Season 1990–91 Matches played 380 | Champions FC Schalke 04 | |
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Promoted FC Schalke 04
MSV Duisburg
Stuttgarter Kickers Relegated Rot-Weiss Essen
Preußen Münster
TSV Havelse
FC Schweinfurt 05 Top goalscorer Michael Tönnies
(29 goals) | ||
The 1990–91 2. Bundesliga season was the seventeenth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system. It was the last season in which the league consisted of West German clubs only. From 1991–92 onwards clubs from the former East Germany joined the league.
Contents
FC Schalke 04, MSV Duisburg and Stuttgarter Kickers were promoted to the Bundesliga while Rot-Weiss Essen, Preußen Münster, TSV Havelse and FC Schweinfurt 05 were relegated to the Oberliga.
Final table
For the 1990–91 season VfB Oldenburg, TSV Havelse, 1. FSV Mainz 05 and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 were newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberliga while SV Waldhof Mannheim and FC 08 Homburg had been relegated to the league from the Bundesliga.
Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
*After the end of the season, Rot-Weiss Essen were denied a license and were therefore relegated as the fourth team. Darmstadt 98 remained in the second division.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Promotion/relegation playoff
Contested between the third-last team in the Bundesliga and the third placed in the 2. Bundesliga. Stuttgarter Kickers were promoted to the Bundesliga after a necessary third game to decide the series.
Top scorers
The league's top scorers: