The 2nd Bundesliga also started a new season in the summer of 2024 – it has the number 51. When did the 2nd League 24/25 start? What does the game plan look like? We provide you with the most important information about the 2nd Bundesliga.
Start of the 2nd Bundesliga 2024/2025 – When was the opening game
The start of the 2nd Bundesliga was set by the DFL for Friday, August 2nd, 2024. On this day, the opening game of the 2nd Bundesliga took place at 6:30 p.m. between Cologne and HSV in the Rheinenergiestadion in Cologne.
Schedule of the 2nd Bundesliga 2024/25: All dates at a glance
The DFB and DFL published the framework schedule at the end of October 2023. After the start of the 2nd Bundesliga on August 2nd, 2024, the season with its 34 match days and a winter break will last until Sunday, May 18th, 2025. Here is an overview of the relevant dates for the coming season:
- 1st – 17th matchday: August 2nd to December 22nd, 2024
- Winter break: December 23, 2024 to January 16, 2025
- 18th – 34th matchday: January 17th to May 18th, 2025
- Relegation: May 22/23 and May 26/27, 2025
The complete schedule for the 2nd Bundesliga is now available. Here he is.
2. Bundesliga 2024/25: These teams are there
18 teams will play in the 2nd league in 2024/25. Which ones are they?
The two direct relegates from the 2023/24 Bundesliga:
- 1. FC Cologne
- SV Darmstadt 98
The twelve teams in places 4 to 15 in the 2023/24 season:
- Hamburger SV
- Karlsruhe SC
- Hannover 96
- SC Paderborn 07
- SpVgg Greuther Fürth
- Hertha BSC
- FC Schalke 04
- SV Elversberg
- 1. FC Nuremberg
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- 1. FC Magdeburg
- Eintracht Braunschweig
The champion and the runner-up of the 3rd league 2023/24:
- SSV Ulm 1846
- Prussia Münster
After the relegation we were joined by:
- Fortuna Düsseldorf (lost relegation to the 1st Bundesliga against VfL Bochum)
- SSV Jahn Regensburg (won the relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga against Wehen Wiesbaden)
Table of the 2nd Bundesliga 2023/2024: results and qualifications
Things go up and down between the different German football leagues in a similar way to the elevators in a large office building. Here are the transfer options to go upstairs or to the basement:
- 1st place in the table: champions of the 2nd Bundesliga, direct promotion to the 1st Bundesliga
- 2nd place in the table: Direct promotion to the 1st Bundesliga
- 3rd place in the table: entry into the relegation for the 1st Bundesliga
- 16th place in the table: entry into the relegation for the 3rd league
- 17th and 18th place in the table: direct relegation to the 3rd league
Who will lead the 2nd Bundesliga table in the 2024/2025 season remains exciting. Here we have the final score of the 2nd Bundesliga including the points from the 2023/2024 season for you:
Table of the 2nd Bundesliga 2023/2024:
- FC St. Pauli, 69 points
- Holstein Kiel, 68 points
- Fortuna Düsseldorf, 63 points
- Hamburger SV, 58 points
- Karlsruher SV, 55 points
- Hannover 96, 52 points
- SC Paderborn 07, 52 points
- SpVgg Greuther Fürth, 50 points
- Hertha BSC, 48 points
- FC Schalke 04, 43 points
- SV Elversberg, 43 points
- 1. FC Nuremberg, 40 points
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 39 points
- 1. FC Magdeburg, 38 points
- Eintracht Braunschweig, 38 points
- SV Wehen Wiesbaden, 32 points
- Hansa Rostock, 31 points
- VfL Osnabrück, 28 points
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