The whole structure is almost an exact copy of the German Benteler Arena (previously know as Energieteam Arena), which is a home ground of SC Paderborn 07 currently playing in the 2. Bundesliga.
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Arminia Bielefeld and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team 1. FC Saarbrücken had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off.
FC St. Pauli and third-placed 2. Bundesliga team Stuttgarter Kickers had to compete in a two-legged relegation/promotion play-off.
Five teams were due to be relegated, but Stuttgarter Kickers and Sportfreunde Siegen were repreived because two of the relegated teams from the 2. Bundesliga, SSV Reutlingen and SV Waldhof Mannheim, could not achieve a Regionalliga license, and dropped another level, to the Oberliga.
After a disappointing year, in which he only made one league appearance, as a late substitute for Darren Byfield in a 2–2 draw with Crystal Palace, and one in the Football League Cup, he returned to Germany to sign for FC St. Pauli of the 2. Bundesliga.
After helping FC St. Pauli narrowly miss out on promotion from the second level, Reinke signed with 1. FC Kaiserslautern, where he won his first trophies: in 1996, the Palatinate Forest side suffered top flight relegation, but managed to win the cup, 1–0 against Karlsruher SC.
After receiving limited playing time in Germany and the German 2. Bundesliga, Cem moved to the United States, signing with the Indiana Hoosiers at Indiana University.
He made his debut for Osnabrück in April 2011, as a substitute for a Benjamin Siegert in a 4–0 defeat to Hertha BSC in the 2. Bundesliga.
However, after the club's relegation in the Bundesliga season 2006–07 into the 2. Bundesliga, Borussia manager Jos Luhukay loaned him out to his former club, Basel for the 2007–08 season.
By the 1993–94 season Criens had fallen down the attacker pecking order, behind Martin Dahlin, Heiko Herrlich and Martin Max, and in October 1993, the 33-year-old signed for 1. FC Nürnberg, suffering team relegation and then playing his last year as a professional in the second division.
Heinrich Schmidtgal (Cyrillic: Генрих Шмидтгаль, romanized: Genrikh Shmidtgal; born 20 November 1985 in Esik, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakh footballer of German descent who currently plays for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga.
John Jairo Mosquera (born 15 January 1988 in Apartadó, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Energie Cottbus in 2. Bundesliga as a forward.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he helped FC St. Pauli gain promotion from the Regionalliga Nord to the 2. Bundesliga during the 2006–07 season, after being forced to sit out the prior season due to a broken leg.
He joined German side 1. FC Kaiserslautern from FC Metz in July 2012 made his debut for the club two months later, as a substitute for Enis Alushi in a 2. Bundesliga match against MSV Duisburg.
Born and raised in Bielefeld, Marvin is the product of the youth ranks of local German 2. Bundesliga side Arminia Bielefeld, having last played for the clubs A-Juniors team during the 2012–13 season, where he scored 9 goals in 12 matches in the German Under 19 Bundesliga finishing the season in 7th place.
He began his professional football career in Germany with VfL Osnabrück in the German 2. Bundesliga in 1985, having won the Oberliga championship the previous year.
It is also used throughout Europe, although in Germany non-professional leagues are known as Regionalliga, as the leagues are all regional depending on the location of the town or city the team represents, unlike 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga all being national leagues.
During the 2007–08 season Friend scored 18 goals in 33 matches, making him Borussia Mönchengladbach's top scorer and the second top scorer in Bundesliga 2.
He had the following year a place in the first eleven but after his former Wolfsburg manager Wolfgang Wolf had to leave the club he did not play anymore so he followed him to famous second league club 1. FC Kaiserslautern where he could return to his old strength.
Timothy John "Tim" Allpress (born 27 January 1971) is an English former footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for Luton Town, Preston North End and Colchester United, and in the German 2. Bundesliga for Bayer Uerdingen.
Markus Steinhöfer (born 7 March 1986 in Weißenburg in Bayern) is a German footballer, who plays for TSV 1860 Munich in 2.Bundesliga, mainly as a right defender (he can also play as a right midfielder).