2021–22 2. Bundesliga

The 2021–22 2. Bundesliga was the 48th season of the 2. Bundesliga. It began on 23 July 2021 and concluded on 15 May 2022.^[1]

2. Bundesliga

Season	2021–22
Dates	23 July 2021 – 15 May 2022
Champions	Schalke 04
Promoted	Schalke 04 Werder Bremen
Relegated	Dynamo Dresden (via play-off) Erzgebirge Aue FC Ingolstadt
Matches played	306
Goals scored	892 (2.92 per match)
Top goalscorer	Simon Terodde (30 goals)
Biggest home win	Darmstadt 6–0 Aue
Biggest away win	Sandhausen 1–6 Darmstadt Aue 0–5 Schalke Nürnberg 0–5 Ingolstadt Darmstadt 0–5 Hamburg
Highest scoring	Darmstadt 6–1 Ingolstadt Sandhausen 1–6 Darmstadt Schalke 5–2 Sandhausen Paderborn 3–4 Bremen Kiel 3–4 Paderborn Schalke 3–4 Rostock
Longest winning run	7 games Bremen
Longest unbeaten run	12 games Hamburg
Longest winless run	17 games Dresden
Longest losing run	5 games Dresden
Attendance	4,123,434 (13,475 per match)^[a]
← 2020–21 2022–23 →

The fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.^[2]

Teams

 

 

Aue

 

Bremen

 

Darmstadt

 

Dresden

 

Düsseldorf

 

Hamburg

 

Hannover

 

Heidenheim

 

Ingolstadt

 

Karlsruhe

 

Kiel

 

Nürnberg

 

Paderborn

 

Regensburg

 

Rostock

 

Sandhausen

 

Schalke 04

 

St. Pauli

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Locations of the 2021–22 2. Bundesliga teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2020–21 3. Liga	Relegated from 2020–21 Bundesliga	Promoted to 2021–22 Bundesliga	Relegated to 2021–22 3. Liga
Dynamo Dresden Hansa Rostock FC Ingolstadt	Werder Bremen Schalke 04	VfL Bochum Greuther Fürth	VfL Osnabrück Eintracht Braunschweig Würzburger Kickers

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Erzgebirge Aue	Aue-Bad Schlema	Erzgebirgsstadion	15,711
Werder Bremen	Bremen	Wohninvest Weserstadion	42,100
Darmstadt 98	Darmstadt	Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor	17,000
Dynamo Dresden	Dresden	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion	32,066
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Merkur Spiel-Arena	54,600
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Volksparkstadion	57,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	HDI-Arena	49,000
1. FC Heidenheim	Heidenheim	Voith-Arena	15,000
FC Ingolstadt	Ingolstadt	Audi Sportpark	15,000
Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	BBBank Wildpark	29,699
Holstein Kiel	Kiel	Holstein-Stadion	15,034
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Max-Morlock-Stadion	49,923
SC Paderborn	Paderborn	Benteler-Arena	15,000
Jahn Regensburg	Regensburg	Jahnstadion Regensburg	15,210
Hansa Rostock	Rostock	Ostseestadion	29,000
SV Sandhausen	Sandhausen	BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald	15,414
Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	62,271
FC St. Pauli	Hamburg	Millerntor-Stadion	29,546

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
				Front	Sleeve
Erzgebirge Aue	Pavel Dochev	Martin Männel	Nike	WätaS Wärmetauscher Sachsen	Leonhardt Group
Werder Bremen	Ole Werner	Ömer Toprak	Umbro	Wiesenhof	Ammerländer
Darmstadt 98	Torsten Lieberknecht	Fabian Holland	Craft	Software AG	Dialog Minds
Dynamo Dresden	Guerino Capretti	Sebastian Mai	Umbro^[3]	ALL-INKL.COM	AOK Plus
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Daniel Thioune	Adam Bodzek	Adidas	Henkel	Toyo Tires
Hamburger SV	Tim Walter	Sebastian Schonlau	Adidas	Orthomol	Popp Feinkost
Hannover 96	Christoph Dabrowski	Marcel Franke	Macron	BRAINHOUSE247	HDI
1. FC Heidenheim	Frank Schmidt	Patrick Mainka	Nike	MHP	Voith
FC Ingolstadt	Rüdiger Rehm	Stefan Kutschke	Puma	PROSIS	Audi Schanzer Fußballschule
Karlsruher SC	Christian Eichner	Jérôme Gondorf	Macron	GEM (H), CG Elementum (A)	E.G.O.
Holstein Kiel	Marcel Rapp	Hauke Wahl	Puma	Famila	Lotto Schleswig-Holstein
1. FC Nürnberg	Robert Klauß	Enrico Valentini	Adidas	Nürnberger Versicherung	Exasol
SC Paderborn	Lukas Kwasniok	Ron Schallenberg	Saller	Bremer AG	sky Personal
Jahn Regensburg	Mersad Selimbegović	Benedikt Gimber	Saller	Netto	Wolf GmbH
Hansa Rostock	Jens Härtel	Markus Kolke	Nike	Apex Group	SoftClean
SV Sandhausen	Alois Schwartz	Dennis Diekmeier	Macron	Layenberger	Office Mix
Schalke 04	Mike Büskens	Danny Latza	Umbro	Vivawest^[b]	Harfid
FC St. Pauli	Timo Schultz	Philipp Ziereis	DIIY^[7]	Congstar	Astra Brauerei

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Exit date		Position in table	Incoming	Incoming date		Ref.
			Announced on	Departed on			Announced on	Arrived on
SC Paderborn	Steffen Baumgart	End of contract	8 April 2021	30 June 2021	Pre-season	Lukas Kwasniok	17 May 2021	1 July 2021	^[8]^[9]
Hannover 96	Kenan Koçak	Mutual consent	28 April 2021			Jan Zimmermann	10 May 2021		^[10]^[11]
Hamburger SV	Horst Hrubesch (interim)	End of caretaker spell	3 May 2021			Tim Walter	25 May 2021		^[12]^[13]
Werder Bremen	Thomas Schaaf		16 May 2021			Markus Anfang	1 June 2021		^[14]^[15]
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Uwe Rösler	End of contract	24 May 2021			Christian Preußer	27 May 2021		^[16]^[17]
Erzgebirge Aue	Dirk Schuster	Mutual consent	28 May 2021			Aleksey Shpilevsky	7 June 2021		^[18]^[19]
Darmstadt 98	Markus Anfang	Signed for Werder Bremen	1 June 2021			Torsten Lieberknecht	8 June 2021		^[15]^[20]
FC Ingolstadt	Tomas Oral	End of contract	2 June 2021			Roberto Pätzold	6 June 2021		^[21]^[22]
Erzgebirge Aue	Aleksey Shpilevsky	Sacked	19 September 2021		18th	Marc Hensel /   Carsten Müller	21 September 2021		^[23]^[24]
Holstein Kiel	Ole Werner	Resigned	20 September 2021		15th	Dirk Bremser (interim)	20 September 2021		^[25]
SV Sandhausen	Gerhard Kleppinger /   Stefan Kulovits	Sacked	21 September 2021		16th	Alois Schwartz	22 September 2021		^[26]
FC Ingolstadt	Roberto Pätzold	Sacked	26 September 2021		17th	André Schubert	26 September 2021		^[27]
Holstein Kiel	Dirk Bremser (interim)	End of caretaker spell	1 October 2021		14th	Marcel Rapp	1 October 2021		^[28]
Werder Bremen	Markus Anfang	Resigned	20 November 2021		8th	Danijel Zenković (interim)	20 November 2021		^[29]
	Danijel Zenković (interim)	End of caretaker spell	28 November 2021		10th	Ole Werner	28 November 2021		^[30]
Hannover 96	Jan Zimmermann	Sacked	29 November 2021		16th	Christoph Dabrowski^[c]	1 December 2021		^[31]^[32]^[33]
FC Ingolstadt	André Schubert	Sacked	8 December 2021		18th	Rüdiger Rehm	8 December 2021		^[34]^[35]
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Christian Preußer	Sacked	8 February 2022		15th	Daniel Thioune	8 February 2022		^[36]
Erzgebirge Aue	Marc Hensel /   Carsten Müller	Stepping back in coaching team	23 February 2022		18th	Pavel Dochev	23 February 2022		^[37]
Dynamo Dresden	Alexander Schmidt	Sacked	1 March 2022		14th	Guerino Capretti	2 March 2022		^[38]^[39]
Schalke 04	Dimitrios Grammozis	Sacked	6 March 2022		6th	Mike Büskens	7 March 2022		^[40]^[41]

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Schalke 04 (C, P)	34	20	5	9	72	44	+28	65	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	Werder Bremen (P)	34	18	9	7	65	43	+22	63
3	Hamburger SV	34	16	12	6	67	35	+32	60	Qualification for promotion play-offs
4	Darmstadt 98	34	18	6	10	71	46	+25	60
5	FC St. Pauli	34	16	9	9	61	46	+15	57
6	1. FC Heidenheim	34	15	7	12	43	45	−2	52
7	SC Paderborn	34	13	12	9	56	44	+12	51
8	1. FC Nürnberg	34	14	9	11	49	49	0	51
9	Holstein Kiel	34	12	9	13	46	54	−8	45
10	Fortuna Düsseldorf	34	11	11	12	45	42	+3	44
11	Hannover 96	34	11	9	14	35	49	−14	42
12	Karlsruher SC	34	9	14	11	54	55	−1	41
13	Hansa Rostock	34	10	11	13	41	52	−11	41
14	SV Sandhausen	34	10	11	13	42	54	−12	41
15	Jahn Regensburg	34	10	10	14	50	51	−1	40
16	Dynamo Dresden (R)	34	7	11	16	33	46	−13	32	Qualification for relegation play-offs
17	Erzgebirge Aue (R)	34	6	8	20	32	72	−40	26	Relegation to 3. Liga
18	FC Ingolstadt (R)	34	4	9	21	30	65	−35	21

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.^[42]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AUE	BRE	DAR	DRE	DÜS	HAM	HAN	HEI	ING	KAR	KIE	NÜR	PAD	REG	ROS	SAN	SCH	STP
Erzgebirge Aue	—	0–3	1–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–3	2–0	1–0	0–3	2–3	1–3	1–4	1–0	2–2	1–3	0–5	0–0
Werder Bremen	4–0	—	1–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–3	1–1	1–4	2–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–1
Darmstadt 98	6–0	3–0	—	1–0	1–3	0–5	4–0	3–2	6–1	2–2	3–1	2–0	3–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	2–5	4–0
Dynamo Dresden	0–1	3–0	0–1	—	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–4	0–1	1–2	1–1
Fortuna Düsseldorf	3–1	2–3	2–1	2–2	—	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	3–1	2–2	0–1	2–3	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–1	1–1
Hamburger SV	4–0	2–3	2–2	1–1	1–1	—	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	1–1	2–2	1–2	4–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–1
Hannover 96	1–1	1–4	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	—	1–0	3–2	2–0	2–0	0–3	0–0	1–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–0
1. FC Heidenheim	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–3	0–0	3–1	—	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–4
FC Ingolstadt	3–2	0–3	0–2	3–0	1–2	0–4	1–2	1–2	—	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–3	1–3
Karlsruher SC	2–1	0–0	3–0	2–2	2–2	1–1	4–0	3–2	2–2	—	2–2	4–1	2–4	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–1	1–3
Holstein Kiel	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–3	1–1	1–0	0–2	—	3–0	3–4	0–3	0–2	2–2	0–3	3–0
1. FC Nürnberg	0–0	1–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	4–0	0–5	2–1	2–1	—	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–4	1–2	2–3
SC Paderborn	3–3	3–4	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–2	2–2	—	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	3–1
Jahn Regensburg	3–2	2–3	0–2	3–1	0–0	2–4	3–1	0–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	2–2	1–0	—	2–3	3–0	4–1	2–3
Hansa Rostock	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–3	2–1	2–3	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–3	3–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	—	1–1	0–2	1–0
SV Sandhausen	2–0	2–2	1–6	2–1	0–2	1–1	3–1	1–3	0–2	0–0	3–1	1–2	1–1	0–3	0–1	—	1–2	1–1
Schalke 04	1–1	1–4	2–4	3–0	3–1	1–3	2–1	3–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	3–4	5–2	—	3–2
FC St. Pauli	2–2	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–0	3–2	0–3	1–0	4–1	3–1	3–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	4–0	3–1	2–1	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs took place on 20 and 24 May 2022.^[1][43]

Overview

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dynamo Dresden	0–2	1. FC Kaiserslautern	0–0	0–2

Matches

All times Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

20 May 2022

20:30

1. FC Kaiserslautern	0–0	Dynamo Dresden
	Report

Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern

Attendance: 46,179

Referee: Felix Brych

24 May 2022

20:30

Dynamo Dresden	0–2	1. FC Kaiserslautern
	Report	Hanslik   59' Hercher   90+2'

Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden

Attendance: 30,530

Referee: Daniel Siebert

1. FC Kaiserslautern won 2–0 on aggregate

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[44]
1	Simon Terodde	Schalke 04	30
2	Robert Glatzel	Hamburger SV	22
3	Marvin Ducksch	Hannover 96 Werder Bremen	21
4	Niclas Füllkrug	Werder Bremen	19
	Philipp Hofmann	Karlsruher SC
6	Guido Burgstaller	FC St. Pauli	18
7	Luca Pfeiffer	Darmstadt 98	17
	John Verhoek	Hansa Rostock
9	Phillip Tietz	Darmstadt 98	15
10	Sven Michel	SC Paderborn	14

Number of teams by state

Position	State	Number	Teams
1	Baden-Württemberg	3	1. FC Heidenheim, Karlsruher SC and SV Sandhausen
	Bavaria	3	FC Ingolstadt 04, 1. FC Nürnberg and Jahn Regensburg
	North Rhine-Westphalia	3	Schalke 04, Fortuna Düsseldorf and SC Paderborn
4	Hamburg	2	Hamburger SV and FC St. Pauli
	Saxony	2	Erzgebirge Aue and Dynamo Dresden
6	Bremen	1	Werder Bremen
	Hesse	1	Darmstadt 98
	Lower Saxony	1	Hannover 96
	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	1	Hansa Rostock
	Schleswig-Holstein	1	Holstein Kiel

Notes

1. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, each local health department allows a different number of spectators.
2. Gazprom was the main shirt sponsor until 24 February 2022, when their logo was replaced by the words "Schalke 04" on the team's shirts in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the sponsorship deal was terminated on 28 February 2022.^[4][5] Vivawest was announced as the new main shirt sponsor on 5 March 2022.^[6]
3. Dabrowski was initially appointed as interim coach, but the move was made permanent on 21 December 2021.

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External links

• Official website