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| Season | 2025–26 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 1 August 2025 – 16 May 2026 |
| Matches | 240 |
| Goals | 754 (3.14 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Lars Gindorf (16 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Cottbus 5–0Stuttgart Mannheim 6–1Essen Verl 5–0Ulm Wiesbaden 6–1Duisburg |
| Biggest away win | Ulm 0–5Rostock Havelse 0–5Munich |
| Highest scoring | Havelse 2–6 Ingolstadt Ulm 3–5Osnabrück |
| Longest winning run | 6 games Duisburg |
| Longest unbeaten run | 10 games Duisburg |
| Longest winless run | 14 games Havelse |
| Longest losing run | 4 games Schweinfurt |
| Highest attendance | 28,119 Duisburg vsAachen |
| Lowest attendance | 300 Stuttgart vWiesbaden Stuttgart v Havelse |
| Attendance | 2,467,111 (10,280 per match) |
2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 15 February 2026. | |
The2025–26 3. Liga is the 18th season of the3. Liga. It started on 1 August 2025 and will conclude on 16 May 2026.[1]
The fixtures were announced on 3 July 2025.[2]
1 TSV Havelse will play their home matches at the Eilenriedestadion since their home stadium, theWilhelm-Langrehr-Stadion inGarbsen, did not meet 3. Liga standards. They will move to the Heinz von Heiden Arena for high-risk matches.[3]
2 VfB Stuttgart II will play their home matches at the WIRmachenDRUCK Arena since their home stadium, the Robert-Schlienz-Stadion inStuttgart, did not meet 3. Liga standards.[4]
| Team | Outgoing | Manner | Exit date | Position in table | Incoming | Incoming date | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced on | Departed on | Announced on | Arrived on | ||||||
| SC Verl | End of contract | 2 April 2025 | 30 June 2025 | Pre-season | 20 May 2025 | 1 July 2025 | [5][6] | ||
| Viktoria Köln | Signed bySV Sandhausen | 7 May 2025 | 29 May 2025 | [7][8] | |||||
| Jahn Regensburg | End of caretaker | 8 May 2025 | 23 May 2025 | [9][10] | |||||
| VfL Osnabrück | End of caretaker | 30 May 2025 | 17 June 2025 | [11][12] | |||||
| TSG Hoffenheim II | Signed bySV Elversberg | 5 June 2025 | 9 June 2025 | [13][14] | |||||
| VfB Stuttgart II | Signed by1. FC Magdeburg | 15 June 2025 | 15 June 2025 | [15] | |||||
| Alemannia Aachen | Signed byEintracht Braunschweig | 17 June 2025 | 25 June 2025 | [16][17] | |||||
| Waldhof Mannheim | Sacked | 11 August 2025 | 14th | 12 August 2025 | [18][19] | ||||
| SSV Ulm | 18 September 2025 | 15th | 18 September 2025 | [20][21] | |||||
| 1860 Munich | 28 September 2025 | 10th | 28 September 2025 | [22][23] | |||||
| End of tenure as caretaker | 9 October 2025 | 13th | 9 October 2025 | [24] | |||||
| Alemannia Aachen | Sacked | 20 October 2025 | 18th | 20 October 2025 | [25] | ||||
| Wehen Wiesbaden | 25 October 2025 | 11th | 25 October 2025 | [26] | |||||
| Alemannia Aachen | End of caretaker tenure | 6 November 2025 | 6 November 2025 | [27] | |||||
| Wehen Wiesbaden | 10 November 2025 | 13th | 10 November 2025 | [28] | |||||
| SSV Ulm | Sacked | 10 November 2025 | 18th | 16 November 2025 | [29][30] | ||||
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | Mutual consent | 25 November 2025 | 13th | 25 November 2025 | [31] | ||||
| Erzgebirge Aue | Sacked | 31 January 2026 | 17th | 3 February 2026 | [32][33] | ||||
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 11 February 2026 | 16th | 11 February 2026 | [34] | |||||
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energie Cottbus | 24 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 49 | 37 | +12 | 45 | Promotion to2. Bundesliga and qualification forDFB-Pokal |
| 2 | SC Verl | 24 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 59 | 35 | +24 | 44 | |
| 3 | MSV Duisburg | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 43 | 31 | +12 | 43 | Qualification forpromotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal |
| 4 | VfL Osnabrück | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 35 | 24 | +11 | 43 | Qualification for DFB-Pokal |
| 5 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 24 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 48 | 38 | +10 | 43 | |
| 6 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 24 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 37 | 26 | +11 | 41 | |
| 7 | Hansa Rostock | 24 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 41 | 27 | +14 | 40 | |
| 8 | 1860 Munich | 24 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 39 | 35 | +4 | 36 | |
| 9 | Waldhof Mannheim | 24 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 40 | 43 | −3 | 36 | |
| 10 | FC Ingolstadt | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 41 | 32 | +9 | 33 | |
| 11 | TSG Hoffenheim II[a] | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 46 | 42 | +4 | 32 | |
| 12 | Viktoria Köln | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 33 | 32 | +1 | 32 | |
| 13 | VfB Stuttgart II[a] | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 29 | 39 | −10 | 32 | |
| 14 | Alemannia Aachen | 24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 39 | 45 | −6 | 29 | |
| 15 | Jahn Regensburg | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 31 | 37 | −6 | 28 | |
| 16 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 24 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 32 | 35 | −3 | 27 | |
| 17 | Erzgebirge Aue | 24 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 27 | 38 | −11 | 24 | Relegation toRegionalliga |
| 18 | SSV Ulm | 24 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 32 | 50 | −18 | 22 | |
| 19 | TSV Havelse | 24 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 33 | 52 | −19 | 19 | |
| 20 | 1. FC Schweinfurt | 24 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 56 | −36 | 10 |
| Home \ Away | AAC | AUE | COT | DUI | ESS | HAV | HOF | ING | KÖL | MAN | MUN | OSN | REG | ROS | SAA | SCH | STU | ULM | VER | WIE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alemannia Aachen | — | 0–1 | 3–3 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–3 | ||||||||
| Erzgebirge Aue | — | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 4–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | |||||||
| Energie Cottbus | 3–2 | 2–1 | — | 3–2 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 5–0 | ||||||
| MSV Duisburg | 3–1 | 0–0 | — | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 3–1 | ||||||||
| Rot-Weiss Essen | 2–3 | 2–3 | — | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | ||||||
| TSV Havelse | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 4–0 | 2–6 | 2–3 | 0–5 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | ||||||
| TSG Hoffenheim II | 2–3 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 3–1 | |||||||
| FC Ingolstadt | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | — | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | ||||||||
| Viktoria Köln | 2–2 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | — | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–5 | ||||||
| Waldhof Mannheim | 0–3 | 6–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | — | 3–1 | 1–4 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | |||||||
| 1860 Munich | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–5 | 2–2 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | |||||||
| VfL Osnabrück | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 1–1 | — | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | |||||||
| Jahn Regensburg | 0–4 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | — | 0–3 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | ||||||||
| Hansa Rostock | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | ||||||
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–4 | |||||||
| 1. FC Schweinfurt | 1–5 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | — | 1–2 | 0–1 | |||||||
| VfB Stuttgart II | 1–3 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 3–0 | — | 1–1 | 0–0 | ||||||||
| SSV Ulm | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 3–5 | 2–1 | 0–5 | 5–1 | 1–3 | — | 0–1 | |||||||
| SC Verl | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 5–2 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 5–0 | — | 2–2 | |||||||
| Wehen Wiesbaden | 1–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 6–1 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | — |
| Player | Club | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alemannia Aachen | Rot-Weiss Essen | 3–2 (A) | 31 August 2025 | |
| Alemannia Aachen | Schweinfurt 05 | 5–1 (A) | 27 September 2025 | |
| Waldhof Mannheim | Rot-Weiss Essen | 6–1 (H) | ||
| Rot-Weiss Essen | TSV Havelse | 4–1 (H) | 24 January 2026 | |
| Wehen Wiesbaden | MSV Duisburg | 6–1 (H) | 14 February 2026 |