Second Division – 2. Bundesliga. 20 teams, the last 4 relegated to the regional leagues, the top 2 promoted to the Bundesliga and the 3rd going to promotion/relegation play-off against the 16th in the top league.
SpVgg Unterhaching ended last with 29 points and relegated.
Alemannia (Aachen) – 19th with 30 points and relegated.
SpVgg Bayreuth – 18th with 31 points and relegated.
Hessen (Kassel) – 17th with 33 points, but worse goal-difference than SV Darmstadt 98 and VfL Osnabruck relegated them.
SV Darmstadt 98 – lucky, thanks to better goal-difference: 16th with 33 points.
VfL Osnabruck – 15th with 33 points, having best goal-difference among the 3 teams with same points.
Fortuna (Koln) – 14th with 34 points. Having perhaps the most famous player in the Second Division – Tony Woodcock, who at his prime played for 1.FC Koln and England. Now… fighting to escape relegation.
SC Freiburg – 13th with 34 points.
SC Preussen (Munster) – 12th with 36 points.
SV Meppen – 11th with 36 points.
MSV Duisburg – 10th with 37 points. Top row from left: Woelk, Vtic, J. Kessen, Decker, Thiele, Kober, Lienen, Azzouzi, Janssen
Middle row: Co-Trainer Merheim, Telljohann, Notthoff, Tönnies, Puszamszies, Struckmann, Steininger, Callea, Semlits, Trainer Kremer
Front row: Zeugwart Ricken, Voßnacke, Kellermann, Macherey, Rusche, Mariotti, Zils, Schmidt, Masseur Hinkelmann
Blau-Weiss 90 (starting as a team from West Berlin, ending the season as a team from one unified Berlin) – 9th with 37 points.
Hannover 96 – of Hannoverscher SV 96 – 8th with 38 points. The well-known Yugoslav coach Cendic, however, is a wrong face here: his work with Hannover was very brief – only in the summer and the very start of the championship.
Eintracht (Braunschweig) – 7th with 39 points.
Rot-Weiss (Essen) – 6th with 42 points.
FC Schalke 04 – 5th with 43 points.
Stuttgarter Kickers – 4th with 45 points.
1. FC Saarbrucken – 3rd with 46 points. Went to the promotion/relegation play-off and lost to VfL Bochum 0-1 and 1-1. Thus, they stayed in Second Division.
SG Wattenscheid 09 – 2nd with 51 points and promoted to the Bundesliga.
Hertha BSC (By mid-season the Berlin wall was down and they were no longer representing West Berlin, but the whole city – just Berlin) – champions this season with 53 points. 22 wins, 9 ties, 7 losses and 65-39 goal-difference. Not overwhelming champions, but the prime goal was achieved: return to the Bundesliga. That perhaps counted more than Second Division title, but it did not hurt at all to be champions.
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