1987–88 2. Bundesliga

14th season of the second-tier football league in Germany

Football league season

2. Bundesliga
Season	1987–88
Champions	Stuttgarter Kickers
Promoted	Stuttgarter Kickers FC St. Pauli
Relegated	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen BVL Remscheid SSV Ulm 1846 Arminia Bielefeld
Matches played	380
Top goalscorer	Souleyman Sané (21 goals)
Average attendance	4,484
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

The 1987–88 2. Bundesliga season was the fourteenth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system.

Stuttgarter Kickers and FC St. Pauli were promoted to the Bundesliga while Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, BVL 08 Remscheid, SSV Ulm 1846 and Arminia Bielefeld were relegated to the Oberliga.

League table

For the 1987–88 season Kickers Offenbach, SpVgg Bayreuth, SV Meppen and BVL 08 Remscheid were newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberliga while SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin and Fortuna Düsseldorf had been relegated to the league from the Bundesliga.

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Locations of the participating teams of the 1987–88 season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Stuttgarter Kickers (C, P)	38	19	13	6	89	49	+40	51	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	FC St. Pauli (P)	38	19	11	8	65	38	+27	49	Promotion to Bundesliga
3	Darmstadt 98	38	15	16	7	48	32	+16	46	Qualification to promotion play-offs
4	SG Wattenscheid 09	38	18	11	9	62	48	+14	47
5	Fortuna Düsseldorf	38	20	6	12	63	38	+25	46
6	Alemannia Aachen	38	17	12	9	60	45	+15	46
7	Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin	38	16	11	11	65	48	+17	43
8	Kickers Offenbach	38	13	13	12	56	49	+7	39
9	VfL Osnabrück	38	13	12	13	47	47	0	38
10	SC Freiburg	38	13	12	13	61	63	−2	38
11	Rot-Weiss Essen	38	11	12	15	53	60	−7	34
12	Fortuna Köln	38	15	4	19	58	67	−9	34
13	1. FC Saarbrücken	38	12	10	16	57	67	−10	34
14	SV Meppen	38	12	10	16	55	72	−17	34
15	SG Union Solingen	38	12	10	16	48	65	−17	34
16	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen^[a] (R)	38	13	7	18	48	54	−6	33	Relegation to Oberliga
17	SpVgg Bayreuth	38	14	5	19	55	66	−11	33
18	FC Remscheid (R)	38	11	7	20	54	74	−20	29	Relegation to Oberliga
19	SSV Ulm 1846 (R)	38	12	5	21	51	75	−24	29
20	Arminia Bielefeld (R)	38	6	10	22	29	67	−38	22

Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Rot-Weiss Oberhausen had their license revoked and were therefore relegated.

Results

Home \ Away	AAC	BAY	BWB	DSC	D98	F95	RWE	SCF	FKO	SVM	RWO	KOF	OSN	REM	FCS	SGU	STP	SKI	ULM	SGW
Alemannia Aachen	—	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	4–1	2–1	0–2	3–0	2–1	4–2	2–2	1–0	1–0	5–0	1–3
SpVgg Bayreuth	2–3	—	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	3–2	5–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	2–0	0–2	3–1	2–1	4–1	1–3	3–0	2–1	0–0
Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin	2–2	3–0	—	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	6–0	2–2	3–0	2–2	1–1	4–1	3–1
Arminia Bielefeld	0–0	3–1	2–1	—	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–3	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–2	0–0	2–1
Darmstadt 98	0–0	2–0	0–2	5–0	—	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–2	3–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1
Fortuna Düsseldorf	3–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	0–1	—	2–1	0–2	0–2	3–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	6–2	4–2	1–2	0–0	4–0	3–0	2–1
Rot-Weiss Essen	4–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	—	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–3	2–2	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–2	2–3	3–0	2–1
SC Freiburg	3–0	5–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	—	1–6	4–2	2–1	3–2	2–1	3–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	3–2	0–3	1–3
Fortuna Köln	0–3	2–1	3–2	3–1	1–0	0–2	5–1	3–1	—	1–1	0–4	4–2	2–1	2–1	2–4	5–3	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–2
SV Meppen	1–0	0–2	2–3	3–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–3	3–2	—	2–0	3–3	3–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	4–2	2–1
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	3–1	4–1	3–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	3–1	5–0	0–0	0–1	—	2–2	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–6	0–3	2–1	0–1
Kickers Offenbach	0–0	3–3	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–3	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	—	2–4	1–2	1–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	2–2
VfL Osnabrück	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	3–2	1–1	0–1	3–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	—	1–0	1–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1
BVL Remscheid	1–3	5–2	2–2	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	6–3	1–0	1–1	0–2	—	2–1	0–1	3–1	2–2	1–0	1–5
1. FC Saarbrücken	2–2	2–2	4–2	2–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	3–1	—	3–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1
Union Solingen	1–4	0–3	2–2	5–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–3	—	0–3	2–2	2–2	3–1
FC St. Pauli	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–2	4–2	1–1	5–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	—	0–2	4–3	3–1
Stuttgarter Kickers	1–0	5–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	4–1	4–2	2–2	6–3	2–1	2–0	2–0	4–2	7–0	2–2	2–1	—	1–3	6–1
SSV Ulm	4–0	3–1	2–4	3–1	2–2	0–3	1–3	2–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	0–8	—	1–2
SG Wattenscheid	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	2–2	4–3	2–1	1–0	1–1	5–1	—

Source: DFB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:^[1]

Goals	Player	Team
21	Souleyman Sané	SC Freiburg
19	Theo Gries	Alemannia Aachen
18	Frank Kremer	BVL 08 Remscheid
17	Waldemar Steubing	SSV Ulm 1846
17	Dirk Zander	FC St. Pauli
16	Bernd Grabosch	Stuttgarter Kickers
	Dieter Müller	Kickers Offenbach
	Thorsten Schlumberger	SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin
	Rüdiger Wenzel	FC St. Pauli
15	Heikko Glöde	VfL Osnabrück

References

^ 2. Bundesliga 1987/1988 » Torschützenliste (in German) Weltfussball.de – Top scorers, retrieved 7 November 2015

External links

2. Bundesliga 1987/1988 at Weltfussball.de (in German)
1987–88 2. Bundesliga at kicker.de (in German)

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2. Bundesliga (1981–present)	Alemannia Aachen VfR Aalen Rot Weiss Ahlen Viktoria Aschaffenburg Erzgebirge Aue FC Augsburg SV Babelsberg 03 SpVgg Bayreuth Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin Union Berlin Arminia Bielefeld VfL Bochum Stahl Brandenburg Werder Bremen Wacker Burghausen VfR Bürstadt SC Charlottenburg Chemnitzer FC Energie Cottbus Darmstadt 98 Dynamo Dresden MSV Duisburg Rot-Weiß Erfurt Rot-Weiss Essen Eintracht Frankfurt FSV Frankfurt Freiburger FC SC Freiburg FC Gütersloh Hallescher FC TSV Havelse 1. FC Heidenheim 1899 Hoffenheim FC Homburg FC Ingolstadt Carl Zeiss Jena Hessen Kassel TuS Koblenz 1. FC Köln Fortuna Köln RB Leipzig VfB Leipzig VfB Lübeck 1. FSV Mainz 05 Waldhof Mannheim SV Meppen Borussia Mönchengladbach TSV 1860 Munich Preußen Münster Kickers Offenbach Rot-Weiß Oberhausen VfB Oldenburg Jahn Regensburg FC Remscheid SSV Reutlingen Hansa Rostock 1. FC Saarbrücken FSV Salmrohr SV Sandhausen TuS Schloß Neuhaus 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 Sportfreunde Siegen Union Solingen VfB Stuttgart Stuttgarter Kickers Eintracht Trier KFC Uerdingen 05 SSV Ulm 1846 SpVgg Unterhaching Wattenscheid 09 VfL Wolfsburg Wormatia Worms Wuppertaler SV Würzburger Kickers FSV Zwickau
2. Bundesliga Nord (1974–1981)	HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst Wacker 04 Berlin 1. FC Bocholt Bonner SC OSC Bremerhaven Borussia Dortmund SpVgg Erkenschwick Schwarz-Weiß Essen 1. SC Göttingen 05 DJK Gütersloh Arminia Hannover OSV Hannover SC Herford Westfalia Herne Viktoria Köln Bayer Leverkusen Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid 1. FC Mülheim Spandauer SV DSC Wanne-Eickel Olympia Wilhelmshaven
2. Bundesliga Süd (1974–1981)	Eintracht Bad Kreuznach KSV Baunatal VfB Eppingen FC Hanau 93 VfR Heilbronn Bayern Hof ESV Ingolstadt MTV Ingolstadt VfR Mannheim Borussia Neunkirchen FK Pirmasens BSV 07 Schwenningen Röchling Völklingen Würzburger FV