The 2010–11 2. Bundesliga was the 37th season of the 2. Bundesliga, Germany's second tier of its football league system. The season started on the weekend of 21 August 2010 and ended with the last games on 15 May 2011. The winter break was in effect between weekends around 18 December 2010 and 15 January 2011.
Team information As in the previous year, the league comprise the teams placed fourth through fifteenth of the 2009–10 season, the worst two teams from the 2009–10 Bundesliga, the best two teams from the 2009–10 3. Liga, the losers of the Bundesliga relegation play-off between the 16th-placed Bundesliga team and the third-placed 2. Bundesliga team and the winners of the 2. Bundesliga relegation play-off between the 16th-placed 2. Bundesliga team and the third-placed 3. Liga team.
2009–10 2. Bundesliga champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern, and runners-up FC St. Pauli were promoted to the Bundesliga. They were replaced by VfL Bochum and Hertha BSC who finished 17th and 18th respectively in the 2009–10 Bundesliga season.
TuS Koblenz and Rot-Weiß Ahlen were relegated after the 2009–10 season. They were replaced by 2009–10 3. Liga champions VfL Osnabrück and runners-up FC Erzgebirge Aue.
Two further spots were available through relegation/promotion play-offs and taken by FC Augsburg and FC Ingolstadt 04. Augsburg lost in their promotion play-off against 16th placed Bundesliga team 1. FC Nürnberg and thus retained their 2. Bundesliga spot, while Ingolstadt earned promotion from the 3. Liga by defeating FC Hansa Rostock.
Stadiums and locations FC Ingolstadt 04 moved into the newly built Audi Sportpark for this season after spending their previous seasons at Tuja-Stadion. Fortuna Düsseldorf increased the capacity of their Esprit Arena from 51,500 to 54,400 by converting some seating areas into standing terraces. Also, the stadia of SpVgg Greuther Fürth and MSV Duisburg were renamed due to new naming rights contracts.
TeamLocationStadiumStadium capacity Munich Allianz Arena 69,000 Alemannia Aachen Aachen Tivoli 32,960 Arminia Bielefeld Bielefeld Schüco-Arena 27,300 Augsburg Impuls Arena 30,660 Bochum rewirPower-Stadion 30,748 Duisburg Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena 31,500 Cottbus Stadion der Freundschaft 22,528 Aue Erzgebirgsstadion 16,000 Note 1 Fortuna Düsseldorf Esprit ArenaLena-Arena 54,40020,055 Note 2 Frankfurt am Main Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion 10,826 Trolli Arena 15,200 Berlin Olympiastadion 74,244 Ingolstadt Audi Sportpark 15,445 Karlsruhe Wildparkstadion 29,699 Osnabrück Osnatel-Arena 16,130 Paderborn Energieteam Arena 15,000 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Oberhausen Niederrheinstadion 21,318 Berlin Alte Försterei 19,000
Notes: Erzgebirgsstadion is undergoing reconstruction. The capacity is thus estimated, with the exact number not to be known until work has been completed. Fortuna Düsseldorf's home ground Esprit Arena was unavailable for the last three games of the season as it staged the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. A temporary stadium, the Lena-Arena, was constructed adjacent to the Esprit Arena to host the final home games of the season.
Personnel and sponsorship TeamHead coachTeam captainKitmakerShirt sponsor Alemannia Aachen Peter Hyballa Benjamin AuerNikeAachenMünchener FC Augsburg Jos Luhukay Uwe MöhrleJakoAL-KO 1. FC Union Berlin Uwe Neuhaus Torsten MattuschkaDo You Footballkfzteile24 Arminia Bielefeld Ewald Lienen Rüdiger KaufSallerSchüco VfL Bochum Friedhelm Funkel Christoph DabrowskiDo You FootballNetto FC Energie Cottbus Claus-Dieter Wollitz Marc Andre KruskaUmbroPenny Market MSV Duisburg Milan Šašić Srđan BaljakuhlsportRheinpower FC Erzgebirge Aue Rico Schmitt Tomasz KosPumaSpar mit! Reisen Fortuna Düsseldorf Norbert Meier Andreas LambertzPumaSparkasse Düsseldorf FSV Frankfurt Hans-Jürgen Boysen Björn SchlickeSallerHyundai SpVgg Greuther Fürth Michael Büskens Thomas KleineJakoErgo Direkt Versicherungen Hertha BSC Markus Babbel Andre MijatovićNikeDeutsche Bahn FC Ingolstadt 04 Benno Möhlmann Moritz HartmannAdidasAudi Karlsruher SC Rainer Scharinger Alexander IashviliNikeKlaiber Markisen TSV 1860 Munich Reiner Maurer Daniel BierofkaErimaComarch Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Theo Schneider Benjamin ReichertuhlsportVatro VfL Osnabrück Heiko Flottmann Angelo BarlettaPumaSparkasse Osnabrück SC Paderborn 07 Andre Schubert Markus KröschePumaMöbelhaus Finke
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager(s) Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointmentHertha BSC Friedhelm FunkelEnd of contract30 June 2010Off-season Markus Babbel1 July 2010VfL Bochum Dariusz WoszEnd of tenure as caretaker30 June 2010 Friedhelm Funkel1 July 2010Arminia Bielefeld Detlev Dammeier Frank Eulberg Jörg BöhmeEnd of tenure as caretakers30 June 2010 Christian Ziege1 July 2010TSV 1860 Munich Ewald LienenMutual Consent30 June 2010 Reiner Maurer1 July 2010Karlsruher SC Markus SchuppSacked31 October 201015th Uwe Rapolder 22 November 2010FC Ingolstadt 04 Michael WiesingerSacked6 November 201017th Benno Möhlmann7 November 2010Arminia Bielefeld Christian ZiegeSacked6 November 201018th Ewald Lienen7 November 2010Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Hans-Günter BrunsSacked22 February 201116th Theo Schneider24 February 2011Karlsruher SC Uwe RapolderSacked1 March 201116th Rainer Scharinger2 March 2011VfL Osnabrück Karsten BaumannSacked21 March 201116th Joe Enochs21 March 2011VfL Osnabrück Joe EnochsEnd of tenure as caretaker11 April 201116th Heiko Flottmann11 April 2011
League table
Results
Promotion/relegation play-offs
VfL Osnabrück, having finished the season in 16th place, faced 3rd-placed 3. Liga side Dynamo Dresden for a two-legged play-off. Dresden, who played at home first, won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 4–2 on aggregate; Dynamo promoted, Osnabrück relegated
Statistics
Top goalscorers Source: kicker (German) 25 goals Nils Petersen (Energie Cottbus)
20 goals Benjamin Auer (Alemannia Aachen)
16 goals Benjamin Lauth (1860 Munich)
15 goals Sascha Mölders (FSV Frankfurt) Adrián Ramos (Hertha BSC)
14 goals Nando Rafael (FC Augsburg)
13 goals Pierre-Michel Lasogga (Hertha BSC) Stefan Leitl (FC Ingolstadt 04)
10 goals Stephan Hain (FC Augsburg) Jong Tae-Se (VfL Bochum) Emil Jula (Energie Cottbus) Raffael (Hertha BSC) Zoltán Stieber (Alemannia Aachen)
Top assistants Source: kicker (German) 17 assists Zoltán Stieber (Alemannia Aachen)
12 assists Nikita Rukavytsya (Hertha BSC)
10 assists Adrián Ramos (Hertha BSC)
9 assists Daniel Halfar (1860 Munich) Emil Jula (Energie Cottbus) Stefan Leitl (FC Ingolstadt 04) Michael Thurk (FC Augsburg)
8 assists Skerdilaid Curri (Erzgebirge Aue) Jürgen Gjasula (FSV Frankfurt) Alexander Iashvili (Karlsruher SC) Sascha Rösler (Fortuna Düsseldorf) Timo Staffeldt (Karlsruher SC)
References
External links Official site Bundesliga on DFB page kicker magazine