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2. Bundesliga
Founded	1974
Country	Germany
Level on pyramid	2
Promotion to	Bundesliga
Relegation to	3. Liga
Most championships	1. FC Nuremberg (4 titles)
Website	www.bundesliga.de/en/liga2

The 2. Bundesliga, commonly referred to as 2. Fußball-Bundesliga, is a football league which is the second division in Germany (after the Bundesliga).

Formation

The decision to establish a fully professional league as 2nd level was made by the DFB 1973. It replaced the Regionalligen as 2nd level. The new 2. Bundesliga was split into a northern and a southern division with 20 clubs each. The champions were promoted directly to Bundesliga, the runners-up had two matches to decide the 3rd team which was promoted. 1981 a single 2nd league was established. The two topteams are promoted, the third team plays relegationmatches versus the 16th of the Bundesliga.

Current clubs

As of the 2023–24 season

List

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Eintracht Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	23,325
Hertha BSC	Berlin	Olympiastadion	74,649
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Merkur Spiel-Arena	54,600
SV Elversberg	Spiesen-Elversberg	Waldstadion an der Kaiserlinde	10,000
Greuther Fürth	Fürth	Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer	16,626
Hamburger SV	Hamburg	Volksparkstadion	57,000
Hannover 96	Hanover	Heinz von Heiden Arena	49,000
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	49,780
Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	BBBank Wildpark	34,302
Holstein Kiel	Kiel	Holstein-Stadion	15,034
1. FC Magdeburg	Magdeburg	MDCC-Arena	30,098
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Max-Morlock-Stadion	49,923
VfL Osnabrück	Osnabrück	Stadion an der Bremer Brücke	16,667
SC Paderborn	Paderborn	Home Deluxe Arena	15,000
Hansa Rostock	Rostock	Ostseestadion	29,000
Schalke 04	Gelsenkirchen	Veltins-Arena	62,271
FC St. Pauli	Hamburg	Millerntor-Stadion	29,546
Wehen Wiesbaden	Wiesbaden	BRITA-Arena	12,250

Map

2. Bundesliga clubs
As of 2023/2024
Hamburg Braun- schweig Hertha BSC Düsseldorf Elversberg Fürth Hannover Kaiserslautern Karlsruhe Kiel Magdeburg Nürnberg Osnabrück Paderborn Rostock Schalke Wiesbaden class=notpageimage\| Location map of clubs in the 2023–24 2. Bundesliga
Clubs in Hamburg
Hamburg St. Pauli class=notpageimage\| Location map of clubs in the 2023–24 2. Bundesliga