“How many should we shoot?”
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SpVgg Greuther Fürth conceded a whopping 28 goals in the first ten second division matchdays. This is not only the worst value in the current season, but has only been exceeded very rarely in the entire history of the league. Nevertheless, after the Kleeblatt’s 4-1 defeat against Karlsruhe, sports director Stephan Fürstner strengthened coach Thomas Kleine with a view to the upcoming DFB Cup game against league rivals 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
“The coaching team will be on the sidelines on Wednesday. And then we’ll try to do better,” said Fürstner to “ARD”. He explained: “I see the coaching team working with the team every day,” and the cup was “a different competition,” said the official; “Maybe that’ll be good.” Fürstner spoke of “endgame character”.
The 1:4 against KSC followed a 0:6 against SV Elversberg. On three more match days in the first quarter of the season, Fürth’s new goalkeeper Pelle Boevink (27) had to reach behind him at least three times. The opponents’ 28 goals now add up to 2.8 goals conceded per game. More often than not, in the history of the single-track 2nd Bundesliga, it only happened with three teams on the first ten match days. “We conceded far too many goals,” said sports boss Fürstner. “How many should we shoot in order to win games?”
In fact, there are now only five teams in the second division that have scored more goals than the Fürth offensive around top scorer Noel Futkeu (6 goals, 5th place in the top scorer list). Felix Klaus (33) is also in the top 10 with five goals. The flood of goals conceded on the fourth matchday in Magdeburg had no consequences in terms of points. The cloverleaf won 5:4 (in addition to all Fürth results in 2025/26).
So even if 15th place in the table cannot be satisfactory for the Middle Franconians; The points tally of ten points is impressive, at least considering the number of goals conceded. For comparison: The teams that had conceded more goals at this point in history had significantly fewer points at the time: In the previous season, Jahn Regensburg broke the record with 30 goals conceded after ten games and only got four points, in 1994/95 FSV Frankfurt conceded 29 goals with only two points collected, and in 1990/91 Schweinfurt 05 went with 29 goals conceded and zero counters from the first ten second division games. All three were relegated in the end.