2nd Bundesliga 1988/89

	2nd Bundesliga 1988/89
master	Fortuna Dusseldorf
Climbers	Fortuna Düsseldorf ; FC 08 Homburg
Relegation ↑	1.FC Saarbrücken (0-2 and 2-1 against Eintracht Frankfurt )
Relegated	Kickers Offenbach ; Viktoria Aschaffenburg ; 1. FSV Mainz 05 ; SG Union Solingen
Teams	20th
Games	380 + 2 relegation games ;
Gates	1,108 (ø 2.92 per game)
spectator	2,304,719 (ø 6065 per game)
Top scorer	Sven Demandt ( Fortuna Düsseldorf )
	← 2nd Bundesliga 1987/88 2nd Bundesliga 1989/90 →
	↑ Bundesliga 1988/89 Oberliga Bayern League 1988/89 Baden-Württemberg 1988/89 Berlin 1988/89 Hesse 1988/89 North 1988/89 North Rhine 1988/89 Southwest 1988/89 Westphalia 1988/89 ↓

In the 1988/89 season in the 2. Bundesliga reached Fortuna Dusseldorf and the FC 08 Homburg promotion to the Bundesliga . The 1. FC Saarbrücken failed in the relegation games.

Closing table

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Fortuna Dusseldorf	38	19th	11	8th	85:52	+33	49:27
02.	FC 08 Homburg (A)	38	18th	11	9	55:36	+19	47:29
03.	1. FC Saarbrücken	38	17th	12	9	53:43	+10	46:30
04th	SC Fortuna Cologne	38	20th	5	13	80:57	+23	45:31
05.	Sc freiburg	38	17th	8th	13	66:52	+14	42:34
06th	SG Wattenscheid 09	38	17th	8th	13	68:58	+10	42:34
07th	Alemannia Aachen	38	17th	7th	14th	58:55	+ 03	41:35
08th.	Blue-White 90 Berlin	38	15th	11	12	56:54	+ 02	41:35
09.	Eintracht Braunschweig (N)	38	12	14th	12	43:43	± 00	38:38
10.	SV Meppen	38	12	13	13	55:54	+ 01	37:39
11.	SV Darmstadt 98	38	16	5	17th	56:57	- 01	37:39
12.	FC Schalke 04 (A)	38	13	10	15th	58:51	+ 07	36:40
13.	Hertha BSC (N)	38	11	14th	13	45:44	+ 01	36:40
14th	VfL Osnabrück	38	13	10	15th	58:66	- 08	36:40
15th	Kickers Offenbach ¹	38	14th	7th	17th	51:53	- 02nd	35:41
16.	Red and white food	38	13	9	16	54:60	- 06	35:41
17th	SpVgg Bayreuth	38	12	10	16	52:60	- 08	34:42
18th	Viktoria Aschaffenburg (N)	38	12	10	16	47:60	-13	34:42
19th	1. FSV Mainz 05 (N)	38	8th	13	17th	44:76	-32	29:47
20th	SG Union Solingen	38	6th	8th	24	24:77	-53	20:56

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

¹ Kickers Offenbach's license was revoked and was fourth relegated.

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.

1988/89
01.	Fortuna Dusseldorf		4: 1	2: 1	3: 1	4-0	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	4-0	4: 1	1: 2	2-0	2: 2	3: 2	2: 1	2-0	4: 3	4-0	2: 1	1: 1
02.	FC 08 Homburg	3: 1		0: 1	2-0	1: 1	3: 2	1: 1	2-0	2-0	1-0	3-0	2: 1	1-0	1: 1	1-0	0-0	3-0	3-0	2-0	6: 2
03.	1. FC Saarbrücken	2: 2	2: 1		4: 2	2-0	0-0	2-0	2: 1	2: 1	4: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2-0	2: 2	0: 2	0-0	0-0	2: 2	2-0
04th	SC Fortuna Cologne	4: 1	2-0	2-0		1: 1	5: 6	4-0	2: 1	3: 2	3: 1	3-0	1: 2	1-0	1: 3	3-0	3-0	3: 1	2-0	3-0	2-0
05.	Sc freiburg	1: 3	1-0	2-0	2: 1		1: 1	3-0	2: 4	2-0	3: 1	2-0	2: 1	1: 1	3-0	3-0	5: 3	4-0	3: 1	1: 1	1: 1
06th	SG Wattenscheid 09	1: 3	2: 2	3: 2	1: 3	1-0		3: 1	1: 2	2: 2	0: 2	2: 1	0: 1	4: 2	5-0	3: 1	4: 2	2-0	2: 1	2: 1	0-0
07th	Alemannia Aachen	2: 1	2: 2	1: 1	3: 1	1: 4	0: 2		3-0	0: 1	3-0	0: 1	2-0	2-0	2: 1	1: 2	3: 1	5: 3	0: 1	5: 2	3-0
08th.	Blue-White 90 Berlin	2: 7	2-0	1: 1	2: 1	1-0	1-0	1: 2		3: 3	2: 1	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 2	0-0	2-0	1: 2	2-0	2: 3	2-0
09.	Eintracht Braunschweig	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	0: 1	1: 1	3-0	0: 1	1: 1		1: 1	2: 1	1-0	1: 1	1-0	2: 2	2: 1	1: 1	1-0	0-0	4-0
10.	SV Meppen	3: 1	2: 2	0: 1	1: 1	2: 3	1-0	2-0	2: 2	0-0		1: 4	1: 3	1-0	1: 3	4-0	2: 2	1-0	4: 1	4: 1	1: 1
11.	SV Darmstadt 98	2: 1	1: 2	0-0	2: 1	2: 1	2: 4	0: 1	2: 1	1: 2	2: 2		2: 1	1: 1	1: 1	3-0	0: 2	2: 1	2: 1	7-0	1-0
12.	FC Schalke 04	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	3: 3	4: 2	3: 2	2: 2	4: 1	2-0	0-0	3: 4		0: 1	0: 2	2-0	1: 1	4-0	0-0	4: 1	3: 1
13.	Hertha BSC	1: 1	2-0	1: 2	3-0	0-0	2: 3	1: 1	0: 2	0: 2	0-0	1-0	2: 1		2: 1	1-0	4-0	3-0	3: 1	0-0	1: 1
14th	VfL Osnabrück	1: 5	0-0	3-0	4: 2	1: 4	1: 3	2: 2	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	2-0	1-0	4: 3		1-0	1: 3	1: 5	3: 1	2: 1	6-0
15th	Kickers Offenbach	3-0	0: 1	4-0	1: 1	3: 2	2-0	3-0	2: 1	0-0	2: 3	3: 1	2: 1	4: 1	1: 1		1-0	1: 2	2: 2	3-0	2-0
16.	Red and white food	1: 5	0: 3	1: 1	3: 4	3-0	3-0	3: 1	3: 3	2: 1	2: 1	3: 1	2: 1	0-0	2: 1	2-0		0-0	0-0	3-0	0: 1
17th	SpVgg Bayreuth	1: 2	1: 1	2: 1	2-0	3: 2	1: 1	0: 2	0: 1	2: 1	0-0	4: 1	1: 1	1: 1	4: 1	1: 2	1-0		4: 1	4: 1	1: 1
18th	Viktoria Aschaffenburg	2: 2	3-0	0: 1	1: 6	2: 1	2: 1	1: 2	1: 1	3: 1	1: 1	0-0	2-0	1-0	1: 1	2: 1	2: 1	3-0		2: 1	4-0
19th	1. FSV Mainz 05	2: 2	0-0	1: 1	2: 2	2: 1	1: 1	3: 1	0: 2	1-0	1: 6	1: 2	2: 2	1: 1	1: 1	3: 1	1: 1	1-0	3: 2		3-0
20th	SG Union Solingen	1-0	0: 2	0: 4	0: 2	0: 1	0: 3	0: 2	0: 2	0: 2	0: 1	0: 3	1: 3	1: 2	3: 2	1-0	3: 2	1: 1	2: 2	2-0

Ascent

Fortuna Düsseldorf returned two years after relegation to the Bundesliga. FC 08 Homburg managed to return directly to the House of Lords.

descent

The league committee of the DFB withdrew the license from Offenbacher Kickers on July 6, 1989. As in the previous year, SpVgg Bayreuth remained seventeenth in the league. In addition to Offenbach, the newcomers Aschaffenburg and Mainz as well as Solingen had to relegate to the upper league.

List of goalscorers

The season's best goalscorer was Sven Demandt from Fortuna Düsseldorf with 35 goals.

	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1.	Germany Federal Republic	Sven Demandt	Fortuna Dusseldorf	35
2.	Germany Federal Republic	Uwe Fuchs	SC Fortuna Cologne	22nd
3.	Germany Federal Republic	Ralf Haub	Viktoria Aschaffenburg	16
4th	Germany Federal Republic	Uwe Tschiskale	SG Wattenscheid 09	15th
4th	Germany Federal Republic	Jörg Wolff	SpVgg Bayreuth	15th
6th	Germany Federal Republic	Ingo Anderbrügge	FC Schalke 04	14th
6th	Germany Federal Republic	Henrik Eichenauer	SV Darmstadt 98	14th
8th.	Germany Federal Republic	Peter Sendscheid	Alemannia Aachen	13
9.	Germany Federal Republic	Martin van der Pütten	SV Meppen	12
9.	Germany Federal Republic	Christiaan porter	SC Fortuna Cologne	12

Relegation

The sixteenth of the Bundesliga Eintracht Frankfurt and the third of the 2nd Bundesliga 1. FC Saarbrücken met in the relegation games .

date	time	pairing					Result
Wed 21.06.	20:00		Eintracht Frankfurt	-	1. FC Saarbrücken		2-0
Sun 25.06.	20:15		1. FC Saarbrücken	-	Eintracht Frankfurt		2: 1

First leg

pairing	Eintracht Frankfurt - 1. FC Saarbrücken
Result	2: 0 (0: 0)
date	Wednesday, June 21, 1989 at 8:00 p.m.
Stadion	Waldstadion , Frankfurt am Main
spectator	40,000
referee	Wolf-Günter Wiesel ( Ottbergen )
Gates	1-0 Jørn Andersen (26th) 2-0 Manfred Binz (60th)
Eintracht Frankfurt	Uli Stein - Manfred Binz - Dietmar Roth - Ralf Sievers (61st Thomas Lasser ), Heinz Gründel , Karl-Heinz Körbel , Frank Schulz , Dieter Eckstein (82nd Ralf Balzis ), Stefan Studer - Janusz Turowski , Jørn Andersen Trainer: Jörg Berger(C)
1. FC Saarbrücken	Alfred Wahlen - Adrian Spyrka - Burkhard Steiner , Wenanty Fuhl - Kurt Knoll , Nasko Jelev , Eugen Hach (80th Manfred Dum ), Florian Gothe , Guido Szesni (69th Franz-Josef Steininger ), Michael Nushöhr - Anthony Yeboah Trainer: Klaus Schlappner
yellow cards	Körbel, Sievers - Knoll, Nushöhr, Szesni, Jelev, Steiner

Return leg

pairing	1. FC Saarbrücken - Eintracht Frankfurt
Result	2: 1 (1: 0)
date	Sunday, June 25, 1989 at 8:15 p.m.
Stadion	Ludwigsparkstadion , Saarbrücken
spectator	35,000
referee	Dieter Pauly ( Rheydt )
Gates	1: 0 Anthony Yeboah (10th) 1: 1 Frank Schulz (51st) 2: 1 Anthony Yeboah (76th)
1. FC Saarbrücken	Alfred Wahlen - Adrian Spyrka - Wenanty Fuhl , Nasko Jelev - Eugen Hach , Kurt Knoll , Norbert Schlegel , Florian Gothe (76th Gernot Ruof ), Michael Nushöhr - Anthony Yeboah , Reiner Geyer (68th Manfred Dum ) Trainer: Klaus Schlappner(C)
Eintracht Frankfurt	Uli Stein - Manfred Binz - Dieter Schlindwein , Dietmar Roth (30th Thomas Lasser ) - Ralf Sievers , Frank Schulz , Karl-Heinz Körbel , Heinz Gründel , Stefan Studer - Janusz Turowski (54th Dieter Eckstein ), Jørn Andersen Trainer: Jörg Berger(C)
yellow cards	Eugen Hach - Dietmar Roth, Heinz Gründel, Frank Schulz
References	none - Thomas Lasser

Climbers

1.	Fortuna Dusseldorf
	Uwe Dignaß (1 / -), Jörg Schmadtke (37 / -) - Sven Backhaus ( 24/3 ), Ralf Loose (37/1), Karl Werner ( 37/2 ), Rudolf Wojtowicz (25 / -) - Michael Büskens (1 / -), Pavel Chaloupka ( 15/5 ), Christian Heide (17 / -), Andreas Kaiser (32 / -), Michael Kimmel (21 / -), Dirk Krümpelmann ( 35/7 ), Petr Rada (33 / 1), Michael Schütz (33/4), Jörg Spillmann (1 / -), Richard Walz (31/8) - Sven Demandt (38/35), Bernd Klotz (22/5), Michael Preetz (31/11 ), Thomas Seeliger (14 / -), Peter Radojewski (7 / -) plus one own goal each from Brinkmann and Zeravica (both VfL Osnabrück) and Reiss (1. FSV Mainz 05) Coach : Aleksandar Ristić

2.	FC 08 Homburg / Saar
	Uwe Radmacher (1 / -), Klaus Scherer (37 / -) - Andreas Hentrich (17 / -), Christian Herrmann ( 36/2 ), Frank Lebong (7 / -), Alexander Quirin (1 / -), Denni Strich (26 / -), Torsten Wohlert ( 26/3 ), Roman Wójcicki ( 34/7 ) - Andreas Ellguth ( 32/1 ), Lars Ellmerich ( 31/8 ), Thomas Gerstner (35/4), Guido Hoffmann (33 / 5), Krzysztof Kajrys ( 27/4 ), Jörg Merkel (1 / -), Frank Ockert (13 / -), Christian Streich ( 21/1 ) - Matthias Baranowski ( 20/6 ), Pierre Essers ( 28/1 ), Borje Gjurev ( 14/2 ), Bernd Gries ( 7/1 ), Daniel Jurgeleit ( 32/9 ), Thomas Reiland (13 / -) plus an own goal by Pospich (Eintracht Braunschweig) Coach : Slobodan Cendic (1st – 32nd matchday), Gerd Schwickert (from 33rd matchday) remained without commitment : Thorsten Lahm , Volker Ecker, Frank Hafner

Individual evidence

Kicker sports magazine : born in 1989 , Olympia-Verlag GmbH, ISSN

2nd Bundesliga 1988/89

master	Fortuna Dusseldorf
Climbers	Fortuna Düsseldorf FC 08 Homburg
Relegation ↑	1.FC Saarbrücken (0-2 and 2-1 against Eintracht Frankfurt )
Relegated	Kickers Offenbach Viktoria Aschaffenburg 1. FSV Mainz 05 SG Union Solingen
Teams	20th
Games	380 + 2 relegation games
Gates	1,108 (ø 2.92 per game)
spectator	2,304,719 (ø 6065 per game)
Top scorer	Sven Demandt ( Fortuna Düsseldorf )
← 2nd Bundesliga 1987/88 2nd Bundesliga 1989/90 →
↑ Bundesliga 1988/89 Oberliga Bayern League 1988/89 Baden-Württemberg 1988/89 Berlin 1988/89 Hesse 1988/89 North 1988/89 North Rhine 1988/89 Southwest 1988/89 Westphalia 1988/89 ↓