden
Arminia Bielefeld

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The fixtures were announced on 9 July 2024.^[2]

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Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Alemannia Aachen	Aachen	Tivoli	32,960
Erzgebirge Aue	Aue-Bad Schlema	Erzgebirgsstadion	16,485
Arminia Bielefeld	Bielefeld	Schüco-Arena	27,332
Energie Cottbus	Cottbus	LEAG Energie Stadion	22,528
Borussia Dortmund II	Dortmund	Stadion Rote Erde	9,999
Dynamo Dresden	Dresden	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion	32,249
Rot-Weiss Essen	Essen	Stadion an der Hafenstraße	19,962
Hannover 96 II	Hanover	Eilenriedestadion Heinz von Heiden Arena	5,001 49,000
FC Ingolstadt	Ingolstadt	Audi Sportpark	15,200
Viktoria Köln	Cologne	Sportpark Höhenberg	8,343
Waldhof Mannheim	Mannheim	Carl-Benz-Stadion	24,302
1860 Munich	Munich	Grünwalder Stadion	15,000
VfL Osnabrück	Osnabrück	Stadion an der Bremer Brücke	15,741
Hansa Rostock	Rostock	Ostseestadion	29,000
1. FC Saarbrücken	Saarbrücken	Ludwigsparkstadion	16,003
SV Sandhausen	Sandhausen	GP Stadion am Hardtwald	15,414
VfB Stuttgart II	Aspach	WIRmachenDRUCK Arena¹	10,001
SpVgg Unterhaching	Unterhaching	Sportpark Unterhaching	15,053
SC Verl	Verl	Sportclub Arena	5,207
Wehen Wiesbaden	Wiesbaden	BRITA-Arena	15,295

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Front	Sleeve	Back
Alemannia Aachen	Heiner Backhaus	Mika Hanraths	Capelli Sport	None	Rotcom	Gebr. Kutsch
Erzgebirge Aue	Jens Härtel	Martin Männel	Nike	Medical Beauty Research	Erzgebirgssparkasse	G&K Innenausbau
Arminia Bielefeld	Michél Kniat	Mael Corboz	Macron	Schüco	Danne Holding, Bethel Foundation	holz4home
Energie Cottbus	Claus-Dieter Wollitz	Axel Borgmann	Macron	LEAG	Sparkasse Spree-Neiße	Koalick
Borussia Dortmund II	Mike Tullberg	Ayman Azhil	Puma	1&1	None	None
Dynamo Dresden	Thomas Stamm	Stefan Kutschke	Jako	ALL-INKL.COM	ad hoc Gruppe	Pfennigpfeiffer
Rot-Weiss Essen	Uwe Koschinat	Michael Schultz	Jako	ifm Electronic	Sparkasse Essen, Essener Chancen	NEObetNEO.bet
Hannover 96 II	Daniel Stendel	Fynn Arkenberg	Macron	Heise	Sparkasse Hannover	Gilde Brauerei
FC Ingolstadt	Sabrina Wittmann	Lukas Fröde	Erreà	SI Electronics	Audi Schanzer Fußballschule	PROSIS GmbH
Viktoria Köln	Olaf Janßen	Christoph Greger	Capelli Sport	Peynooş	Wintec Autoglas	ETL
Waldhof Mannheim	Dominik Glawogger	Marcel Seegert	Uhlsport	Galeria	None	PLAZA Hotelgroup
1860 Munich	Patrick Glöckner	Jesper Verlaat	Nike	Die Bayerische	Bet3000	Pangea Life
VfL Osnabrück	Marco Antwerpen	Timo Beermann	Capelli Sport	SO-TECH	JOPA	None
Hansa Rostock	Daniel Brinkmann	Franz Pfanne	Mizuno	28 Black	H2Apex	None
1. FC Saarbrücken	Alois Schwartz	Manuel Zeitz	Adidas	Victor's Group	LOTTO Saartoto	Victor's Group
SV Sandhausen	Gerhard Kleppinger / Dennis Diekmeier	Jakob Lewald	Macron	Weingut Reichsrat von Buhl	Goelz Paletten, HCM SSC	L-VIP
VfB Stuttgart II	Markus Fiedler	Dominik Nothnagel	Jako	Landesbank Baden-Württemberg	Porsche	None
SpVgg Unterhaching	Sven Bender	Markus Schwabl	Uhlsport	Alpenbauer	Lupse & Lupse	None
SC Verl	Alexander Ende	Fabio Gruber	Joma	Beckhoff	EGE GmbH	None
Wehen Wiesbaden	Nils Döring	Florian Stritzel	Capelli Sport	Brita	quickpaid	None

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Exit date		Position in table	Incoming	Incoming date		Ref.
Team	Outgoing	Manner	Announced on	Departs on	Position in table	Incoming	Announced on	Arrived on	Ref.
Dynamo Dresden	Heiko Scholz (interim)	End of caretaker	20 April 2024	30 June 2024	Pre-season	Thomas Stamm	19 May 2024	1 July 2024	^[4]^[5]
Wehen Wiesbaden	Nils Döring (interim)		28 April 2024			Nils Döring	19 June 2024		^[6]^[7]
FC Ingolstadt	Sabrina Wittmann (interim)		2 May 2024			Sabrina Wittmann	5 June 2024		^[8]^[9]
SV Sandhausen	Gerhard Kleppinger (interim)		13 May 2024			Sreto Ristić	24 May 2024		^[10]^[11]
Hansa Rostock	Mersad Selimbegović	End of contract	23 May 2024			Bernd Hollerbach	29 May 2024		^[12]^[13]
Waldhof Mannheim	Marco Antwerpen	Sacked	17 September 2024		20th	Bernhard Trares	18 September 2024		^[14]^[15]
VfL Osnabrück	Uwe Koschinat		22 September 2024		16th	Pit Reimers	25 September 2024		^[16]^[17]
Hansa Rostock	Bernd Hollerbach		24 October 2024		18th	Simon Pesch / Marcus Rabenhorst (interim)	24 October 2024		^[18]
Hansa Rostock	Simon Pesch / Marcus Rabenhorst (interim)	End of caretaker	2 November 2024		12th	Daniel Brinkmann	2 November 2024		^[19]
Erzgebirge Aue	Pavel Dochev	Sacked	1 December 2024		8th	Jörg Emmerich / Adam Sušac (interim)	1 December 2024		^[20]
SpVgg Unterhaching	Marc Unterberger		1 December 2024		19th	Sven Bender (interim)	1 December 2024		^[21]
Rot-Weiss Essen	Christoph Dabrowski		9 December 2024		18th	Uwe Koschinat	12 December 2024		^[22]^[23]
VfL Osnabrück	Pit Reimers		10 December 2024		20th	Marco Antwerpen	12 December 2024		^[24]^[25]
Erzgebirge Aue	Jörg Emmerich / Adam Sušac (interim)	End of caretaker	11 December 2024	1 January 2025	7th	Jens Härtel	11 December 2024	2 January 2025	^[26]
SV Sandhausen	Sreto Ristić	Sacked	22 December 2024		10th	Kenan Koçak	28 December 2024	2 January 2025	^[27]
SpVgg Unterhaching	Sven Bender (interim)	End of caretaker	3 January 2025		20th	Heiko Herrlich	3 January 2025		^[28]
1860 Munich	Argiris Giannikis	Sacked	20 January 2025		14th	Patrick Glöckner	20 January 2025		^[29]^[30]
SpVgg Unterhaching	Heiko Herrlich	Sacked	21 March 2025		20th	Sven Bender (interim)	28 March 2025		^[31]
SV Sandhausen	Kenan Koçak	Resigned	6 April 2025		18th	Gerhard Kleppinger / Dennis Diekmeier (interim)	6 April 2025		^[32]
Waldhof Mannheim	Bernhard Trares	Sacked	9 April 2025		16th	Dominik Glawogger	10 April 2025		^[33]^[34]
1. FC Saarbrücken	Rüdiger Ziehl	Moved to manager	22 April 2025		4th	Alois Schwartz	22 April 2025		^[35]
Borussia Dortmund II	Jan Zimmermann	Sacked	5 May 2025		17th	Mike Tullberg	5 May 2025		^[36]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Arminia Bielefeld (C, P)	38	21	9	8	64	36	+28	72	Promotion to 2. Bundesliga and qualification for DFB-Pokal
2	Dynamo Dresden (P)	38	20	10	8	71	40	+31	70	Promotion to 2. Bundesliga and qualification for DFB-Pokal
3	1. FC Saarbrücken	38	18	11	9	59	47	+12	65	Qualification for promotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal
4	Energie Cottbus	38	18	8	12	64	54	+10	62	Qualification for DFB-Pokal
5	Hansa Rostock	38	18	6	14	54	46	+8	60
6	Viktoria Köln	38	18	5	15	59	48	+11	59
7	SC Verl	38	15	12	11	62	55	+7	57
8	Rot-Weiss Essen	38	16	8	14	55	54	+1	56
9	Wehen Wiesbaden	38	15	10	13	59	60	−1	55
10	FC Ingolstadt	38	14	12	12	72	63	+9	54
11	1860 Munich	38	15	8	15	57	61	−4	53
12	Alemannia Aachen	38	12	14	12	44	44	0	50
13	Erzgebirge Aue	38	15	5	18	52	65	−13	50
14	VfL Osnabrück	38	13	9	16	46	55	−9	48
15	VfB Stuttgart II^[a]	38	12	11	15	49	59	−10	47
16	Waldhof Mannheim	38	11	13	14	43	45	−2	46
17	Borussia Dortmund II^[a] (R)	38	11	10	17	53	60	−7	43	Relegation to Regionalliga
18	Hannover 96 II^[a] (R)	38	9	10	19	51	70	−19	37
19	SV Sandhausen (R)	38	9	8	21	49	69	−20	35
20	SpVgg Unterhaching (R)	38	4	13	21	40	72	−32	25

Home \ Away	AAC	AUE	BIE	COT	DOR	DRE	ESS	HAN	ING	KÖL	MAN	MUN	OSN	ROS	SAA	SAN	STU	UNT	VER	WIE
Alemannia Aachen	—	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–2	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–0
Erzgebirge Aue	1–1	—	1–3	1–3	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	3–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–3	2–1	1–0	2–5	2–1
Arminia Bielefeld	1–1	2–1	—	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–0	3–1	1–1	4–1	3–3	2–1	4–2
Energie Cottbus	2–1	1–0	1–2	—	3–3	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–4	1–0	2–4	5–1	1–2	3–1	4–1	1–1	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–1
Borussia Dortmund II	3–0	3–1	0–4	4–1	—	2–1	0–1	0–4	3–3	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	2–2
Dynamo Dresden	0–0	2–1	3–0	4–2	0–0	—	3–3	2–1	2–2	2–3	2–1	5–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	2–0
Rot-Weiss Essen	1–2	4–2	0–0	4–0	3–1	1–1	—	5–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–3	3–1	2–1	0–3	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–3	0–3
Hannover 96 II	1–1	2–1	1–4	0–0	2–0	2–3	1–3	—	0–4	1–2	1–1	1–3	1–5	2–1	1–3	2–2	3–1	0–0	1–2	3–2
FC Ingolstadt	0–3	1–0	0–3	1–1	5–3	1–1	2–2	3–3	—	3–1	2–1	1–2	4–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–3
Viktoria Köln	3–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	3–5	1–2	1–0	2–0	4–4	—	1–0	1–2	2–0	3–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–0
Waldhof Mannheim	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–2	—	0–3	3–2	5–0	0–1	3–2	0–0	0–2	2–2	2–2
1860 Munich	2–1	1–1	0–3	5–1	1–0	2–3	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–3	3–0	—	2–2	1–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–4	2–3
VfL Osnabrück	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–5	1–0	0–3	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	—	0–1	1–1	3–2	1–0	4–2	0–3	0–1
Hansa Rostock	1–2	4–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	—	0–0	1–0	1–1	4–1	4–0	1–4
1. FC Saarbrücken	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–4	1–0	4–1	2–3	1–0	2–1	4–0	1–1	2–0	—	0–1	0–2	1–1	4–3	3–1
SV Sandhausen	4–0	4–6	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–4	0–2	0–1	4–3	0–4	2–1	0–3	1–0	0–3	3–4	—	1–1	2–2	1–3	0–1
VfB Stuttgart II	2–1	0–1	3–0	2–0	0–3	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–2	2–0	3–1	1–2	0–3	2–3	2–1	—	3–2	1–1	2–2
SpVgg Unterhaching	0–2	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–3	2–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–3	0–2	2–0	0–0	2–2	—	1–2	1–1
SC Verl	2–1	5–1	2–1	0–3	0–1	0–3	3–0	1–0	1–4	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	—	2–2
Wehen Wiesbaden	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–1	4–2	1–0	1–3	1–5	2–5	4–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	2–0	3–0	0–1	—

2024–25 3. Liga

Teams

Team changes

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

Attendances

References

External links

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Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[38]
1	Fatih Kaya	Wehen Wiesbaden	20
2	Christoph Daferner	Dynamo Dresden	18
3	Sebastian Grønning	FC Ingolstadt	17
4	Tolcay Ciğerci	Energie Cottbus	15
	Lex-Tyger Lobinger	Viktoria Köln
	Timmy Thiele	Energie Cottbus
7	Ahmet Arslan	Rot-Weiss Essen	14
	Serhat-Semih Güler	Viktoria Köln
	Julian Hettwer	Borussia Dortmund II
	Julian Kania	Arminia Bielefeld

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Timmy Thiele⁴	Energie Cottbus	1. FC Saarbrücken	4–1 (H)	28 September 2024
Julian Kania	Arminia Bielefeld	Hannover 96 II	4–1 (A)	23 October 2024
Sebastian Grønning	FC Ingolstadt	VfL Osnabrück	4–2 (H)	24 November 2024
Omar Sijarić	Erzgebirge Aue	SV Sandhausen	6–4 (A)	14 December 2024
Christian Kinsombi	Hansa Rostock	SC Verl	6–0 (H)	12 April 2025
Florian Krüger	1. FC Saarbrücken	SC Verl	4–3 (H)	3 May 2025

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets^[39]
1	Jonas Kersken	Arminia Bielefeld	14
1	Benjamin Uphoff	Hansa Rostock	14
3	Elias Bethke	Energie Cottbus	12
4	Phillip Menzel	1. FC Saarbrücken	11
5	Jan-Christoph Bartels	Waldhof Mannheim	10
	Dudu	Viktoria Köln
	Tim Schreiber	Dynamo Dresden
	Florian Stritzel	Wehen Wiesbaden
9	Jakob Golz	Rot-Weiss Essen	7
	Marco Hiller	1860 Munich
	Lukas Jonsson	VfL Osnabrück
	Martin Männel	Erzgebirge Aue
	Philipp Schulze	SC Verl

#	Football club	Home games	Average attendance^[40]
1	SG Dynamo Dresden	19	28,991
2	Alemannia Aachen	19	25,861
3	FC Hansa Rostock	19	24,269
4	DSC Arminia Bielefeld	19	21,245
5	Rot-Weiß Essen	19	16,957
6	TSV München 1860	19	15,000
7	VfL Osnabrück	19	14,750
8	SV Waldhof Mannheim	19	12,946
9	1. FC Saarbrücken	19	12,910
10	FC Energie Cottbus	19	12,908
11	FC Erzgebirge Aue	19	8,972
12	SpVgg Unterhaching	19	5,737
13	FC Ingolstadt 04	19	5,725
14	FC Viktoria Köln	19	4,628
15	SV Wehen Wiesbaden	19	4,233
16	SV Sandhausen	19	4,144
17	Borussia Dortmund II	19	3,504
18	Hannover 96 II	19	3,294
19	SC Verl	19	2,731
20	VfB Stuttgart II	19	2,166