2nd Bundesliga 1980/81

2nd Bundesliga 1980/81
master	Werder Bremen (North) SV Darmstadt 98 (South)
Climbers	Werder Bremen , SV Darmstadt 98 , Eintracht Braunschweig
Relegation ↑	Eintracht Braunschweig , Kickers Offenbach
Relegated	SC Viktoria Cologne , 1. FC Bocholt , Prussia Munster , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , VfB Oldenburg , SC Herford , Tennis Borussia Berlin , 1. SC Göttingen 05 , Holstein Kiel , Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid , SpVgg Erkenschwick , OSV Hannover (North) SSV Ulm 1846 , Eintracht Trier , FC 08 Homburg , VfR OLI Bürstadt , FSV Frankfurt , ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee , 1. FC Saarbrücken , FC Augsburg , Borussia Neunkirchen , VfB Eppingen (south)
Teams	22 (north) , 20 (south)
Games	462 (north) , 380 (south)  + 2 relegation games
Gates	2,748  (ø 3.26 per game)
spectator	4,284,848  (ø 5088 per game)
Top scorer	Frank Mill ( Rot-Weiss Essen ) (North) Horst Neumann ( SV Darmstadt 98 ) (South)
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The 2nd Bundesliga 1980/81 was the last season of the 2nd Bundesliga - with the exception of the 1991/92 season due to reunification - which was played in two seasons.

A total of 22 (North Season) and 20 (South Season) teams played the respective season champions, who were promoted directly to the Bundesliga . In this case, increased Werder Bremen (North) and SV Darmstadt 98 (south) as Erstplatzierte directly to, the third promotion place was in a relegation between the relay Second concord Braunschweig (North) and Kickers Offenbach played (South). Here Braunschweig prevailed due to the more goals scored.

In addition to the former German champions TSV 1860 Munich , the Bundesliga founding member FC Schalke 04 and, after two years of league membership, Bayer 05 Uerdingen were relegated from the Bundesliga to the second Bundesliga.

Place numbers for single-track 2. Bundesliga

There was a sophisticated system for qualifying for the new single-track 2nd Bundesliga. First, the clubs had to meet technical qualification criteria. These stipulated that the stadiums had to hold at least 15,000 spectators and that they had to have a floodlight system within a certain period of time. If these requirements were met, sporting criteria came into play. The four first-placed teams of the north and south relays as well as the relegated Bundesliga teams were automatically qualified. The other participants were determined using a so-called “place number”. This was calculated from the positions in the table achieved over the past three years. The lower this calculated place number was, the better the club was placed. In the 1978/79 season the table position was multiplied by one, 1979/80 by two and 1980/81 by three. Years of Bundesliga membership were rated zero. For senior league years in which the promotion was not made, there were 20 points, for the seasons with promotion 16. It was also crucial which region the relegated Bundesliga 1 came from and how many teams from the respective season (north / south ) ascended. In the end, 10 teams each from the north and south should be represented. There were no promoters from the Oberliga to the 2nd Bundesliga this season.

2nd League North				2nd League South
01.	Werder Bremen *	003	~	01.	SV Darmstadt 98 *	011
02.	Eintracht Braunschweig *	006th	~	02.	Kickers Offenbach *	028
03.	Hertha BSC *	009	~	03.	Stuttgart Kickers *	024
04th	Hanover 96 *	033	~	04th	KSV Hessen Kassel *	064
05.	Alemannia Aachen	036	~	05.	Sc freiburg	048
06th	Red and white food	036	~	06th	SpVgg Bayreuth	055
07th	SC Fortuna Cologne	043	~	07th	SV Waldhof Mannheim	056
08th.	SG Union Solingen	048	~	08th.	Wormatia worms	059
09.	SG Wattenscheid 09	050	~	09.	SpVgg Fürth	060
10.	VfL Osnabrück	052	~	10.	Freiburg FC	061
11.	SC Viktoria Cologne	057	~	11.	SSV Ulm 1846	063
12.	Prussia Munster	062	~	12.	Eintracht Trier	064
13.	1. FC Bocholt	088	~	13.	FC 08 Homburg	064
14th	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	088	~	14th	VfR OLI Bürstadt	083
15th	VfB Oldenburg	097	~	15th	FSV Frankfurt	093
16.	SC Herford	098	~	16.	ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee	098
17th	Tennis Borussia Berlin **	088	~	17th	1. FC Saarbrücken **	069
18th	1. SC Göttingen 05 **	106	~	18th	FC Augsburg **	104
19th	Holstein Kiel **	099	~	19th	Borussia Neunkirchen **	109
20th	Red-White Lüdenscheid **	111	~	20th	VfB Eppingen **	112
21st	SpVgg Erkenschwick **	115
22nd	OSV Hanover **	106

For direct ascent * (place 1–4 ) and direct descent ** (place 17–22 / 20 ), the table position in front of the place number counts.

North

Werder Bremen was the champion of the North Season , so that after relegation in the previous year, they were promoted again. This season was the only second division season of SV Werder Bremen. Bremen's season result with 30 wins, 8 draws and 4 defeats was the best second division result of all time in absolute points according to the two-point rule (however, this season there were 42 games per team also the second most games of all time; relative to the number of games, Bremen's result is exceeded by the previous year's result from Arminia Bielefeld ). Relegated to second place was Eintracht from Braunschweig, also relegated in the previous year, which achieved promotion in the relegation against Kickers Offenbach .

Hertha BSC , also relegated from the previous year, reached third place in the table, one point behind Braunschweig, and thus remained in the 2nd Bundesliga for another season. The promotion was made in the following season 1981/82 .

Since the 2nd Bundesliga was continued on a single track after this season, a total of twelve teams were relegated to the respective major leagues. These included the founding member of the Bundesliga, Preußen Münster, and the former first division clubs Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Tennis Borussia Berlin .

The best goalscorer of the North season was Frank Mill from Rot-Weiss Essen with 40 goals in 42 games.

Closing table

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Werder Bremen (A)	42	30th	8th	4th	097: 033	+64	68:16
02.	Eintracht Braunschweig (A)	42	29	7th	6th	102: 044	+58	65:19
03.	Hertha BSC (A)	42	31	2	9	123: 042	+81	64:20
04th	Hannover 96	42	20th	16	6th	088: 049	+39	56:28
05.	Alemannia Aachen	42	24	7th	11	080: 051	+29	55:29
06th	VfL Osnabrück	42	22nd	8th	12	076: 050	+26	52:32
07th	SG Union Solingen	42	20th	10	12	076: 061	+15	50:34
08th.	Red and white food	42	20th	7th	15th	099: 074	+25	47:37
09.	SC Fortuna Cologne	42	18th	10	14th	083: 067	+16	46:38
10.	SG Wattenscheid 09	42	15th	12	15th	062: 068	- 06	42:42
11.	SC Viktoria Cologne	42	14th	13	15th	067: 079	−12	41:43
12.	1. FC Bocholt (N)	42	14th	10	18th	066: 070	- 04th	38:46
13.	Prussia Munster	42	14th	8th	20th	048: 072	−24	36:48
14th	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	42	12	11	19th	059: 084	−25	35:49
15th	VfB Oldenburg (N)	42	12	10	20th	064: 089	−25	34:50
16.	SC Herford	42	11	10	21st	048: 065	−17	32:52
17th	Tennis Borussia Berlin	42	9	14th	19th	047: 071	−24	32:52
18th	1. SC Göttingen 05 (N)	42	9	14th	19th	067: 098	−31	32:52
19th	Holstein Kiel	42	12	7th	23	048: 081	−33	31:53
20th	Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid	42	8th	11	23	043: 083	−40	27:57
21st	SpVgg Erkenschwick (N)	42	7th	8th	27	046: 091	−45	22:62
22nd	OSV Hanover	42	7th	5	30th	041: 108	−67	19:65

Legend
	Promoted to the Bundesliga
	Participant in the relegation games to the Bundesliga
	Relegated to the upper league
(A)	Relegated from the Bundesliga
(N)	Newcomers from the league

Crosstab

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

North 1980/81
01.	Werder Bremen		2: 1	1: 1	3-0	6-0	3: 1	3-0	1-0	2: 1	3: 1	0-0	1: 2	2: 1	6: 1	4-0	3: 1	3-0	3-0	5: 1	2-0	2: 1	4-0
02.	Eintracht Braunschweig	2: 2		0: 4	2-0	1: 1	2: 2	1: 1	2-0	1-0	3-0	3-0	3-0	4: 1	3-0	7-0	3: 1	4-0	4-0	2-0	3: 3	2-0	3: 2
03.	Hertha BSC	1: 2	2: 4		1-0	0: 1	2-0	4: 2	3: 2	5: 1	8-0	4-0	5-0	6-0	4: 2	2-0	3: 1	2-0	4-0	5: 1	2-0	4: 1	3: 2
04th	Hannover 96	0-0	1: 1	1: 1		2: 1	1: 1	2: 3	4: 1	4-0	1: 1	4-0	1: 1	3: 2	7: 2	3: 3	3: 2	5: 3	1: 1	3: 1	2-0	6: 1	4: 2
05.	Alemannia Aachen	2-0	0: 1	4: 1	2: 1		5-0	3: 1	4: 3	1: 1	4: 2	4: 2	3: 1	4-0	0-0	2-0	3-0	1: 3	3: 1	2-0	2-0	5: 1	2-0
06th	VfL Osnabrück	1: 4	2: 1	3-0	0-0	0: 1		2-0	4-0	3: 1	3: 3	4: 1	1-0	1: 2	2: 1	4: 1	2-0	2: 2	4-0	3-0	2-0	3-0	3: 1
07th	SG Union Solingen	2: 4	2-0	1: 3	1: 1	1-0	2: 1		3: 2	1: 1	2: 1	3: 1	2: 1	1: 1	5-0	6: 2	0-0	2: 1	6: 2	4: 1	2-0	3-0	1-0
08th.	Red and white food	1-0	2: 6	0: 4	1: 1	4-0	2: 1	2-0		3: 2	2: 2	4-0	5: 3	5-0	5: 2	4: 1	4: 2	2-0	4: 1	6-0	5: 4	2-0	6-0
09.	SC Fortuna Cologne	3: 2	5: 2	3: 1	3-0	0: 1	1: 2	2: 1	3-0		3: 1	3: 2	3: 3	3-0	2: 2	4-0	1: 1	2: 2	0: 1	3: 2	5: 2	2: 2	5-0
10.	SG Wattenscheid 09	1: 1	1: 2	0: 1	1: 2	3-0	1: 2	2: 1	2: 2	0: 1		3: 2	3: 1	1: 1	1-0	0: 1	2: 1	2-0	1: 1	4: 2	3: 1	2: 1	1: 1
11.	SC Viktoria Cologne	1: 2	2: 1	0: 3	0-0	1-0	2: 6	2-0	1: 1	2: 2	2: 3		3: 3	3: 1	3-0	4: 1	0-0	3-0	0-0	0: 3	3-0	2: 1	2-0
12.	1. FC Bocholt	0: 2	1: 1	0: 3	1: 2	1-0	2: 1	1: 2	1: 1	1: 1	2: 1	6: 2		0: 2	1-0	3: 1	2: 1	1: 1	4: 2	0: 1	6-0	1-0	4-0
13.	Prussia Munster	2: 3	0: 1	1-0	1: 1	1: 1	1-0	2: 2	2-0	3: 2	0: 1	0: 3	2-0		1: 2	2: 1	0: 1	1-0	1: 1	2-0	2-0	0: 1	3: 2
14th	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	1: 1	2: 4	1: 6	0: 2	1: 1	0: 1	0: 1	1: 1	1: 2	3: 2	0-0	1: 1	3: 3		2: 1	2: 1	1: 1	7: 1	1-0	4-0	2: 1	2-0
15th	VfB Oldenburg	0: 3	0: 4	2-0	2: 7	1-0	0-0	2: 2	3: 2	5-0	3: 3	2: 2	4: 1	3-0	0: 1		0-0	2-0	2: 2	2: 1	6: 2	3: 1	4: 1
16.	SC Herford	0: 2	1: 2	0: 5	0: 2	1: 1	2-0	1: 1	1: 3	0-0	1: 1	1: 2	0: 2	3-0	3: 1	1: 1		2: 1	2-0	1-0	3: 1	1-0	3-0
17th	Tennis Borussia Berlin	0: 1	1: 3	1: 4	2: 2	1: 1	1-0	1: 2	1-0	1: 2	0: 1	2: 2	2: 2	1: 1	2: 3	0-0	2: 1		3: 2	3: 1	1-0	1: 1	1-0
18th	1. SC Göttingen 05	1: 3	2: 4	1: 2	1: 4	4: 2	1: 2	2: 2	4: 2	3: 5	0-0	3: 3	3: 2	2: 4	1: 1	1-0	1: 1	5: 3		3-0	1: 1	4-0	6: 1
19th	Holstein Kiel	1: 1	0: 2	2: 1	0: 2	2: 3	1: 2	2: 1	1: 1	2: 1	2-0	3: 3	0: 3	3: 1	3-0	2: 1	0: 2	1: 1	1: 1		0-0	2: 1	2: 1
20th	Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid	0: 1	0: 2	1: 3	1: 1	1: 3	0-0	1: 2	2: 1	1-0	1: 1	1: 3	0-0	1-0	2: 2	1: 1	4: 2	0-0	1: 1	2: 1		1-0	4: 2
21st	SpVgg Erkenschwick	1: 1	1: 2	1: 4	0-0	2: 3	2: 2	4: 2	0: 2	0: 4	0: 2	2: 3	1-0	0: 1	2: 1	3: 2	2: 1	1: 1	4-0	2: 2	1: 3		3: 3
22nd	OSV Hanover	1: 3	0: 3	0: 6	0: 2	0: 4	1: 3	0-0	2: 6	1-0	1: 2	0-0	3: 2	1-0	1: 3	2: 1	3: 2	0: 1	1: 1	0: 1	2: 1	4: 1

List of goalscorers

The top scorer of the North season was Frank Mill from Rot-Weiss Essen with 40 goals.

	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1.		Frank Mill	Red and white food	40
2.		Werner Killmaier	Hertha BSC	36
3.		Horst Feilzer	VfL Osnabrück	30th
		Ronald Worm	Eintracht Braunschweig	30th
5.		Erwin Kostedde	Werder Bremen	29
6th		Dieter Schatzschneider	Hannover 96	28

south

The SV Darmstadt 98 secured as season champion after two years in the second division promotion to the Bundesliga, but rose after a season again. Darmstadt only achieved another rise after 34 years, in 2015.

Kickers Offenbach was second in the table, five points behind . So they had the chance to qualify for the Bundesliga via relegation. Here, however, Eintracht Braunschweig had to give way despite a 1-0 win in the first leg due to a 2-0 defeat in the second leg. Kickers Offenbach remained in the second division until promotion should be successful in the 1982/83 season .

Due to the single-track 2nd Bundesliga introduced in the following season, a total of ten teams were relegated. These included the Bundesliga founding member 1. FC Saarbrücken and the former Bundesliga club Borussia Neunkirchen .

With 26 goals in 38 games, Horst Neumann von Darmstadt 98 was the top goalscorer of the season south.

Closing table

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	SV Darmstadt 98	38	24	7th	7th	85:42	+43	55:21
02.	Kickers Offenbach	38	19th	12	7th	87:42	+45	50:26
03.	Stuttgart Kickers	38	19th	10	9	81:40	+41	48:28
04th	KSV Hessen Kassel (N)	38	16	16	6th	59:35	+24	48:28
05.	SSV Ulm 1846	38	18th	11	9	59:39	+20	47:29
06th	SV Waldhof Mannheim	38	19th	7th	12	65:43	+22	45:31
07th	Sc freiburg	38	16	9	13	57:50	+ 07	41:35
08th.	Eintracht Trier	38	15th	11	12	56:52	+ 04	41:35
09.	SpVgg Bayreuth	38	15th	9	14th	60:53	+ 07	39:37
10.	Freiburg FC	38	15th	9	14th	76:75	+ 01	39:37
11.	FC 08 Homburg	38	14th	10	14th	66:69	- 03	38:38
12.	Wormatia worms	38	15th	7th	16	60:70	−10	37:39
13.	VfR OLI Bürstadt	38	15th	7th	16	54:66	−12	37:39
14th	SpVgg Fürth	38	15th	5	18th	54:54	± 00	35:41
15th	FSV Frankfurt	38	13	6th	19th	51:76	−25	32:44
16.	ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee	38	14th	3	21st	62:92	−30	31:45
17th	1. FC Saarbrücken	38	10	8th	20th	43:61	−18	28:48
18th	FC Augsburg (N)	38	7th	10	21st	55:88	−33	24:52
19th	Borussia Neunkirchen (N)	38	5	13	20th	44:85	−41	23:53
20th	VfB Eppingen (N)	38	7th	8th	23	44:86	−42	22:54

Legend
	Promoted to the Bundesliga
	Participant in the relegation games to the Bundesliga
	Relegated to the upper league
(A)	Relegated from the Bundesliga
(N)	Newcomers from the league

Crosstab

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

South 1980/81
01.	SV Darmstadt 98		1-0	1-0	5: 1	1: 1	1-0	1-0	2-0	3: 2	6: 3	4-0	5-0	5-0	2: 1	2-0	9: 2	2: 2	2: 2	1-0	2-0
02.	Kickers Offenbach	3: 1		4: 2	0-0	1-0	0-0	5: 1	4-0	1: 1	4: 2	2-0	7: 1	6: 1	2-0	2: 2	2: 1	5: 1	4: 1	2: 1	5: 1
03.	Stuttgart Kickers	1: 2	0-0		2-0	1: 2	3: 1	4: 2	0-0	1: 1	4-0	3: 1	3: 2	3: 1	2: 1	6-0	2-0	1-0	3-0	6-0	6-0
04th	KSV Hessen Kassel	4: 4	0-0	0-0		0-0	3: 1	1-0	0-0	1: 2	1: 1	1-0	4: 2	4-0	1-0	1-0	7: 1	0-0	5: 2	2-0	3: 1
05.	SSV Ulm 1846	1: 2	0-0	1-0	0-0		1: 1	2: 2	1: 1	3-0	2: 2	2: 1	1-0	3-0	3-0	5-0	1-0	3: 2	3: 1	2: 2	3: 1
06th	SV Waldhof Mannheim	2-0	1-0	2: 3	0-0	1-0		2-0	1-0	1: 1	5-0	4-0	3-0	2-0	2: 1	1-0	4-0	2: 1	2: 2	4-0	3: 1
07th	Sc freiburg	0: 4	4: 1	1: 4	0-0	2-0	1: 1		0: 2	2: 1	0-0	0: 1	5: 2	3: 1	2-0	2: 1	4-0	2-0	1-0	3-0	2-0
08th.	Eintracht Trier	4-0	4: 2	2: 1	1: 1	3: 2	0: 5	0-0		4: 2	2-0	2-0	1-0	0: 1	2-0	2: 1	4: 1	0: 1	3: 1	2: 2	5: 1
09.	SpVgg Bayreuth	2: 1	0-0	1: 4	2: 1	1: 3	1: 2	1-0	1: 2		5: 1	1: 1	1: 2	0-0	3: 1	0: 1	2-0	4: 3	2: 3	2: 1	0-0
10.	Freiburg FC	2-0	4: 2	1: 3	0: 3	0: 1	1-0	1: 2	0-0	3: 2		7: 3	3: 1	3: 2	2-0	1: 1	2: 2	3: 1	6: 1	5: 2	2: 1
11.	FC 08 Homburg	1: 7	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	2: 3	2: 1	2: 2	4-0	1: 3	2-0		5: 3	1: 1	2-0	5: 1	2: 1	2: 2	4: 2	2: 2	1-0
12.	Wormatia worms	0-0	1: 1	2: 2	0-0	2-0	3: 2	2: 2	3: 2	3: 2	1: 3	0-0		1: 2	3: 1	2: 1	3: 2	1-0	3: 1	3: 1	5: 1
13.	VfR OLI Bürstadt	1: 1	2: 2	3: 2	2-0	1: 4	0: 1	1: 1	2: 1	1: 3	4: 1	3: 1	1: 1		2: 3	0: 1	1: 2	2: 1	2-0	4: 1	2: 1
14th	SpVgg Fürth	1: 2	2: 1	1: 1	2: 2	2-0	3: 1	3-0	2-0	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0: 1	0: 1		2-0	3-0	2-0	0: 1	8-0	2: 1
15th	FSV Frankfurt	1-0	1: 1	1: 1	1-0	3: 1	0: 2	3: 2	3-0	0-0	2: 6	0: 2	2: 1	1: 4	3-0		1: 3	3-0	5: 3	4: 2	3: 2
16.	ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee	2-0	0: 5	0: 2	0: 2	1: 3	6: 1	1: 4	2: 1	0-0	4: 3	2: 1	0: 3	4: 1	2: 3	3-0		3: 1	4: 1	3: 1	3: 1
17th	1. FC Saarbrücken	0: 1	1: 4	2: 1	1: 2	0-0	2-0	1-0	1: 1	0: 2	2: 2	2: 3	2: 1	0: 2	0: 1	3: 1	5: 1		3-0	2-0	1-0
18th	FC Augsburg	0: 1	4: 3	2: 2	1: 3	3: 1	4: 2	0: 1	2: 2	1: 2	1: 1	3: 5	0: 1	1: 2	3-0	2: 2	1: 1	0-0		3: 2	1: 1
19th	Borussia Neunkirchen	1: 2	0: 3	1: 1	2: 2	0: 1	0-0	1: 1	2: 2	0: 1	0: 3	2: 1	2: 1	0-0	3: 3	2: 1	5: 1	0-0	3: 1		1: 1
20th	VfB Eppingen	2: 2	0: 2	1-0	2: 4	0-0	3: 2	1: 3	1: 1	0: 5	2: 1	0: 5	2-0	2: 1	1: 2	5: 1	1: 4	4-0	1: 1	2: 2

List of goalscorers

The top scorer of the season south was Horst Neumann from SV Darmstadt 98 with 26 goals.

	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1.		Horst Neumann	SV Darmstadt 98	27
2.		Uwe Bein	Kickers Offenbach	25th
3.		Franz Gerber	ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee	23
4th		Bodo Mattern	Wormatia worms	22nd
5.		Paul Linz	Freiburg FC	20th

Promotion Games

The second season Eintracht Braunschweig and Kickers Offenbach played the third promotion place among themselves. Offenbach won the first leg in the stadium at the Bieberer Berg 1-0, so a draw in the second leg would have been enough for promotion. The Offenbachers lost this but with 0: 2 in the Eintracht Stadium in Braunschweig. Therefore, Eintracht Braunschweig rose as the third club in the Bundesliga due to the more goals scored.

Second south	total	Second north	First leg	Return leg
Kickers Offenbach	1: 2	Eintracht Braunschweig	1-0	0: 2

First leg

pairing	Kickers Offenbach - Eintracht Braunschweig
Result	1: 0 (0: 0)
date	Friday , June 5. 1981
Stadion	Stadium am Bieberer Berg , Offenbach am Main
spectator	30,000
referee	Gerd Hennig ( Duisburg )
Gates	1: 0 Wolfgang Trumpf (88.)
Kickers Offenbach	Bernd Fuhr - Kurt Geinzer - Gerd Paulus , Michael Kutzop - Uwe Höfer (74th Hans-Peter Knecht ), Thomas Martin , Günter Franusch , Uwe Bein - Wolfgang Trumpf , Walter Krause , Michael Grünewald Trainer: Franz Brungs
Eintracht Braunschweig	Bernd Franke - Wolfgang Grobe - Michael Geiger , Hasse Borg , Franz Merkhoffer - Matthias Bruns , Manfred Tripbacher , Hans-Heinrich Pahl , Reinhard Kindermann - Ilija Zavišić (59th Günter Keute ), Ronald Worm Trainer: Uli Maslo
yellow cards	Krause - Borg

Return leg

pairing	Eintracht Braunschweig - Kickers Offenbach
Result	2: 0 (0: 0)
date	Wednesday , 10. June 1981
Stadion	Eintracht Stadium , Braunschweig
spectator	34,000 (sold out)
referee	Günter Linn ( Altendiez )
Gates	1: 0 Wolfgang Grobe (49th, hand penalty ) 2: 0 Ronald Worm (50th)
Eintracht Braunschweig	Bernd Franke - Wolfgang Grobe - Michael Geiger , Hasse Borg , Franz Merkhoffer - Manfred Tripbacher , Hans-Heinrich Pahl (34th Matthias Bruns ), Reinhard Kindermann - Ilija Zavišić , Günter Keute , Ronald Worm Trainer: Uli Maslo
Kickers Offenbach	Bernd Fuhr - Kurt Geinzer - Michael Kutzop , Thomas Martin , Gerd Paulus - Günter Franusch , Uwe Bein , Walter Krause - Michael Grünewald , Uwe Höfer (61st Hans-Peter Knecht ), Wolfgang Trumpf Trainer: Franz Brungs
yellow cards	none - Franusch , Bein
References	Kindermann (53) - none

Climbers

1. North

SV Werder Bremen

Goal : Dieter Burdenski (35 / -), Albert Voß (8 / -) Defense : Michael Böhnke (1 / -), Klaus Fichtel (42 / -), Martin Haskamp (4 / -), Hartmut Konschal ( 25/4 ), Jonny Otten (41/2), Thomas Schaaf (19/1), Norbert Siegmann ( 40/4 ) Midfield : Uwe Bracht (37/2), Klaus-Dieter Jank (25 / -), Karl-Heinz Kamp (39/4), Bohdan Masztaler (3 / -), Benno Möhlmann (37/13), Pasi Rautiainen (15 / 1) Attack : Uwe Behrens ( 6/1 ), Erwin Kostedde (42/29), Norbert Meier (39/16), Hans-Jürgen Offermanns ( 15/3 ), Uwe Reinders (37/16). (Games / goals) plus an own goal by Koberstein (SC Herford) Trainer : Kuno Klötzer until April 1, 1981, Otto Rehhagel

1. South

SV Darmstadt 98

Goal : Frank Berlepp (5 / -), Dieter Rudolf (33 / -) Defense : Uwe Beginski ( 33/1 ), Andreas Karow (34 / -), Günter Menges (12 / -), Willi Wagner (38/2), Edwin Westenberger ( 37/2 ) Midfield : Roland Best (9/2), Rudolf Collet (33/8), Uwe Hahn ( 28/5 ), Glenn Jordens ( 3/3 ), Oliver Posniak ( 37/4 ), Günther Reinhardt (soccer player) (1 / -), Willibald Weiss (38/1) Attack : Willi Bernecker ( 28/4 ), Detlef Bruckhoff ( 28/6 ), Peter Cestonaro ( 33/17 ), Rainer Korlatzki ( 6/2 ), Horst Neumann ( 36/27 ), Dieter Pötschke ( 2/1 ). (Games / goals) Trainer : Werner Olk

2. North

Eintracht Braunschweig

Goal : Bernd Franke (42 / -) Defense : Hasse Borg (33/2), Michael Geiger (32/7), Wolfgang Grobe (37/12), Volker Heuschke (2 / -), Reiner Hollmann ( 13/2 ), Franz Merkhoffer ( 41/4 ) Midfield : Matthias Bruns ( 37/5 ), Lars Ellmerich ( 24/10 ), Reinhard Kindermann (40/2), Hans-Heinrich Pahl (39/9), Holger Trimhold (19 / -), Manfred Tripbacher ( 40/6 ) Attack : Dietmar Erler (1 / -), Jörg Klein (2 / -), Günter Keute ( 32/7 ), Uwe Nester (10 / -), Danilo Popivoda (3 / -), Ronald Worm (38/30), Ilija Zavišić ( 22/6 ). (Games / goals) Trainer : Uli Maslo

literature

Kicker sports magazine : Years 1980–1981 , Olympia-Verlag GmbH, ISSN  0023-1290

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Only in the 2nd Bundesliga 1992/93 with 24 teams there were more games, namely 46 per team.