2010–11 2. Bundesliga

The 2010–11 2. Bundesliga was the 37th season of the 2. Bundesliga, Germany's second tier of its football league system. The season started on the weekend of 21 August 2010 and ended with the last games on 15 May 2011. The winter break was in effect between weekends around 18 December 2010 and 15 January 2011.^[2]

2. Bundesliga

Season	2010–11
Champions	Hertha BSC
Promoted	Hertha BSC FC Augsburg
Relegated	VfL Osnabrück (via play-off) Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Arminia Bielefeld
Matches played	306
Goals scored	835 (2.73 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nils Petersen (25 goals)
Biggest home win	E. Cottbus 6–0 E. Aue F. D'dorf 6–0 FSV F'furt
Biggest away win	A. Aachen 0–5 Hertha Paderborn 0–5 E. Cottbus
Highest scoring	E. Cottbus 5–5 Karlsruhe
Average attendance	14,539[1]
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

Team information

As in the previous year, the league comprise the teams placed fourth through fifteenth of the 2009–10 season, the worst two teams from the 2009–10 Bundesliga, the best two teams from the 2009–10 3. Liga, the losers of the Bundesliga relegation play-off between the 16th-placed Bundesliga team and the third-placed 2. Bundesliga team and the winners of the 2. Bundesliga relegation play-off between the 16th-placed 2. Bundesliga team and the third-placed 3. Liga team.

2009–10 2. Bundesliga champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern, and runners-up FC St. Pauli were promoted to the Bundesliga. They were replaced by VfL Bochum and Hertha BSC who finished 17th and 18th respectively in the 2009–10 Bundesliga season.

TuS Koblenz and Rot-Weiß Ahlen were relegated after the 2009–10 season. They were replaced by 2009–10 3. Liga champions VfL Osnabrück and runners-up FC Erzgebirge Aue.

Two further spots were available through relegation/promotion play-offs and taken by FC Augsburg and FC Ingolstadt 04. Augsburg lost in their promotion play-off against 16th placed Bundesliga team 1. FC Nürnberg and thus retained their 2. Bundesliga spot, while Ingolstadt earned promotion from the 3. Liga by defeating FC Hansa Rostock.

Stadiums and locations

FC Ingolstadt 04 moved into the newly built Audi Sportpark for this season after spending their previous seasons at Tuja-Stadion. Fortuna Düsseldorf increased the capacity of their Esprit Arena from 51,500 to 54,400 by converting some seating areas into standing terraces. Also, the stadia of SpVgg Greuther Fürth and MSV Duisburg were renamed due to new naming rights contracts.

1860

Aachen

Aue

Augsburg

Bielefeld

Cottbus

Düsseldorf

Frankfurt

Gr. Fürth

Hertha BSC

Ingolstadt

Karlsruhe

RWO

Osnabrück

Paderborn

Union Berlin

Bochum

MSV

Location of teams in the 2010–11 2. Bundesliga

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity[3]
TSV 1860 Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	69,000
Alemannia Aachen	Aachen	Tivoli	32,960
Arminia Bielefeld	Bielefeld	Schüco-Arena	27,300
FC Augsburg	Augsburg	Impuls Arena	30,660
VfL Bochum	Bochum	rewirPower-Stadion	30,748
MSV Duisburg	Duisburg	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena	31,500
FC Energie Cottbus	Cottbus	Stadion der Freundschaft	22,528
FC Erzgebirge Aue	Aue	Erzgebirgsstadion	16,000 Note 1
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Esprit Arena Lena-Arena	54,400 20,055 Note 2
FSV Frankfurt	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion	10,826
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Fürth	Trolli Arena	15,200
Hertha BSC	Berlin	Olympiastadion	74,244
FC Ingolstadt 04	Ingolstadt	Audi Sportpark	15,445
Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	Wildparkstadion	29,699
VfL Osnabrück	Osnabrück	Osnatel-Arena	16,130
SC Paderborn 07	Paderborn	Energieteam Arena	15,000
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	Oberhausen	Niederrheinstadion	21,318
1. FC Union Berlin	Berlin	Alte Försterei	19,000

Notes:

1. Erzgebirgsstadion is undergoing reconstruction. The capacity is thus estimated, with the exact number not to be known until work has been completed.
2. Fortuna Düsseldorf's home ground Esprit Arena was unavailable for the last three games of the season as it staged the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. A temporary stadium, the Lena-Arena, was constructed adjacent to the Esprit Arena to host the final home games of the season.^[4]

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Team captain	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Alemannia Aachen	Peter Hyballa	Benjamin Auer	Nike	AachenMünchener
FC Augsburg	Jos Luhukay	Uwe Möhrle	Jako	AL-KO
1. FC Union Berlin	Uwe Neuhaus	Torsten Mattuschka	Do You Football	kfzteile24
Arminia Bielefeld	Ewald Lienen	Rüdiger Kauf	Saller	Schüco
VfL Bochum	Friedhelm Funkel	Christoph Dabrowski	Do You Football	Netto
FC Energie Cottbus	Claus-Dieter Wollitz	Marc Andre Kruska	Umbro	Penny Market
MSV Duisburg	Milan Šašić	Srđan Baljak	uhlsport	Rheinpower
FC Erzgebirge Aue	Rico Schmitt	Tomasz Kos	Puma	Spar mit! Reisen
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Norbert Meier	Andreas Lambertz	Puma	Sparkasse Düsseldorf
FSV Frankfurt	Hans-Jürgen Boysen	Björn Schlicke	Saller	Hyundai
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Michael Büskens	Thomas Kleine	Jako	Ergo Direkt Versicherungen
Hertha BSC	Markus Babbel	Andre Mijatović	Nike	Deutsche Bahn
FC Ingolstadt 04	Benno Möhlmann	Moritz Hartmann	Adidas	Audi
Karlsruher SC	Rainer Scharinger	Alexander Iashvili	Nike	Klaiber Markisen
TSV 1860 Munich	Reiner Maurer	Daniel Bierofka	Erima	Comarch
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	Theo Schneider	Benjamin Reichert	uhlsport	Vatro
VfL Osnabrück	Heiko Flottmann	Angelo Barletta	Puma	Sparkasse Osnabrück
SC Paderborn 07	Andre Schubert	Markus Krösche	Puma	Möbelhaus Finke

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager(s)	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Hertha BSC	Friedhelm Funkel	End of contract	30 June 2010[5]	Off-season	Markus Babbel	1 July 2010[6]
VfL Bochum	Dariusz Wosz	End of tenure as caretaker	30 June 2010[7]		Friedhelm Funkel	1 July 2010[8]
Arminia Bielefeld	Detlev Dammeier Frank Eulberg Jörg Böhme	End of tenure as caretakers	30 June 2010[9]		Christian Ziege	1 July 2010[10]
TSV 1860 Munich	Ewald Lienen	Mutual Consent	30 June 2010[11]		Reiner Maurer	1 July 2010[12]
Karlsruher SC	Markus Schupp	Sacked	31 October 2010[13]	15th	Uwe Rapolder	22 November 2010[14]
FC Ingolstadt 04	Michael Wiesinger	Sacked	6 November 2010[15]	17th	Benno Möhlmann	7 November 2010[16]
Arminia Bielefeld	Christian Ziege	Sacked	6 November 2010[17]	18th	Ewald Lienen	7 November 2010[18]
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	Hans-Günter Bruns	Sacked	22 February 2011[19]	16th	Theo Schneider	24 February 2011[20]
Karlsruher SC	Uwe Rapolder	Sacked	1 March 2011[21]	16th	Rainer Scharinger	2 March 2011[22]
VfL Osnabrück	Karsten Baumann	Sacked	21 March 2011[23]	16th	Joe Enochs	21 March 2011[24]
VfL Osnabrück	Joe Enochs	End of tenure as caretaker	11 April 2011	16th	Heiko Flottmann	11 April 2011[25]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Hertha BSC (C, P)	34	23	5	6	69	28	+41	74	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	FC Augsburg (P)	34	19	8	7	58	27	+31	65
3	VfL Bochum	34	20	5	9	49	35	+14	65	Qualification to promotion play-offs
4	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	34	17	10	7	47	27	+20	61
5	Erzgebirge Aue	34	16	8	10	40	37	+3	56
6	Energie Cottbus	34	16	7	11	65	52	+13	55
7	Fortuna Düsseldorf	34	16	5	13	49	39	+10	53
8	MSV Duisburg	34	15	7	12	53	38	+15	52
9	1860 Munich[a]	34	14	10	10	50	36	+14	50
10	Alemannia Aachen	34	13	9	12	58	60	−2	48
11	Union Berlin	34	11	9	14	39	45	−6	42
12	SC Paderborn	34	10	9	15	32	47	−15	39
13	FSV Frankfurt	34	11	5	18	42	54	−12	38
14	FC Ingolstadt	34	9	10	15	40	46	−6	37
15	Karlsruher SC	34	8	9	17	46	72	−26	33
16	VfL Osnabrück (R)	34	8	7	19	40	62	−22	31	Qualification to relegation play-offs
17	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (R)	34	7	7	20	30	65	−35	28	Relegation to 3. Liga
18	Arminia Bielefeld[b] (R)	34	4	8	22	28	65	−37	17

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

1. 1860 Munich were docked two points because of providing insufficient information during the licensing process previous to this season.^[26]
2. Arminia Bielefeld were docked three points because of accessing league security funds worth €1.25M.^[27]

Results

Home \ Away	AAC	AUE	FCA	BSC	UNB	DSC	BOC	FCE	DUI	F95	FSV	SGF	FCI	KSC	M60	RWO	OSN	SCP
Alemannia Aachen	—	1–5	1–3	0–5	2–2	1–1	1–3	2–3	2–2	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	4–2	2–1	4–0	2–1	2–0
Erzgebirge Aue	2–1	—	3–2	0–2	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0
FC Augsburg	1–2	2–1	—	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–1	4–0	0–0	5–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	1–2	2–0	2–2	1–0
Hertha BSC	0–0	2–0	2–1	—	1–2	3–1	2–0	2–2	0–2	4–2	3–1	2–0	3–1	4–0	1–2	3–2	4–0	2–0
Union Berlin	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	—	2–2	0–1	4–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	3–3	0–2
Arminia Bielefeld	1–3	0–1	0–2	1–3	1–2	—	2–2	1–2	1–3	0–2	1–1	1–4	1–0	2–1	0–3	3–3	2–1	1–1
VfL Bochum	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–2	3–0	3–1	—	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–4	1–1	3–2	2–1	2–1	3–0
Energie Cottbus	3–3	6–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	—	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	5–5	0–0	3–1	2–0	3–1
MSV Duisburg	3–2	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	—	1–0	1–3	2–0	4–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	4–1	3–1
Fortuna Düsseldorf	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	2–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	—	6–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–2	3–0	2–1	0–0
FSV Frankfurt	1–3	0–2	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	3–2	0–4	1–0	—	0–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	4–0	4–1	2–0
Greuther Fürth	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	—	1–0	4–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–0
FC Ingolstadt	2–1	0–0	1–4	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	0–1	0–2	—	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–2
Karlsruher SC	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–6	3–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	2–2	0–2	1–1	1–4	—	2–4	4–0	2–2	2–1
1860 Munich	2–1	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–3	4–0	1–1	1–1	3–3	3–0	1–1	5–1	—	1–1	3–1	0–1
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	1–2	1–2	0–3	1–3	0–2	3–0	3–1	0–4	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–4	1–1	2–1	0–0	—	1–0	2–0
VfL Osnabrück	1–3	3–2	0–2	2–0	4–1	0–0	1–3	2–0	1–3	2–3	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	—	2–2
SC Paderborn	1–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	0–5	0–0	3–0	2–2	0–4	1–1	3–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	—

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

Relegation play-offs

Further information on the playoff for promotion to the Bundesliga: 2010–11 Fußball-Bundesliga § Relegation play-off

VfL Osnabrück, having finished the season in 16th place, faced 3rd-placed 3. Liga side Dynamo Dresden for a two-legged play-off. Dresden, who played at home first, won 4–2 on aggregate.

20 May 2011

20:30 CEST

Dynamo Dresden	1–1	VfL Osnabrück
Koch 76'	Report (in German)	66' (o.g.) Jungnickel

Glücksgas-Stadion, Dresden

Attendance: 28,760

Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Berlin)

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24 May 2011

20:30 CEST

VfL Osnabrück	1–3 (a. e. t.)	Dynamo Dresden
Mauersberger 45'	Report (in German)	61' Fiel 94' Schahin 119' Koch

Osnatel-Arena, Osnabrück

Attendance: 16,600

Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer (Herne)

Dynamo Dresden won 4–2 on aggregate; Dynamo promoted, Osnabrück relegated

Statistics

Top goalscorers Source: kicker (German) 25 goals Nils Petersen (Energie Cottbus) 20 goals Benjamin Auer (Alemannia Aachen) 16 goals Benjamin Lauth (1860 Munich) 15 goals Sascha Mölders (FSV Frankfurt) Adrián Ramos (Hertha BSC) 14 goals Nando Rafael (FC Augsburg) 13 goals Pierre-Michel Lasogga (Hertha BSC) Stefan Leitl (FC Ingolstadt 04) 10 goals Stephan Hain (FC Augsburg) Jong Tae-Se (VfL Bochum) Emil Jula (Energie Cottbus) Raffael (Hertha BSC) Zoltán Stieber (Alemannia Aachen)

Top assistants Source: kicker (German) 17 assists Zoltán Stieber (Alemannia Aachen) 12 assists Nikita Rukavytsya (Hertha BSC) 10 assists Adrián Ramos (Hertha BSC) 9 assists Daniel Halfar (1860 Munich) Emil Jula (Energie Cottbus) Stefan Leitl (FC Ingolstadt 04) Michael Thurk (FC Augsburg) 8 assists Skerdilaid Curri (Erzgebirge Aue) Jürgen Gjasula (FSV Frankfurt) Alexander Iashvili (Karlsruher SC) Sascha Rösler (Fortuna Düsseldorf) Timo Staffeldt (Karlsruher SC)