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3. Fußball-Liga
Season	2008–09
Champions	1. FC Union Berlin
Promoted	1. FC Union Berlin Fortuna Düsseldorf SC Paderborn 07 (via playoff)
Relegated	VfR Aalen Stuttgarter Kickers Kickers Emden (due to licensing issues)
Matches played	380
Goals scored	956 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Anton Fink (21)
Biggest home win	Paderborn 6–0 Burghausen
Biggest away win	Jena 0–6 Stuttgart II
Highest scoring	Br'schweig 5–5 Düsseldorf
2009–10 →

The 2008–09 3. Fußball-Liga was the inaugural season for the newly formed tier III of the German football league system. The inaugural game was played on 25 July 2008 between FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt and Dynamo Dresden, ending with a 1–0 win for Dresden. The last games were played on 23 May 2009. 1. FC Union Berlin were the inaugural champions, securing first place on 10 May 2009. Runners-up Fortuna Düsseldorf were also promoted. Third-placed team SC Paderborn 07 played a relegation/promotion play-off against the 16th-placed team from 2. Bundesliga, VfL Osnabrück, winning both games and earning promotion. Kickers Emden, VfR Aalen, and Stuttgarter Kickers were relegated to the Regionalliga.

Contents

1 Qualified teams
2 Cities and stadia
- 2.1 Managerial changes
3 League table
4 Results
5 Top scorers
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Qualified teams

St. Kickers
Stuttgart II

Unterhaching

Wuppertal

Location of teams in the 2008–09 3. Fußball-Liga

The following teams were relegated to 3. Liga from 2007–08 2. Fußball-Bundesliga:

The following teams qualified through Regionalliga North:

The following teams qualified through Regionalliga South:

Cities and stadia

Team	Head Coach	City	Stadium	Capacity
VfR Aalen	Rainer Scharinger	Aalen	Städtisches Waldstadion	11,183
FC Erzgebirge Aue	Heiko Weber	Aue	Erzgebirgsstadion	16,350
1. FC Union Berlin	Uwe Neuhaus	Berlin	Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark¹	19,708
Eintracht Braunschweig	Torsten Lieberknecht	Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	23,500
SV Werder Bremen II	Thomas Wolter	Bremen	Weserstadion Platz 11	5,500
SV Wacker Burghausen	Ralf Santelli (interim)	Burghausen	Wacker Arena	8,400
Dynamo Dresden	Ruud Kaiser	Dresden	Rudolf Harbig Stadion	23,940
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Norbert Meier	Düsseldorf	LTU-Arena	51,500
Kickers Emden	Stefan Emmerling	Emden	Embdena-Stadion	7,200
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	Henri Fuchs (interim)	Erfurt	Steigerwaldstadion	20,000
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	Marc Fascher	Jena	Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld	15,610
FC Bayern Munich II	Mehmet Scholl (interim)	Munich	Grünwalder Stadion	10,240
Kickers Offenbach	Hans-Jürgen Boysen	Offenbach am Main	Bieberer Berg Stadion	31,500
SC Paderborn 07	André Schubert (interim)	Paderborn	Paragon Arena	15,300
SSV Jahn Regensburg	Markus Weinzierl	Regensburg	Jahnstadion	11,800
SV Sandhausen	Gerd Dais	Sandhausen	Hardtwaldstadion	11,544
Stuttgarter Kickers	Rainer Kraft	Stuttgart	GAZi-Stadion auf der Waldau	11,436
VfB Stuttgart II	Rainer Adrion	Stuttgart	GAZi-Stadion auf der Waldau	11,436
SpVgg Unterhaching	Ralph Hasenhüttl	Unterhaching	Generali Sportpark	15,053
Wuppertaler SV Borussia	Uwe Fuchs	Wuppertal	Zoo-Stadion	28,000

Notes

1. FC Union Berlin played its 2008–09 home matches at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark because their own ground Alte Försterei was undergoing renovation.^[1]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
VfR Aalen	Edgar Schmitt	Sacked	27 August 2008^[2]	Jürgen Kohler	28 August 2008^[2]
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	Henning Bürger	Sacked	14 September 2008^[3]	René van Eck	22 September 2008^[4]
Stuttgarter Kickers	Stefan Minkwitz	Sacked	21 September 2008^[5]	Edgar Schmitt	21 September 2008^[5]
VfR Aalen	Jürgen Kohler	Resigned	15 November 2008^[6]	Petrik Sander	21 November 2008^[7]
SSV Jahn Regensburg	Thomas Kristl	Sacked	24 November 2008^[8]	Markus Weinzierl	24 November 2008^[8]
Wuppertaler SV Borussia	Christoph John	Sacked	22 December 2008^[9]	Uwe Fuchs	23 December 2008^[9]
FC Carl Zeiss Jena	René van Eck	Sacked	23 March 2009^[10]	Marc Fascher	23 March 2009^[10]
Stuttgarter Kickers	Edgar Schmitt	Resigned	14 April 2009^[11]	Rainer Kraft	14 April 2009^[11]
SV Wacker Burghausen	Günter Güttler	Sacked	15 April 2009^[12]	Ralf Santelli (interim)	15 April 2009^[12]
FC Bayern Munich II	Hermann Gerland	"Promoted" to interim assistant coach of first team	27 April 2009^[13]	Mehmet Scholl (interim)	27 April 2009^[13]
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt	Karsten Baumann	Sacked	28 April 2009^[14]	Henri Fuchs (interim)	28 April 2009^[14]
VfR Aalen	Petrik Sander	Resigned	5 May 2009^[15]	Rainer Scharinger	6 May 2009^[16]
SC Paderborn 07	Pavel Dotchev	Sacked	13 May 2009^[17]	André Schubert	13 May 2009^[17]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	1. FC Union Berlin (C) (P)	38	22	12	4	59	23	+36	78	Promotion to Second Bundesliga
2	Fortuna Düsseldorf (P)	38	20	9	9	54	33	+21	69	Promotion to Second Bundesliga
3	SC Paderborn (O) (P)	38	20	8	10	68	38	+30	68	Second Bundesliga relegation playoff
4	SpVgg Unterhaching	38	20	7	11	57	46	+11	67
5	Bayern Munich II	38	14	17	7	54	38	+16	59
6	Kickers Emden (R)	38	16	11	11	45	44	+1	059^*	Relegation to Regionalliga
7	Kickers Offenbach	38	12	16	10	40	35	+5	52
8	SV Sandhausen	38	12	14	12	58	52	+6	50
9	Dynamo Dresden	38	13	11	14	46	46	0	50
10	Rot-Weiß Erfurt	38	13	11	14	46	48	−2	50
11	VfB Stuttgart II	38	13	10	15	61	50	+11	49
12	Erzgebirge Aue	38	12	12	14	43	43	0	48
13	Eintracht Braunschweig	38	12	9	17	46	51	−5	45
14	Wuppertaler SV	38	11	12	15	36	45	−9	45
15	Jahn Regensburg	38	11	12	15	37	51	−14	45
16	Carl Zeiss Jena	38	10	11	17	41	59	−18	41
17	Werder Bremen II	38	10	10	18	49	58	−9	40
18	Wacker Burghausen	38	10	10	18	40	65	−25	40
19	VfR Aalen (R)	38	8	15	15	38	60	−22	39	Relegation to Regionalliga
20	Stuttgarter Kickers (R)	38	7	11	20	38	71	−33	029^**	Relegation to Regionalliga

Source: www.kicker.de (German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Bayern Munich II, Stuttgart II and Werder Bremen II are not available for promotion.
^*Kickers Emden retracted their application for a 3. Liga license for the 2009-10 season and were automatically relegated. SV Wacker Burghausen took their spot.^[18]
^**Stuttgarter Kickers received a three point deduction due to failed debt repayments to the German Football Association.^[19]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away¹	AAL	AUE	UNB	BRS	BR2	BUR	DRE	DÜS	EMD	RWE	JEN	BM2	OFF	PAD	JRE	SAN	SKI	ST2	UHA	WUP
VfR Aalen		0–0	1–4	2–0	1–0	0–0	4–3	1–2	0–0	0–2	3–2	0–0	1–1	3–3	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	2–3	0–0
Erzgebirge Aue	0–0		0–1	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	5–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	0–2	0–3	1–1	1–0
1. FC Union Berlin	3–0	2–0		1–1	0–0	4–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	3–2	2–0	2–2	5–1	3–1	0–1	0–0
Eintracht Braunschweig	2–0	1–1	0–2		1–1	2–0	0–1	5–5	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	4–0	2–0	0–3	3–3	1–1	2–0	4–0	2–1
Werder Bremen II	3–1	4–2	1–2	1–1		2–2	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	2–3	2–2	4–3	2–0	4–5	1–0	1–1
Wacker Burghausen	1–0	0–4	0–0	0–2	2–2		0–3	0–4	3–1	1–4	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–1	2–3	2–0	2–1	5–1	2–0
Dynamo Dresden	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	3–1		0–2	1–2	1–1	2–0	3–2	1–1	0–3	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1
Fortuna Düsseldorf	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–0		1–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–4	3–1	3–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–1
Kickers Emden	5–2	1–1	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–0		1–0	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–3	0–1	2–1	0–4	1–0
Rot-Weiß Erfurt	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–3	0–1	2–0	0–1		2–1	1–1	1–1	1–4	4–1	1–1	3–2	1–0	4–1	2–2
Carl Zeiss Jena	1–1	3–2	1–2	2–0	3–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1		0–0	0–2	2–4	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–6	4–3	0–0
Bayern Munich II	4–0	2–3	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	4–0	1–0	2–1		1–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	3–3	1–1	0–0	2–0
Kickers Offenbach	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–0		0–0	1–1	0–3	4–0	2–0	3–1	1–2
SC Paderborn	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	6–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–0		3–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–1
Jahn Regensburg	1–0	1–4	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–1	0–4		2–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–0
SV Sandhausen	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	3–3	0–2	4–0	3–0		2–0	1–1	3–1	1–1
Stuttgarter Kickers	1–4	1–2	2–2	3–1	3–2	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–3	0–0	0–1	0–3	1–1	0–1		4–4	2–1	0–1
VfB Stuttgart II	0–0	3–0	0–3	4–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	0–4	0–1	3–1	3–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	3–0		1–3	2–0
SpVgg Unterhaching	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	4–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–2		1–1
Wuppertaler SV	5–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–4	1–0	0–0	0–3	0–2	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	3–3	2–0	2–4

Source: kicker.de
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Source: www.kicker.de

21 goals

Anton Fink (SpVgg Unterhaching)

17 goals

Sercan Güvenisik (SC Paderborn 07)
Torsten Oehrl (SV Werder Bremen II)

16 goals

Karim Benyamina (1. FC Union Berlin)

15 goals

Thomas Müller (FC Bayern Munich II)

14 goals

Frank Löning (SC Paderborn 07)
Halil Savran (Dynamo Dresden)

12 goals

Massimo Cannizzaro (FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt)
Marco Sailer (VfR Aalen)

References

^ "1. FC Union Berlin startet Dauerkartenverkauf" (in German). 1. FC Union Berlin. 22 June 2008. http://www.fc-union-berlin.de/default.php?content=vereinsnews_detail&id=2930. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Folgt Kohler auf Schmitt?" (in German). kicker.de. 27 August 2008. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/spieltag/artikel/382286/. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
^ "Bürger entlassen" (in German). kicker.de. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/startseite/artikel/382899/. Retrieved 14 September 2008.
^ "René van Eck folgt auf Bürger" (in German). kicker.de. Archived from the original on 20 September 2008. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/startseite/artikel/227127/. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
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^ "Jürgen Kohler tritt ab" (in German). kicker.de. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/startseite/artikel/500471/. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
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^ ^a ^b "Jahn trennt sich von Kristl" (in German). kicker.de. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/startseite/artikel/500854/. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Fuchs kehrt zum WSV zurück" (in German). kicker.de. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/startseite/artikel/502125/. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Jena trennt sich von René van Eck - Marc Fascher neuer Trainer" (in German). FC Carl Zeiss Jena. 23 March 2009. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009. http://www.fc-carlzeiss-jena.de/magazin/artikel.php?artikel=6469&type=&menuid=74&topmenu=301. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
^ ^a ^b Pfauth, Frank (14 April 2009). "Trainerwechsel beim Drittliga-Tabellenletzten" (in German). Stuttgarter Kickers. Archived from the original on 17 April 2009. http://www.stuttgarter-kickers.de/magazin/artikel.php?artikel=2446&type=2&menuid=29&topmenu=28. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Chef-Trainer Günter Güttler beurlaubt - Santelli übernimmt" (in German). SV Wacker Burghausen. http://fussball.sv-wacker.de/index.php?id=505&tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=3084&tx_ttnews%5bbackPid%5d=1&cHash=dd6e76971c. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Scholl übernimmt den FC Bayern II" (in German). FC Bayern Munich. 27 April 2009. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. http://www.fcbayern.t-home.de/de/aktuell/news/2009/19329.php. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Erfurt entlässt Trainer Baumann" (in German). sport.t-online.de. 28 April 2009. http://sport.t-online.de/trainerwechsel-fc-rot-weiss-erfurt-entlaesst-karsten-baumann/id_18580096/index. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
^ "Kohler und Sander weg" (in German). kicker online. Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/startseite/artikel/508238/. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
^ "Scharinger folgt auf Sander" (in German). kicker online. Archived from the original on 10 May 2009. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/startseite/artikel/508251/. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Trainerwechsel im Endspurt" (in German). SC Paderborn 07. 13 May 2009. http://www.scpaderborn07.de/2-News/5324,Trainerwechsel-im-Endspurt.html. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
^ "Emden steigt freiwillig ab, Burghausen rückt nach" (in German). transfermarkt.de. 9 June 2009. Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090612022349/http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/news/28311/emden-steigt-freiwillig-ab-burghausen-rueckt-nach.html. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
^ "Punktabzug: Kickers geben Abstiegskampf auf" (in German). transfermarkt.de. 14 May 2009. Archived from the original on 17 May 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090517105417/http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/news/27322/punktabzug-kickers-geben-abstiegskampf-auf.html. Retrieved 15 May 2009.

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