1998–99 2. Bundesliga

The 1998–99 2. Bundesliga season was the twenty-fifth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system.

2. Bundesliga

Season	1998–99
Champions	Arminia Bielefeld
Promoted	Arminia Bielefeld SpVgg Unterhaching SSV Ulm 1846
Relegated	FC Gütersloh KFC Uerdingen 05 SG Wattenscheid 09 Fortuna Düsseldorf
Matches played	306
Top goalscorer	Bruno Labbadia (28 goals)
Average attendance	8,613
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

Arminia Bielefeld, SpVgg Unterhaching and SSV Ulm 1846 were promoted to the Bundesliga while FC Gütersloh, KFC Uerdingen 05, SG Wattenscheid 09 and Fortuna Düsseldorf were relegated to the Regionalliga.

League table

For the 1998–99 season SSV Ulm 1846, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Hannover 96 and Tennis Borussia Berlin were newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Regionalliga while Karlsruher SC, 1. FC Köln and Arminia Bielefeld had been relegated to the league from the Bundesliga.

Bielefeld

Fortuna Köln

1. FC Köln

Cottbus

Düsseldorf

Fürth

Gütersloh

Hannover

Karlsruhe

Mainz

Oberhausen

St. Pauli

Stuttgart

Berlin

Uer-
dingen

Ulm

Unterhaching

Wattenscheid

Locations of the participating teams of the 1998–99 season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Arminia Bielefeld (C, P)	34	20	7	7	62	32	+30	67	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	SpVgg Unterhaching (P)	34	19	6	9	47	30	+17	63
3	SSV Ulm 1846 (P)	34	15	13	6	63	51	+12	58
4	Hannover 96	34	16	9	9	52	36	+16	57
5	Karlsruher SC	34	17	5	12	54	43	+11	56
6	Tennis Borussia Berlin	34	15	9	10	47	39	+8	54
7	Mainz 05	34	14	8	12	48	44	+4	50
8	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	34	13	10	11	40	31	+9	49
9	FC St. Pauli	34	12	9	13	49	46	+3	45
10	1. FC Köln	34	12	9	13	46	53	−7	45
11	Energie Cottbus	34	13	10	11	48	42	+6	49
12	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	34	9	14	11	40	47	−7	41
13	Stuttgarter Kickers	34	11	8	15	38	53	−15	41
14	Fortuna Köln	34	9	13	12	49	55	−6	40
15	FC Gütersloh (R)	34	10	7	17	39	58	−19	37	Relegation to Regionalliga[a]
16	KFC Uerdingen (R)	34	7	10	17	34	57	−23	31
17	SG Wattenscheid 09 (R)	34	7	9	18	31	46	−15	30
18	Fortuna Düsseldorf (R)	34	5	13	16	35	59	−24	28

Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. All four teams were relegated to the Regionalliga West/Südwest.

Results

Home \ Away	TBB	DSC	FCE	F95	SGF	FCG	H96	KSC	KOE	FKO	M05	RWO	STP	SKI	KFC	ULM	UNT	SGW
Tennis Borussia Berlin	—	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	3–1	3–2	1–1	3–2	3–0	2–2	0–2	0–2	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–0
Arminia Bielefeld	3–1	—	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	5–0	2–0	1–0
Energie Cottbus	2–2	0–2	—	0–1	1–1	5–1	1–0	4–0	2–3	2–0	2–2	0–2	0–3	2–0	5–0	3–0	4–2	2–0
Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–2	2–2	0–3	—	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–3	2–2	2–2	0–0	2–2	1–3	1–3	1–1
Greuther Fürth	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	—	3–2	0–1	1–2	0–1	4–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–1
FC Gütersloh	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	—	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	6–1	0–3	1–4	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–1
Hannover 96	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	4–1	—	1–0	6–1	3–3	3–2	1–1	3–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1
Karlsruher SC	0–0	1–1	3–2	3–1	1–0	2–3	1–0	—	3–1	4–2	0–1	3–1	3–0	6–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	2–1
1. FC Köln	1–0	3–5	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	4–1	—	0–3	2–1	2–1	1–4	0–1	4–0	1–1	0–1	2–1
Fortuna Köln	1–3	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–4	3–2	3–0	0–1	4–2	—	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–2
Mainz 05	0–3	3–1	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–1	—	0–0	3–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	0–2	1–5	3–1	1–3	0–2	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–4	0–0	2–1	—	3–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–2	1–0
FC St. Pauli	1–0	1–2	1–1	5–0	0–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	—	6–2	2–3	0–1	1–1	1–0
Stuttgarter Kickers	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–2	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	2–2	1–3	2–0	1–3	—	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–2
KFC Uerdingen	2–3	0–4	0–0	4–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–3	2–2	1–2	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–1	—	2–1	3–0	0–0
SSV Ulm	2–0	6–2	2–2	4–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–5	2–2	3–3	4–2	1–0	4–1	3–2	2–2	—	3–1	2–0
SpVgg Unterhaching	3–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	—	1–0
SG Wattenscheid	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–4	4–2	2–0	2–1	0–3	4–2	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:^[1]

Goals	Player	Team
28	Bruno Labbadia	Arminia Bielefeld
19	Rainer Krieg	Karlsruher SC
16	Arie van Lent	SpVgg Greuther Fürth
14	Dragan Trkulja	SSV Ulm 1846
	Achim Weber	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
13	Thomas Brdarić	Fortuna Köln
12	David Zdrilic	SSV Ulm 1846
11	Steffen Heidrich	FC Energie Cottbus
	Gustav Policella	1. FSV Mainz 05
	Igli Tare	Fortuna Düsseldorf