2011–12 3rd Liga
| Season | 2011–12 |
|---|---|
| Promoted |
SV Sandhausen VfR Aalen Jahn Regensburg |
| Relegated |
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Carl Zeiss Jena Werder Bremen II |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 956 (2.52 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
Marcel Reichwein (17 goals) |
| Biggest home win | U'haching 6–0 CZ Jena |
| Biggest away win |
W. Bremen II 0–4 K. Offenbach A. Bielefeld 0–4 Saarbrücken W. Bremen II 0–4 Aalen Wehen 0–4 Sandhausen W. Bremen II 0–4 Darmstadt Aalen 0–4 Osnabrück |
| Highest scoring |
CZ Jena 4–3 A. Bielefeld Saarbrücken 5–2 RW Oberhausen Stuttgart II 2–5 A. Bielefeld |
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The 2011–12 3. Liga was the fourth season of the 3. Liga, Germany's third tier of its football league system. The season commenced on 22 July 2011, two weeks earlier than the 2011–12 Bundesliga season and one week after the 2011–12 2. Bundesliga season, and ended with the last games on 5 May 2012. The traditional winter break was held between the weekends around 18 December 2011 and 22 January 2012.
The league comprises fourteen teams from the 2010–11 season, the last two teams from the 2010–11 2. Bundesliga, the losers of the promotion play-off between the 16th-placed 2. Bundesliga team and the third-placed 3. Liga team as well as the three champions of the three 2010–11 Regionalliga divisions.
Eintracht Braunschweig as 2010–11 champions and runners-up were directly promoted to the 2011–12 2. Bundesliga. Braunschweig, who were a member of the league since the inaugural season, will return to the 2. Bundesliga after a total of four seasons in the third tier of the German football pyramid, while Rostock only had a cameo appearance in the league.
The two promoted teams will be replaced by the two worst-placed teams of the 2010–11 2. Bundesliga season, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Arminia Bielefeld. Pending license approvals (see below), both clubs will make their debut in the league; Oberhausen will drop to the third level after three years, while Arminia will return to the third tier after sixteen seasons.
On the other end of the table, Bayern Munich II were relegated to their respective 2011–12 Fußball-Regionalliga divisions after finishing the 2010–11 season at the bottom of the table, thus ending a run which saw them being part of a German third-tier league since 1973.Wacker Burghausen and Werder Bremen II, who were originally going to be relegated as well, were eventually spared as Rot Weiss Ahlen and TuS Koblenz would not enter the league for the 2011–12 season. Ahlen were automatically demoted after the club had to file for administration after the completion of the 2010–11 season, while Koblenz voluntarily withdrew their participation following being unable to generate an adequate budget for the season.
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