1980–81 2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga
Season1980–81
ChampionsNord: Werder Bremen
Süd: SV Darmstadt 98
PromotedNord: Werder Bremen
Eintracht Braunschweig
Süd: SV Darmstadt 98
RelegatedNord: 12 clubs
Süd: 10 clubs
Matches playedNord: 462
Süd: 380
Top goalscorerNord: Frank Mill
(40 goals)
Süd: Horst Neumann
(26 goals)
Average attendanceNord: 5,672
Süd: 4,379

The 1980–81 2. Bundesliga season was the seventh season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system. It was played in two regional divisions, Nord and Süd. This was the final season of the original two region 2. Bundesliga, as the DFB sought to integrate the Nord and Süd divisions into a single division for the next campaign. This meant 22 teams faced the drop to the Oberliga (12 from the Nord, 10 from the Süd). There were three promotion spots to the Bundesliga on offer, while the remaining teams would enter the new single league 2. Bundesliga in the next season.

Werder Bremen, Eintracht Braunschweig and SV Darmstadt 98 were promoted to the Bundesliga while twenty two clubs were relegated to the Oberligas.

Nord

The 1980–81 season saw 1. FC Bocholt, Göttingen 05, SpVgg Erkenschwick and VfB Oldenburg promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberligas while Hertha BSC, Werder Bremen and Eintracht Braunschweig had been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Nord from the Bundesliga.

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Werder Bremen (C, P) 42 30 8 4 97 33 +64 68 Promotion to Bundesliga
2 Eintracht Braunschweig (P) 42 29 7 6 102 44 +58 65 Qualification for promotion play-offs
3 Hertha BSC 42 31 2 9 123 42 +81 64
4 Hannover 96 42 20 16 6 88 49 +39 56
5 Alemannia Aachen 42 24 7 11 80 51 +29 55
6 VfL Osnabrück 42 22 8 12 76 50 +26 52
7 SG Union Solingen 42 20 10 12 76 61 +15 50
8 Rot-Weiss Essen 42 20 7 15 99 74 +25 47
9 Fortuna Köln 42 18 10 14 83 67 +16 46
10 SG Wattenscheid 09 42 15 12 15 62 68 −6 42
11 Viktoria Köln (R) 42 14 13 15 67 79 −12 41 Relegation to Oberliga
12 1. FC Bocholt (R) 42 14 10 18 66 70 −4 38
13 Preußen Münster (R) 42 14 8 20 48 72 −24 36
14 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (R) 42 12 11 19 59 84 −25 35
15 VfB Oldenburg (R) 42 12 10 20 64 89 −25 34
16 SC Herford (R) 42 11 10 21 48 65 −17 32
17 Tennis Borussia Berlin (R) 42 9 14 19 47 71 −24 32
18 1. SC Göttingen 05 (R) 42 9 14 19 67 98 −31 32
19 Holstein Kiel (R) 42 12 7 23 48 81 −33 31
20 Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid (R) 42 8 11 23 43 83 −40 27
21 SpVgg Erkenschwick (R) 42 7 8 27 46 91 −45 22
22 OSV Hannover (R) 42 7 5 30 41 108 −67 19
Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away AAC BSC TBB BHO EBS SVW ERK RWE G05 H96 OSV HER KSV FKO FCV RWL PRM RWO OLD OSN SGU SGW
Alemannia Aachen — 4–1 1–3 3–1 0–1 2–0 5–1 4–3 3–1 2–1 2–0 3–0 2–0 1–1 4–2 2–0 4–0 0–0 2–0 5–0 3–1 4–2
Hertha BSC 0–1 — 2–0 5–0 2–4 1–2 4–1 3–2 4–0 1–0 3–2 3–1 5–1 5–1 4–0 2–0 6–0 4–2 2–0 2–0 4–2 8–0
Tennis Borussia Berlin 1–1 1–4 — 2–2 1–3 0–1 1–1 1–0 3–2 2–2 1–0 2–1 3–1 1–2 2–2 1–0 1–1 2–3 0–0 1–0 1–2 0–1
1. FC Bocholt 1–0 0–3 1–1 — 1–1 0–2 1–0 1–1 4–2 1–2 4–0 2–1 0–1 1–1 6–2 6–0 0–2 1–0 3–1 2–1 1–2 2–1
Eintracht Braunschweig 1–1 0–4 4–0 3–0 — 2–2 2–0 2–0 4–0 2–0 3–2 3–1 2–0 1–0 3–0 3–3 4–1 3–0 7–0 2–2 1–1 3–0
Werder Bremen 6–0 1–1 3–0 1–2 2–1 — 2–1 1–0 3–0 3–0 4–0 3–1 5–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 6–1 4–0 3–1 3–0 3–1
SpVgg Erkenschwick 2–3 1–4 1–1 1–0 1–2 1–1 — 0–2 4–0 0–0 3–3 2–1 2–2 0–4 2–3 1–3 0–1 2–1 3–2 2–2 4–2 0–2
Rot-Weiss Essen 4–0 0–4 2–0 5–3 2–6 1–0 2–0 — 4–1 1–1 6–0 4–2 6–0 3–2 4–0 5–4 5–0 5–2 4–1 2–1 2–0 2–2
Göttingen 05 4–2 1–2 5–3 3–2 2–4 1–3 4–0 4–2 — 1–4 6–1 1–1 3–0 3–5 3–3 1–1 2–4 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–2 0–0
Hannover 96 2–1 1–1 5–3 1–1 1–1 0–0 6–1 4–1 1–1 — 4–2 3–2 3–1 4–0 4–0 2–0 3–2 7–2 3–3 1–1 2–3 1–1
OSV Hannover 0–4 0–6 0–1 3–2 0–3 1–3 4–1 2–6 1–1 0–2 — 3–2 0–1 1–0 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–3 2–1 1–3 0–0 1–2
SC Herford 1–1 0–5 2–1 0–2 1–2 0–2 1–0 1–3 2–0 0–2 3–0 — 1–0 0–0 1–2 3–1 3–0 3–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–1
Holstein Kiel 2–3 2–1 1–1 0–3 0–2 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–1 0–2 — 2–1 3–3 0–0 3–1 3–0 2–1 1–2 2–1 2–0
Fortuna Köln 0–1 3–1 2–2 3–3 5–2 3–2 2–2 3–0 0–1 3–0 5–0 1–1 3–2 — 3–2 5–2 3–0 2–2 4–0 1–2 2–1 3–1
Viktoria Köln 1–0 0–3 3–0 3–3 2–1 1–2 2–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–0 0–0 0–3 2–2 — 3–0 3–1 3–0 4–1 2–6 2–0 2–3
Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid 1–3 1–3 0–0 0–0 0–2 0–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 4–2 4–2 2–1 1–0 1–3 — 1–0 2–2 1–1 0–0 1–2 1–1
Preußen Münster 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–1 2–3 0–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 3–2 0–1 2–0 3–2 0–3 2–0 — 1–2 2–1 1–0 2–2 0–1
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1–1 1–6 1–1 1–1 2–4 1–1 2–1 1–1 7–1 0–2 2–0 2–1 1–0 1–2 0–0 4–0 3–3 — 2–1 0–1 0–1 3–2
VfB Oldenburg 1–0 2–0 2–0 4–1 0–4 0–3 3–1 3–2 2–2 2–7 4–1 0–0 2–1 5–0 2–2 6–2 3–0 0–1 — 0–0 2–2 3–3
VfL Osnabrück 0–1 3–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 1–4 3–0 4–0 4–0 0–0 3–1 2–0 3–0 3–1 4–1 2–0 1–2 2–1 4–1 — 2–0 3–3
Union Solingen 1–0 1–3 2–1 2–1 2–0 2–4 3–0 3–2 6–2 1–1 1–0 0–0 4–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 1–1 5–0 6–2 2–1 — 2–1
SG Wattenscheid 3–0 0–1 2–0 3–1 1–2 1–1 2–1 2–2 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–1 4–2 0–1 3–2 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 1–2 2–1 —
Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Goals Player Team
40 Germany Frank Mill Rot-Weiss Essen
36 Germany Werner Killmaier Hertha BSC Berlin
30 Germany Horst Feilzer VfL Osnabrück
Germany Ronald Worm Eintracht Braunschweig
29 Germany Erwin Kostedde SV Werder Bremen
27 Germany Dieter Schatzschneider Hannover 96
22 Germany Thomas Remark Hertha BSC Berlin
21 Germany Bernd Krumbein SG Union Solingen/OSV Hannover
20 Germany Werner Lenz SG Union Solingen
Germany Harald Snater 1. SC Göttingen 05

Süd

The 1980–81 season saw Borussia Neunkirchen, FC Augsburg, Hessen Kassel and VfB Eppingen promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberligas while no club had been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Süd from the Bundesliga.

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Darmstadt 98 (C, P) 38 24 7 7 85 42 +43 55 Promotion to Bundesliga
2 Kickers Offenbach 38 19 12 7 87 42 +45 50 Qualification for promotion play-offs
3 Stuttgarter Kickers 38 19 10 9 81 40 +41 48
4 KSV Hessen Kassel 38 16 16 6 59 35 +24 48
5 SSV Ulm 1846[a] (R) 38 18 11 9 59 39 +20 47 Relegation to Oberliga
6 Waldhof Mannheim 38 19 7 12 65 43 +22 45
7 SC Freiburg 38 16 9 13 57 50 +7 41
8 Eintracht Trier[a] (R) 38 15 11 12 56 52 +4 41 Relegation to Oberliga
9 SpVgg Bayreuth 38 15 9 14 60 53 +7 39
10 Freiburger FC 38 15 9 14 76 75 +1 39
11 FC Homburg[a] (R) 38 14 10 14 66 69 −3 38 Relegation to Oberliga
12 Wormatia Worms 38 15 7 16 60 70 −10 37
13 VfR Bürstadt[a] (R) 38 15 7 16 54 66 −12 37 Relegation to Oberliga
14 SpVgg Fürth 38 15 5 18 54 54 0 35
15 FSV Frankfurt (R) 38 13 6 19 51 76 −25 32 Relegation to Oberliga
16 ESV Ingolstadt (R) 38 14 3 21 62 92 −30 31
17 1. FC Saarbrücken (R) 38 10 8 20 43 61 −18 28
18 FC Augsburg (R) 38 7 10 21 55 88 −33 24
19 Borussia Neunkirchen (R) 38 5 13 20 44 85 −41 23
20 VfB Eppingen (R) 38 7 8 23 44 86 −42 22
Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c d SSV Ulm 1846, SV Eintracht Trier, FC 08 Homburg and VfR OLI Bürstadt had their licenses revoked and were therefore relegated.

Results

Home \ Away FCA BAY BUE D98 EPP FSV FFC SCF FUE HOM ESV KAS WMA BNE KOF FCS SKI TRI ULM W08
FC Augsburg — 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–1 2–2 1–1 0–1 3–0 3–5 1–1 1–3 4–2 3–2 4–3 0–0 2–2 2–2 3–1 0–1
SpVgg Bayreuth 2–3 — 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–1 5–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–2 2–1 0–0 4–3 1–4 1–2 1–3 1–2
VfR Bürstadt 2–0 1–3 — 1–1 2–1 0–1 4–1 1–1 2–3 3–1 1–2 2–0 0–1 4–1 2–2 2–1 3–2 2–1 1–4 1–1
Darmstadt 98 2–2 3–2 5–0 — 2–0 2–0 6–3 1–0 2–1 4–0 9–2 5–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–1 5–0
VfB Eppingen 1–1 0–5 2–1 2–2 — 5–1 2–1 1–3 1–2 0–5 1–4 2–4 3–2 2–2 0–2 4–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–0
FSV Frankfurt 5–3 0–0 1–4 1–0 3–2 — 2–6 3–2 3–0 0–2 1–3 1–0 0–2 4–2 1–1 3–0 1–1 3–0 3–1 2–1
Freiburger FC 6–1 3–2 3–2 2–0 2–1 1–1 — 1–2 2–0 7–3 2–2 0–3 1–0 5–2 4–2 3–1 1–3 0–0 0–1 3–1
SC Freiburg 1–0 2–1 3–1 0–4 2–0 2–1 0–0 — 2–0 0–1 4–0 0–0 1–1 3–0 4–1 2–0 1–4 0–2 2–0 5–2
SpVgg Fürth 0–1 2–1 0–1 1–2 2–1 2–0 1–1 3–0 — 1–1 3–0 2–2 3–1 8–0 2–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 0–1
FC Homburg 4–2 1–3 1–1 1–7 1–0 5–1 2–0 2–2 2–0 — 2–1 0–0 2–1 2–2 1–1 2–2 1–1 4–0 2–3 5–3
ESV Ingolstadt 4–1 0–0 4–1 2–0 3–1 3–0 4–3 1–4 2–3 2–1 — 0–2 6–1 3–1 0–5 3–1 0–2 2–1 1–3 0–3
Hessen Kassel 5–2 1–2 4–0 4–4 3–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 7–1 — 3–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–2
Waldhof Mannheim 2–2 1–1 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–0 5–0 2–0 2–1 4–0 4–0 0–0 — 4–0 1–0 2–1 2–3 1–0 1–0 3–0
Borussia Neunkirchen 3–1 0–1 0–0 1–2 1–1 2–1 0–3 1–1 3–3 2–1 5–1 2–2 0–0 — 0–3 0–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 2–1
Kickers Offenbach 4–1 1–1 6–1 3–1 5–1 2–2 4–2 5–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 2–1 — 5–1 4–2 4–0 1–0 7–1
1. FC Saarbrücken 3–0 0–2 0–2 0–1 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 0–1 2–3 5–1 1–2 2–0 2–0 1–4 — 2–1 1–1 0–0 2–1
Stuttgarter Kickers 3–0 1–1 3–1 1–2 6–0 6–0 4–0 4–2 2–1 3–1 2–0 2–0 3–1 6–0 0–0 1–0 — 0–0 1–2 3–2
Eintracht Trier 3–1 4–2 0–1 4–0 5–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 4–1 1–1 0–5 2–2 4–2 0–1 2–1 — 3–2 1–0
SSV Ulm 3–1 3–0 3–0 1–2 3–1 5–0 2–2 2–2 3–0 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 0–0 3–2 1–0 1–1 — 1–0
Wormatia Worms 3–1 3–2 1–2 0–0 5–1 2–1 1–3 2–2 3–1 0–0 3–2 0–0 3–2 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–2 3–2 2–0 —
Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:[1]

Goals Player Team
26 Germany Horst Neumann SV Darmstadt 98
25 Germany Uwe Bein Kickers Offenbach
23 Germany Franz Gerber ESV Ingolstadt
22 Germany Paul Linz Freiburger FC
Germany Bodo Mattern VfR Wormatia Worms
19 Germany Lothar Leiendecker Eintracht Trier
Germany Heinz Traser 1. FC Saarbrücken
18 Germany Herbert Demange FC 08 Homburg
Germany Hans Jörg FC Augsburg
17 Germany Peter Cestonaro SV Darmstadt 98
Germany Werner Hofmann FSV Frankfurt
Germany Werner Nickel Stuttgarter Kickers

Promotion play-offs

The final place in the Bundesliga was contested between the two runners-up in the Nord and Süd divisions. Eintracht Braunschweig won on aggregate and were promoted to the Bundesliga.[2]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Kickers Offenbach (S) 1–2 Eintracht Braunschweig (N) 1–0 0–2

Qualification for single-division 2. Bundesliga

There was a sophisticated system for qualifying for the new single-division 2. Bundesliga. First, the clubs had to meet technical qualification criteria. These stipulated that the stadiums had to accommodate at least 15,000 spectators and had to be equipped with floodlights within a certain period of time. If these requirements were met, sporting criteria would come into play. The non-promoted teams in fourth place and above from the Nord and Süd divisions, along with the three relegated teams from the 1980–81 Bundesliga, automatically qualified. The other participants (teams from 5th to 16th place in the Nord and Süd) were determined by a so-called "placement number" (German: Platzziffer). This was calculated from the positions achieved by teams in the last three seasons. The lower this number was, the better the club was placed. For the 1978–79 season, the table position was multiplied by one, the 1979–80 season by two and the current 1980–81 season by three. Seasons in the Bundesliga were tallied as zero. For Oberliga seasons in which teams did not achieve promotion, 20 points were added, and 16 points for seasons which teams were promoted. It was also important from which region the three relegated teams of the Bundesliga were from, as well as how many teams were promoted from the respective Nord and Süd divisions. At the end, 10 teams from the Nord and Süd divisions had represented in the next season. Teams in 17th and below from the Nord and Süd were relegated, irrespective of their placement number. There was no promotion for teams from the Oberliga going into the single-division season.[3]

  Team promoted
  Team remains in league based on league position
  Team remains in league based on placement number
  Team relegated based on placement number
  Team relegated based on league position
Nord
Pos Team Place
1 Werder Bremen 3
2 Eintracht Braunschweig 6
3 Hertha BSC 9
4 Hannover 96 33
5 Alemannia Aachen 36
6 Rot-Weiss Essen 36
7 Fortuna Köln 43
8 Union Solingen 48
9 SG Wattenscheid 50
10 VfL Osnabrück 52
11 Viktoria Köln 57
12 Preußen Münster 62
13 1. FC Bocholt 88
14 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 88
15 VfB Oldenburg 97
16 SC Herford 98
17 Tennis Borussia Berlin 88
18 Göttingen 05 106
19 Holstein Kiel 99
20 Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid 111
21 SpVgg Erkenschwick 115
22 OSV Hannover 106
Süd
Pos Team Place
1 Darmstadt 98 11
2 Kickers Offenbach 28
3 Stuttgarter Kickers 24
4 Hessen Kassel 64
5 SC Freiburg 48
6 SpVgg Bayreuth 55
7 Waldhof Mannheim 56
8 Wormatia Worms 59
9 SpVgg Fürth 60
10 Freiburger FC 61
11 SSV Ulm 63
12 Eintracht Trier 64
13 FC Homburg 64
14 VfR Bürstadt 83
15 FSV Frankfurt 93
16 ESV Ingolstadt 98
17 1. FC Saarbrücken 69
18 FC Augsburg 104
19 Borussia Neunkirchen 109
20 VfB Eppingen 112

References

  1. ^ 2. Bundesliga 1980/1981 Nord Torschützenliste (in German) Weltfussball.de – Top scorers, retrieved 8 November 2015
  2. ^ Relegation Bundesliga 1980/1981 (in German) Weltfussball.de – Promotion round, retrieved 8 November 2015
  3. ^ "Saison 1980/1981" [1980–81 season]. spvgg-erkenschwick.de (in German). SpVgg Erkenschwick. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.

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