2nd Bundesliga 2011/12

This article covers the 2011/12 season in the men's 2nd division. For the season in the 2. Bundesliga women see 2. Bundesliga 2011/12 (women) .

2nd Bundesliga 2011/12
master	SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Climbers	SpVgg Greuther Fürth Eintracht Frankfurt Fortuna Düsseldorf
Relegation ↑	Fortuna Düsseldorf (2-1 and 2-2 against Hertha BSC )
Relegation ↓	Karlsruher SC (1: 1 and 2: 2 against Jahn Regensburg )
Relegated	Karlsruher SC Alemannia Aachen Hansa Rostock
Teams	18th
Games	306 + 4 relegation games
Gates	855  (ø 2.79 per game)
spectator	5,272,605  (ø 17,231 per game)
Top scorer	Alex Meier ( Eintracht Frankfurt ) Olivier Occéan ( SpVgg Greuther Fürth ) Nick Proschwitz ( SC Paderborn 07 )
← 2nd Bundesliga 2010/11 2nd Bundesliga 2012/13 →
↑ Bundesliga 2011/12 3rd league 2011/12 ↓

The 2. Bundesliga 2011/12 was the 38th season of the second highest German division in men's football. It began on July 15, 2011 and ended on May 6, 2012. The relegation games between the sixteenth of the Bundesliga and the third of the 2nd Bundesliga were for the 10th and 15th May 2012, the games between the sixteenth of the 2nd Bundesliga and the third of the 3rd division scheduled for May 11th and 14th, 2012.

For the first time since the 1995/96 season , the Northeast German Football Association was again represented by five clubs. There were also two clubs from the area of ​​the North German Football Association , five from the area of ​​the West German Football and Athletics Association and six from the South German Football Association . As in the 2010/11 season, clubs from the area of ​​the Southwest Football Regional Association were not represented. For the first time since the 1961/62 season , there was another Frankfurt city derby between Eintracht Frankfurt and FSV Frankfurt .

Two game days before the end of the season, SpVgg Greuther Fürth secured promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time . Eintracht Frankfurt managed to get back up on the same day. In the relegation Fortuna Düsseldorf prevailed against Hertha BSC and also rose.

statistics

League leader

Bottom of the table

Closing table

An overview of the participating clubs

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	34	20th	10	04th	73:27	+46	70
02.	Eintracht Frankfurt (A)	34	20th	08th	06th	76:33	+43	68
03.	Fortuna Dusseldorf	34	16	14th	04th	64:35	+29	62
04th	FC St. Pauli (A)	34	18th	08th	08th	59:34	+25	62
05.	SC Paderborn 07	34	17th	10	07th	51:42	+ 09	61
06th	TSV 1860 Munich	34	17th	06th	11	62:46	+16	57
07th	1. FC Union Berlin	34	14th	06th	14th	55:58	- 03	48
08th.	Eintracht Braunschweig (N)	34	10	15th	09	37:35	+ 02	45
09.	Dynamo Dresden (N)	34	12	09	13	50:52	- 02nd	45
10.	MSV Duisburg	34	10	09	15th	42:47	- 05th	39
11.	VfL Bochum (R ↑)	34	10	07th	17th	41:55	−14	37
12.	FC Ingolstadt 04	34	08th	13	13	43:58	−15	37
13.	FSV Frankfurt	34	07th	14th	13	43:59	−16	35
14th	Energy Cottbus	34	08th	11	15th	30:49	−19	35
15th	FC Erzgebirge Aue	34	08th	11	15th	31:55	−24	35
16.	Karlsruher SC	34	09	06th	19th	34:60	−26	33
17th	Alemannia Aachen	34	06th	13	15th	30:47	−17	31
18th	Hansa Rostock (N)	34	05	12	17th	34:63	-29	27

Legend
	Promoted to the Bundesliga
	Participant in the relegation games to the Bundesliga and promoted to the Bundesliga
	Participants in the relegation games to the 3rd division and relegated to the 3rd division
	Relegated to the 3rd division
(A)	Relegated from the Bundesliga
(R ↑)	Loser in relegation to the Bundesliga
(N)	Promoted from the 3rd division

Crosstab

The crosstab shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column, the visiting team in the top row.

2011/12
SpVgg Greuther Fürth		2: 3	1: 1	2: 1	5: 1	2-0	5-0	1: 3	1-0	2: 1	6: 2	3-0	4-0	3-0	2-0	3-0	1-0	3-0
Eintracht Frankfurt	0-0		1: 1	1: 1	0-0	0: 2	3: 1	2: 1	3-0	3-0	3-0	1: 1	6: 1	1-0	4-0	2-0	4: 3	4: 1
Fortuna Dusseldorf	2: 1	1: 1		0-0	2: 3	3: 1	2: 1	1: 1	2: 1	2: 2	2-0	4: 1	1-0	4: 2	3: 1	4: 2	0-0	2-0
FC St. Pauli	2: 2	2-0	1: 3		5-0	4: 2	2: 1	0-0	3: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2-0	2: 1	0-0	2: 3	1-0	3: 1	3-0
SC Paderborn 07	0: 1	4: 2	1: 1	1: 1		2: 2	3: 2	1-0	2: 2	1: 2	0-0	4: 1	1-0	3: 1	1-0	2: 1	0-0	2-0
TSV 1860 Munich	1: 4	2: 1	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1		3: 1	3-0	2: 4	2: 1	1: 3	4: 1	4-0	2-0	4-0	2: 1	1: 2	0: 1
1. FC Union Berlin	0: 4	0: 4	0-0	0: 2	3-0	0: 1		1-0	4-0	1: 1	2: 1	4: 1	4-0	1-0	1-0	2-0	2-0	5: 4
Eintracht Braunschweig	0-0	0: 3	1: 1	1-0	0-0	3: 1	1: 2		0: 2	0-0	4-0	3: 1	0-0	3: 1	1: 1	0-0	1: 1	3: 2
Dynamo Dresden	3: 1	1: 4	2: 1	1-0	1: 2	0: 1	4-0	2: 2		2-0	2: 1	0-0	2: 2	2: 1	1: 2	5: 1	1: 1	1: 1
MSV Duisburg	0: 2	2-0	0: 2	0: 1	0: 1	0: 3	1: 1	3-0	3-0		2: 1	3: 1	1: 2	1: 2	2: 1	3: 1	2-0	0-0
VfL Bochum	1: 4	0: 2	1: 1	1: 2	0: 4	2: 2	4: 2	2-0	0: 2	2: 1		0: 1	1-0	0: 1	6-0	0-0	1-0	2: 1
FC Ingolstadt 04	0-0	1: 1	1: 1	1-0	4-0	0: 1	3: 3	0: 1	4: 2	1: 1	3: 5		1: 1	1-0	0-0	2: 1	3: 3	3: 1
FSV Frankfurt	1: 1	0: 4	2: 5	3: 3	2: 2	3: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	0: 2	1: 1		0: 1	1: 1	2: 1	2: 1	0-0
Energy Cottbus	0: 2	3: 3	1: 1	1: 4	0: 2	0: 5	2: 1	1: 1	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	1: 1		2-0	2-0	1: 1	0: 1
FC Erzgebirge Aue	1: 1	1: 2	2: 4	2: 1	0: 2	0-0	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 2	2: 1	1: 1	4: 3	0-0		0: 2	1-0	1-0
Karlsruher SC	2: 2	1-0	0: 5	0: 2	2-0	1: 3	2-0	1: 3	2-0	3: 2	0-0	3: 2	0: 4	2-0	2: 1		0: 2	2: 2
Alemannia Aachen	0-0	0: 3	0-0	2: 1	0: 3	2: 2	1: 3	0: 2	0: 1	2: 2	2-0	3: 1	1: 3	0: 2	1: 1	1-0		0-0
Hansa Rostock	2: 2	1: 5	2: 1	1: 3	1: 2	2-0	2: 5	0-0	2: 2	4: 2	0-0	1: 2	0: 5	1: 1	0: 1	1: 1	0-0

Relegation

The two relegation games between the sixteenth of the Bundesliga and the third of the 2nd Bundesliga were played on May 10th and 15th, 2012.

→ Main article : Fortuna Düsseldorf - Hertha BSC football match on May 15, 2012

date		Result		Gates
May 10, 2012	Hertha BSC	1: 2 (1: 0)	Fortuna Dusseldorf	1-0 Hubník (19th), 1: 1 Bröker (64th), 1: 2 Ramos (71st, own goal)
May 15, 2012	Fortuna Dusseldorf	2: 2 (1: 1)	Hertha BSC	1: 0 Beister (1st), 1: 1 Ben-Hatira (23rd), 2: 1 Jovanović (59th), 2: 2 Raffael (85th)

The two relegation games between the sixteenth in the 2nd Bundesliga and the third in the 3rd division were played on May 11 and 14, 2012.

date		Result		Gates
May 11, 2012	SSV Jahn Regensburg	1: 1 (0: 0)	Karlsruher SC	1-0 Alibaz (58th, penalty kick), 1: 1 large (76th)
May 14, 2012	Karlsruher SC	2: 2 (1: 1)	SSV Jahn Regensburg	0: 1 Hein (28th), 1: 1 Lavrič (32nd), 2: 1 Charalambous (56th), 2: 2 Laurito (66th)
Due to the low number of goals scored away from home in both relegation games, Karlsruher SC was relegated to the 3rd division.

List of goalscorers

Alex Meier

Olivier Occéan

With the same number of hits, the players are sorted alphabetically by last name.

Pl.	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1		Alex Meier	Eintracht Frankfurt	17th
		Olivier Occéan	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	17th
		Nick Proschwitz	SC Paderborn 07	17th
4th		Mohamadou Idrissou	Eintracht Frankfurt	14th
		Kevin Volland	TSV 1860 Munich	14th
6th		Zlatko Dedič	Dynamo Dresden	13
		Max Kruse	FC St. Pauli	13
		Christopher Nöthe	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	13
		Sascha Rösler	Fortuna Dusseldorf	13
10		Mickaël Poté	Dynamo Dresden	12
		Dimitar Rangelow	Energy Cottbus	12

Scorer list

With the same number of scorer points, the players are sorted alphabetically by last name.

Pl.	Nat.	player	society	total	Gates	templates
1		Alex Meier	Eintracht Frankfurt	23	17th	06th
		Olivier Occéan	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	23	17th	06th
3		Benjamin Lauth	TSV 1860 Munich	21st	11	10
		Sascha Rösler	Fortuna Dusseldorf	21st	13	08th
		Sercan Sararer	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	21st	09	12
6th		Kevin Volland	TSV 1860 Munich	20th	14th	06th
7th		Mohamadou Idrissou	Eintracht Frankfurt	19th	14th	05
		Max Kruse	FC St. Pauli	19th	13	06th
		Nick Proschwitz	SC Paderborn 07	19th	17th	02
10		Stefan Aigner	TSV 1860 Munich	17th	11	06th
		Benjamin Koehler	Eintracht Frankfurt	17th	09	08th

Most assists

If the number of assists is the same , the players are sorted alphabetically by last name.

Pl.	Nat.	player	society	templates
1		Sercan Sararer	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	12
2		Sebastian Rode	Eintracht Frankfurt	10
		Benjamin Lauth	TSV 1860 Munich	10
4th		Stefan Leitl	FC Ingolstadt 04	09
5		Benjamin Koehler	Eintracht Frankfurt	08th
		Torsten Mattuschka	1. FC Union Berlin	08th
		Alban Meha	SC Paderborn 07	08th
		Sascha Rösler	Fortuna Dusseldorf	08th
9		Marius Ebbers	FC St. Pauli	07th
		Jan Hochscheidt	FC Erzgebirge Aue	07th
		Aleksandre Iashvili	Karlsruher SC	07th
		Stephan Schröck	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	07th

Venues

society	Surname	capacity
TSV 1860 Munich	Allianz Arena	69.901
Fortuna Dusseldorf	ESPRIT arena	54,600
Eintracht Frankfurt	Commerzbank Arena	51,500
Alemannia Aachen	Tivoli	32,960
Dynamo Dresden	Lucky gas stadium	32,066
MSV Duisburg	Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena	31,500
Karlsruher SC	Wildlife Park Stadium	29,699
VfL Bochum	rewirpowerstadion	29,448
Hansa Rostock	DKB arena	29,000
Eintracht Braunschweig	Eintracht Stadium	25,540
FC St. Pauli	Millerntor Stadium	24,487
Energy Cottbus	Friendship Stadium	22,528
1. FC Union Berlin	Stadium An der Alten Försterei	18,432
FC Erzgebirge Aue	Erzgebirgsstadion	15,690
FC Ingolstadt 04	Audi sports park	15,445
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Trolli Arena	15,000
SC Paderborn 07	Energy team arena	15,000
FSV Frankfurt	Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium	10,826

Sponsors

society	Shirt sponsor	Breast Sponsor
1. FC Union Berlin	Uhlsport	kfzteile24
Alemannia Aachen	Nike	AachenMünchener
Dynamo Dresden	Nike	Veolia
Eintracht Braunschweig	puma	Volkswagen Bank
Eintracht Frankfurt	JAKO	Fraport
Energy Cottbus	Umbro	Tropical Islands
FC Erzgebirge Aue	puma	Save with! to travel
FC Ingolstadt 04	adidas	Audi
FC St. Pauli	Do you football	ARD television lottery (A place in the sun)
Fortuna Dusseldorf	puma	bauhaus
FSV Frankfurt	Saller	Hyundai
Hansa Rostock	Nike	Veolia
Karlsruher SC	Nike	Klaiber awnings
MSV Duisburg	Nike	R (H) EINPOWER
SC Paderborn 07	puma	Finches
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	JAKO	Ergo direct
TSV 1860 Munich	Uhlsport	Aston Martin *
VfL Bochum	Nike	net
* Until mid-September 2011, the club ran without a shirt sponsor. Instead, the slogan was Munich's great love on the shirt chest.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DFL reschedules relegation first legs. In: bundesliga.de. Football Bundesliga , May 3, 2012, archived from the original on September 10, 2012 ; accessed on May 11, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Goalscorer. bundesliga.de, accessed on March 25, 2012 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Scorer. bundesliga.de, accessed on March 25, 2012 .