Official Bundesliga 2 transfer centre: Summer 2026
The summer transfer window is open from 1 July to 31 August 2026. Check out all the comings and goings at the 18 clubs in Germany's second tier below...
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In: Maximilian Bauer (Augsburg, loan made permanent), Julian Kania (Osnabrück, end of loan), Lukas Kunze (Hansa Rostock, end of loan), Max Lippert (Cologne, end of loan), Jannik Rochelt (Hannover, loan made permanent), Vincent Ocansey (Erzgebirge Aue, end of loan)
Out: Noah Sarenren Bazee (Waldhof Mannheim), Mael Corboz (Grenoble), Christopher Lannert (Darmstadt), Robin Knoche (out of contract), Mika Schroers (Alemannia Aachen, loan made permanent), Semir Telalović (Nuremberg, end of loan)
In: Samuel Bamba (Willem II, end of loan), Enis Çokaj (Panathinaikos), Babis Drakas (Borussia Dortmund), Daniel Hanslik (Kaiserslautern), Lirim Jashari (Maastricht, end of loan), Yiğit Karademir (Osnabrück), Colin Kleine-Bekel (St. Gallen, end of loan), Karol Mets (free agent), Jean-Manuel Mbom (Viborg), Christian Rasmussen (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Michael Steinwender (Hearts), Berkan Taz (Verl)
Out: Farid Alfa-Ruprecht (Bayer Leverkusen, end of loan), Samuel Bamba (Marítimo), Matúš Bero (out of contract), Mathis Clairicia (Sochaux), Moritz-Broni Kwarteng (Magdeburg), Cajetan Lenz (Hoffenheim), Noah Loosli (out of contract), Callum Marshall (West Ham United, end of loan), Erhan Mašović (out of contract), Leandro Morgalla (Red Bull Salzburg, end of loan), Francis Onyeka (Bayer Leverkusen, end of loan), Romario Rösch (out of contract), Marcel Sobottka (out of contract), Niclas Thiede (ADO Den Haag), Kevin Vogt (retired), Kjell Wätjen (Borussia Dortmund, end of loan)
In: Hiroki Akiyama (Albirex Niigata, loan made permanent), Meldin Drešković (Nyíregyháza, end of loan), Lance Duijvestjin (Sparta Rotterdam), Ibrahim El Kadiri (De Graafschap), Lars Kehl (Osnabrück), Leon Klassen (Grazer AK, end of loan), Florian Kleinhansl (Kaiserslautern), Christopher Lannert (Arminia Bielefeld), Ho-jae Lee (Pohang Steelers), Yannik Lührs (TSG Hoffenheim II), Carlo Sickinger (Elversberg), Nicolas Verkooijen (PSV Eindhoven), Noah Weißhaupt (Freiburg)
Out: Tim Arnold (Sportfreunde Siegen, loan), Bartosz Białek (out of contract), Killian Corredor (Nantes), Grayson Dettoni (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Serhat-Semih Güler (out of contract), Fabian Holland (out of contract), Fraser Hornby (Wolfsburg), Leon Klassen (Grazer AK, loan made permanent), Isac Lidberg (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Sergio López (Granada), Fabian Nürnberger (out of contract), Marco Richter (Mainz, end of loan), Niklas Schmidt (Toulouse, end of loan), Fabio Torsiello (Alemannia Aachen, loan extended), Paul Will (Greuther Fürth, loan made permanent)
In: Ben Bobzien (Mainz, loan made permanent), Kaan İnanoğlu (Eintracht Frankfurt), Thomas Keller (Heidenheim, loan made permanent), Dominik Kother (Duisburg, end of loan), Ahmet Muhamedbegović (Olimpja Ljubljana), Till Neininger (Wolfsburg, loan), Jonas Oehmichen (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan), Tobias Raschl (Preußen Münster), Nicolai Rapp (Karlsruhe), Kenneth Schmidt (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Jonas Sterner (Hannover, loan made permanent), Simon Straudi (Energie Cottbus), Robert Wagner (Freiburg, loan made permanent)
Out: Kofi Amoako (Hamburg), Jason Ceka (Elversberg, end of loan), Dennis Duah (Havelse, loan made permanent), Konrad Faber (St. Gallen, end of loan), Marlon Faß (Sonnenhof Großaspach, loan), Claudio Kammerknecht (out of contract), Dominik Kother (Duisburg), Stefan Kutschke (retired), Paul Lehmann (Verl), Jan-Hendrik Marx (out of contract), Robin Meißner (Osnabrück, loan made permanent), Tony Menzel (Rot Weiss Essen, loan), Julian Pauli (Cologne, end of loan), Sascha Risch (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Vinko Šapina (Ingolstadt)
In: Sanoussy Ba (Waldhof Mannheim, end of loan), Nick Bodon (Schalke), Jona Borsum (Kickers Offenbach, end of loan), Samuel Di Benedetto (VfB Stuttgart II), Justin Duda (Barockstadt, end of loan), Maximilian Entrup (LASK), Florian Flick (Nuremberg, loan made permanent), Frederik Jäkel (RB Leipzig, loan made permanent), Damjan Kovačević (Hartberg), Yann Sturm (Freiburg), Benjamin Uphoff (Hansa Rostock), Tristan Wagner (Greifswalder), Junior Zé (Basel)
Out: Faride Alidou (Kaiserslautern, end of loan), Anas Bakhat (out of contract), Leon Bell Bell (out of contract), Ken Izekor (Bayer Leverkusen, end of loan), Elhan Kastrati (released), Fabio Kaufmann (out of contract), Patrick Nkoa (out of contract), Walid Ould-Chikh (Heracles, loan made permanent), Marko Rajkovačić (out of contract), Grant-Leon Ranos (Borussia Mönchengladbach, end of loan), Erencan Yardımcı (Hoffenheim, end of loan)
In: Leonardo Bittencourt (Werder Bremen), Lucas Copado (Paderborn), Fousseny Doumbia (Eintracht Frankfurt, loan), Luca Erlein (Bayer Leverkusen, loan), Julian Guttau (Erzgebirge Aue), Ryan Malone (Erzgebirge Aue), Yusuf Wardak (Waldhof Mannheim)
Out: Tolga Cigerci (Altglienicke), Mladen Cvjetinović (Holstein Kiel, end of loan), Marius Funk (VfB Stuttgart), King Manu (Fortuna Düsseldorf, end of loan), Lukas Michelbrink (Hertha Berlin, end of loan), Can Moustfa (Nuremberg), Gianluca Pelzer (Eintracht Trier, loan), Simon Straudi (Dynamo Dresden)
In: Shinta Appelkamp (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Maxim Dal (Mainz), Florian Hellstern (VfB Stuttgart, loan), Jannis Heuer (Kaiserslautern), Sebastian Jung (Komarno, end of loan), Krisztián Keresztes (Nyíregyháza, loan), Philipp Müller (Jahn Regensburg, end of loan), Ole Pohlmann (Rio Ave), Leander Popp (Viktoria Cologne, end of loan), Omar Silah (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan), Mika Wallentowitz (Schalke, loan), Paul Will (Darmstadt, loan made permanent), Benjamin Zank (Viktoria Cologne)
Out: David Abrangao (Würzburger Kickers, loan), Juan Cabrera (Vaduz), Aiman Dardari (Augsburg, end of loan), Jan Elvedi (Kaiserslautern, end of loan), Noel Futkeu (Eintracht Frankfurt), Julian Green (out of contract), Felix Higl (Preußen Münster), Branimir Hrgota (St. Pauli), Sayfallah Ltaief (Twente, end of loan), Reno Münz (Westerlo), Mathias Olesen (Sønderjyske), Timo Schlieck (RB Leipzig, end of loan), Keyan Varela (Servette, end of loan), Matti Wagner (Alemannia Aachen, loan made permanent), Philipp Ziereis (Melbourne Victory)
In: Lars Gindorf (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan), Jean Hugonet (Magdeburg), Leon-Oumar Wechsel (Jahn Regensburg, end of loan), Yunus Ünal (Hertha Berlin), Daisuke Yokota (Gent, loan made permanent)
Out: Noel Aseko (Bayern Munich), Hendry Blank (Red Bull Salzburg, end of loan), Brooklyn Ezeh (Dynamo Dresden), Enzo Leopold (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Maik Nawrocki (Celtic, end of loan), Håvard Nielsen (out of contract), Nahuel Noll (Hoffenheim, end of loan), Jannik Rochelt (Arminia Bielefeld, loan made permanent), Elias Saad (Augsburg, end of loan), Jonas Sterner (Dynamo Dresden, loan made permanent), Noah Weißhaupt (Freiburg, end of loan), Leo Weinkauf (out of contract)
In: Maximilian Breunig (Magdeburg, end of loan), Marcel Costly (Ingolstadt), Thomas Dähne (1860 Munich), Paul Hennrich (Hoffenheim II), Luka Janes (Sonnenhof-Großaspach, end of loan), Oualid Mhamdi (Verl)
Out: Hennes Behrens (Hoffenheim, end of loan), Eren Dinkçi (Freiburg, end of loan), Niklas Dorsch (Toronto FC), Thomas Keller (Dynamo Dresden, loan made permanent), Arijon Ibrahimović (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Kevin Müller (Schalke, loan made permanent), Diant Ramaj (Borussia Dortmund, end of loan), Stefan Schimmer (out of contract), Leonidas Stergiou (VfB Stuttgart, end of loan), Omar Traoré (out of contract)
In: Oluwaseun Adewumi (Burnley, loan), Gustav Christensen (Ingolstadt, end of loan), Lukas Michelbrink (Energie Cottbus, end of loan), Jón Dagur Thorsteinsson (Brann, end of loan)
Out: Dion Ajvazi (Carl Zeiss Jena), Janne Berner (Verl, loan), John Brooks (out of contract), Michaël Cuisance (RC Lens), Diego Demme (out of contract), Jeremy Dudziak (out of contract), Kennet Eichhorn (Bayer Leverkusen), Tjark Ernst (Feyenoord), Tim Hoffmann (Verl), Michał Karbownik (out of contract), Dawid Kownacki (Werder Bremen, end of loan), Maurice Krattenmacher (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Toni Leistner (out of contract), Fabian Reese (Wolfsburg)
In: Taisei Abe (V-Varen Nagasaki, loan), Faride Alidou (Kaiserslautern), Guillermo Balzi (Newell's Old Boys), Mladen Cvjetinović (Energie Cottbus, end of loan), Louis Köster (Bochum, end of loan), Giorgi Kvilitaia (Metz), Luca Prasse (Zwickau, end of loan), Moritz Reimers (Hamburg), Sebastian Schonlau (Vancouver Whitecaps), Hiroki Sekine (Stade Reims, loan), Ben Schmit (Eintracht Trier), Tayar Tasdelen (HSC Hannover, end of loan)
Out: Tyler Dogan (Steinbach Haiger), Patrick Erras (retired), Max Geschwill (Rot-Weiss Essen), Aldin Jakupović (NK Bravo, loan), Carl Johansson (out of contract), Marco Komenda (Arka Gdynia), Jonas Krumrey (Osnabrück, loan), Luca Prasse (Meppen, loan), Tymoteusz Puchacz (Sabah FK, loan made permanent), Stefan Schwab (out of contract), Umut Tohumcu (Hoffenheim, end of loan)
In: Jan Elvedi (Greuther Fürth, end of loan), Kelven Frees (Hoffenheim, loan), Jannis Heuer (Preußen Münster, end of loan), Ibrahim Kanaté (Anderlecht, loan), Ivan Knezevic (VfB Stuttgart), Jannik Mause (Rot-Weiss Essen, end of loan), Yannick Onohiol (Hoffenheim), Frank Ronstadt (Viktoria Cologne, end of loan), Thierry Tazemeta (Borussia Dortmund), Erencan Yardımcı (Hoffenheim, loan)
Out: Dickson Abiama (Rot-Weiss Essen, loan made permanent), Faride Alidou (Holstein Kiel), Norman Bassette (Coventry City, end of loan), Atanas Chernev (Estrela Amadora, end of loan), Mahir Emreli (Raków Częstochowa, loan), Daniel Hanslik (out of contract), Jannis Heuer (Greuther Fürth), Paul Joly (Auxerre, end of loan), Ji-soo Kim (Brentford, end of loan), Florian Kleinhansl (Darmstadt), Kenny Prince Redondo (out of contract), Simon Simoni (Eintracht Frankfurt, end of loan), Luca Sirch (Elversberg), Avdo Spahic (out of contract)
In: Viktor Bergh (Djurgårdens), Moritz Broschinski (Basel, loan), Tim Civeja (Saarbrücken), Noel Eichinger (Jahn Regensburg), Ferdinand Gebert (Astoria Walldorf), Deniz Ofli (Bayern Munich, loan), Jason Ponente-Ramirez (Cologne youths), Paul Scholl (Bayern Munich, loan made permanent), Santeri Väänänen (Rosenborg), Kevin Wiethaup (Osnabrück)
Out: Stephan Ambrosius (St. Gallen, end of loan), Dženis Burnić (out of contract), Ali-Eren Ersungur (Altglienicke), Philipp Förster (out of contract), Shio Fukuda (Borussia Mönchengladbach, end of loan), David Herold (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Aki Koch (out of contract), Mateo Kritzer (Eintracht Trier, loan), Leon Opitz (Werner Bremen, end of loan), Nicolai Rapp (Dynamo Dresden), Fabian Schleusener (out of contract), Roko Šimić (Cardiff City, end of loan), Meiko Wäschenbach (Alemannia Aachen)
In: Anselmo Garcia Mac Nulty (Zwolle), Emmanuel Iyoha (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Kevin Manthey (Werder Bremen II), Moritz-Broni Kwarteng (Bochum), Chunghyun Lee (Bucheon, loan), Pierre Nadjombe (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan), Tony Reitz (Borussia Dortmund II), Doyoung Yoon (Brighton & Hove Albion, loan)
Out: Herbert Bockhorn (out of contract), Maximilian Breunig (Heidenheim, end of loan), Max Geschwill (Holstein Kiel, end of loan), Rayan Ghrieb (Nuremberg), Silas Gnaka (out of contract), Philipp Hercher (Wehen Wiesbaden), Jean Hugonet (Hannover), Connor Krempicki (out of contract), Samuel Loric (out of contract), Marcus Mathisen (St. Pauli), Falko Michel (out of contract), Albert Millgramm (Paderborn), Noah Pesch (Borussia Mönchengladbach, end of loan), Dariusz Stalmach (Werder Bremen), Laurin Ulrich (VfB Stuttgart, end of loan)
In: Mikayil Faye (Rennes, loan), Javier Fernández (Bayern Munich, loan), Sigurd Haugen (1860 Munich), Jannik Hofmann (Rot-Weiss Essen, end of loan), Alexios Kalogeropoulos (Olympiacos), Rayan Khrieb (Magdeburg), Xaver Kiefersauer (1860 Munich), Ioannis Masouras (Omonoia Nicosia), Can Moustfa (Energie Cottbus), Nicolas Ortegel (BFC Dynamo, end of loan), Winners Osawe (Schweinfurt, end of loan), Fynn Otto (Verl), Semir Telalović (Arminia Bielefeld, end of loan)
Out: Tom Baack (Paderborn), Mickaël Biron (Batman Petrolspor, loan), Tarek Buchmann (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Dustin Forkel (Rot-Weiß Erfurt), Florian Flick (Eintracht Braunschweig, loan made permanent), Fabio Gruber (Mainz), Eryk Grzywacz (Wolfsburg, end of loan), Xaver Kiefersauer (Würzburger Kickers, loan), Henri Koudossou (Augsburg, end of loan), Michal Kukucka (FK Jablonec, loan), Luka Lochoshvili (Cologne), Noah Maboulou (Viktoria Cologne), Rabby Nzingoula (Racing Strasbourg, end of loan), Nick Seidel (Verl), Danilo Soares (out of contract), Semir Telalović (Rot-Weiß Essen, loan), Berkay Yilmaz (Freiburg, end of loan)
In: Joël Abu Hanna (Levadiakos), Finn Cramer (Jeddeloh, end of loan), Konrad Faber (St. Gallen), Joschka Kroll (Wiedenbrück, end of loan), Jonas Krumrey (Holstein Kiel, loan), Robin Meißner (Dynamo Dresden, loan made permanent), Leonhard Münst (Viktoria Cologne), Leon Opitz (Werder Bremen, loan), Luca Raimund (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Lion Semic (Helmond Sport, end of loan), Rohin Shivani (Lübeck, end of loan), Ibrahim Touray (Jeddeloh, end of loan), Jonathan Wensing (Meppen)
Out: Bashkim Ajdini (retired), Frederik Christensen (Brommapojkarna, end of loan), Luc Ihorst (out of contract), Julian Kania (Arminia Bielefeld, end of loan), Lars Kehl (Darmstadt), Yigit Karademir (out of contract), Kai Pröger (Oldenburg), Mats Remberg (Bocholt), Kevin Schumacher (TSV Havelse), Lion Semic (Greifswalder, loan), Rohin Shivani (Sportfreunde Lotte, loan), Robert Tesche (retired), Kevin Wiethaup (Karlsruhe)
In: Erik Ahlstrand (Heracles, end of loan), Scott Banks (Barnsley, end of loan), Branimir Hrgota (Greuther Fürth), Sam Klein (Brisbane Roar), Marcus Mathisen (Magdeburg)
Out: Emil Gazdov (Montreal, end of loan), Andréas Hountondji (Burnley, end of loan), Karol Mets (out of contract), Manolis Saliakas (Olympiacos), James Sands (New York City, end of loan), Danel Sinani (out of contract), Nikola Vasilj (out of contract), Hauke Wahl (Wolfsburg)
In: Mathys Angély (Anderlecht, end of loan), Alessio Besio (Freiburg), Nicolas Cozza (Nantes, end of loan), Muhammed Damar (Hoffenheim), Bartol Franjić (Venezia, end of loan), Robert Glatzel (Hamburg), Eryk Grzywacz (Nuremberg, end of loan), Henrik Fehr (Winterthur), Fraser Hornby (Darmstadt), Jakub Kamiński (Cologne, end of loan), Fabian Reese (Hertha Berlin), Elvis Rexhbecaj (Augsburg), Andreas Skov Olsen (Rangers, end of loan), Aster Vranckx (Sassuolo, end of loan), Hauke Wahl (St. Pauli), Timon Wellenreuther (Feyenoord)
Out: Jeanuël Belocian (Bayer Leverkusen, end of loan), Adam Daghim (Red Bull Salzburg, end of loan), Jesper Lindstrøm (Napoli, end of loan), Lovro Majer (AEK Athens), Marius Müller (Aberdeen), Till Neininger (Dynamo Dresden, loan), Kevin Paredes (Utrecht), Jenson Seelt (Sunderland, end of loan), Andreas Skov Olsen (İstanbul Başakşehir, loan), Patrick Wimmer (Hoffenheim), Jonas Wind (Braga)
