| Season | 2010–11 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Hertha BSC |
| Promoted | Hertha BSC FC Augsburg |
| Relegated | VfL Osnabrück (via play-off) Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Arminia Bielefeld |
| Matches | 306 |
| Goals | 835 (2.73 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Nils Petersen(25 goals) |
| Biggest home win | E. Cottbus 6–0E. Aue F. D'dorf 6–0FSV F'furt |
| Biggest away win | A. Aachen 0–5Hertha Paderborn 0–5E. Cottbus |
| Highest scoring | E. Cottbus 5–5Karlsruhe |
| Average attendance | 14,539[1] |
2011–12 → | |
The2010–11 2. Bundesliga was the 37th season of the2. Bundesliga, Germany's second tier of itsfootball league system. The season started on the weekend of 21 August 2010 and ended with the last games on 15 May 2011. The winter break was in effect between weekends around 18 December 2010 and 15 January 2011.[2]
As in the previous year, the league comprise the teams placed fourth through fifteenth of the2009–10 season, the worst two teams from the2009–10 Bundesliga, the best two teams from the2009–10 3. Liga, the losers of theBundesliga relegation play-off between the 16th-placed Bundesliga team and the third-placed 2. Bundesliga team and the winners of the2. Bundesliga relegation play-off between the 16th-placed 2. Bundesliga team and the third-placed 3. Liga team.
2009–10 2. Bundesliga champions1. FC Kaiserslautern, and runners-upFC St. Pauli were promoted to theBundesliga. They were replaced byVfL Bochum andHertha BSC who finished 17th and 18th respectively in the2009–10 Bundesliga season.
TuS Koblenz andRot-Weiß Ahlen were relegated after the2009–10 season. They were replaced by2009–10 3. Liga championsVfL Osnabrück and runners-upFC Erzgebirge Aue.
Two further spots were available through relegation/promotion play-offs and taken byFC Augsburg andFC Ingolstadt 04. Augsburg lost in their promotion play-off against 16th placed Bundesliga team1. FC Nürnberg and thus retained their 2. Bundesliga spot, while Ingolstadt earned promotion from the 3. Liga by defeatingFC Hansa Rostock.
FC Ingolstadt 04 moved into the newly builtAudi Sportpark for this season after spending their previous seasons atTuja-Stadion.Fortuna Düsseldorf increased the capacity of theirEsprit Arena from 51,500 to 54,400 by converting some seating areas into standing terraces. Also, the stadia ofSpVgg Greuther Fürth andMSV Duisburg were renamed due to new naming rights contracts.
Notes:
| Team | Outgoing manager(s) | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hertha BSC |  Friedhelm Funkel | End of contract | 30 June 2010[5] | Off-season | Markus Babbel | 1 July 2010[6] |
| VfL Bochum | Dariusz Wosz | End of tenure as caretaker | 30 June 2010[7] | Friedhelm Funkel | 1 July 2010[8] | |
| Arminia Bielefeld | Detlev Dammeier Frank EulbergJörg Böhme | End of tenure as caretakers | 30 June 2010[9] | Christian Ziege | 1 July 2010[10] | |
| TSV 1860 Munich | Ewald Lienen | Mutual Consent | 30 June 2010[11] | Reiner Maurer | 1 July 2010[12] | |
| Karlsruher SC | Markus Schupp | Sacked | 31 October 2010[13] | 15th | Uwe Rapolder | 22 November 2010[14] |
| FC Ingolstadt 04 | Michael Wiesinger | Sacked | 6 November 2010[15] | 17th | Benno Möhlmann | 7 November 2010[16] |
| Arminia Bielefeld | Christian Ziege | Sacked | 6 November 2010[17] | 18th | Ewald Lienen | 7 November 2010[18] |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | Hans-Günter Bruns | Sacked | 22 February 2011[19] | 16th | Theo Schneider | 24 February 2011[20] |
| Karlsruher SC | Uwe Rapolder | Sacked | 1 March 2011[21] | 16th | Rainer Scharinger | 2 March 2011[22] |
| VfL Osnabrück | Karsten Baumann | Sacked | 21 March 2011[23] | 16th |  Joe Enochs | 21 March 2011[24] |
| VfL Osnabrück | Joe Enochs | End of tenure as caretaker | 11 April 2011 | 16th | Heiko Flottmann | 11 April 2011[25] |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hertha BSC(C, P) | 34 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 69 | 28 | +41 | 74 | Promotion toBundesliga |
| 2 | FC Augsburg(P) | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 58 | 27 | +31 | 65 | |
| 3 | VfL Bochum | 34 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 49 | 35 | +14 | 65 | Qualification forpromotion play-offs |
| 4 | Greuther Fürth | 34 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 47 | 27 | +20 | 61 | |
| 5 | Erzgebirge Aue | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 40 | 37 | +3 | 56 | |
| 6 | Energie Cottbus | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 65 | 52 | +13 | 55 | |
| 7 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 34 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 49 | 39 | +10 | 53 | |
| 8 | MSV Duisburg | 34 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 53 | 38 | +15 | 52 | |
| 9 | 1860 Munich | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 36 | +14 | 50[a] | |
| 10 | Alemannia Aachen | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 58 | 60 | −2 | 48 | |
| 11 | Union Berlin | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 39 | 45 | −6 | 42 | |
| 12 | SC Paderborn | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 32 | 47 | −15 | 39 | |
| 13 | FSV Frankfurt | 34 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 42 | 54 | −12 | 38 | |
| 14 | FC Ingolstadt | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 40 | 46 | −6 | 37 | |
| 15 | Karlsruher SC | 34 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 46 | 72 | −26 | 33 | |
| 16 | VfL Osnabrück(R) | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 40 | 62 | −22 | 31 | Qualification forrelegation play-offs |
| 17 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen(R) | 34 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 30 | 65 | −35 | 28 | Relegation to3. Liga |
| 18 | Arminia Bielefeld(R) | 34 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 28 | 65 | −37 | 17[b] |
| Home \ Away | AAC | AUE | FCA | BSC | UNB | DSC | BOC | FCE | DUI | F95 | FSV | SGF | FCI | KSC | M60 | RWO | OSN | SCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alemannia Aachen | — | 1–5 | 1–3 | 0–5 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 |
| Erzgebirge Aue | 2–1 | — | 3–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| FC Augsburg | 1–2 | 2–1 | — | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 |
| Hertha BSC | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | — | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 2–0 |
| Union Berlin | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 0–2 |
| Arminia Bielefeld | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | — | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| VfL Bochum | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 3–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| Energie Cottbus | 3–3 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 5–5 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 |
| MSV Duisburg | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | — | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | — | 6–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| FSV Frankfurt | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–4 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 |
| Greuther Fürth | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| FC Ingolstadt | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 |
| Karlsruher SC | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–6 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–4 | — | 2–4 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| 1860 Munich | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 5–1 | — | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| VfL Osnabrück | 1–3 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | — | 2–2 |
| SC Paderborn | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–5 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 0–4 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | — |
VfL Osnabrück, having finished the season in 16th place, faced 3rd-placed3. Liga sideDynamo Dresden for a two-legged play-off. Dresden, who played at home first, won 4–2 on aggregate.
| Dynamo Dresden | 1–1 | VfL Osnabrück |
|---|---|---|
Koch 76' | Report(in German) | 66' (o.g.)Jungnickel |
| VfL Osnabrück | 1–3 (a. e. t.) | Dynamo Dresden |
|---|---|---|
| Mauersberger 45' | Report(in German) | 61'Fiel 94'Schahin 119'Koch |
Dynamo Dresden won 4–2 on aggregate; Dynamo promoted, Osnabrück relegated
Top goalscorers[edit]Source:kicker (German)
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