2025–26 2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga
Season	2025–26
Dates	1 August 2025 – 17 May 2026
Champions	Schalke 04
Promoted	Schalke 04; SV Elversberg; SC Paderborn (via play-off)
Relegated	Fortuna Düsseldorf; Preußen Münster
Matches	306
Goals	897 (2.93 per match)
Top goalscorer	Noel Futkeu; (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Elversberg 6–0 Fürth; Dresden 6–0 Münster
Biggest away win	Braunschweig 1–4 Elversberg; Hannover 0–3 Schalke; Fürth 1–4 Karlsruhe; Braunschweig 0–3 Hannover
Highest scoring	Magdeburg 4–5 Fürth; Fürth 4–5 Magdeburg
Longest winning run	8 games; Paderborn
Longest unbeaten run	13 games; Darmstadt
Longest winless run	9 games; Münster
Longest losing run	6 games; Magdeburg
Highest attendance	71,157; Hertha v Schalke
Lowest attendance	8,341; Elversberg v Kiel
Attendance	8,755,307 (28,612 per match)
	← 2024–25 2026–27 →

The 2025–26 2. Bundesliga was the 52nd season of the 2. Bundesliga. It began on 1 August 2025 and concluded on 17 May 2026.^[1]^[2]

Season2025–26

Dates1 August 2025 – 17 May 2026

ChampionsSchalke 04

PromotedSchalke 04
SV Elversberg
SC Paderborn (via play-off)

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The fixtures were released on 27 June 2025.^[3]^[4]

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Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Hertha BSC	Berlin	Olympiastadion	74,649
Arminia Bielefeld	Bielefeld	Schüco-Arena	27,332
VfL Bochum	Bochum	Vonovia Ruhrstadion	26,000
Eintracht Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	23,325
Darmstadt 98	Darmstadt	Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor	17,650
Dynamo Dresden	Dresden	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion	32,249
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Merkur Spiel-Arena	54,600
SV Elversberg	Spiesen-Elversberg	Waldstadion an der Kaiserlinde	10,000
Greuther Fürth	Fürth	Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer	16,626
Hannover 96	Hanover	Heinz von Heiden Arena	49,000
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	49,327
Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	BBBank Wildpark	34,302
Holstein Kiel	Kiel	Holstein-Stadion	15,034
1. FC Magdeburg	Magdeburg	Avnet Arena	30,098
Preußen Münster	Münster	LVM-Preußenstadion	14,300
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Max-Morlock-Stadion	49,923
SC Paderborn	Paderborn	Home Deluxe Arena	15,000
Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	62,271

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Front	Sleeve
Hertha BSC	Stefan Leitl	Fabian Reese	Castore	CheckCars24	Sparda-Bank Berlin
Arminia Bielefeld	Michél Kniat	Mael Corboz	Umbro^[5]	Schüco	Danne Holding
VfL Bochum	Uwe Rösler	Matúš Bero	Mizuno^[6]	Vonovia	MTEL Germany
Eintracht Braunschweig	Lars Kornetka	Sven Köhler	Umbro	BRAWO Group	Lease a Bike
Darmstadt 98	Florian Kohfeldt	Marcel Schuhen	Craft	HAIX	Suzuki
Dynamo Dresden	Thomas Stamm	Stefan Kutschke	Jako	ALL-INKL.COM	ad hoc Gruppe
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Alexander Ende	Florian Kastenmeier	Adidas	Targobank	Metro Chef
SV Elversberg	Vincent Wagner	Lukas Pinckert	Nike	HYLO	Pure Steel
Greuther Fürth	Heiko Vogel	Branimir Hrgota	Puma	Hofmann Personal	Buxtrade
Hannover 96	Christian Titz	Enzo Leopold	Macron	Heise	Hannoversche Volksbank
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Torsten Lieberknecht	Marlon Ritter	Castore	Novoline	Lacalut
Karlsruher SC	Christian Eichner	Marvin Wanitzek	Macron	SWEG	billiger.de
Holstein Kiel	Tim Walter	Steven Skrzybski	Puma	Famila	Lotto Schleswig-Holstein
1. FC Magdeburg	Petrik Sander / Pascal Ibold	Dominik Reimann	Hummel	Humanas	SWM Magdeburg
Preußen Münster	Alois Schwartz	Jorrit Hendrix	Jako	FIEGE	Stadtwerke Münster
1. FC Nürnberg	Miroslav Klose	Robin Knoche	Adidas	Toolcraft AG	Helmsauer
SC Paderborn	Ralf Kettemann	Felix Götze	Saller	Four 20 Pharma	Mediacom GmbH
Schalke 04	Miron Muslić	Kenan Karaman	Adidas	SUN Minimeal	Hegmanns Gruppe

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Exit date		Position in table	Incoming	Incoming date		Ref.
Team	Outgoing	Manner	Announced on	Departed on	Position in table	Incoming	Announced on	Arrived on	Ref.
SC Paderborn	Lukas Kwasniok	Mutual consent	15 April 2025	30 June 2025	Pre-season	Ralf Kettemann	20 May 2025	1 July 2025	^[7]^[8]
Hannover 96	Lars Barlemann / Dirk Lottner / Christian Schulz (caretakers)	End of caretaker spell	23 April 2025			Christian Titz	15 June 2025		^[9]^[10]
Preußen Münster	Kieran Schulze-Marmeling (caretaker)		28 April 2025			Alexander Ende	21 May 2025		^[11]^[12]
Schalke 04	Jakob Fimpel (caretaker)		3 May 2025			Miron Muslić	31 May 2025		^[13]^[14]
Eintracht Braunschweig	Marc Pfitzner (caretaker)		19 May 2025			Heiner Backhaus	17 June 2025		^[15]^[16]
Greuther Fürth	Thomas Kleine / Milorad Peković (caretakers)		26 May 2025			Thomas Kleine	26 May 2025		^[17]
SV Elversberg	Horst Steffen	Signed by Werder Bremen	29 May 2025			Vincent Wagner	6 June 2025		^[18]^[19]
1. FC Magdeburg	Christian Titz	Signed by Hannover 96	15 June 2025			Markus Fiedler	15 June 2025		^[20]^[21]
VfL Bochum	Dieter Hecking	Sacked	15 September 2025		16th	David Siebers (caretaker)	15 September 2025		^[22]
VfL Bochum	David Siebers (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	6 October 2025		17th	Uwe Rösler	6 October 2025		^[23]
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Daniel Thioune	Sacked	6 October 2025		13th	Markus Anfang	6 October 2025		^[24]
1. FC Magdeburg	Markus Fiedler		12 October 2025		18th	Petrik Sander / Pascal Ibold	12 October 2025		^[25]^[26]
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Thomas Kleine		1 December 2025		17th	Heiko Vogel	1 December 2025		^[27]
Holstein Kiel	Marcel Rapp		24 February 2026		14th	Tim Walter	24 February 2026		^[28]
Eintracht Braunschweig	Heiner Backhaus		10 March 2026		15th	Lars Kornetka	10 March 2026		^[29]^[30]
Preußen Münster	Alexander Ende		16 March 2026		16th	Kieran Schulze-Marmeling (caretaker)	16 March 2026		^[31]
Preußen Münster	Kieran Schulze-Marmeling (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	24 March 2026		18th	Alois Schwartz	24 March 2026		^[32]
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Markus Anfang	Sacked	12 April 2026		14th	Alexander Ende	12 April 2026		^[33]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Schalke 04 (C, P)	34	21	7	6	50	31	+19	70	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	SV Elversberg (P)	34	18	8	8	64	39	+25	62	Promotion to Bundesliga
3	SC Paderborn (O, P)	34	18	8	8	59	45	+14	62	Qualification for promotion play-offs
4	Hannover 96	34	16	12	6	60	44	+16	60
5	Darmstadt 98	34	13	13	8	57	45	+12	52
6	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	16	4	14	52	47	+5	52
7	Hertha BSC	34	14	9	11	47	44	+3	51
8	1. FC Nürnberg	34	12	10	12	47	45	+2	46
9	VfL Bochum	34	11	11	12	49	47	+2	44
10	Karlsruher SC	34	12	8	14	53	64	−11	44
11	Dynamo Dresden	34	11	8	15	54	53	+1	41
12	Holstein Kiel	34	11	8	15	44	48	−4	41
13	Arminia Bielefeld	34	10	9	15	53	51	+2	39
14	1. FC Magdeburg	34	12	3	19	52	58	−6	39
15	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	10	7	17	36	54	−18	37
16	Greuther Fürth (O)	34	10	7	17	49	68	−19	37	Qualification for relegation play-offs
17	Fortuna Düsseldorf (R)	34	11	4	19	33	53	−20	37	Relegation to 3. Liga
18	Preußen Münster (R)	34	6	12	16	38	61	−23	30	Relegation to 3. Liga

Home \ Away	BSC	BIE	BRA	BOC	DAR	DRE	DÜS	ELV	FÜR	HAN	KAI	KAR	KIE	MAG	MÜN	NÜR	PAD	SCH
Hertha BSC	—	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–3	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	0–0
Arminia Bielefeld	6–1	—	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	5–1	2–0	1–3	0–1	0–0	4–0	2–2	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–2
Eintracht Braunschweig	1–1	1–1	—	0–2	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–4	3–2	0–3	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–1
VfL Bochum	3–2	1–0	4–1	—	3–3	1–2	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–2	2–2	2–3	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0
Darmstadt 98	0–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	—	2–0	2–1	3–3	4–2	0–2	4–0	3–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–1
Dynamo Dresden	0–1	1–1	2–3	2–0	3–1	—	2–1	1–2	2–0	2–2	1–0	3–3	2–1	1–2	6–0	1–2	1–2	0–1
Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–5	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–3	3–1	—	3–1	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	2–3	2–1	0–2
SV Elversberg	0–3	3–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	—	6–0	2–2	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	5–1	1–2
Greuther Fürth	3–3	2–1	0–0	0–3	3–2	3–2	3–0	2–0	—	2–2	0–3	1–4	0–2	4–5	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–1
Hannover 96	0–3	3–1	1–0	0–0	2–3	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	—	1–0	3–0	3–1	3–1	3–3	3–3	1–1	0–3
1. FC Kaiserslautern	0–1	2–0	0–2	3–2	3–1	3–1	3–0	1–3	1–0	3–1	—	3–0	4–1	2–3	4–1	1–1	1–2	1–0
Karlsruher SC	2–2	4–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	3–3	1–1	2–3	3–1	1–3	2–3	—	3–1	1–0	3–2	2–1	0–4	2–1
Holstein Kiel	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	3–0	3–0	—	1–3	0–0	2–3	2–0	1–2
1. FC Magdeburg	1–0	0–2	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–4	4–5	1–2	0–1	1–3	3–3	—	2–0	3–0	0–1	0–2
Preußen Münster	1–2	2–3	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–3	0–2	2–1	1–3	—	2–1	1–1	0–0
1. FC Nürnberg	0–3	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	3–2	2–2	2–1	3–0	5–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	—	0–0	3–0
SC Paderborn	5–2	4–3	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–2	2–0	2–2	2–1	4–3	2–1	2–1	—	2–3
Schalke 04	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–0	0–1	5–3	4–1	1–0	2–1	—

2025–26 2. Bundesliga

Teams

Team changes

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Relegation play-offs

Overview

Matches

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

References

External links

Related Articles

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[35]
1	Noel Futkeu	Greuther Fürth	19
2	Isac Lidberg	Darmstadt 98	17
2	Mateusz Żukowski	1. FC Magdeburg	17
4	Filip Bilbija	SC Paderborn	15
	Cedric Itten	Fortuna Düsseldorf
	Marvin Wanitzek	Karlsruher SC
7	Benjamin Källman	Hannover 96	14
	Kenan Karaman	Schalke 04

Mohamed Ali Zoma	1. FC Nürnberg
10	Lukas Petkov	SV Elversberg	13

Date	Player	Club	Against	Result
2 August 2025	Isac Lidberg	Darmstadt 98	VfL Bochum	4–1 (H)
19 September 2025	Ivan Prtajin	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Preußen Münster	4–1 (H)
19 October 2025	Younes Ebnoutalib	SV Elversberg	Greuther Fürth	6–0 (H)
23 November 2025	Naatan Skyttä	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Holstein Kiel	4–1 (H)
6 February 2026	Mateusz Żukowski	1. FC Magdeburg	Greuther Fürth	5–4 (A)
13 February 2026	Mohamed Ali Zoma	1. FC Nürnberg	Karlsruher SC	5–1 (H)
12 April 2026⁴	Filip Bilbija	SC Paderborn	1. FC Magdeburg	4–3 (H)
19 April 2026	Noel Futkeu	Greuther Fürth	Darmstadt 98	3–2 (H)

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets^[36]
1	Loris Karius	Schalke 04	13
2	Tjark Ernst	Hertha BSC	11
3	Nicolas Kristof	SV Elversberg	10
	Nahuel Noll	Hannover 96
	Marcel Schuhen	SV Darmstadt
6	Julian Krahl	1. FC Kaiserslautern	9
6	Dennis Seimen	SC Paderborn	9
8	Timo Horn	VfL Bochum	8
9	Dominik Reimann	1. FC Magdeburg	7
10	Ron-Thorben Hoffmann	Eintracht Braunschweig	6
10	Jonas Kersken	Arminia Bielefeld	6