2022–23 2. Bundesliga

The 2022–23 2. Bundesliga was the 49th season of the 2. Bundesliga. It began on 15 July 2022 and concluded on 28 May 2023.^[1]

2. Bundesliga

Season	2022–23
Dates	15 July 2022 – 28 May 2023
Champions	1. FC Heidenheim
Promoted	1. FC Heidenheim Darmstadt 98
Relegated	Arminia Bielefeld (via play-off) Jahn Regensburg SV Sandhausen
Matches played	306
Goals scored	901 (2.94 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tim Kleindienst (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Paderborn 5–0 Karlsruhe Paderborn 7–2 Kiel Heidenheim 5–0 Nürnberg Hamburg 6–1 Hannover
Biggest away win	Regensburg 0–6 Karlsruhe
Highest scoring	Paderborn 7–2 Kiel Heidenheim 5–4 Regensburg
Longest winning run	10 games St. Pauli
Longest unbeaten run	21 games Darmstadt
Longest winless run	9 games SV Sandhausen
Longest losing run	4 games Bielefeld Braunschweig Sandhausen
Highest attendance	57,000 Hamburg v Kaiserslautern
Lowest attendance	4,137 Sandhausen v Hannover
Attendance	6,779,038 (22,154 per match)
← 2021–22 2023–24 →

The fixtures were announced on 17 June 2022.^[2]

1. FC Heidenheim and Darmstadt 98 were promoted to the Bundesliga,^[3][4] while Arminia Bielefeld, Jahn Regensburg and SV Sandhausen got relegated to the 3. Liga.^[5][6]

Teams

Bielefeld

Braun-
schweig

Darmstadt

Düsseldorf

Fürth

Hamburg

Hannover

Heidenheim

Kaiserslautern

Karlsruhe

Kiel

Magdeburg

Nürnberg

Paderborn

Regensburg

Rostock

Sandhausen

St. Pauli

Locations of the 2022–23 2. Bundesliga teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2021–22 3. Liga	Relegated from 2021–22 Bundesliga	Promoted to 2022–23 Bundesliga	Relegated to 2022–23 3. Liga
1. FC Magdeburg Eintracht Braunschweig 1. FC Kaiserslautern	Arminia Bielefeld Greuther Fürth	Schalke 04 Werder Bremen	Dynamo Dresden Erzgebirge Aue FC Ingolstadt

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Arminia Bielefeld	Bielefeld	Schüco-Arena	27,300
Eintracht Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	23,325
Darmstadt 98	Darmstadt	Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor	17,000
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Merkur Spiel-Arena	54,600
Greuther Fürth	Fürth	Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer	16,626
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Volksparkstadion	57,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	Heinz von Heiden Arena	49,000
1. FC Heidenheim	Heidenheim	Voith-Arena	15,000
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	49,780
Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	BBBank Wildpark	29,699
Holstein Kiel	Kiel	Holstein-Stadion	15,034
1. FC Magdeburg	Magdeburg	MDCC-Arena	30,098
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Max-Morlock-Stadion	49,923
SC Paderborn	Paderborn	Home Deluxe Arena	15,000
Jahn Regensburg	Regensburg	Jahnstadion Regensburg	15,210
Hansa Rostock	Rostock	Ostseestadion	29,000
SV Sandhausen	Sandhausen	BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald	15,414
FC St. Pauli	Hamburg	Millerntor-Stadion	29,546

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
				Front	Sleeve
Arminia Bielefeld	Uwe Koschinat	Fabian Klos	Macron	Schüco	JAB Anstoetz Textilien
Eintracht Braunschweig	Michael Schiele	Jasmin Fejzić	Puma	Kosatec Computer	Juskys
Darmstadt 98	Torsten Lieberknecht	Fabian Holland	Craft	Software AG	28 Black
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Daniel Thioune	André Hoffmann	Adidas	Henkel	C&K Logistik
Greuther Fürth	Alexander Zorniger	Branimir Hrgota	Puma	Hofmann Personal	Signia
Hamburger SV	Tim Walter	Sebastian Schonlau	Adidas	HanseMerkur	Popp Feinkost
Hannover 96	Stefan Leitl	Ron-Robert Zieler	Macron	BRAINHOUSE247	TRAVNIK Group
1. FC Heidenheim	Frank Schmidt	Patrick Mainka	Puma	MHP	Voith
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Dirk Schuster	Jean Zimmer	Nike	Allgäuer Latschenkiefer	Lotto Rheinland-Pfalz
Karlsruher SC	Christian Eichner	Jérôme Gondorf	Macron	GEM Ingenieurgesellschaft (H)/CG Elementum (A)	E.G.O.-Gruppe
Holstein Kiel	Marcel Rapp	Hauke Wahl	Puma	Famila	Lotto Schleswig-Holstein
1. FC Magdeburg	Christian Titz	Amara Condé	Uhlsport	Humanas	SWM Magdeburg
1. FC Nürnberg	Dieter Hecking	Christopher Schindler	Adidas	Nürnberger Versicherung	Exasol
SC Paderborn	Lukas Kwasniok	Ron Schallenberg	Saller	Bremer AG	sky Personal
Jahn Regensburg	Joe Enochs	Benedikt Gimber	Saller	Netto	Wolf GmbH
Hansa Rostock	Alois Schwartz	Markus Kolke	Nike	28 Black	SoftClean
SV Sandhausen	Gerhard Kleppinger	Dennis Diekmeier	Macron	Weingut Reichsrat von Buhl	Goelz Paletten
FC St. Pauli	Fabian Hürzeler	Leart Paqarada Jackson Irvine	DIIY[7]	Congstar	Astra Brauerei

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Exit date		Position in table	Incoming	Incoming date		Ref.
			Announced on	Departed on			Announced on	Arrived on
Arminia Bielefeld	Marco Kostmann (interim)	End of caretaker	20 April 2022	30 June 2022	Pre-season	Ulrich Forte	4 June 2022	1 July 2022	[8][9]
Greuther Fürth	Stefan Leitl	Resigned	27 April 2022			Marc Schneider	17 May 2022		[10][11]
Hannover 96	Christoph Dabrowski	End of contract	5 May 2022			Stefan Leitl	8 May 2022		[12][13]
Arminia Bielefeld	Ulrich Forte	Sacked	17 August 2022		17th	Daniel Scherning	18 August 2022	19 August 2022	[14][15]
1. FC Nürnberg	Robert Klauß		3 October 2022		14th	Markus Weinzierl	4 October 2022		[16][17]
Greuther Fürth	Marc Schneider		15 October 2022		16th	Rainer Widmayer Stefan Kleineheismann (interim)	15 October 2022		[18]
	Rainer Widmayer Stefan Kleineheismann (interim)	End of caretaker	23 October 2022		18th	Alexander Zorniger	23 October 2022		[19]
Hansa Rostock	Jens Härtel	Sacked	6 November 2022		12th	Patrick Glöckner	7 November 2022		[20][21]
FC St. Pauli	Timo Schultz		6 December 2022		15th	Fabian Hürzeler	23 December 2022		[22][23]
SV Sandhausen	Alois Schwartz		19 February 2023		18th	Tomas Oral	20 February 2023		[24][25]
1. FC Nürnberg	Markus Weinzierl		20 February 2023		13th	Dieter Hecking (interim)			[26][27]
Arminia Bielefeld	Daniel Scherning		7 March 2023		16th	Uwe Koschinat	9 March 2023		[28][29]
Hansa Rostock	Patrick Glöckner		20 March 2023		17th	Alois Schwartz	22 March 2023		[30][31]
SV Sandhausen	Tomas Oral		10 April 2023		18th	Gerhard Kleppinger (interim)	10 April 2023		[32]
Jahn Regensburg	Mersad Selimbegović		9 May 2023			Joe Enochs	10 May 2023		[33][34]

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	1. FC Heidenheim (C, P)	34	19	10	5	67	36	+31	67	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	Darmstadt 98 (P)	34	20	7	7	50	33	+17	67
3	Hamburger SV	34	20	6	8	70	45	+25	66	Qualification for promotion play-offs
4	Fortuna Düsseldorf	34	17	7	10	60	43	+17	58
5	FC St. Pauli	34	16	10	8	55	39	+16	58
6	SC Paderborn	34	16	7	11	68	44	+24	55
7	Karlsruher SC	34	13	7	14	56	53	+3	46
8	Holstein Kiel	34	12	10	12	58	61	−3	46
9	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	11	12	11	47	48	−1	45
10	Hannover 96	34	12	8	14	50	55	−5	44
11	1. FC Magdeburg	34	12	7	15	48	55	−7	43
12	Greuther Fürth	34	10	11	13	47	50	−3	41
13	Hansa Rostock	34	12	5	17	32	48	−16	41
14	1. FC Nürnberg	34	10	9	15	32	49	−17	39
15	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	9	9	16	42	59	−17	36
16	Arminia Bielefeld (R)	34	9	7	18	50	62	−12	34	Qualification for relegation play-offs
17	Jahn Regensburg (R)	34	8	7	19	34	58	−24	31	Relegation to 3. Liga
18	SV Sandhausen (R)	34	7	7	20	35	63	−28	28

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.^[35]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BIE	BRA	DAR	DÜS	FÜR	HAM	HAN	HEI	KAI	KAR	KIE	MAG	NÜR	PAD	REG	ROS	SAN	STP
Arminia Bielefeld	—	4–1	3–1	2–2	1–1	0–2	1–3	0–1	2–3	1–2	4–2	3–1	2–2	2–2	0–3	0–1	1–2	2–0
Eintracht Braunschweig	3–3	—	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–3	1–2	4–2	0–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–1
Darmstadt 98	1–1	2–1	—	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	4–0	2–1	0–3
Fortuna Düsseldorf	4–1	3–1	1–0	—	2–2	2–2	3–3	1–1	1–2	3–2	3–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	4–0	3–1	2–0	1–0
Greuther Fürth	1–0	2–2	4–0	2–1	—	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–3	1–1	2–2	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–2
Hamburger SV	2–1	4–2	1–2	2–0	2–1	—	6–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–3	3–0	2–2	3–1	0–1	4–2	4–3
Hannover 96	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–2	—	0–3	1–3	1–0	1–5	1–2	3–0	3–4	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–2
1. FC Heidenheim	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	3–3	2–1	—	2–2	5–2	3–0	0–0	5–0	3–0	5–4	2–0	1–0	0–1
1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–2	1–1	3–3	0–3	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	—	2–0	2–1	4–4	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–1	2–2	2–1
Karlsruher SC	4–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	2–1	4–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	—	1–4	2–3	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	4–4
Holstein Kiel	2–3	3–0	0–3	1–2	2–1	2–3	1–1	3–1	2–2	2–1	—	2–3	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	3–4
1. FC Magdeburg	4–0	0–2	0–1	1–2	2–1	3–2	0–4	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	—	2–2	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–2	1–2
1. FC Nürnberg	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	0–0	0–3	3–3	1–1	2–3	1–2	—	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1
SC Paderborn	0–2	5–1	1–2	4–1	3–2	2–3	4–2	3–2	1–0	5–0	7–2	1–0	0–1	—	3–0	3–0	3–0	1–2
Jahn Regensburg	1–3	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–2	1–5	1–1	2–3	0–0	0–6	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	—	0–3	2–1	2–0
Hansa Rostock	2–1	2–1	0–1	2–5	2–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	2–3	3–1	1–1	0–3	2–0	—	0–1	2–0
SV Sandhausen	2–1	2–2	0–4	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–3	3–4	0–0	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	2–1	1–2	—	0–5
FC St. Pauli	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	3–2	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	—

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

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs took place on 2 and 6 June 2023.^[1]

Overview

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Wehen Wiesbaden	6–1	Arminia Bielefeld	4–0	2–1

Matches

All times Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

2 June 2023

20:45

Wehen Wiesbaden	4–0	Arminia Bielefeld
Prtajin 6' Wurtz 50' Hollerbach 60' Iredale 82'	Report

Brita-Arena, Wiesbaden

Attendance: 11,008

Referee: Benjamin Brand

6 June 2023

20:45

Arminia Bielefeld	1–2	Wehen Wiesbaden
Klos 4'	Report	Hollerbach 35', 45+2'

Schüco-Arena, Bielefeld

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Christian Dingert

Wehen Wiesbaden won 6–1 on aggregate and was promoted to the 2. Bundesliga. Arminia Bielefeld is relegated to the 3. Liga.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[36]
1	Tim Kleindienst	1. FC Heidenheim	25
2	Robert Glatzel	Hamburger SV	19
3	Steven Skrzybski	Holstein Kiel	15
4	Dawid Kownacki	Fortuna Düsseldorf	14
	Cedric Teuchert	Hannover 96
6	Terrence Boyd	1. FC Kaiserslautern	13
	Fabian Schleusener	Karlsruher SC
8	Jan-Niklas Beste	1. FC Heidenheim	12
	Phillip Tietz	Darmstadt 98
10	Kwadwo Duah	1. FC Nürnberg	11
	Branimir Hrgota	Greuther Fürth
	Robert Leipertz	SC Paderborn
	Fabian Reese	Holstein Kiel

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Tim Kleindienst4	1. FC Heidenheim	1. FC Nürnberg	5–0 (H)	19 February 2023
Tim Kleindienst	1. FC Heidenheim	Karlsruher SC	5–2 (H)	17 March 2023

• ⁴ Player scored four goals.

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets[37]
1	Kevin Müller	1. FC Heidenheim	15
2	Marcel Schuhen	Darmstadt 98	12
	Nikola Vasilj	FC St. Pauli
4	Daniel Heuer Fernandes	Hamburger SV	10
	Jannik Huth	SC Paderborn
6	Florian Kastenmeier	Fortuna Düsseldorf	9
	Markus Kolke	Hansa Rostock
8	Marius Gersbeck	Karlsruher SC	8
	Ron-Robert Zieler	Hannover 96
10	Andreas Linde	Greuther Fürth	7

Number of teams by state

Position	State	Number	Teams
1	Baden-Württemberg	3	1. FC Heidenheim, Karlsruher SC and SV Sandhausen
	Bavaria		Greuther Fürth, 1. FC Nürnberg and Jahn Regensburg
	North Rhine-Westphalia		Arminia Bielefeld, Fortuna Düsseldorf and SC Paderborn
4	Hamburg	2	Hamburger SV and FC St. Pauli
	Lower Saxony		Eintracht Braunschweig, Hannover 96
6	Hesse	1	Darmstadt 98
	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern		Hansa Rostock
	Rhineland-Palatinate		1. FC Kaiserslautern
	Saxony-Anhalt		1. FC Magdeburg
	Schleswig-Holstein		Holstein Kiel

Attendances

#	Football club	Home games	Average attendance
1	Hamburger SV	17	53,529
2	1. FC Kaiserslautern	17	39,910
3	Hannover 96	17	30,835
4	1. FC Nürnberg	17	30,335
5	Fortuna Düsseldorf	17	29,447
6	FC St. Pauli	17	29,357
7	Hansa Rostock	17	24,794
8	1. FC Magdeburg	17	22,664
9	Arminia Bielefeld	17	21,357
10	BTSV Eintracht	17	18,955
11	Karlsruher SC	17	18,838
12	Darmstadt 98	17	15,685
13	SC Paderborn	17	12,203
14	KSV Holstein	17	12,163
15	Greuther Fürth	17	11,233
16	1. FC Heidenheim	17	11,180
17	Jahn Regensburg	17	10,712
18	SV Sandhausen	17	6,101

Source: European Football Statistics