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2. Bundesliga — Wikipedia (en)

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Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2._Bundesliga
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2._Bundesliga. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

The 2. Bundesliga (Zweite Bundesliga [ˈtsvaɪtə ˈbʊndəsˌliːɡa]; lit. '2nd Federal League') is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below the Bundesliga and above the 3. Liga in the German football league system. All of the 2. Bundesliga clubs take part in the DFB-Pokal, the annual German Cup competition. A total of 127 clubs have competed in the 2. Bundesliga since its foundation. The decision to establish the league as the second level of football in West Germany was made in May 1973. The league started operating in August 1974, then with two divisions of 20 clubs. It was reduced to a single division in 1981. From the 1991–92 season onwards clubs from the former East Germany started participating in the league, briefly expanding it to two divisions again. It returned to a single division format again at the end of that season and has had 18 clubs since 1994. Two clubs from the 2. Bundesliga are directly promoted to the Bundesliga, while a third promoted club is determined through the play-offs, from 1974 to 1991 and again since 2008. Between 1991 and 2008 the third-placed club in the league was directly promoted. The bottom clubs in the league are relegated to the third division; from 1974 to 1994, the Oberliga, from 1994 to 2008, the Regionalliga and since 2008, the 3. Liga. The number of relegated clubs has fluctuated over the years. Since 2008 two clubs have been directly relegated while the third-last team has the opportunity to defend its league play in the play-offs against the third placed team of the 3. Liga. 1. FC Köln hold the record number of championships in the league having won their 5th on 18 May 2025. Arminia Bielefeld holds the record for number of promotions from the 2. Bundesliga to the Bundesliga, with eight. For the 2024–25 season an average of 30,830 spectators watched 2. Bundesliga matches, the highest of any non-top flight football league in the world, and higher than the average attendance in many top flight leagues.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «2. Bundesliga» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2._Bundesliga
Wikidata Q152665: «divisione professionistica di calcio» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152665
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2._Bundesliga?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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