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| Season | 2025–26 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 1 August 2025 – 16 May 2026 |
| Matches | 150 |
| Goals | 466 (3.11 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Lars Gindorf (12 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Cottbus 5–0Stuttgart Mannheim 6–1Essen Verl 5–0Ulm |
| Biggest away win | Ulm 0–5Rostock |
| Highest scoring | Wiesbaden 3–4 Essen Havelse 2–6 Ingolstadt |
| 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 | 27,717 Duisburg vs Essen |
| Lowest attendance | 300 Stuttgart vWiesbaden |
| Attendance | 1,571,849 (10,479 per match) |
2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 23 November 2025. | |
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 |  Alexander Ende | End of contract | 2 April 2025 | 30 June 2025 | Pre-season | Tobias Strobl | 20 May 2025 | 1 July 2025 | [5][6] |
| Viktoria Köln | Olaf Janßen | Signed bySV Sandhausen | 7 May 2025 | Marian Wilhelm | 29 May 2025 | [7][8] | |||
| Jahn Regensburg | Munier Raychouni | End of caretaker | 8 May 2025 | Michael Wimmer | 23 May 2025 | [9][10] | |||
| VfL Osnabrück | Marco Antwerpen | End of caretaker | 30 May 2025 | Timo Schultz | 17 June 2025 | [11][12] | |||
| TSG Hoffenheim II | Vincent Wagner | Signed bySV Elversberg | 5 June 2025 | Stefan Kleineheismann | 9 June 2025 | [13][14] | |||
| VfB Stuttgart II | Markus Fiedler | Signed by1. FC Magdeburg | 15 June 2025 | Nico Willig | 15 June 2025 | [15] | |||
| Alemannia Aachen | Heiner Backhaus | Signed byEintracht Braunschweig | 17 June 2025 | Benedetto Muzzicato | 25 June 2025 | [16][17] | |||
| Waldhof Mannheim |  Dominik Glawogger | Sacked | 11 August 2025 | 14th |  Luc Holtz | 12 August 2025 | [18][19] | ||
| SSV Ulm | Robert Lechleiter | 18 September 2025 | 15th | Moritz Glasbrenner | 18 September 2025 | [20][21] | |||
| 1860 Munich | Patrick Glöckner | 28 September 2025 | 10th | Alper Kayabunar | 28 September 2025 | [22][23] | |||
| Alper Kayabunar | End of tenure as caretaker | 9 October 2025 | 13th | Markus Kauczinski | 9 October 2025 | [24] | |||
| Alemannia Aachen | Benedetto Muzzicato | Sacked | 20 October 2025 | 18th | Ilyas Trenz (caretaker) | 20 October 2025 | [25] | ||
| Wehen Wiesbaden | Nils Döring | 25 October 2025 | 11th | Frank Steinmetz (caretaker) | 25 October 2025 | [26] | |||
| Alemannia Aachen | Ilyas Trenz | End of caretaker tenure | 6 November 2025 |  Mersad Selimbegović | 6 November 2025 | [27] | |||
| Wehen Wiesbaden | Frank Steinmetz | 10 November 2025 | 13th | Daniel Scherning | 10 November 2025 | [28] | |||
| SSV Ulm | Moritz Glasbrenner | Sacked | 10 November 2025 | 18th |  Pavel Dochev | 16 November 2025 | [29][30] | ||
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energie Cottbus | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 33 | 24 | +9 | 29 | Promotion to2. Bundesliga and qualification forDFB-Pokal |
| 2 | MSV Duisburg | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 18 | +9 | 29 | |
| 3 | VfL Osnabrück | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 11 | +8 | 29 | Qualification forpromotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal |
| 4 | SC Verl | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 36 | 23 | +13 | 27 | Qualification for DFB-Pokal |
| 5 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 25 | +4 | 26 | |
| 6 | TSG Hoffenheim II[a] | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 21 | +11 | 24 | |
| 7 | Hansa Rostock | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 16 | +8 | 24 | |
| 8 | Viktoria Köln | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 21 | +2 | 23 | |
| 9 | Waldhof Mannheim | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 23 | +2 | 22 | |
| 10 | VfB Stuttgart II[a] | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 22 | −1 | 22 | |
| 11 | 1860 Munich | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 25 | −2 | 21 | |
| 12 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 20 | |
| 13 | Jahn Regensburg | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 20 | |
| 14 | Alemannia Aachen | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 24 | 25 | −1 | 19 | |
| 15 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 18 | −1 | 19 | |
| 16 | FC Ingolstadt | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 22 | +2 | 17 | |
| 17 | Erzgebirge Aue | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 23 | −7 | 17 | Relegation toRegionalliga |
| 18 | SSV Ulm | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 20 | 35 | −15 | 13 | |
| 19 | TSV Havelse | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 33 | −15 | 8 | |
| 20 | 1. FC Schweinfurt | 15 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 37 | −26 | 6 |
| 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 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–3 | ||||||||||
| Erzgebirge Aue | — | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 4–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||||||||
| Energie Cottbus | 3–2 | 2–1 | — | 4–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–3 | 5–0 | ||||||||||||
| MSV Duisburg | — | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | ||||||||||||
| Rot-Weiss Essen | 2–3 | 2–3 | — | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | |||||||||||
| TSV Havelse | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 2–6 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | |||||||||||
| TSG Hoffenheim II | 1–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–4 | |||||||||||
| FC Ingolstadt | 1–2 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 4–1 | 0–0 | ||||||||||||
| Viktoria Köln | 4–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 2–0 | 1–5 | |||||||||||
| Waldhof Mannheim | 0–3 | 6–1 | 2–0 | — | 3–1 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | |||||||||||
| 1860 Munich | 3–0 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–5 | 2–2 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | |||||||||||
| VfL Osnabrück | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | |||||||||||
| Jahn Regensburg | 0–4 | 1–3 | 4–0 | — | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | ||||||||||||
| Hansa Rostock | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | — | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | |||||||||||
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–4 | ||||||||||||
| 1. FC Schweinfurt | 1–5 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | — | 1–2 | 0–1 | ||||||||||||
| VfB Stuttgart II | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 3–0 | — | 1–1 | 0–0 | ||||||||||||
| SSV Ulm | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–5 | 5–1 | 1–3 | — | ||||||||||||
| SC Verl | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 5–0 | — | 2–2 | ||||||||||||
| Wehen Wiesbaden | 1–2 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | — |
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lars Gindorf | Alemannia Aachen | 12 |
| 2 | Tolcay Ciğerci | Energie Cottbus | 10 |
| 3 | Erik Engelhardt | Energie Cottbus | 9 |
| 4 |  Ayoube Amaimouni-Echghouyab | TSG Hoffenheim II | 8 |
| Paul Hennrich | TSG Hoffenheim II | ||
| Lex-Tyger Lobinger | Viktoria Köln | ||
| Berkan Taz | SC Verl | ||
| 8 | Kai Brünker | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 7 |
| Florian Pick | 1. FC Saarbrücken | ||
| 10 | Felix Lohkemper | Waldhof Mannheim | 6 |
| Ryan Naderi | Hansa Rostock | ||
| David Otto | Viktoria Köln | ||
| Mika Schroers | SC Verl |
| Player | Club | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lars Gindorf | Alemannia Aachen | Rot-Weiss Essen | 3–2 (A) | 31 August 2025 |
| Mika Schroers | Alemannia Aachen | Schweinfurt 05 | 5–1 (A) | 27 September 2025 |
| Nicklas Shipnoski | Waldhof Mannheim | Rot-Weiss Essen | 6–1 (H) |
