2. Bundesliga: Results, table & top scorers (Matchday 6 – 2025/26 season)

The 2025/26 season of the 2. Bundesliga kicked off on Friday, August 1, 2025. FC Schalke 04 (last season ranked 14th) and Hertha BSC (last season ranked 11th) played the first match. The match ended 2-1 for Schalke.

Winter break in the 2. Bundesliga: The winter break begins after Matchday 17, which takes place on December 21, 2025. Play will resume on January 16, 2026, with Matchday 18.

The season ends with Matchday 34 on Sunday, May 17, 2026. The relegation matches will take place on May 21 and 22 (first leg matches) and May 25 and 26, 2026 (second leg matches).

A total of 18 teams will compete in the new second division season. These include two teams promoted from the 3. Liga: Arminia Bielefeld and Dynamo Dresden . Eintracht Braunschweig won the relegation play-off against 1. FC Saarbrücken and thus remains in the second division. VfL Bochum and Holstein Kiel were relegated from the Bundesliga.

All second division clubs for the 2025/26 season at a glance:

1. VfL Bochum (relegated)
2. Holstein Kiel (relegated)
3. 1. FC Kaiserslautern
4. 1. FC Magdeburg
5. 1. FC Nuremberg
6. Eintracht Braunschweig
7. FC Schalke 04
8. Fortuna Düsseldorf
9. Hanover 96
10. Hertha BSC
11. Karlsruher SC
12. Prussia Münster
13. SC Paderborn 07
14. SpVgg Greuther Fürth
15. SV Darmstadt 98
16. SV Elversberg
17. Arminia Bielefeld (promoted team)
18. Dynamo Dresden (promoted team)

The 18 clubs in the 2. Bundesliga will have a combined stadium capacity of just over 639,000 seats in the 2025/26 season. The largest stadiums by spectator capacity are located in Berlin (Olympiastadion, 74,064) and Gelsenkirchen (Veltins Arena, 62,271). The smallest capacity is found in the stadiums of Preußen Münster (12,672) and Elversberg (10,786).