The 2nd Bundesliga is the second highest division in German football. With the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963, five regional leagues (South, Southwest, West, North and Berlin) were created as the second highest German league, with the two first-placed teams playing the two Bundesliga promoted teams in two groups at the end of the season. With the exception of FC Bayern Munich, which spent three seasons in the second division, but long before the founding of the 2nd Bundesliga (namely 1955/56 and from 1963 to 1965) and SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin, which was in 1973 – a year before the first edition – was dissolved, football tops all previous Bundesliga clubs spent one or more seasons in the 2nd Bundesliga and helped shape the league. There was discussion about using the final standings of the 1973/74 season alone as a benchmark for qualification. Exceptions to this include the 1980/81 season, in which the qualification for the single-track 2nd Bundesliga was played, and the 1991/92 season, which was double-tracked due to German reunification. Since the founding of the 3rd league in 2008, the seventeenth and eighteenth places in the table are relegated directly, while the sixteenth place plays against the third place in the third league in two relegation games to stay in the league or be promoted. In the 1922/23 season, the Blues remained in the district class without losing any points under coach Frantisek Zoubek.

And against Betis Sevilla in the Europa League, coach Glasner is hoping for a full stadium for the first time in a long time. Mike Pellegrims was hired as the new coach for the 2016/17 season, but left the KAC the next summer and moved to Düsseldorfer EG. The last meeting in the playoffs between the two teams took place in the 2010/11 season, where EC KAC prevailed in Game 5 and thus reached the final. The most points per game were achieved by Werder Bremen, who achieved direct promotion in two seasons with an average of 2.12 points per game. In South America, Brazil is by far the most successful team, winning six of the seven South American Championships held so far, only in 2006 they were defeated by Argentina in the decisive game of the finals. On February 19, 2013, FIFA announced that it would use goal-line technology for the first time at the 2014 finals in Brazil. On February 22nd, the Extension add-on was released. ↑ The history of the Lower Austrian Football Association.

↑ The founding history of the German-Alpine Football Association by DI Herbert Rienessel. ↑ After around 15 months it's over – a bang: ÖFB boss Milletich resigns. ↑ End of a short era: ÖFB boss Milletich resigns. ↑ The ÖFB is installing a national futsal team. In men's football these are the Bundesliga, the 2nd league and the three regional leagues, in women's football the ÖFB Women's Bundesliga and the 2nd league and the Women's Future League, in which the reserve teams of the Bundesliga teams are set up. This was calculated from the table positions achieved in the last three years. The lower this place number was, the better placed the club was. After the English team was narrowly eliminated on penalties in the semi-finals of the European Championship, the lyrics are more optimistic than the original, with "No more years of hurt" being sung instead of "Thirty years of hurt". In preparation for the 2004 European Championship in their own country, for which Portugal automatically qualified as host, the Portuguese Football Association hired the Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari as national coach. It is the only country against which no friendlies have been played in more than 10 matches. In the same season, a new record was reached with a total of almost 6.8 million viewers for all 306 games in the 2nd Bundesliga.

In the all-time table of the 2nd Bundesliga, SpVgg Greuther Fürth is in the lead with a total of 1,708 points (as of the end of the 2022/2023 season). The title of record champions of the 2nd Bundesliga is shared by five teams: 1. FC Köln, SC Freiburg and VfL Bochum each won four titles in the "single-track" 2nd league, i.e. after merging the North and South seasons. The first league leaders in the new league were SC Fortuna Köln (north) and VfR Heilbronn (south). The four first-placed teams in the North and South relays as well as the Bundesliga relegated teams were automatically qualified. The first and second place teams were directly promoted. Newcomer SV Elversberg will join in 2023 as the 128th club. The respective league leaders were promoted directly to the Bundesliga, the two runners-up determined the third promoted team in the return leg (if necessary, there was a playoff). The bottom three were relegated from the Bundesliga and, depending on their regional affiliation, were placed in the 2nd Bundesliga North or 2nd Bundesliga South. The southern regional associations should have 13 clubs, the west should have eleven clubs, the north and southwest should have seven clubs each and Berlin should have two clubs.