2022–23 3. Liga
| Season | 2022–23 | 
|---|---|
| Dates | 22 July 2022 – 27 May 2023 | 
| Champions | SV Elversberg | 
| Promoted | SV Elversberg VfL Osnabrück Wehen Wiesbaden | 
| Relegated | SpVgg Bayreuth FSV Zwickau SV Meppen VfB Oldenburg | 
| Matches played | 379 | 
| Goals scored | 1,106 (2.92 per match) | 
| Top goalscorer | Ahmet Arslan (25 goals) | 
| Biggest home win | Dresden 7–1 Halle | 
| Biggest away win | Bayreuth 0–6 Saarbrücken | 
| Highest scoring | Meppen 6–2 Mannheim Oldenburg 3–5 Essen Dresden 7–1 Halle Bayreuth 5–3 Zwickau | 
| Longest winning run | 5 games Ingolstadt Munich Saarbrücken | 
| Longest unbeaten run | 8 games Saarbrücken | 
| Longest winless run | 8 games Aue | 
| Longest losing run | 3 games Halle Oldenburg | 
| Attendance | 3,115,102 (8,219 per match) | 
| ← 2021–22  2023–24 →  | |
The 2022–23 3. Liga was the 15th season of the 3. Liga. It started on 22 July 2022 and concluded on 27 May 2023.[1][2]
The fixtures were released on 24 June 2022.[3]
SV Elversberg and VfL Osnabrück were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga,[4][5] while SpVgg Bayreuth, FSV Zwickau, SV Meppen and VfB Oldenburg got relegated to the Regionalliga.[6][7] Wehen Wiesbaden were also promoted after winning the 2. Bundesliga relegation play-offs.
Teams

Team changes
Stadiums and locations
1 SpVgg Bayreuth will initially play their evening home matches at the Steigerwaldstadion since their home stadium, the Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadion, currently lacks floodlights. The club aims to fix this by the beginning of the season.[8]
2 VfB Oldenburg will initially play their evening and winter home matches at the Heinz von Heiden-Arena since their home stadium, the Marschweg-Stadion, currently lacks floodlights and a heated pitch and is bound to noise regulation ordinances for matches after 18:30. The club aims to fix these problems and move back to Oldenburg as soon as possible.[8]
3 SC Verl will play their home matches at the Home Deluxe Arena since their home stadium, the Sportclub Arena in Verl, does not meet 3. Liga standards.[8]
Personnel and kits
Managerial changes
| Team | Outgoing | Manner | Exit date | Position in table | Incoming | Incoming date | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced on | Departed on | Announced on | Arrived on | ||||||
| Erzgebirge Aue |  Pavel Dochev | Resigned | 3 March 2022 | 30 June 2022 | Pre-season |  Timo Rost | 21 May 2022 | 1 July 2022 | [10][11] | 
| Waldhof Mannheim |  Patrick Glöckner | Mutual consent | 4 May 2022 |  Christian Neidhart | 2 June 2022 | [12][13] | |||
| Rot-Weiss Essen |  Jörn Nowak (interim) | End of caretaker spell | 5 May 2022 |  Christoph Dabrowski | [14][15] | ||||
| SpVgg Bayreuth |  Timo Rost | Signed for Erzgebirge Aue | 21 May 2022 |  Thomas Kleine | 31 May 2022 | [16][17] | |||
| SV Meppen |  Rico Schmitt | Sacked | 23 May 2022 |  Stefan Krämer | 3 June 2022 | [18][19] | |||
| Dynamo Dresden |  Guerino Capretti | 27 May 2022 |  Markus Anfang | 10 June 2022 | [20][21] | ||||
| Borussia Dortmund II |  Enrico Maaßen | Signed for FC Augsburg | 8 June 2022 |  Christian Preußer | 17 June 2022 | [22][23] | |||
| VfL Osnabrück |  Daniel Scherning | Signed for Arminia Bielefeld | 18 August 2022 | 12th |  Tim Danneberg/  Danilo de Souza (interim) | 18 August 2022 | [24] | ||
|  Tim Danneberg/  Danilo de Souza (interim) | End of caretaker | 29 August 2022 |  Tobias Schweinsteiger | 29 August 2022 | [25] | ||||
| Erzgebirge Aue |  Timo Rost | Sacked | 21 September 2022 | 20th |  Carsten Müller (interim) | 21 September 2022 | [26] | ||
| 1. FC Saarbrücken |  Uwe Koschinat | Mutual consent | 10 October 2022 | 8th |  Rüdiger Ziehl (interim) | 11 October 2022 | [27][28] | ||
| Erzgebirge Aue |  Carsten Müller (interim) | End of caretaker spell | 7 December 2022 | 18th |  Pavel Dochev | 7 December 2022 | [29] | ||
| 1860 Munich |  Michael Köllner | Sacked | 31 January 2023 | 6th |  Günther Gorenzel (interim) | 31 January 2023 | [30] | ||
| FC Ingolstadt |  Rüdiger Rehm | 7th |  Guerino Capretti | 1 February 2023 | [31][32] | ||||
| Hallescher FC |  André Meyer | 19th |  Jens Kiefer (interim) | 1 February 2023 | [33][34] | ||||
| Borussia Dortmund II |  Christian Preußer | 6 February 2023 | 16th |  Jan Zimmermann | 8 February 2023 | [35][36] | |||
| FSV Zwickau |  Joe Enochs | 17th |  Robin Lenk (interim) | 6 February 2023 | [37] | ||||
| Hallescher FC |  Jens Kiefer (interim) | End of caretaker spell | 12 February 2023 | 20th |  Sreto Ristić | 12 February 2023 | [38] | ||
| FSV Zwickau |  Robin Lenk (interim) | 18 February 2023 | 20 February 2023 | 17th |  Ronny Thielemann | 18 February 2023 | 20 February 2023 | [39] | |
| 1860 Munich |  Günther Gorenzel (interim) | 26 February 2023 | 8th | .svg.png) Maurizio Jacobacci | 26 February 2023 | [40] | |||
| SV Meppen |  Stefan Krämer | Sacked | 4 March 2023 | 20th |  Ernst Middendorp | 7 March 2023 | [41][42] | ||
| VfB Oldenburg |  Dario Fossi | 6 March 2023 | 19th |  Frank Löning (interim) | 6 March 2023 | [43] | |||
|  Frank Löning  (interim) | End of caretaker spell | 13 March 2023 | 20th |  Fuat Kılıç | 13 March 2023 | [44] | |||
| FC Ingolstadt |  Guerino Capretti | Sacked | 4 April 2023 | 14th |  Michael Köllner | 6 April 2023 | [45][46] | ||
| SpVgg Bayreuth |  Thomas Kleine | 7 May 2023 | 20th |  Julian Kolbeck | 7 May 2023 | [47] | |||
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SV Elversberg (C, P) | 38 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 80 | 40 | +40 | 74 | Promotion to 2. Bundesliga and qualification for DFB-Pokal | 
| 2 | SC Freiburg II[a] | 38 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 54 | 34 | +20 | 73 | |
| 3 | VfL Osnabrück (P) | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 70 | 49 | +21 | 70 | Promotion to 2. Bundesliga and qualification for DFB-Pokal | 
| 4 | Wehen Wiesbaden (O, P) | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 71 | 51 | +20 | 70 | Qualification for promotion play-offs and DFB-Pokal | 
| 5 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 64 | 39 | +25 | 69 | Qualification for DFB-Pokal | 
| 6 | Dynamo Dresden | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 65 | 44 | +21 | 69 | |
| 7 | Waldhof Mannheim | 38 | 19 | 3 | 16 | 63 | 65 | −2 | 60 | |
| 8 | 1860 Munich | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 61 | 52 | +9 | 57 | |
| 9 | Viktoria Köln | 38 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 58 | 53 | +5 | 55 | |
| 10 | SC Verl | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 60 | 58 | +2 | 49 | |
| 11 | FC Ingolstadt | 38 | 14 | 5 | 19 | 54 | 56 | −2 | 47 | |
| 12 | MSV Duisburg | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 54 | 58 | −4 | 46 | |
| 13 | Borussia Dortmund II[a] | 38 | 13 | 6 | 19 | 47 | 49 | −2 | 45 | |
| 14 | Erzgebirge Aue | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 49 | 62 | −13 | 45 | |
| 15 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 43 | 56 | −13 | 42 | |
| 16 | Hallescher FC | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 49 | 60 | −11 | 41 | |
| 17 | SV Meppen (R) | 38 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 43 | 65 | −22 | 37 | Relegation to Regionalliga | 
| 18 | VfB Oldenburg (R) | 38 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 42 | 64 | −22 | 35 | |
| 19 | FSV Zwickau (R) | 38 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 42 | 72 | −30 | 35 | |
| 20 | SpVgg Bayreuth (R) | 38 | 9 | 5 | 24 | 39 | 81 | −42 | 32 | 
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.[48]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ a b Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion or DFB-Pokal qualification.
Results
Statistics
Top scorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[51] | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ahmet Arslan | Dynamo Dresden | 26 | 
| 2 |  Ba-Muaka Simakala | VfL Osnabrück | 19 | 
| 3 |  Ivan Prtajin | Wehen Wiesbaden | 15 | 
|  Vincent Vermeij | SC Freiburg II | ||
| 5 |  Dominic Baumann | FSV Zwickau | 14 | 
|  Benedict Hollerbach | Wehen Wiesbaden | ||
|  Luca Schnellbacher | SV Elversberg | ||
| 8 |  Tobias Bech | FC Ingolstadt | 13 | 
|  Justin Njinmah | Borussia Dortmund II | ||
| 10 |  Dominik Martinović | Waldhof Mannheim | 12 | 
|  Robin Meißner | Viktoria Köln | ||
|  Jannik Rochelt | SV Elversberg | 
Hat-tricks
| Player | Club | Against | Result | Date | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  Marvin Pourié | SV Meppen | FSV Zwickau | 3–0 (H) | 6 August 2022 | 
|  Samuel Abifade | SV Meppen | Waldhof Mannheim | 6–2 (H) | 14 August 2022 | 
|  Sebastian Jacob | 1. FC Saarbrücken | SpVgg Bayreuth | 6–0 (A) | 10 September 2022 | 
|  Fynn Lakenmacher | 1860 Munich | FC Erzgebirge Aue | 3–1 (H) | 16 September 2022 | 
|  Thore Jacobsen | SV Elversberg | FC Ingolstadt | 4–3 (H) | 21 January 2023 | 
|  Benedict Hollerbach | Wehen Wiesbaden | SpVgg Bayreuth | 3–2 (A) | 12 February 2023 | 
|  Tobias Bech | FC Ingolstadt | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 4–3 (A) | 18 February 2023 | 
|  Benedict Hollerbach | Wehen Wiesbaden | FC Ingolstadt | 4–1 (H) | 4 March 2023 | 
|  Marten Winkler | Waldhof Mannheim | Hallescher FC | 4–1 (H) | 28 April 2023 | 
|  Ba-Muaka Simakala | VfL Osnabrück | FSV Zwickau | 4–3 (H) | 30 April 2023 | 
Top assists
| Rank | Player | Club | Assists[52] | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jannik Rochelt | SV Elversberg | 15 | 
| 2 |  Richard Neudecker | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 13 | 
| 3 |  Moritz Stoppelkamp | MSV Duisburg | 12 | 
| 4 |  Manuel Feil | SV Elversberg | 11 | 
|  Ba-Muaka Simakala | VfL Osnabrück | ||
| 6 |  Stefan Lex | 1860 Munich | 10 | 
|  Ole Pohlmann | Borussia Dortmund II | ||
| 8 |  Ahmet Arslan | Dynamo Dresden | 9 | 
|  Marcel Costly | FC Ingolstadt | ||
|  Erik Engelhardt | VfL Osnabrück | ||
|  Patrick Koronkiewicz | Viktoria Köln | ||
|  Noel Niemann | VfL Osnabrück | ||
|  Albion Vrenezi | 1860 Munich | ||
|  Nick Woltemade | SV Elversberg | 
Clean sheets
| Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets[53] | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Daniel Batz | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 16 | 
| 2 |  Noah Atubolu | SC Freiburg II | 12 | 
| 3 |  Marius Funk | FC Ingolstadt | 11 | 
|  Nicolas Kristof | SV Elversberg | ||
|  Marcel Lotka | Borussia Dortmund II | ||
| 6 |  Felix Gebhardt | Hallescher FC | 10 | 
| 7 |  Stefan Drljača | Dynamo Dresden | 9 | 
|  Jakob Golz | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||
|  Philipp Kühn | VfL Osnabrück | ||
| 10 |  Marco Hiller | 1860 Munich | 8 | 
|  Vincent Müller | MSV Duisburg | 
Number of teams by state
| Position | State | Number of teams | Teams | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  North Rhine-Westphalia | 5 | Borussia Dortmund II, MSV Duisburg, Rot-Weiss Essen, Viktoria Köln and SC Verl | 
| 2 | .svg.png) Bavaria | 3 | SpVgg Bayreuth, FC Ingolstadt and 1860 Munich, | 
|  Lower Saxony | 3 | SV Meppen, VfB Oldenburg and VfL Osnabrück | |
|  Saxony | 3 | Erzgebirge Aue, Dynamo Dresden and FSV Zwickau | |
| 5 |  Baden-Württemberg | 2 | Waldhof Mannheim and SC Freiburg II | 
|  Saarland | 2 | SV Elversberg and 1. FC Saarbrücken | |
| 7 |  Hesse | 1 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 
| .svg.png) Saxony-Anhalt | 1 | Hallescher FC | 
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