The 2024–25 3. Liga is the 17th season of the 3. Liga. It started on 2 August 2024 and will conclude on 17 May 2025.[1]

The fixtures were announced on 9 July 2024.[2]

Teams

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Locations of the 2024–25 3. Liga teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2023–24 Regionalliga Relegated from 2023–24 2. Bundesliga Promoted to 2024–25 2. Bundesliga Relegated from 2023–24 3. Liga
Alemannia Aachen
Energie Cottbus
Hannover 96 II
VfB Stuttgart II		 Hansa Rostock
VfL Osnabrück
Wehen Wiesbaden		 SSV Ulm
Preußen Münster
Jahn Regensburg		 Hallescher FC
MSV Duisburg
VfB Lübeck
SC Freiburg II

Stadiums and locations

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Alemannia Aachen Aachen Tivoli 32,960
Erzgebirge Aue Aue-Bad Schlema Erzgebirgsstadion 16,485
Arminia Bielefeld Bielefeld Schüco-Arena 27,332
Energie Cottbus Cottbus Stadion der Freundschaft 22,528
Borussia Dortmund II Dortmund Stadion Rote Erde 9,999
Dynamo Dresden Dresden Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion 32,249
Rot-Weiss Essen Essen Stadion an der Hafenstraße 19,962
Hannover 96 II Hanover Eilenriedestadion
Heinz von Heiden Arena 		5,001
49,000
FC Ingolstadt Ingolstadt Audi Sportpark 15,200
Viktoria Köln Cologne Sportpark Höhenberg 8,343
Waldhof Mannheim Mannheim Carl-Benz-Stadion 24,302
1860 Munich Munich Grünwalder Stadion 15,000
VfL Osnabrück Osnabrück Stadion an der Bremer Brücke 15,741
Hansa Rostock Rostock Ostseestadion 29,000
1. FC Saarbrücken Saarbrücken Ludwigsparkstadion 16,003
SV Sandhausen Sandhausen GP Stadion am Hardtwald 15,414
VfB Stuttgart II Aspach WIRmachenDRUCK Arena 10,001
SpVgg Unterhaching Unterhaching Sportpark Unterhaching 15,053
SC Verl Verl Sportclub Arena 5,207
Wehen Wiesbaden Wiesbaden BRITA-Arena 15,295

Personnel and kits

Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Front Sleeve Back
Alemannia Aachen Germany Heiner Backhaus Germany Mika Hanraths Capelli Sport None Rotcom Gebr. Kutsch
Erzgebirge Aue Germany Jens Härtel Germany Martin Männel Nike Medical Beauty Research Erzgebirgssparkasse G&K Innenausbau
Arminia Bielefeld Germany Michél Kniat United States Mael Corboz Macron Schüco Danne Holding, Bethel Foundation holz4home
Energie Cottbus Germany Claus-Dieter Wollitz Germany Axel Borgmann Macron LEAG Sparkasse Spree-Neiße Koalick
Borussia Dortmund II Germany Jan Zimmermann Morocco Ayman Azhil Puma 1&1 None None
Dynamo Dresden Switzerland Thomas Stamm Germany Stefan Kutschke Jako ALL-INKL.COM ad hoc Gruppe Pfennigpfeiffer
Rot-Weiss Essen Germany Uwe Koschinat Germany Michael Schultz Jako ifm Electronic Sparkasse Essen, Essener Chancen NEObetNEO.bet
Hannover 96 II Germany Daniel Stendel Germany Fynn Arkenberg Macron Heise Sparkasse Hannover Gilde Brauerei
FC Ingolstadt Germany Sabrina Wittmann Germany Lukas Fröde Erreà SI Electronics Audi Schanzer Fußballschule PROSIS GmbH
Viktoria Köln Germany Olaf Janßen Germany Christoph Greger Capelli Sport Peynooş Wintec Autoglas ETL
Waldhof Mannheim Germany Bernhard Trares Germany Marcel Seegert Uhlsport Galeria Mannheim None PLAZA Hotelgroup
1860 Munich Germany Patrick Glöckner Netherlands Jesper Verlaat Nike Die Bayerische Bet3000 Pangea Life
VfL Osnabrück Germany Marco Antwerpen Germany Timo Beermann Capelli Sport SO-TECH JOPA None
Hansa Rostock Germany Daniel Brinkmann Germany Franz Pfanne Mizuno 28 Black H2Apex None
1. FC Saarbrücken Germany Rüdiger Ziehl Germany Manuel Zeitz Adidas Victor's Group LOTTO Saartoto Victor's Group
SV Sandhausen Turkey Kenan Koçak Germany Jakob Lewald Macron Weingut Reichsrat von Buhl Goelz Paletten, HCM SSC L-VIP
VfB Stuttgart II Germany Markus Fiedler Germany Dominik Nothnagel Jako LBBW Porsche None
SpVgg Unterhaching Germany Sven Bender Germany Markus Schwabl Uhlsport Alpenbauer Lupse & Lupse None
SC Verl Germany Alexander Ende Germany Fabio Gruber Joma Beckhoff EGE GmbH None
Wehen Wiesbaden Germany Nils Döring Germany Florian Stritzel Capelli Sport Brita quickpaid None

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing Manner Exit date Position in table Incoming Incoming date Ref.
Announced on Departs on Announced on Arrived on
Dynamo Dresden Germany Heiko Scholz (interim) End of caretaker 20 April 2024 30 June 2024 Pre-season Switzerland Thomas Stamm 19 May 2024 1 July 2024 [3][4]
Wehen Wiesbaden Germany Nils Döring (interim) 28 April 2024 Germany Nils Döring 19 June 2024 [5][6]
FC Ingolstadt Germany Sabrina Wittmann (interim) 2 May 2024 Germany Sabrina Wittmann 5 June 2024 [7][8]
SV Sandhausen Germany Gerhard Kleppinger (interim) 13 May 2024 Serbia Sreto Ristić 24 May 2024 [9][10]
Hansa Rostock Bosnia and Herzegovina Mersad Selimbegović End of contract 23 May 2024 Germany Bernd Hollerbach 29 May 2024 [11][12]
Waldhof Mannheim Germany Marco Antwerpen Sacked 17 September 2024 20th Germany Bernhard Trares 18 September 2024 [13][14]
VfL Osnabrück Germany Uwe Koschinat 22 September 2024 16th Germany Pit Reimers 25 September 2024 [15][16]
Hansa Rostock Germany Bernd Hollerbach 24 October 2024 18th Germany Simon Pesch / Germany Marcus Rabenhorst (interim) 24 October 2024 [17]
Germany Simon Pesch / Germany Marcus Rabenhorst (interim) End of caretaker 2 November 2024 12th Germany Daniel Brinkmann 2 November 2024 [18]
Erzgebirge Aue Bulgaria Pavel Dochev Sacked 1 December 2024 8th Germany Jörg Emmerich / Croatia Adam Sušac (interim) 1 December 2024 [19]
SpVgg Unterhaching Germany Marc Unterberger 19th Germany Sven Bender (interim) [20]
Rot-Weiss Essen Germany Christoph Dabrowski 9 December 2024 18th Germany Uwe Koschinat 12 December 2024 [21][22]
VfL Osnabrück Germany Pit Reimers 10 December 2024 20th Germany Marco Antwerpen 12 December 2024 [23][24]
Erzgebirge Aue Germany Jörg Emmerich / Croatia Adam Sušac (interim) End of caretaker 11 December 2024 1 January 2025 7th Germany Jens Härtel 11 December 2024 2 January 2025 [25]
SV Sandhausen Serbia Sreto Ristić Sacked 22 December 2024 10th Turkey Kenan Koçak 28 December 2024 [26]
1860 Munich Greece Argiris Giannikis 20 January 2025 14th Germany Patrick Glöckner 20 January 2025 [27][28]

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Energie Cottbus 24 14 6 4 48 26 +22 48 Promotion to 2. Bundesliga and qualification for DFB-Pokal
2 Dynamo Dresden 24 13 6 5 49 29 +20 45
3 1. FC Saarbrücken 24 11 8 5 34 25 +9 41 Qualification for promotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal
4 FC Ingolstadt 24 10 9 5 49 36 +13 39 Qualification for DFB-Pokal
5 Viktoria Köln 24 12 3 9 40 32 +8 39
6 Arminia Bielefeld 24 10 7 7 32 26 +6 37
7 SC Verl 24 9 9 6 36 31 +5 36
8 Hansa Rostock 24 10 5 9 32 32 0 35
9 Wehen Wiesbaden 24 9 7 8 38 39 −1 34
10 Borussia Dortmund II[a] 24 9 5 10 38 38 0 32
11 SV Sandhausen 24 8 7 9 37 38 −1 31
12 Erzgebirge Aue 24 9 4 11 35 41 −6 31
13 Alemannia Aachen 24 6 12 6 23 27 −4 30
14 1860 Munich 24 8 5 11 35 46 −11 29
15 VfL Osnabrück 24 7 7 10 34 41 −7 28
16 Rot-Weiss Essen 24 7 6 11 34 40 −6 27
17 Waldhof Mannheim 24 6 8 10 28 29 −1 26 Relegation to Regionalliga
18 VfB Stuttgart II[a] 24 6 7 11 30 42 −12 25
19 Hannover 96 II[a] 24 6 4 14 28 44 −16 22
20 SpVgg Unterhaching 24 3 9 12 29 47 −18 18
Updated to match(es) played on 16 February 2025. Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.[29]
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion or DFB-Pokal qualification.

Results

Home \ Away AAC AUE BIE COT DOR DRE ESS HAN ING KÖL MAN MUN OSN ROS SAA SAN STU UNT VER WIE
Alemannia Aachen — 1–2 1–3 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–2 2–1 3–1 1–1 0–0
Erzgebirge Aue 1–1 — 1–3 2–0 2–1 2–1 3–1 1–1 2–5 2–1
Arminia Bielefeld 1–1 2–1 — 0–2 1–0 1–2 1–0 2–0 0–1 3–1 1–1 3–3 2–1
Energie Cottbus 2–1 1–2 — 3–3 1–1 5–1 3–1 4–1 1–1 4–0 2–0 1–0 2–1
Borussia Dortmund II 3–0 3–1 0–4 — 2–1 0–1 1–2 1–1 0–2 0–0 1–0 3–0 3–1 2–2
Dynamo Dresden 0–0 2–1 3–0 4–2 — 3–3 2–1 2–3 2–1 5–2 1–1 1–1 2–0
Rot-Weiss Essen 1–2 0–0 4–0 3–1 — 5–1 2–1 0–3 1–1 2–2 1–1 1–3 0–3
Hannover 96 II 2–1 1–4 0–0 2–0 1–3 — 0–4 1–2 1–5 1–3 2–2 3–1 1–2
FC Ingolstadt 1–0 1–1 5–3 1–1 2–2 — 2–1 1–2 4–2 2–1 1–0 1–1 3–1 1–1
Viktoria Köln 3–1 2–0 0–1 3–5 1–2 4–4 — 1–0 1–2 2–0 3–0 2–0 2–0 2–1
Waldhof Mannheim 3–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–2 — 3–2 5–0 0–1 2–2 2–2
1860 Munich 2–3 1–0 1–1 1–3 3–0 — 2–2 1–2 0–1 1–1 0–4 2–3
VfL Osnabrück 1–1 0–2 2–5 1–0 0–3 2–0 1–1 — 1–1 3–2 1–0 4–2
Hansa Rostock 1–2 2–1 1–1 4–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 — 1–0 1–1 4–1 1–4
1. FC Saarbrücken 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–3 1–0 2–1 4–0 2–0 — 0–1 1–1 3–1
SV Sandhausen 4–0 4–6 1–0 3–1 2–4 0–1 4–3 2–1 0–3 1–0 3–4 — 1–1
VfB Stuttgart II 0–1 3–0 0–3 2–1 3–2 2–0 3–1 0–3 2–3 — 3–2 2–2
SpVgg Unterhaching 2–2 1–2 0–3 2–0 1–2 2–1 1–1 1–1 2–2 2–3 2–0 0–0 — 1–1
SC Verl 2–1 0–3 0–3 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–2 2–0 — 2–2
Wehen Wiesbaden 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–3 1–5 2–5 4–1 2–1 1–0 1–3 2–0 0–1 —
Updated to match(es) played on 16 February 2025. Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 16 February 2025[30]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Germany Christoph Daferner Dynamo Dresden 14
Denmark Sebastian Grønning FC Ingolstadt
3 Germany Serhat-Semih Güler Viktoria Köln 13
Germany Fatih Kaya Wehen Wiesbaden
5 Germany Julian Hettwer Borussia Dortmund II 11
Germany Lex Tyger Lobinger Viktoria Köln
Germany Timmy Thiele Energie Cottbus
8 Germany Marcel Bär Erzgebirge Aue 10
9 Germany Dominic Baumann SV Sandhausen 9
Turkey Tolcay Ciğerci Energie Cottbus

Hat-tricks

Player Club Against Result Date
Germany Timmy Thiele4 Energie Cottbus 1. FC Saarbrucken 4–1 (H) 28 September 2024
Germany Julian Kania Arminia Bielefeld Hannover 96 II 4–1 (A) 23 October 2024
Denmark Sebastian Grønning FC Ingolstadt VfL Osnabrück 4–2 (H) 24 November 2024
Montenegro Omar Sijarić Erzgebirge Aue SV Sandhausen 6–4 (A) 14 December 2024

4 Player scored four goals.

Clean sheets

As of 16 February 2025[31]
Rank Player Club Clean
sheets
1 Germany Elias Bethke Energie Cottbus 9
2 Germany Phillip Menzel 1. FC Saarbrücken 8
3 Germany Jonas Kersken Arminia Bielefeld 7
4 Germany Jan-Christoph Bartels Waldhof Mannheim 6
Germany Dudu Viktoria Köln
Germany Tim Schreiber Dynamo Dresden
Germany Florian Stritzel Wehen Wiesbaden
Germany Benjamin Uphoff Hansa Rostock
9 Germany Marcel Lotka Borussia Dortmund II 5
Germany Philipp Schulze SC Verl

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Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_3._Liga
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