The 1980–81 2. Bundesliga season was the seventh season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system. It was played in two regional divisions, Nord and Süd. This was the final season of the original two region 2. Bundesliga, as the DFB sought to integrate the Nord and Süd divisions into a single division for the next campaign. This meant 22 teams faced the drop to the Oberliga (12 from the Nord, 10 from the Süd). There were three promotion spots to the Bundesliga on offer, while the remaining teams would enter the new single league 2. Bundesliga in the next season.
Werder Bremen, Eintracht Braunschweig and SV Darmstadt 98 were promoted to the Bundesliga while twenty two clubs were relegated to the Oberligas.
Nord The 1980–81 season saw 1. FC Bocholt, Göttingen 05, SpVgg Erkenschwick and VfB Oldenburg promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberligas while Hertha BSC, Werder Bremen and Eintracht Braunschweig had been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Nord from the Bundesliga.
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Top scorers
Goals Player Team40 Frank MillRot-Weiss Essen36 Werner KillmaierHertha BSC Berlin30 Horst FeilzerVfL Osnabrück Ronnie WormEintracht Braunschweig29 Erwin KosteddeSV Werder Bremen27 Dieter SchatzschneiderHannover 9622 Thomas RemarkHertha BSC Berlin21 Bernd KrumbeinSG Union Solingen/OSV Hannover20 Werner LenzSG Union Solingen Harald Snater1. SC Göttingen 05
Süd The 1980–81 season saw Borussia Neunkirchen, FC Augsburg, Hessen Kassel and VfB Eppingen promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberligas while no club had been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga Süd from the Bundesliga.
League table
Results
Top scorers The league's top scorers:2. Bundesliga 1980/1981 Nord Torschützenliste Weltfussball.de – Top scorers, retrieved 8 November 2015 Goals Player Team26 Horst NeumannSV Darmstadt 9825 Uwe BeinKickers Offenbach23 Franz GerberESV Ingolstadt22 Paul LinzFreiburger FC Bodo MatternVfR Wormatia Worms19 Lothar LeiendeckerEintracht Trier Heinz Traser1. FC Saarbrücken18 Herbert DemangeFC 08 Homburg Hans JörgFC Augsburg17 Peter CestonaroSV Darmstadt 98 Werner HofmannFSV Frankfurt Werner NickelStuttgarter Kickers
Promotion play-offs The final place in the Bundesliga was contested between the two runners-up in the Nord and Süd divisions. Eintracht Braunschweig won on aggregate and were promoted to the Bundesliga.Relegation Bundesliga 1980/1981 Weltfussball.de – Promotion round, retrieved 8 November 2015
Qualification for single-division 2. Bundesliga There was a sophisticated system for qualifying for the new single-division 2. Bundesliga. First, the clubs had to meet technical qualification criteria. These stipulated that the stadiums had to accommodate at least 15,000 spectators and had to be equipped with floodlights within a certain period of time. If these requirements were met, sporting criteria would come into play. The non-promoted teams in fourth place and above from the Nord and Süd divisions, along with the three relegated teams from the 1980–81 Bundesliga, automatically qualified. The other participants (teams from 5th to 16th place in the Nord and Süd) were determined by a so-called "placement number" (). This was calculated from the positions achieved by teams in the last three seasons. The lower this number was, the better the club was placed. For the 1978–79 season, the table position was multiplied by one, the 1979–80 season by two and the current 1980–81 season by three. Seasons in the Bundesliga were tallied as zero. For Oberliga seasons in which teams did not achieve promotion, 20 points were added, and 16 points for seasons which teams were promoted. It was also important from which region the three relegated teams of the Bundesliga were from, as well as how many teams were promoted from the respective Nord and Süd divisions. At the end, 10 teams from the Nord and Süd divisions had represented in the next season. Teams in 17th and below from the Nord and Süd were relegated, irrespective of their placement number. There was no promotion for teams from the Oberliga going into the single-division season.
+ Nord Team 1 Werder Bremen 3 2 Eintracht Braunschweig 6 3 Hertha BSC 9 4 Hannover 96 33 5 Alemannia Aachen 36 6 Rot-Weiss Essen 36 7 Fortuna Köln 43 8 Union Solingen 48 9 SG Wattenscheid 50 10 VfL Osnabrück 52 11 Viktoria Köln 57 12 Preußen Münster 62 13 1. FC Bocholt 88 14 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 88 15 VfB Oldenburg 97 16 SC Herford 98 17 Tennis Borussia Berlin 88 18 Göttingen 05 106 19 Holstein Kiel 99 20 Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid 111 21 SpVgg Erkenschwick 115 22 OSV Hannover 106+ Süd Team 1 Darmstadt 98 11 2 Kickers Offenbach 28 3 Stuttgarter Kickers 24 4 Hessen Kassel 64 5 SC Freiburg 48 6 SpVgg Bayreuth 55 7 Waldhof Mannheim 56 8 Wormatia Worms 59 9 SpVgg Fürth 60 10 Freiburger FC 61 11 SSV Ulm 63 12 Eintracht Trier 64 13 FC Homburg 64 14 VfR Bürstadt 83 15 FSV Frankfurt 93 16 ESV Ingolstadt 98 17 1. FC Saarbrücken 69 18 FC Augsburg 104 19 Borussia Neunkirchen 109 20 VfB Eppingen 112
References
General references
External links 2. Bundesliga 1980/1981 Nord at Weltfussball.de 2. Bundesliga 1980/1981 Süd at Weltfussball.de 1980–81 2. Bundesliga at kicker.de