The 1974–75 2. Bundesliga season was the inaugural season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system. It was played in two regional divisions, Nord and Süd.
Hannover 96, Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Karlsruher SC were promoted to the Bundesliga while Olympia Wilhelmshaven, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, VfL Wolfsburg, HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst, VfR Heilbronn, Borussia Neunkirchen, VfR Wormatia Worms and VfR Mannheim were relegated to the Oberligas and Amateurligas.
Nord
League table For the 1974–75 season saw no team promoted to the new 2. Bundesliga from the Amateurligas while Hannover 96 and SC Fortuna Köln had been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Nord from the Bundesliga.
Results
Top scorers The league's top scorers:2. Bundesliga 1974/1975 Nord Torschützenliste Weltfussball.de – Top scorers, retrieved 8 November 2015 Goals Player Team29 Volker GraulArminia Bielefeld26 Gerd-Volker SchockVfL Osnabrück24 Rüdiger WenzelFC St. Pauli23 Peter DahlHannover 9620 Gerd KasperskiHannover 96 Rolf KucharskiAlemannia Aachen19 Wolfgang JohnWacker 04 Berlin Wolf-Rüdiger KrauseVfL Wolfsburg Roland StegmayerHannover 9618 Hans FritscheSchwarz-Weiß Essen
Süd
League table For the 1974–75 season saw no team promoted to the new 2. Bundesliga from the Amateurligas and no team relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Süd from the Bundesliga.
Results
Top scorers The league's top scorers:2. Bundesliga 1974/1975 Süd Torschützenliste Weltfussball.de – Top scorers, retrieved 8 November 2015 Goals Player Team25 Bernd HoffmannKarlsruher SC23 Ferdinand KellerTSV 1860 Munich21 Otmar LudwigFC 08 Homburg Hans Walitza1. FC Nürnberg17 Gilbert DussierRöchling Völklingen16 Lothar EmmerichFC Schweinfurt 05 Werner SeubertFC Schweinfurt 0515 Harald AumeierFC Schweinfurt 05 Harry ErhartFK Pirmasens Gerhard PankotschFC 08 Homburg Gerd WarkenRöchling Völklingen Dieter WeinkauffFK Pirmasens Hartmut WernerFC Bayern Hof
Promotion play-offs The second placed teams of each division entered a two-leg promotion play-off. Bayer Uerdingen was promoted to Bundesliga.Relegation Bundesliga 1974/1975 Weltfussball.de – Promotion round, retrieved 8 November 2015
References
External links 2. Bundesliga 1974/1975 Nord at Weltfussball.de 2. Bundesliga 1974/1975 Süd at Weltfussball.de 1974–75 2. Bundesliga at kicker.de