1981–82 2. Bundesliga

The 1981–82 2. Bundesliga season was the eighth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system. It was the first season with the 2. Bundesliga consisting of a single league, after the abolition of the Nord and Süd divisions.

2. Bundesliga

Season	1981–82
Champions	FC Schalke 04
Promoted	FC Schalke 04 Hertha BSC
Relegated	TSV 1860 Munich VfR Wormatia Worms Freiburger FC SpVgg Bayreuth
Matches played	380
Top goalscorer	Rudi Völler (37 goals)
Average attendance	8,054
← 1980–81 1982–83 →

FC Schalke 04 and Hertha BSC were promoted to the Bundesliga while TSV 1860 Munich, VfR Wormatia Worms, Freiburger FC and SpVgg Bayreuth were relegated to the Oberliga.

Teams

For the 1981–82 season, the league abolished the Nord and Süd divisions to form a single-division league featuring 20 teams. The three teams relegated from the 1980–81 Bundesliga, Bayer Uerdingen, 1860 Munich and Schalke 04, entered the league. Due to the format change, there was no promotion for teams from the Oberliga to the 2. Bundesliga. Werder Bremen, the Nord champions, and Darmstadt 98, the Süd champions, were promoted to the Bundesliga, along with play-off winners Eintracht Braunschweig.

The remaining participants of the league, as well as which teams would be relegated from the previous season, were determined by a sophisticated placement system. The top four teams from each division automatically qualified for the league (unless promoted), while teams in 17th and below were automatically relegated. The remaining teams from 5th to 16th place in the Nord and Süd divisions were ranked on various criteria, with the worst placed teams being relegated to the Oberliga.

Aachen

Bayreuth

Cologne

Essen

SC Freiburg

Freiburger FC

Fürth

Hannover

Berlin

Kassel

Mannheim

Munich

Offenbach

Osnabrück

Schalke

Solingen

Stuttgart

Uerdingen

Wattenscheid

Worms

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Locations of the participating teams of the 1981–82 season

Team changes

Entering league	Exiting league
Relegated from 1980–81 Bundesliga	Promoted to 1981–82 Bundesliga		Relegated to 1981–82 Oberliga
	Nord	Süd	Nord	Süd
1860 Munich Schalke 04 Bayer Uerdingen	Eintracht Braunschweig Werder Bremen	Darmstadt 98	Tennis Borussia Berlin 1. FC Bocholt SpVgg Erkenschwick Göttingen 05 OSV Hannover SC Herford Holstein Kiel Viktoria Köln Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid Preußen Münster Rot-Weiß Oberhausen VfB Oldenburg	FC Augsburg VfR Bürstadt VfB Eppingen FSV Frankfurt FC Homburg ESV Ingolstadt Borussia Neunkirchen 1. FC Saarbrücken Eintracht Trier SSV Ulm

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Schalke 04 (C, P)	38	19	13	6	70	35	+35	51	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	Hertha BSC (P)	38	20	8	10	84	47	+37	48
3	Kickers Offenbach	38	19	8	11	70	67	+3	46	Qualification for promotion play-offs
4	1860 Munich (R)	38	19	7	12	87	56	+31	45	Relegation to Oberliga
5	Hannover 96	38	19	7	12	72	56	+16	45
6	Waldhof Mannheim	38	16	12	10	51	44	+7	44
7	Stuttgarter Kickers	38	18	7	13	76	55	+21	43
8	KSV Hessen Kassel	38	15	13	10	56	46	+10	43
9	Alemannia Aachen	38	15	11	12	47	39	+8	41
10	Fortuna Köln	38	14	11	13	70	72	−2	39
11	Rot-Weiss Essen	38	15	8	15	60	62	−2	38
12	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	38	14	10	14	47	57	−10	38
13	VfL Osnabrück	38	14	9	15	49	59	−10	37
14	SpVgg Fürth	38	10	15	13	61	60	+1	35
15	SC Freiburg	38	11	12	15	49	54	−5	34
16	SG Union Solingen	38	11	11	16	51	62	−11	33
17	SG Wattenscheid 09	38	8	15	15	41	62	−21	31
18	Wormatia Worms (R)	38	8	8	22	34	74	−40	24	Relegation to Oberliga
19	Freiburger FC (R)	38	7	9	22	52	88	−36	23
20	SpVgg Bayreuth (R)	38	7	8	23	40	76	−36	22

Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	AAC	BAY	BSC	RWE	FFC	SCF	FUE	H96	KAS	FKO	WMA	M60	KOF	OSN	S04	SGU	SKI	B05	SGW	W08
Alemannia Aachen	—	4–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	6–3	1–0	2–2	3–2	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–1
SpVgg Bayreuth	0–2	—	0–6	1–2	0–2	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	4–2	0–1	2–3	0–1	1–0	1–2	4–0	3–1	0–2	2–2	2–2
Hertha BSC	4–1	0–0	—	4–2	4–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	4–0	3–3	0–1	5–1	5–1	3–1	4–0	4–1	0–0	1–2	2–1
Rot-Weiss Essen	1–0	3–0	2–2	—	4–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	5–1	4–1	0–1	1–4	1–1	5–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	4–2	2–0
Freiburger FC	1–1	3–2	2–3	3–1	—	1–1	2–2	1–3	0–3	3–2	0–1	1–5	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–3	2–0	0–3	4–2
SC Freiburg	2–0	2–2	0–2	2–1	4–0	—	2–3	3–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–5	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0
SpVgg Fürth	0–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	—	2–4	8–1	1–2	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–0
Hannover 96	2–1	3–1	2–3	3–0	3–3	2–0	2–2	—	1–0	2–0	3–0	5–2	1–0	2–3	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	5–0
Hessen Kassel	3–0	0–0	2–2	7–3	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	—	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–0
Fortuna Köln	0–2	5–1	2–4	2–0	3–2	3–1	3–1	2–2	2–0	—	2–2	2–1	4–3	5–2	1–2	2–2	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–0
Waldhof Mannheim	0–0	3–1	4–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–2	1–1	2–2	2–2	—	1–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	3–2	3–0	1–0	1–0
1860 Munich	1–1	1–2	1–0	4–0	1–1	4–1	3–1	1–3	1–1	4–0	2–1	—	5–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	5–1	6–1	1–0	7–0
Kickers Offenbach	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	3–0	3–2	3–2	3–2	1–0	3–1	3–0	2–0	—	2–0	0–0	5–2	1–3	2–1	1–4	2–2
VfL Osnabrück	1–0	3–0	0–3	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	0–0	3–3	1–2	—	1–1	0–0	0–3	1–0	3–0	2–1
Schalke 04	2–0	6–0	2–1	1–1	3–3	2–0	3–3	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	3–1	3–0	2–2	—	1–1	1–1	3–1	4–0	4–0
Union Solingen	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	5–2	1–0	1–0	2–3	3–2	4–2	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–0	—	4–4	1–0	1–1	4–1
Stuttgarter Kickers	3–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	3–1	1–2	3–1	2–1	1–3	2–2	2–0	4–1	2–0	5–3	0–3	3–1	—	6–1	7–1	2–1
Bayer Uerdingen	1–0	3–2	3–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	3–2	3–1	1–1	3–1	3–2	2–2	0–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	—	0–0	4–1
SG Wattenscheid	1–3	2–0	0–1	1–3	1–1	2–2	4–3	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–2	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–0	—	0–0
Wormatia Worms	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–3	2–3	1–0	0–3	4–3	1–3	0–0	1–1	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:

Goals	Player	Team
37	Rudi Völler	TSV 1860 Munich
34	Dieter Schatzschneider	Hannover 96
28	Thomas Remark	Hertha BSC Berlin
18	Michael Kutzop	Kickers Offenbach
	Werner Lenz	SG Union Solingen
	Karl-Heinz Mödrath	Fortuna Köln
17	Gregor Grillemeier	Rot-Weiss Essen
	Jürgen Mohr	Hertha BSC Berlin
16	Klaus Täuber	Stuttgarter Kickers
15	Uwe Pallaks	KSV Hessen Kassel
	Wolfgang Sidka	TSV 1860 Munich

External links

• 2. Bundesliga 1981/1982 at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• 1981–82 2. Bundesliga at kicker.de (in German)