1988–89 2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga

Season	1988–89
Champions	Fortuna Düsseldorf
Promoted	Fortuna Düsseldorf FC Homburg
Relegated	Kickers Offenbach Viktoria Aschaffenburg 1. FSV Mainz 05 Union Solingen
Matches played	380
Top goalscorer	Sven Demandt (35 goals)
Average attendance	6,065
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

The 1988–89 2. Bundesliga season was the fifteenth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system.

Fortuna Düsseldorf and FC Homburg were promoted to the Bundesliga while Kickers Offenbach, Viktoria Aschaffenburg, 1. FSV Mainz 05 and Union Solingen were relegated to the Oberliga.

League table

For the 1988–89 season Eintracht Braunschweig, Hertha BSC, Viktoria Aschaffenburg and 1. FSV Mainz 05 were newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberliga while FC Schalke 04 and FC Homburg had been relegated to the league from the Bundesliga.

Aachen

Aschaffenburg

Bayreuth

Blau-Weiß

Braunschweig

Cologne

Darmstadt

Düsseldorf

Essen

Freiburg

Hertha

Homburg

Mainz

Meppen

Offenbach

Osnabrück

Solingen

Saarbrücken

Schalke

Wattenscheid

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Locations of the participating teams of the 1988–89 season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Fortuna Düsseldorf (C, P)	38	19	11	8	85	52	+33	49	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	FC Homburg (P)	38	18	11	9	55	36	+19	47
3	1. FC Saarbrücken	38	17	12	9	53	43	+10	46	Qualification to promotion play-offs
4	Fortuna Köln	38	20	5	13	80	57	+23	45
5	SC Freiburg	38	17	8	13	66	52	+14	42
6	SG Wattenscheid 09	38	17	8	13	68	58	+10	42
7	Alemannia Aachen	38	17	7	14	58	55	+3	41
8	Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin	38	15	11	12	56	54	+2	41
9	Eintracht Braunschweig	38	12	14	12	43	43	0	38
10	SV Meppen	38	12	13	13	55	54	+1	37
11	Darmstadt 98	38	16	5	17	56	57	−1	37
12	Schalke 04	38	13	10	15	58	51	+7	36
13	Hertha BSC	38	11	14	13	45	44	+1	36
14	VfL Osnabrück	38	13	10	15	58	66	−8	36
15	Kickers Offenbach (R)	38	14	7	17	51	53	−2	35	Relegation to Oberliga
16	Rot-Weiss Essen	38	13	9	16	54	60	−6	35
17	SpVgg Bayreuth	38	12	10	16	52	60	−8	34
18	Viktoria Aschaffenburg (R)	38	12	10	16	47	60	−13	34	Relegation to Oberliga
19	Mainz 05 (R)	38	8	13	17	44	76	−32	29
20	SG Union Solingen (R)	38	6	8	24	24	77	−53	20

Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	AAC	SVV	BAY	BWB	BSC	EBS	D98	F95	RWE	SCF	HOM	FKO	M05	SVM	KOF	OSN	FCS	S04	SGU	SGW
Alemannia Aachen	—	0–1	5–3	3–0	2–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–4	2–2	3–1	5–2	3–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–2
Viktoria Aschaffenburg	1–2	—	3–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	3–0	1–6	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	4–0	2–1
SpVgg Bayreuth	0–2	4–1	—	0–1	1–1	2–1	4–1	1–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–0	4–1	0–0	1–2	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin	1–2	2–0	1–2	—	1–1	3–3	2–1	2–7	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–3	2–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0
Hertha BSC	1–1	3–1	3–0	0–2	—	0–2	1–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–3
Eintracht Braunschweig	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	—	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	4–0	3–0
Darmstadt 98	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	—	2–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	7–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–4
Fortuna Düsseldorf	1–1	4–0	4–3	1–1	2–2	4–0	1–2	—	2–0	4–0	4–1	3–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1
Rot-Weiss Essen	3–1	0–0	0–0	3–3	0–0	2–1	3–1	1–5	—	3–0	0–3	3–4	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	3–0
SC Freiburg	3–0	3–1	4–0	2–4	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–3	5–3	—	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1
FC Homburg	1–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	—	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	6–2	3–2
Fortuna Köln	4–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	3–2	3–0	4–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	—	3–0	3–1	3–0	1–3	2–0	1–2	2–0	5–6
Mainz 05	3–1	3–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–2	—	1–6	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	3–0	1–1
SV Meppen	2–0	4–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–4	3–1	2–2	2–3	2–2	1–1	4–1	—	4–0	1–3	0–1	1–3	1–1	1–0
Kickers Offenbach	3–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	4–1	0–0	3–1	3–0	1–0	3–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–3	—	1–1	4–0	2–1	2–0	2–0
VfL Osnabrück	2–2	3–1	1–5	1–1	4–3	1–1	2–0	1–5	1–3	1–4	0–0	4–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	—	3–0	1–0	6–0	1–3
1. FC Saarbrücken	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–2	2–0	2–1	4–2	2–2	4–1	2–2	2–0	—	2–1	2–0	0–0
Schalke 04	2–2	0–0	4–0	4–1	0–1	2–0	3–4	1–1	1–1	4–2	0–0	3–3	4–1	0–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	—	3–1	3–2
Union Solingen	0–2	2–2	1–1	0–2	1–2	0–2	0–3	1–0	3–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	3–2	0–4	1–3	—	0–3
SG Wattenscheid	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–2	4–2	2–2	2–1	1–3	4–2	1–0	2–2	1–3	2–1	0–2	3–1	5–0	3–2	0–1	0–0	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:

Goals	Player	Team
35	Sven Demandt	Fortuna Düsseldorf
22	Uwe Fuchs	Fortuna Köln
16	Ralf Haub	Viktoria Aschaffenburg
15	Uwe Tschiskale	SG Wattenscheid 09
	Jörg Wolff	SpVgg Bayreuth
14	Ingo Anderbrügge	FC Schalke 04
	Henrik Eichenauer	SV Darmstadt 98
13	Peter Sendscheid	Alemannia Aachen
12	Christiaan Pförtner	Fortuna Köln
	Martin van der Pütten	SV Meppen

External links

• 2. Bundesliga 1988/1989 at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• 1988–89 2. Bundesliga at kicker.de (in German)