2. Bundesliga table 2026/27 season: Germany, points and home and away records

2. Bundesliga table: how to read points and goal difference

The gap from top to bottom is 8 points. 1. FC Nürnberg lead on 9 with a difference of +8; Darmstadt 98 sit last on 1. 1. FC Nürnberg and Hertha BSC are level on points, with goal difference deciding first place.

1. FC Nürnberg score most with 11 goals. 1. FC Kaiserslautern defend best, conceding 1, while 1. FC Heidenheim have shipped 10 — the spread between those two says how uneven the league is at the back.

A club takes 1.41 points per match on average and scores 5.4 goals across the season. The median is 3 points (Dynamo Dresden), with 8 clubs above it. The median describes a league better than the mean does: one runaway side pulls the mean up and barely moves the median.

The drop zone is 2 points from safety: Dynamo Dresden sit 15th on 3, against Darmstadt 98 on 1. Those are the numbers that decide the closing weeks.

2. Bundesliga home and away: split points

The 2. Bundesliga table recomputes separately for home fixtures and for away ones. They are the same matches split by venue, so points in the two tables always sum back to the overall one.

1. FC Nürnberg take the most at home, 6 points from 2 matches, while VfL Wolfsburg lead away on 6 — more often different clubs than you would expect.

1. FC Heidenheim depend on their ground most: 6 points at home against 0 away, a gap of 6. VfL Wolfsburg show the smallest split at -5. Across the league a club takes -0.3 more points at home than away.

2. Bundesliga: goals, averages and difference

Across 27 matches the league has produced 97 goals, 3.59 per game. Home sides win 37% of the time, both teams score in 56%, and 63% finish over 2.5.

1. FC Heidenheim carry the flattest goal difference at 0 — clubs on those numbers usually sit mid-table, equally far from the title and the drop.

How the 2. Bundesliga table looked in earlier seasons is in the archive: Germany, year by year, with final tables for every division and zone.

2. Bundesliga: division size and what it changes

The size of a division changes how its figures read. With 18 clubs each plays 3 matches, and a run of three or four results moves a position further than it would in a league twice the size: the sample is smaller, so chance weighs more.

For the same reason the points gap between neighbouring places tends to be narrower here and the middle of the table reorders more often. Goal difference is especially useful in a division this size, because it accumulates across every match and depends less on who a club happened to face recently.

Comparing this division with others on absolute numbers — goals scored, points taken — means little where the number of rounds differs. What compares is the relative measures: points per match, scoring rate, the share of draws.

Germany: the divisions and where 2. Bundesliga sits

We cover 3 divisions in Germany. Above this one sit Bundesliga. Below it run 3. Liga, computed on the same rules.

1. FC Kaiserslautern have drawn most at 2, 1. FC Nürnberg fewest at 0. 1. FC Magdeburg defend best on the road, conceding 0 away from home.

2. Bundesliga: match results and head-to-head

The widest result of the season is 1. FC Magdeburg against Eintracht Braunschweig, 1-6, a margin of 5. The highest-scoring match is Eintracht Braunschweig against Hertha BSC at 3-5, 8 goals in all.

5 of 27 matches ended level, 19%. The draw rate is among the steadiest numbers a league produces: it moves less from season to season than goals scored or final positions do.

Any two clubs can be compared in the panel alongside, which reads the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from.