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1996–97 2. Bundesliga

23rd season of the second-tier football league in Germany

Field	Value
competition	[2. Bundesliga](2-bundesliga)
season	1996–97
winners	[1. FC Kaiserslautern](1-fc-kaiserslautern)
promoted	[1. FC Kaiserslautern](1-fc-kaiserslautern)
VfL Wolfsburg
Hertha BSC
relegated	SV Waldhof Mannheim
VfB Lübeck
Rot-Weiss Essen
VfB Oldenburg
league topscorer	Angelo Vier
(18 goals)
matches	306
average attendance	8,952
prevseason	[1995–96](1995-96-2-bundesliga)
nextseason	[1997–98](1997-98-2-bundesliga)

VfL Wolfsburg Hertha BSC VfB Lübeck Rot-Weiss Essen VfB Oldenburg (18 goals) The 1996–97 2. Bundesliga season was the twenty-third season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system.

1. FC Kaiserslautern, VfL Wolfsburg and Hertha BSC were promoted to the Bundesliga while SV Waldhof Mannheim, VfB Lübeck, Rot-Weiss Essen and VfB Oldenburg were relegated to the Regionalliga.

League table

For the 1996–97 season VfB Oldenburg, Rot-Weiss Essen, FC Gütersloh and Stuttgarter Kickers were newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Regionalliga while 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Eintracht Frankfurt and KFC Uerdingen 05 had been relegated to the league from the Bundesliga.

Results

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:

Goals	Player	Team
18	GER Angelo Vier	Rot-Weiss Essen
17	GER Steffen Heidrich	VfB Leipzig
15	GER Axel Kruse	Hertha BSC Berlin
14	CZE Pavel Kuka	[1. FC Kaiserslautern](1-fc-kaiserslautern)
13	GER Christian Claaßen	SV Meppen
12	Morocco Abderrahim Ouakili	[1. FSV Mainz 05](1-fsv-mainz-05)
GER Jürgen Rische	[1. FC Kaiserslautern](1-fc-kaiserslautern)
11	GER Rainer Krieg	Fortuna Köln
10	GER Sven Demandt	[1. FSV Mainz 05](1-fsv-mainz-05)
GER Horst Elberfeld	VfB Oldenburg
GER Wolfram Klein	Rot-Weiss Essen
GER Olaf Marschall	[1. FC Kaiserslautern](1-fc-kaiserslautern)
Netherlands Dirk van der Ven	FC Gütersloh
GER Mark Zimmermann	FC Carl Zeiss Jena

References

[http://www.weltfussball.de/torjaeger/2-bundesliga-1996-1997/ 2. Bundesliga 1996/1997 » Torschützenliste] {{in lang. de Weltfussball.de – Top scorers, retrieved 17 November 2015

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