2014–15 2. Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga
Season	2014–15
Champions	FC Ingolstadt
Promoted	FC Ingolstadt; SV Darmstadt
Relegated	Erzgebirge Aue; VfR Aalen
Matches played	306
Goals scored	865 (2.83 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rouwen Hennings; (17 goals)
Average attendance	17,667
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Bundesliga was the 41st season of the 2. Bundesliga, Germany's second-level football competition.

Teams

Location of teams in the 2014–15 2. Bundesliga

A total of 18 teams contest the league, including 12 sides from the 2013–14 season, two sides directly relegated from the 2013–14 Bundesliga season, and two sides directly promoted from the 2013–14 3. Liga season. The two final participants were determined in two-legged play-offs, in which the 16th placed Bundesliga side played the team who finished third in 2. Bundesliga and the 16th 2. Bundesliga side played the team who finished third in the 3. Liga.

2014–15 Teams

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium capacity
VfR Aalen	Aalen	Scholz-Arena	13,251
VfL Bochum	Bochum	rewirpowerSTADION	29,299
SV Darmstadt 98	Darmstadt	Stadion am Böllenfalltor	16,500
Eintracht Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Eintracht-Stadion	23,325
FC Erzgebirge Aue	Aue	Sparkassen-Erzgebirgsstadion	15,711
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Esprit Arena	54,600
FSV Frankfurt	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion	12,542
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Fürth	Trolli Arena	18,500
1. FC Heidenheim	Heidenheim	Voith-Arena	13,000
FC Ingolstadt 04	Ingolstadt	Audi Sportpark	15,445
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	Fritz-Walter-Stadion	49,780
Karlsruher SC	Karlsruhe	Wildparkstadion	29,699
RB Leipzig	Leipzig	Red Bull Arena	44,345
1860 Munich	Munich	Allianz Arena	71,000
1. FC Nürnberg	Nuremberg	Grundig-Stadion	50,000
SV Sandhausen	Sandhausen	Hardtwald	12,100
FC St. Pauli	Hamburg	Millerntor-Stadion	29,063^{Note 1}
1. FC Union Berlin	Berlin	Alte Försterei	21,704

Notes

The capacity was reduced from the end of October 2014 until the end of the season due to the demolition and redevelopment of the North stand.

Personnel and sponsorships

Team	Head coach	Team captain	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
VfR Aalen	Stefan Ruthenbeck	Leandro Grech	adidas	Prowin
VfL Bochum	Gertjan Verbeek	Andreas Luthe	Nike	Netto / BOOSTER Energy Drink
SV Darmstadt 98	Dirk Schuster	Aytac Sulu	Nike	Software AG
Eintracht Braunschweig	Torsten Lieberknecht	Dennis Kruppke	Nike	SEAT
Erzgebirge Aue	Tomislav Stipić	René Klingbeil	Nike	Elektrowerkzeuge Eibenstock
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Taşkın Aksoy	Andreas Lambertz	Puma	o.tel.o
FSV Frankfurt	Tomas Oral	Björn Schlicke	Saller	Frankfurt Skyline
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Mike Büskens	Wolfgang Hesl	Hummel	Ergo Direkt Versicherungen
1. FC Heidenheim	Frank Schmidt	Marc Schnatterer	Nike	Hartmann Gruppe
FC Ingolstadt 04	Ralph Hasenhüttl	Stefan Leitl	adidas	Audi
1. FC Kaiserslautern	Kosta Runjaić	Albert Bunjaku	uhlsport	paysafecard
Karlsruher SC	Markus Kauczinski	Dirk Orlishausen	Hummel	Klaiber Markisen
RB Leipzig	Achim Beierlorzer	Daniel Frahn	Nike	Red Bull
1860 Munich	Torsten Fröhling	Christopher Schindler	uhlsport	Volkswagen
1. FC Nürnberg	René Weiler	Raphael Schäfer	adidas	Wolf Möbel
SV Sandhausen	Alois Schwartz	Frank Löning	Puma	Machmeier Energy
FC St. Pauli	Ewald Lienen	Sören Gonther	Hummel	Relentless
1. FC Union Berlin	Norbert Düwel	Damir Kreilach	uhlsport	Becker

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
1. FC Union Berlin	Uwe Neuhaus	Mutual consent	11 May 2014	Pre-season	Norbert Düwel	13 May 2014
1860 Munich	Markus von Ahlen	End of tenure as caretaker	4 June 2014		Ricardo Moniz	4 June 2014
1. FC Nürnberg	Roger Prinzen	End of tenure as caretaker	5 June 2014		Valérien Ismaël	5 June 2014
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Lorenz-Günther Köstner	Mutual consent	12 June 2014		Oliver Reck	13 June 2014
Erzgebirge Aue	Falko Götz	Sacked	2 September 2014	18th	Tomislav Stipić	9 September 2014
FC St. Pauli	Roland Vrabec	Sacked	3 September 2014	14th	Thomas Meggle	3 September 2014
1860 Munich	Ricardo Moniz	Sacked	24 September 2014	13th	Markus von Ahlen	24 September 2014
1. FC Nürnberg	Valérien Ismaël	Sacked	11 November 2014	14th	René Weiler	12 November 2014
VfL Bochum	Peter Neururer	Sacked	9 December 2014	10th	Frank Heinemann	9 December 2014
FC St. Pauli	Thomas Meggle	Sacked	16 December 2014	18th	Ewald Lienen	16 December 2014
VfL Bochum	Frank Heinemann	End of tenure as caretaker	31 December 2014	11th	Gertjan Verbeek	1 January 2015
RB Leipzig	Alexander Zorniger	Mutual consent	11 February 2015	7th	Achim Beierlorzer	11 February 2015
1860 Munich	Markus von Ahlen	Sacked	17 February 2015	16th	Torsten Fröhling	17 February 2015
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Frank Kramer	Sacked	23 February 2015	13th	Mike Büskens	23 February 2015
Fortuna Düsseldorf	Oliver Reck	Sacked	23 February 2015	6th	Taşkın Aksoy	13 April 2015
FSV Frankfurt	Benno Möhlmann	Sacked	18 May 2015	16th	Tomas Oral	18 May 2015

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	FC Ingolstadt (C, P)	34	17	13	4	53	32	+21	64	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	SV Darmstadt 98 (P)	34	15	14	5	44	26	+18	59	Promotion to Bundesliga
3	Karlsruher SC	34	15	13	6	46	26	+20	58	Qualification to promotion play-offs
4	1. FC Kaiserslautern	34	14	14	6	45	31	+14	56
5	RB Leipzig	34	13	11	10	39	31	+8	50
6	Eintracht Braunschweig	34	15	5	14	44	41	+3	50
7	Union Berlin	34	12	11	11	46	51	−5	47
8	1. FC Heidenheim	34	12	10	12	49	44	+5	46
9	1. FC Nürnberg	34	13	6	15	42	47	−5	45
10	Fortuna Düsseldorf	34	11	11	12	48	52	−4	44
11	VfL Bochum	34	9	15	10	53	55	−2	42
12	SV Sandhausen	34	10	12	12	32	37	−5	39
13	FSV Frankfurt	34	10	9	15	41	53	−12	39
14	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	34	8	13	13	34	42	−8	37
15	FC St. Pauli	34	10	7	17	40	51	−11	37
16	1860 Munich	34	9	9	16	41	51	−10	36	Qualification to relegation play-offs
17	Erzgebirge Aue (R)	34	9	9	16	32	47	−15	36	Relegation to 3. Liga
18	VfR Aalen (R)	34	7	12	15	34	46	−12	31	Relegation to 3. Liga

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Home \ Away	AAL	AUE	UNB	BOC	EBS	D98	F95	FSV	SGF	FCH	FCI	FCK	KSC	RBL	M60	FCN	SVS	STP
VfR Aalen	—	3–0	1–2	2–4	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–4	1–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	2–0
Erzgebirge Aue	1–0	—	1–2	1–5	1–2	0–1	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–3	0–0	3–1	2–0	4–1	0–1	0–1	3–0
Union Berlin	1–1	1–2	—	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	3–1	2–2	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–4	0–4	3–1	1–0
VfL Bochum	4–0	1–1	1–1	—	3–2	1–1	1–1	3–3	1–1	4–1	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	3–3
Eintracht Braunschweig	2–1	4–2	1–1	1–2	—	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	3–0	0–0	0–2	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–2
Darmstadt 98	2–0	2–0	5–0	2–0	1–0	—	1–4	4–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0
Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–2	2–3	1–0	2–2	2–2	2–0	—	2–3	3–3	3–2	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–1	1–3	1–3	1–0
FSV Frankfurt	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–5	0–3	1–1	0–2	—	1–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–3	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	3–3
Greuther Fürth	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	1–2	1–0	3–0	2–5	—	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–3	0–1	0–3	5–1	0–0	3–0
1. FC Heidenheim	0–1	2–2	3–1	5–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	3–0	—	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	3–0	2–1
FC Ingolstadt	4–1	1–1	3–3	3–0	1–0	2–2	3–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	—	2–0	1–3	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	2–1
1. FC Kaiserslautern	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	1–1	—	2–0	1–1	3–2	2–1	1–0	0–2
Karlsruher SC	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	—	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	3–0
RB Leipzig	0–0	1–0	3–2	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	—	1–1	2–1	0–4	4–1
1860 Munich	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–3	0–3	—	2–1	2–3	2–1
1. FC Nürnberg	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	—	2–0	2–2
SV Sandhausen	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	0–3	1–0	2–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	—	0–0
FC St. Pauli	3–1	0–0	3–0	5–1	1–0	0–1	4–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–3	0–4	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	—

2014–15 2. Bundesliga

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and sponsorships

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Promotion play-offs

First leg

Second leg

Relegation play-offs

First leg

Second leg

Season statistics

Top scorers

References

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Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rouwen Hennings	Karlsruher SC	17
2	Simon Terodde	VfL Bochum	16
3	Florian Niederlechner	1. FC Heidenheim	15
4	Sebastian Polter	1. FC Union Berlin	14
5	Charlison Benschop	Fortuna Düsseldorf	13
5	Rubin Okotie	1860 Munich	13
7	Edmond Kapllani	FSV Frankfurt	11
	Joel Pohjanpalo	Fortuna Düsseldorf
	Yussuf Poulsen	RB Leipzig
	Marc Schnatterer	1. FC Heidenheim