Season | 2020â21 |
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Dates | 18 September 2020 â 22 May 2021 |
Champions | Dynamo Dresden |
Promoted |
Dynamo Dresden Hansa Rostock FC Ingolstadt |
Relegated |
KFC Uerdingen Bayern Munich II VfB LĂŒbeck SpVgg Unterhaching |
Matches played | 380 |
Goals scored | 1,015 (2.67 per match) |
Top goalscorer |
Sascha Mölders (22 goals) |
Biggest home win |
1860 Munich 6â1
Halle 1860 Munich 5â0 Mannheim 1. FC SaarbrĂŒcken 5â0 Mannheim |
Biggest away win |
Uerdingen 0â4
Wiesbaden Duisburg 0â4 Verl Halle 0â4 Bayern Munich II Magdeburg 0â4 Verl Meppen 0â4 Dresden Halle 0â4 1860 Munich Meppen 0â4 Uerdingen Bayern Munich II 0â4 SaarbrĂŒcken |
Highest scoring | Mannheim 4â4 TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ |
Longest winning run | 5 games Hansa Rostock Wiesbaden |
Longest unbeaten run | 10 games Viktoria Köln Magdeburg Wiesbaden |
Longest winless run | 12 games Bayern Munich II Unterhaching |
Longest losing run | 7 games Unterhaching |
Attendance | 133,125 (350 per match) [note 1] |
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The 2020â21 3. Liga was the 13th season of the 3. Liga. It began on 18 September 2020 and concluded on 22 May 2021. [1] The season was originally scheduled to begin on 24 July 2020 and conclude on 15 May 2021, [2] though this was delayed due to postponement of the previous season as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The fixtures were announced on 20 August 2020. [3]
Dynamo Dresden and Hansa Rostock got promoted directly, while FC Ingolstadt won the promotion play-offs. Originally, SV Meppen, Bayern Munich II, VfB LĂŒbeck and SpVgg Unterhaching were relegated; however, KFC Uerdingen was unable to obtain a 3. Liga license for the 2021â22 season and was therefore relegated, sparing SV Meppen from relegation. [4]
Unlike other competitions organised by the DFB and DFL, the clubs of the 3. Liga initially voted to allow for only three substitutes during the 2020â21 season. Five substitutions were permitted in the 3. Liga at the end of the previous season to lessen the impact of fixture congestion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and competition organisers had the option to use the rule until 2021. [5] On 11 January 2021, the DFB Executive Committee approved the use of five substitutions for the second half of the season from 22 January (matchday 20 onward), following a secondary vote by the 20 clubs. However, the number of players permitted on the bench remained at seven. Rescheduled matches from the first half of the season (matchday 19 and earlier) remained limited to three substitutions. [6]
Promoted from 2019â20 Regionalliga | Relegated from 2019â20 2. Bundesliga | Promoted to 2020â21 2. Bundesliga | Relegated from 2019â20 3. Liga |
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VfB LĂŒbeck TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ MĂŒnchen 1. FC SaarbrĂŒcken SC Verl |
Wehen Wiesbaden Dynamo Dresden |
WĂŒrzburger Kickers Eintracht Braunschweig |
Chemnitzer FC PreuĂen MĂŒnster Sonnenhof GroĂaspach Carl Zeiss Jena |
1 Bayern Munich II will play their home match against 1. FC Magdeburg at FC Bayern Campus to take strain off the GrĂŒnwalder Stadion, since it is being used by three teams and would have to host four matches in one week otherwise.
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2 TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ MĂŒnchen will play up to eight of their home matches at the Olympiastadion and the remainder at the GrĂŒnwalder Stadion.
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3 1. FC SaarbrĂŒcken played their home match against VfB LĂŒbeck at the PSD Bank Arena in Frankfurt and their home match against 1860 Munich at the Hermann-Neuberger-Stadion in Völklingen because their regular home stadium was rendered unusable due to snowfall.
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4 KFC Uerdingen played their first ten home matches at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in DĂŒsseldorf while their home stadium, the
Grotenburg-Stadion in
Krefeld, is being renovated.
[11] The club moved to the Stadion am Lotter Kreuz in Lotte for the rest of the season since they could no longer afford to pay the rent for the Merkur Spiel-Arena.
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5 SC Verl will play their home matches at the Benteler-Arena since their home stadium, the Sportclub Arena in Verl, did not meet 3. Liga standards.
[13] As only a limited number of spectators was permitted, the DFB allowed Verl to play three matches in their home stadium.
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Team | Outgoing | Manner | Exit date | Position in table | Incoming | Incoming date | Ref. | ||
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Announced on | Departed on | Announced on | Arrived on | ||||||
TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ MĂŒnchen | Reiner Maurer | End of contract | 1 June 2020 | 31 May 2020 | Pre-season | Alexander Schmidt | 26 June 2020 | [15] [16] | |
SV Meppen | Christian Neidhart | Mutual consent | 19 June 2020 | 4 July 2020 | Torsten Frings | 14 July 2020 | [17] [18] | ||
Waldhof Mannheim | Bernhard Trares | End of contract | 1 July 2020 | Patrick Glöckner | 20 July 2020 | [19] [20] | |||
Bayern Munich II | Sebastian HoeneĂ | Signed for 1899 Hoffenheim | 27 July 2020 | Holger Seitz | 25 August 2020 | [21] [22] | |||
SpVgg Unterhaching | Claus Schromm | Moved to sporting director | 29 July 2020 | Arie van Lent | 18 August 2020 | [23] [24] | |||
1. FC Kaiserslautern | Boris Schommers | Sacked | 29 September 2020 | 20th | Jeff Saibene | 2 October 2020 | [25] [26] | ||
MSV Duisburg | Torsten Lieberknecht | 10 November 2020 | 17th | Gino Lettieri | 11 November 2020 | 15 November 2020 | [27] [28] | ||
Viktoria Köln | Pavel Dochev | 24 January 2021 | 13th | Daniel Zillken / Markus Brzenska (interim) | 24 January 2021 | [29] | |||
MSV Duisburg | Gino Lettieri | 27 January 2021 | 19th | Uwe Schubert (interim) | 27 January 2021 | [30] | |||
1. FC Kaiserslautern | Jeff Saibene | 30 January 2021 | 16th | Marco Antwerpen | 1 February 2021 | [31] [32] | |||
MSV Duisburg | Uwe Schubert (interim) | End of caretaker spell | 2 February 2021 | 19th | Pavel Dochev | 2 February 2021 | [33] | ||
1. FC Magdeburg | Thomas HoĂmang | Sacked | 9 February 2021 | Christian Titz | 12 February 2021 | [34] [35] | |||
TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ MĂŒnchen | Alexander Schmidt | 7th | Andreas Pummer (interim) | 9 February 2021 | [34] | ||||
TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ MĂŒnchen | Andreas Pummer (interim) | End of caretaker | 23 February 2021 | 5th | Serdar Dayat | 23 February 2021 | [36] | ||
Viktoria Köln | Daniel Zillken / Markus Brzenska (interim) | 1 February 2021 | 14th | Olaf JanĂen | 1 February 2021 | [37] | |||
Bayern Munich II | Holger Seitz | Moving to campus sporting director | 2 April 2021 | 4 April 2021 | 15th | MartĂn Demichelis / Danny Schwarz | 2 April 2021 | 4 April 2021 | [38] |
KFC Uerdingen | Stefan KrĂ€mer | Sacked | 13 April 2021 | 17h | JĂŒrgen Press / Stefan Reisinger (interim) | 13 April 2021 | [39] [40] | ||
SV Meppen | Torsten Frings | 14 April 2021 | 15th | Mario Neumann (interim) | 14 April 2021 | [41] | |||
Mario Neumann (interim) | End of caretaker spell | 20 April 2021 | Rico Schmitt | 20 April 2021 | [42] | ||||
Dynamo Dresden | Markus Kauczinski | Sacked | 25 April 2021 | 4th | Alexander Schmidt | 26 April 2021 | [43] [44] | ||
TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ MĂŒnchen | Serdar Dayat | Mutual consent | 6 May 2021 | 10th | Andreas Pummer (interim) | 6 May 2021 | [45] |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Dynamo Dresden (C, P) | 38 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 61 | 29 | +32 | 75 | Promotion to 2. Bundesliga |
2 | Hansa Rostock (P) | 38 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 52 | 33 | +19 | 71 | |
3 | FC Ingolstadt (O, P) | 38 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 56 | 40 | +16 | 71 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
4 | 1860 Munich | 38 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 69 | 35 | +34 | 66 | |
5 | 1. FC SaarbrĂŒcken | 38 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 66 | 51 | +15 | 59 | |
6 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 57 | 53 | +4 | 56 | |
7 | SC Verl | 38 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 66 | 55 | +11 | 55 | |
8 | Waldhof Mannheim | 38 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 50 | 55 | −5 | 52 | |
9 | Hallescher FC | 38 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 51 | 58 | −7 | 52 | |
10 | FSV Zwickau | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 46 | 45 | +1 | 51 | |
11 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 42 | 45 | −3 | 51 | |
12 | Viktoria Köln | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 52 | 59 | −7 | 51 | |
13 | TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ MĂŒnchen | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 45 | 55 | −10 | 47 | |
14 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 38 | 8 | 19 | 11 | 47 | 52 | −5 | 43 | |
15 | MSV Duisburg | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 52 | 67 | −15 | 43 | |
16 | KFC Uerdingen [a] (R) | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 38 | 50 | −12 | 41 | Relegation to Regionalliga [b] |
17 | SV Meppen | 38 | 12 | 5 | 21 | 37 | 61 | −24 | 41 | |
18 | Bayern Munich II [c] (R) | 38 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 47 | 58 | −11 | 37 | Relegation to Regionalliga |
19 | VfB LĂŒbeck (R) | 38 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 41 | 57 | −16 | 35 | |
20 | SpVgg Unterhaching (R) | 38 | 9 | 5 | 24 | 40 | 57 | −17 | 32 |
Position | State | Number of teams | Teams |
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1 | Bavaria | 5 | FC Ingolstadt, Bayern Munich II, 1860 Munich, TĂŒrkgĂŒcĂŒ MĂŒnchen and SpVgg Unterhaching |
2 | North Rhine-Westphalia | 4 | MSV Duisburg, Viktoria Köln, KFC Uerdingen and SC Verl |
3 | Saxony | 2 | Dynamo Dresden and FSV Zwickau |
Saxony-Anhalt | 2 | Hallescher FC and 1. FC Magdeburg | |
5 | Baden-WĂŒrttemberg | 1 | Waldhof Mannheim |
Hesse | 1 | Wehen Wiesbaden | |
Lower Saxony | 1 | SV Meppen | |
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 1 | Hansa Rostock | |
Rhineland-Palatinate | 1 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | |
Saarland | 1 | 1. FC SaarbrĂŒcken | |
Schleswig-Holstein | 1 | VfB LĂŒbeck |