Season 2008–09 Average goals/game 2.78 Dates 15 Aug 2008 – 24 May 2009 Goals scored 852 | Champions SC Freiburg Biggest home win Rostock 9–0 Koblenz Champion SC Freiburg | |
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Promoted SC Freiburg
1. FSV Mainz 05
1. FC Nuremberg (via playoff) Top goalscorer Benjamin Auer (16)
Cédric Makiadi (16)
Marek Mintál (16) Relegated VfL Osnabrück, FC Ingolstadt 04, SV Wehen Wiesbaden Similar 2007–08 2 Bundesliga, 2013–14 2 Bundesliga, 2015–16 2 Bundesliga, 2008–09 3 Liga, 2008–09 Bundesliga | ||
The 2008–09 2. Bundesliga was the 35th season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of Germany's football league. The season began on 15 August 2008 and ended on 24 May 2009.
Contents
- Changes from 200708
- Movement between Bundesliga and 2 Bundesliga
- Movement between Second Bundesliga and third level divisions
- League table
- Results
- Relegation playoff
- Top goalscorers
- References
SC Freiburg were the first team to win promotion to Bundesliga 2009–10 after securing the 2. Bundesliga championship on 10 May 2009. 1. FSV Mainz 05 were also directly promoted as runners-up after a 4–0 home victory over Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. 1. FC Nuremberg defeated Bundesliga sides Energie Cottbus in a two-legged playoff for one spot in 2009–10 Bundesliga and thus earned promotion as well.
Changes from 2007–08
Starting with the 2008–09 season, only two teams are promoted automatically. Two-leg relegation playoffs between the third last team of the Bundesliga and the third team of the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the regular season will be reintroduced.
Likewise, instead of formerly four teams only the two bottom teams are relegated to the new 3. Liga automatically. The third last team plays a two-leg playoff against the third team of the third tier over the remaining place in the 2. Bundesliga.
Movement between Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga
Borussia Mönchengladbach, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and 1. FC Köln were promoted to Bundesliga after finishing 1st through 3rd in 2. Bundesliga in 2007–08. They were replaced by 1. FC Nuremberg, Hansa Rostock and MSV Duisburg, which were relegated at the end of the 2007–08 Bundesliga season.
Movement between Second Bundesliga and third-level divisions
Kickers Offenbach, Erzgebirge Aue, FC Carl Zeiss Jena and SC Paderborn 07 were relegated to the newly formed 3. Liga following the 2007–08 season due to finishing 15th through 18th. They were replaced by the champions and runners-up of both divisions of the Regionalliga 2007–08. Rot Weiss Ahlen and Rot-Weiss Oberhausen earned promotion in the Northern division while FSV Frankfurt and FC Ingolstadt 04 have been promoted from the Southern division.
League table
Source: kicker
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
* Due to licensing irregularities in the 2007–08 season, TuS Koblenz started with a three point deduction.
(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.
Results
Source: Bundesliga.de
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Relegation playoff
VfL Osnabrück as 16th-placed team had to face 3rd-placed 3. Liga team SC Paderborn 07 for a two-legged playoff. Paderborn won both matches on an aggregated score of 2–0 and thus secured promotion to 2. Bundesliga 2009–10, while Osnabrück were relegated to 3. Liga 2009–10.
Top goalscorers
Source:www.kicker.de