1987–88 2. Bundesliga

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.

Aachen

Bayreuth

Berlin

Bielefeld

Cologne

Darmstadt

Düsseldorf

Essen

Freiburg

Meppen

Oberhausen

Offenbach

Osnabrück

Remscheid

Solingen

Saarbrücken

St. Pauli

Stuttgart

Ulm

Wattenscheid

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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
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 (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:

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:

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
	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

External links

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