The 2. Frauen-Bundesliga is the second league competition for

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in Germany. For its first 14 seasons the league was divided into two groups: Nord and Süd. The winner and the runner-up are promoted to the

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(unless they are reserve teams of Bundesliga sides); the last three places are relegated to the Regionalliga. Until the 2017–18 season, in each group, the winner was promoted and the bottom two were relegated. The league has been played as one group of 14 teams since the 2018–19 season, with second teams of clubs being ineligible for promotion and allowed to have only three players older than 20 years. For the 2020–21 season only, the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga was divided into two groups of 10 and nine teams each due to the relegation being suspended for the 2019–20 season as a result of

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. The two group winners were promoted to the Frauen-Bundesliga for the 2021–22 season. From the 2021–22 season, a single group was used again.

Clubs

Members for the 2022–23 2. Frauen-Bundesliga.

Champions

Top scorers

Nord

* 2004–05: Anja Koser (

FFC Brauweiler Pulheim FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000 was a German women's football club based in Pulheim, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was founded when the women's section of Grün-Weiß Brauweiler in 2000 established its own club. The team played its last season in the R ...

) – 27 goals * 2005–06: Martina Müller (

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of W ...

) – 36 goals * 2006–07: Jennifer Ninaus (

SG Wattenscheid 09 SG Wattenscheid 09 is a Football in Germany, German association football club located in Wattenscheid, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club claimed an official founding date of 18 September 1909 as Ballspiel-Verein Wattenscheid out of the me ...

) – 19 goals * 2007–08: Marie Pollmann (

Herforder SV HSV Borussia Friedenstal, or Herforder SV, is a German sports club based in Friedenstal, a suburb of Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1953 and the women's team was established in 1969. Friedenstal greatest success was the q ...

– 21 goals * 2008–09: Kerstin Straka (

Tennis Borussia Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Westend in Berlin. History The team was founded in 1902 as ''Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong-Gesellschaft Borussia'' taking its name from its origins as a tennis and ta ...

) & Martina Fennen ( SV Victoria Gersten) – 12 goals * 2009–10: Kathrin Patzke (

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) – 25 goals * 2010–11: Kathrin Patzke (

) – 21 goals * 2011–12: Agnieszka Winczo (

BV Cloppenburg BV Cloppenburg is a German association football club located in Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony. History The club was founded after World War I in 1919 as the successor to SV Cloppenburg 1911. Through the 1950s they played in the Amateurliga Niede ...

) – 24 goals * 2012–13: Anna Laue (

) – 22 goals * 2013–14: Cindy König (

Werder Bremen Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are best known for the ...

) – 17 goals * 2014–15: Cindy König (

) – 19 goals * 2015–16: Giustina Ronzetti (

) – 23 goals * 2016–17: Agnieszka Winczo (BV Cloppenburg) – 25 goals * 2017–18: Sarah Grünheid ( Arminia Bielefeld) – 16 goals * 2020–21:

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( Borussia Mönchengladbach) – 11 goals

Süd

* 2004–05: Christina Arend (

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) – 25 goals * 2005–06: Nadine Keßler (1. FC Saarbrücken) – 24 goals * 2006–07: Nadine Keßler (1. FC Saarbrücken) – 27 goals * 2007–08: Sabrina Schmutzler ( FF USV Jena) – 27 goals * 2008–09: Jennifer Ninaus (

) – 20 goals * 2009–10:

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( 1. FC Köln) – 22 goals * 2010–11: Susanne Hartel ( TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) – 16 goals * 2011–12: Natalia Mann (

VfL Sindelfingen VfL Sindelfingen is a German sports club from Sindelfingen, Baden–Württemberg. The club was founded in 1862 and has more than 9,000 members, making it one of biggest sports clubs in Germany. VfL Sindelfingen has departments for various sports ...

) & Claudia Nußelt (

TSV Crailsheim TSV Crailsheim is a German association football club from the town of Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg. History Founded as the gymnastics club ''Turnverein Crailsheim'' in 1846, the association today has over 3,000 members in 20 departments, inc ...

) – 16 goals * 2012–13: Julia Manger ( ETSV Würzburg) – 24 goals * 2013–14: Ilaria Mauro ( SC Sand) & Sarah Schatton (

) – 24 goals * 2014–15: Lise Munk ( 1. FC Köln) – 27 goals * 2015–16: Nadja Pfeiffer ( Borussia Mönchengladbach) – 16 goals * 2016–17: Annika Eberhard (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II) – 18 goals * 2017–18: Jana Beuschlein (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) & Jacqueline de Becker (1. FC Saarbrücken) – 18 goals * 2020–21: Vanessa Leimenstoll (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II) – 14 goals

One group

* 2018–19: Julia Matuschewski (

) – 20 goals * 2019–20:

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( Turbine Potsdam II) – 16 goals * 2021–22: Nastassja Lein ( 1. FC Nürnberg) / Ramona Maier ( FC Ingolstadt) – 25 goals

References

External links

German Football Association (DFB) section on 2nd Women's Bundesliga
{{Women's football in Germany Women's football leagues in Germany