# 1979–80 2. Bundesliga

The 1979–80 2. Bundesliga season was the sixth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system. It was played in two regional divisions, Nord and Süd.
Arminia Bielefeld, 1. FC Nürnberg and Karlsruher SC were promoted to the Bundesliga while DSC Wanne-Eickel, OSC Bremerhaven, Arminia Hannover, Wuppertaler SV, MTV 1881 Ingolstadt, Röchling Völklingen and FV Würzburg 04 were relegated to the Oberligas.

## Nord

The 1979–80 season saw OSC Bremerhaven, OSV Hannover, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and SC Herford promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberligas while Arminia Bielefeld had been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Nord from the Bundesliga.

### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Arminia Bielefeld (C, P) | 38 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 120 | 31 | +89 | 66 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 2 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 38 | 24 | 6 | 8 | 97 | 54 | +43 | 54 | Qualification to promotion play-offs |
| 3 | Hannover 96 | 38 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 70 | 38 | +32 | 52 | |
| 4 | Viktoria Köln | 38 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 77 | 52 | +25 | 46 | |
| 5 | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 38 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 72 | 57 | +15 | 46 | |
| 6 | Fortuna Köln | 38 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 79 | 54 | +25 | 45 | |
| 7 | Alemannia Aachen | 38 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 59 | 56 | +3 | 41 | |
| 8 | VfL Osnabrück | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 64 | 68 | −4 | 40 | |
| 9 | SG Union Solingen | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 66 | 55 | +11 | 38 | |
| 10 | Preußen Münster | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 53 | 59 | −6 | 36 | |
| 11 | DSC Wanne-Eickel (R) | 38 | 15 | 6 | 17 | 63 | 71 | −8 | 36 | Relegation to Oberliga |
| 12 | OSV Hannover | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 55 | 79 | −24 | 36 | |
| 13 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 57 | 65 | −8 | 35 | |
| 14 | Holstein Kiel | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 61 | 67 | −6 | 33 | |
| 15 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 46 | 67 | −21 | 33 | |
| 16 | Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 56 | 73 | −17 | 32 | |
| 17 | SC Herford | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 48 | 69 | −21 | 31 | |
| 18 | OSC Bremerhaven (R) | 38 | 10 | 7 | 21 | 52 | 79 | −27 | 27 | Relegation to Oberliga |
| 19 | Arminia Hannover (R) | 38 | 8 | 1 | 29 | 40 | 92 | −52 | 17 | Relegation to Oberliga |
| 20 | Wuppertaler SV (R) | 38 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 35 | 84 | −49 | 16 | Relegation to Oberliga |
* ↑ DSC Wanne-Eickel voluntarily returned their license for the following season to the DFB and were therefore relegated.

### Results

| Home \ Away | AAC | TBB | DSC | OSC | RWE | H96 | SVA | OSV | HER | KSV | FKO | FCV | RWL | PRM | RWO | OSN | SGU | WAN | SGW | WSV |
| Alemannia Aachen | — | 1–2 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 7–3 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| Tennis Borussia Berlin | 3–0 | — | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 6–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Arminia Bielefeld | 2–0 | 4–1 | — | 4–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 11–0 | 7–1 | 5–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 6–0 | 5–0 | 5–1 |
| OSC Bremerhaven | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–4 | — | 0–2 | 2–4 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 |
| Rot-Weiss Essen | 4–0 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 3–2 | — | 3–2 | 4–1 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 6–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 5–1 |
| Hannover 96 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | — | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 |
| Arminia Hannover | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | — | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 |
| OSV Hannover | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–4 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 4–2 | — | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| SC Herford | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–5 | — | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–5 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 1–0 |
| Holstein Kiel | 0–0 | 2–3 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | — | 3–3 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 7–1 | 4–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Fortuna Köln | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 0–4 | — | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 6–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 4–0 |
| Viktoria Köln | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 5–3 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 5–2 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 5–1 | — | 2–0 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid | 2–1 | 5–1 | 0–2 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 6–4 | — | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–2 |
| Preußen Münster | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 |
| Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| VfL Osnabrück | 3–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 6–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 0–7 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 3–2 | 0–1 | — | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 5–1 |
| Union Solingen | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 9–1 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | — | 3–3 | 2–2 | 4–1 |
| DSC Wanne-Eickel | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–6 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 5–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | — | 0–2 | 2–0 |
| SG Wattenscheid | 1–1 | 4–2 | 2–4 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 5–3 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | — | 4–1 |
| Wuppertaler SV | 3–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | — |

### Top scorers

The league's top scorers:
| Goals | Player | Team |
| 35 | Christian Sackewitz | Arminia Bielefeld |
| 34 | Dieter Schatzschneider | Hannover 96 |
| 30 | Norbert Eilenfeldt | Arminia Bielefeld |
| 26 | Karl-Heinz Mödrath | Fortuna Köln |
| 24 | Norbert Stolzenburg | Tennis Borussia Berlin |
| 21 | Gerd-Volker Schock | Arminia Bielefeld |
| 18 | Ewald Hammes | SG Wattenscheid 09 |
| 18 | Bernd Krumbein | OSV Hannover |
| 18 | Peter Kunkel | SG Wattenscheid 09 |
| 17 | Norbert Lücke | DSC Wanne-Eickel |
| 17 | Frank-Michael Schonert | Viktoria Köln |

## Süd

The 1979–80 season saw ESV Ingolstadt, SV Röchling Völklingen, SSV Ulm 1846 and VfR Oli Bürstadt promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberligas and SV Darmstadt 98 and 1. FC Nürnberg relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Süd from the Bundesliga.

### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | 1. FC Nürnberg (C, P) | 40 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 88 | 38 | +50 | 61 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 2 | Karlsruher SC (P) | 40 | 27 | 5 | 8 | 104 | 52 | +52 | 59 | Qualification to promotion play-offs |
| 3 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 40 | 22 | 8 | 10 | 94 | 54 | +40 | 52 | |
| 4 | Darmstadt 98 | 40 | 21 | 6 | 13 | 81 | 42 | +39 | 48 | |
| 5 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 40 | 21 | 5 | 14 | 69 | 56 | +13 | 47 | |
| 6 | SC Freiburg | 40 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 68 | 54 | +14 | 46 | |
| 7 | SpVgg Fürth | 40 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 56 | 51 | +5 | 44 | |
| 8 | Kickers Offenbach | 40 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 78 | 64 | +14 | 43 | |
| 9 | Freiburger FC | 40 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 78 | 64 | +14 | 43 | |
| 10 | Wormatia Worms | 40 | 15 | 8 | 17 | 67 | 73 | −6 | 38 | |
| 11 | Waldhof Mannheim | 40 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 57 | 69 | −12 | 38 | |
| 12 | FC Homburg | 40 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 58 | 62 | −4 | 37 | |
| 13 | SpVgg Bayreuth | 40 | 16 | 5 | 19 | 77 | 82 | −5 | 37 | |
| 14 | VfR Bürstadt | 40 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 57 | 68 | −11 | 37 | |
| 15 | Eintracht Trier | 40 | 14 | 8 | 18 | 60 | 57 | +3 | 36 | |
| 16 | SSV Ulm 1846 | 40 | 14 | 8 | 18 | 51 | 57 | −6 | 36 | |
| 17 | ESV Ingolstadt | 40 | 13 | 8 | 19 | 57 | 89 | −32 | 34 | |
| 18 | FSV Frankfurt | 40 | 13 | 6 | 21 | 63 | 97 | −34 | 32 | |
| 19 | MTV Ingolstadt (R) | 40 | 11 | 7 | 22 | 58 | 81 | −23 | 29 | Relegation to Oberliga |
| 20 | Röchling Völklingen (R) | 40 | 10 | 2 | 28 | 49 | 101 | −52 | 22 | Relegation to Oberliga |
| 21 | FV Würzburg (R) | 40 | 6 | 9 | 25 | 42 | 82 | −40 | 21 | Relegation to Oberliga |

### Results

| Home \ Away | BAY | BUE | D98 | FSV | FFC | SCF | FUE | HOM | ESV | MTV | KSC | WMA | FCN | KOF | FCS | SKI | TRI | ULM | SVR | W08 | FVW |
| SpVgg Bayreuth | — | 2–2 | 1–4 | 5–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–4 | 5–1 | 3–3 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 |
| VfR Bürstadt | 2–0 | — | 0–2 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 1–5 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–4 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 |
| Darmstadt 98 | 1–3 | 3–0 | — | 5–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 6–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 7–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| FSV Frankfurt | 5–2 | 0–1 | 4–4 | — | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 |
| Freiburger FC | 2–2 | 4–4 | 4–2 | 1–4 | — | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 10–2 |
| SC Freiburg | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 5–1 | 3–3 | 5–1 |
| SpVgg Fürth | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 7–2 | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| FC Homburg | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–5 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| ESV Ingolstadt | 5–3 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | — | 2–2 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 1–6 | 3–1 | 3–2 |
| MTV Ingolstadt | 3–4 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 6–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | — | 1–4 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 6–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 |
| Karlsruher SC | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 10–0 | 2–1 | — | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 4–2 | 1–1 |
| Waldhof Mannheim | 4–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | — | 1–2 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 |
| 1. FC Nürnberg | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 6–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | — | 0–2 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 |
| Kickers Offenbach | 6–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 6–1 | 3–0 | 2–4 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | — | 3–0 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 |
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 3–0 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 5–0 | 5–0 | 2–4 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| Stuttgarter Kickers | 4–3 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 8–2 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 7–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 | — | 0–1 | 3–0 | 8–1 | 4–0 | 0–0 |
| Eintracht Trier | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 5–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 3–4 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | — | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 |
| SSV Ulm | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | — | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| Röchling Völklingen | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 2–4 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | — | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| Wormatia Worms | 3–2 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 3–4 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | — | 4–0 |
| FV Würzburg 04 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 3–5 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–4 | 4–1 | 2–2 | — |

### Top scorers

The league's top scorers:
| Goals | Player | Team |
| 29 | Emanuel Günther | Karlsruher SC |
| 26 | Walter Krause | Kickers Offenbach |
| 25 | Karl Allgöwer | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| 20 | Bodo Mattern | VfR Wormatia Worms |
| 17 | Werner Heck | 1. FC Saarbrücken |
| 17 | Hans Krostina | MTV 1881 Ingolstadt |
| 17 | Uwe Sommerer | SpVgg Bayreuth |
| 16 | Uwe Dreher | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| 15 | Eduard Kirschner | SpVgg Fürth |
| 15 | Rainer Künkel | 1. FC Saarbrücken |
| 15 | Werner Nickel | Stuttgarter Kickers |
| 15 | Karl-Heinz Struth | Karlsruher SC |
| 15 | Lothar Wesseler | VfR Wormatia Worms |

## Promotion play-offs

The final place in the Bundesliga was contested between the two runners-up in the Nord and Süd divisions. Karlsruher SC won on aggregate and were promoted to the Bundesliga.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Karlsruher SC (S) | 6–4 | Rot-Weiss Essen (N) | 5–1 | 1–3 |