2024–25 3. Liga
| Season | 2024–25 | 
|---|---|
| Dates | 2 August 2024 – 17 May 2025 | 
| Champions | Arminia Bielefeld (2nd title) | 
| Promoted | Dynamo Dresden Arminia Bielefeld | 
| Relegated | Borussia Dortmund II Hannover 96 II SV Sandhausen SpVgg Unterhaching | 
| Matches played | 380 | 
| Goals scored | 1,103 (2.9 per match) | 
| Top goalscorer | Fatih Kaya (20 goals) | 
| Biggest home win | Mannheim 5–0 Rostock | 
| Biggest away win | Wiesbaden 1–5 Hannover Hannover 0–4 Ingolstadt Munich 0–4 Verl | 
| Highest scoring | Sandhausen 4–6 Aue | 
| Longest winning run | 5 games Cologne | 
| Longest unbeaten run | 9 games Sandhausen | 
| Longest winless run | 19 games Unterhaching | 
| Longest losing run | 6 games Sandhausen | 
| Highest attendance | 31,858 Dresden v Aue | 
| Lowest attendance | 650 Stuttgart v Unterhaching Stuttgart v Cologne | 
| Attendance | 4,394,605 (11,565 per match) | 
| ← 2023–24  2025–26 →  | |
The 2024–25 3. Liga was the 17th season of the 3. Liga. It started on 2 August 2024 and concluded on 17 May 2025.[1]
The fixtures were announced on 9 July 2024.[2]
Teams
Team changes
Stadiums and locations
1 VfB Stuttgart II played their home matches at the WIRmachenDRUCK Arena since their home stadium, the Robert-Schlienz-Stadion in Stuttgart, did not meet 3. Liga standards.[3]
Personnel and kits
Managerial changes
| Team | Outgoing | Manner | Exit date | Position in table | Incoming | Incoming date | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced on | Departs on | Announced on | Arrived on | ||||||
| Dynamo Dresden |  Heiko Scholz (interim) | End of caretaker | 20 April 2024 | 30 June 2024 | Pre-season | .svg.png) Thomas Stamm | 19 May 2024 | 1 July 2024 | [4][5] | 
| Wehen Wiesbaden |  Nils Döring (interim) | 28 April 2024 |  Nils Döring | 19 June 2024 | [6][7] | ||||
| FC Ingolstadt |  Sabrina Wittmann (interim) | 2 May 2024 |  Sabrina Wittmann | 5 June 2024 | [8][9] | ||||
| SV Sandhausen |  Gerhard Kleppinger (interim) | 13 May 2024 |  Sreto Ristić | 24 May 2024 | [10][11] | ||||
| Hansa Rostock |  Mersad Selimbegović | End of contract | 23 May 2024 |  Bernd Hollerbach | 29 May 2024 | [12][13] | |||
| Waldhof Mannheim |  Marco Antwerpen | Sacked | 17 September 2024 | 20th |  Bernhard Trares | 18 September 2024 | [14][15] | ||
| VfL Osnabrück |  Uwe Koschinat | 22 September 2024 | 16th |  Pit Reimers | 25 September 2024 | [16][17] | |||
| Hansa Rostock |  Bernd Hollerbach | 24 October 2024 | 18th |  Simon Pesch /  Marcus Rabenhorst (interim) | 24 October 2024 | [18] | |||
|  Simon Pesch /  Marcus Rabenhorst (interim) | End of caretaker | 2 November 2024 | 12th |  Daniel Brinkmann | 2 November 2024 | [19] | |||
| Erzgebirge Aue |  Pavel Dochev | Sacked | 1 December 2024 | 8th |  Jörg Emmerich /  Adam Sušac (interim) | 1 December 2024 | [20] | ||
| SpVgg Unterhaching |  Marc Unterberger | 19th |  Sven Bender (interim) | [21] | |||||
| Rot-Weiss Essen |  Christoph Dabrowski | 9 December 2024 | 18th |  Uwe Koschinat | 12 December 2024 | [22][23] | |||
| VfL Osnabrück |  Pit Reimers | 10 December 2024 | 20th |  Marco Antwerpen | 12 December 2024 | [24][25] | |||
| Erzgebirge Aue |  Jörg Emmerich /  Adam Sušac (interim) | End of caretaker | 11 December 2024 | 1 January 2025 | 7th |  Jens Härtel | 11 December 2024 | 2 January 2025 | [26] | 
| SV Sandhausen |  Sreto Ristić | Sacked | 22 December 2024 | 10th |  Kenan Koçak | 28 December 2024 | [27] | ||
| SpVgg Unterhaching |  Sven Bender (interim) | End of caretaker | 3 January 2025 | 20th |  Heiko Herrlich | 3 January 2025 | [28] | ||
| 1860 Munich |  Argiris Giannikis | Sacked | 20 January 2025 | 14th |  Patrick Glöckner | 20 January 2025 | [29][30] | ||
| SpVgg Unterhaching |  Heiko Herrlich | 21 March 2025 | 20th |  Sven Bender (interim) | 28 March 2025 | [31] | |||
| SV Sandhausen |  Kenan Koçak | Resigned | 6 April 2025 | 18th |  Gerhard Kleppinger /  Dennis Diekmeier (interim) | 6 April 2025 | [32] | ||
| Waldhof Mannheim |  Bernhard Trares | Sacked | 9 April 2025 | 16th |  Dominik Glawogger | 10 April 2025 | [33][34] | ||
| 1. FC Saarbrücken |  Rüdiger Ziehl | Moved to manager | 22 April 2025 | 4th |  Alois Schwartz | 22 April 2025 | [35] | ||
| Borussia Dortmund II |  Jan Zimmermann | Sacked | 5 May 2025 | 17th |  Mike Tullberg | 5 May 2025 | [36] | ||
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arminia Bielefeld (C, P) | 38 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 64 | 36 | +28 | 72 | Promotion to 2. Bundesliga and qualification for DFB-Pokal | 
| 2 | Dynamo Dresden (P) | 38 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 71 | 40 | +31 | 70 | |
| 3 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 38 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 59 | 47 | +12 | 65 | Qualification for promotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal | 
| 4 | Energie Cottbus | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 64 | 54 | +10 | 62 | Qualification for DFB-Pokal | 
| 5 | Hansa Rostock | 38 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 54 | 46 | +8 | 60 | |
| 6 | Viktoria Köln | 38 | 18 | 5 | 15 | 59 | 48 | +11 | 59 | |
| 7 | SC Verl | 38 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 62 | 55 | +7 | 57 | |
| 8 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 55 | 54 | +1 | 56 | |
| 9 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 59 | 60 | −1 | 55 | |
| 10 | FC Ingolstadt | 38 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 72 | 63 | +9 | 54 | |
| 11 | 1860 Munich | 38 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 57 | 61 | −4 | 53 | |
| 12 | Alemannia Aachen | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 44 | 44 | 0 | 50 | |
| 13 | Erzgebirge Aue | 38 | 15 | 5 | 18 | 52 | 65 | −13 | 50 | |
| 14 | VfL Osnabrück | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 46 | 55 | −9 | 48 | |
| 15 | VfB Stuttgart II[a] | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 49 | 59 | −10 | 47 | |
| 16 | Waldhof Mannheim | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 43 | 45 | −2 | 46 | |
| 17 | Borussia Dortmund II[a] (R) | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 53 | 60 | −7 | 43 | Relegation to Regionalliga | 
| 18 | Hannover 96 II[a] (R) | 38 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 51 | 70 | −19 | 37 | |
| 19 | SV Sandhausen (R) | 38 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 49 | 69 | −20 | 35 | |
| 20 | SpVgg Unterhaching (R) | 38 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 40 | 72 | −32 | 25 | 
Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.[37]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.[37]
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ a b c Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion or DFB-Pokal qualification.
Results
Statistics
Top scorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[38] | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Fatih Kaya | Wehen Wiesbaden | 20 | 
| 2 |  Christoph Daferner | Dynamo Dresden | 18 | 
| 3 |  Sebastian Grønning | FC Ingolstadt | 17 | 
| 4 |  Tolcay Ciğerci | Energie Cottbus | 15 | 
|  Lex-Tyger Lobinger | Viktoria Köln | ||
|  Timmy Thiele | Energie Cottbus | ||
| 7 |  Ahmet Arslan | Rot-Weiss Essen | 14 | 
|  Serhat-Semih Güler | Viktoria Köln | ||
|  Julian Hettwer | Borussia Dortmund II | ||
|  Julian Kania | Arminia Bielefeld | 
Hat-tricks
| Player | Club | Against | Result | Date | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  Timmy Thiele4 | Energie Cottbus | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 4–1 (H) | 28 September 2024 | 
|  Julian Kania | Arminia Bielefeld | Hannover 96 II | 4–1 (A) | 23 October 2024 | 
|  Sebastian Grønning | FC Ingolstadt | VfL Osnabrück | 4–2 (H) | 24 November 2024 | 
|  Omar Sijarić | Erzgebirge Aue | SV Sandhausen | 6–4 (A) | 14 December 2024 | 
|  Christian Kinsombi | Hansa Rostock | SC Verl | 6–0 (H) | 12 April 2025 | 
|  Florian Krüger | 1. FC Saarbrücken | SC Verl | 4–3 (H) | 3 May 2025 | 
4 Player scored four goals.
Clean sheets
| Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets[39] | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jonas Kersken | Arminia Bielefeld | 14 | 
|  Benjamin Uphoff | Hansa Rostock | ||
| 3 |  Elias Bethke | Energie Cottbus | 12 | 
| 4 |  Phillip Menzel | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 11 | 
| 5 |  Jan-Christoph Bartels | Waldhof Mannheim | 10 | 
|  Dudu | Viktoria Köln | ||
|  Tim Schreiber | Dynamo Dresden | ||
|  Florian Stritzel | Wehen Wiesbaden | ||
| 9 |  Jakob Golz | Rot-Weiss Essen | 7 | 
|  Marco Hiller | 1860 Munich | ||
|  Lukas Jonsson | VfL Osnabrück | ||
|  Martin Männel | Erzgebirge Aue | ||
|  Philipp Schulze | SC Verl | 
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