With Greuther Fürth & Arminia Bielefeld: Worst starts to the season in the 2nd Bundesliga

Descent in free fall

A win and five points Arminia Bielefeld, no win, four points for SpVgg Greuther Fürth: That is the fatal record of the two Bundesliga teams who were relegated after eight games in the 2nd Bundesliga. This means that both the Franconians and the East Westphalians are among the five worst started clubs in the history of the single German lower house, i.e. since 1981.

The “Cloverleaf”, in which sports director Rachid Azzouzi was “really shocked” by the “non-performance” after the 1: 2 at promoted 1.FC Magdeburg, even leaves only one club ahead: Fortuna Düsseldorf got just three in 1992/93 Points in five defeats from the first eight games in the second division.


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In any case, most of these negative milestones were a long time ago, only the negative series of SC Paderborn 2015/16 with six points from eight matches dates from the past ten years. Arminia’s local rivals rose to 18th in the table at the time. after a wild season, Stefan Effenberg, among others, tried his hand at 15 games as head coach.

It doesn’t look quite so bad for all of the ten worst started teams in the history of the second division: The Stuttgarter Kickers stayed in the 1992/93 transitional season with 24 teams and seven relegations – in contrast to Fortuna – in the end. This also applies to Schalke 1988/89, MSV Duisburg 1982/83 and 2000/01 and Hannover 96 (1989/90). FC St. Pauli had the most spectacular start in 2002/03 with a goal difference of 16:25 – in the end the Hamburg team were relegated in 17th place.

Fürth wants to avoid that at all costs. At SpVgg, coach Marc Schneider, who was only hired as the successor to Stefan Leitl this season, is facing an early end. “Now we have talks with Marc that we just have to have. I do think he has a lot of conviction to shoot that. Ultimately, however, we all have to be convinced that this is the right path,” said Azzouzi “Picture”.

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