Most consecutive seasons: Fortuna Cologne spent 26 years uninterupted in Bundesliga 2 between 1974 and 2000.

Most played fixture: Greuther Fürth and Karlsruhe have faced off 50 times in the second division.

Most matches: Greuther Fürth have played the most fixtures in Bundesliga 2 with 1,262 (including matches as SpVgg Fürth).

Most goals: Fürth have also scored the most goals in the division with 1,866.

Most goals in a season: Hertha Berlin scored 123 times in 1980/81 (42 matches).

Most wins in a season: Hertha also became the only club to register 31 victories in a Bundesliga 2 season in 1980/81.

Fewest wins in a season: Pirmasens won only one of their 38 Bundesliga 2 matches in 1977/78.

Most goals conceded in a season: Pirmasens also set the record for the most porous defence in that 1977/78 campaign by conceding 120 goals.

Fewest goals conceded in a season: Cologne boast the most solid defence in Bundesliga 2 history from 2013/14 when they let in only 20 goals.

Most home wins in a season: Homburg (1976/77), Arminia Bielefeld (1979/80), Hertha Berlin and Werder Bremen (both 1980/81) all registered 18 victories at home in a single season.

Most away wins in a season: Eintracht Braunschweig in 1980/81 remain the only team to chalk up 14 victories on the road in a Bundesliga 2 campaign.

Fewest defeats in a season: Arminia Bielefeld (twice; 1979/80, 2019/20) and Hertha Berlin (2012/13) jointly hold the record for fewest defeats in a single season, with just two losses across those campaigns.

Most defeats in a season: Pirmasens lost 33 times in 1977/78 - no team has lost more matches in a single campaign.

Most draws in a season: Blau-Weiß Berlin drew a total of 20 times in the 1990/91 season.

Most consecutive wins: Bayer Leverkusen won 14 games in a row across the 1977/78 and 1978/79 editions.

Most consecutive defeats: Spandauer SV (1975/76) and Duisburg (1985/86) both suffered 14 second division defeats on the spin.

Most consecutive draws: Unterhaching (1996/97) and Karlsruhe (2019/20) each drew seven games in succession.

Most consecutive games unbeaten: St. Pauli went 28 games without defeat across 1976/77 and 1978/79 (with a season in the Bundesliga in between), while Arminia Bielefeld did the same in 1979/80. For the single-division Bundesliga 2, Pauli equalled the record of 25 in 2023/24 held by Cologne (2002/03) and Fortuna Düsseldorf (across 2010/11 and 2011/12).

Most consecutive games without conceding a goal: Arminia Bielefeld managed a run of eight games without conceding a goal in 2009/10. Goalkeeper Dennis Eilhoff went 842 minutes without being beaten.

Most consecutive games scoring a goal: Nuremberg scored in 41 straight matches across 2015/16 and 2016/17.

Most consecutive games without scoring a goal: Mainz (1995/96) and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (1987/88) both had runs of eight games without scoring.

Longest run without a clean sheet: St. Pauli conceded a goal in 42 consecutive matches across 1975/76 and 1976/77.

Most spectators in a season: The 2024/25 campaign set a new record of over 9.4 million spectators at games, making it the best-attended second division season of all time. That worked out at an average of over 30,840 per game, which was more than France's Ligue 1 (27,840) and substantially more than England's Championship (22,000).

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