3. Liga
Association football league in Germany
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| January 20 2025 | Argiris Giannikis leaves 1860 Munich, with Patrick Glöckner appointed as the new manager. |
| January 1 2025 | Jens Härtel takes over as manager of Erzgebirge Aue, replacing the interim management. |
| 2024 | 17th season of the 3. Liga was played, marking a significant milestone in the league's ongoing development. |
| 2024 | 3. Liga achieved its highest recorded attendance of 3,662,893, with Dynamo Dresden continuing as the best-supported club, reaching an impressive average attendance of 28,752. |
| 2024 | Team changes announced for the 2024–25 3. Liga season, with multiple teams being promoted from Regionalliga and 2. Bundesliga, and others being relegated. |
| December 12 2024 | Uwe Koschinat appointed as new manager of Rot-Weiss Essen. |
| December 9 2024 | Christoph Dabrowski is dismissed as manager of Rot-Weiss Essen. |
| December 1 2024 | Pavel Dochev is sacked as manager of Erzgebirge Aue, with Jörg Emmerich and Adam Sušac taking over as interim managers. |
| November 2 2024 | Daniel Brinkmann appointed as manager of Hansa Rostock, replacing the interim management of Simon Pesch and Marcus Rabenhorst. |
| October 24 2024 | Bernd Hollerbach dismissed from Hansa Rostock, with Simon Pesch and Marcus Rabenhorst taking over as interim managers. |
| September 18 2024 | Bernhard Trares appointed as new manager of Waldhof Mannheim. |
| September 17 2024 | Marco Antwerpen is sacked as manager of Waldhof Mannheim. |
| August 2 2024 | The 17th season of the 3. Liga commenced, marking the start of the 2024–25 football season. |
| July 9 2024 | Fixtures for the 2024–25 3. Liga season were officially announced. |
| May 29 2024 | Bernd Hollerbach appointed as new manager of Hansa Rostock. |
| May 23 2024 | Mersad Selimbegović ends his contract with Hansa Rostock. |
| May 19 2024 | Thomas Stamm confirmed as new manager for Dynamo Dresden, set to arrive on 1 July 2024. |
| April 20 2024 | Dynamo Dresden announces end of caretaker period for Heiko Scholz, with a planned exit on 30 June 2024. |
| 2023 | Most recent top scorer is Ahmet Arslan, who scored 25 goals for Dynamo Dresden in the 2022-23 season, representing the highest number of goals in recent years. |
| 2023 | Ongoing continuation of the promotion rounds system, maintaining the established mechanism for inter-league team movement between 3. Liga and 2. Bundesliga. |
| 2023 | League reached a new high in attendance with 3,115,102 total, and Dynamo Dresden emerging as the best-supported club with an average attendance of 24,495. |
| 2023 | DFB reduces minimum stadium capacity for 3. Liga from 10,001 to 5,001 seats as part of the '3. Liga Economic Task Force' initiative, making league entry more accessible for smaller clubs. |
| 2023 | SSV Ulm makes its first-ever appearance in the 3. Liga during the 2023-24 season. |
| 2022 | Ahmet Arslan becomes the top scorer with 25 goals for Dynamo Dresden |
| 2022 | League attendance recovered to 2,093,273 with 1. FC Kaiserslautern as the best-supported club, achieving an average attendance of 16,594. |
| 2021 | Marcel Bär wins the top scorer title with 21 goals for 1860 Munich |
| July 1 2021 | Implementation of U23 regulation for 3. Liga, requiring teams to list at least 4 players aged 23 or younger (born on or after 1 July 1998) in each match day squad for the 2021-22 season. |
| 2020 | Sascha Mölders wins the top scorer title with 22 goals for 1860 Munich |
| 2020 | Significant drop in league attendance to 133,125 and average attendance of 350, likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Hansa Rostock as the best-supported club. |
| July 2020 | Conclusion of three-year media rights contract between SportA, Telekom, and 3. Liga broadcasters. |
| July 4 2020 | The final game day of the 2019-20 season took place, delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| July 4 2020 | Final game day of the disrupted 2019-20 season takes place. |
| May 21 2020 | Decision made to resume game operations on 30 May, with a DFB and DFL hygiene concept implemented. |
| March 16 2020 | Game operations completely ceased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| March 11 2020 | Game operations temporarily suspended after 27 match days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2019 | The DFB and Adidas signed a partner contract to provide a uniform match ball for all clubs until the end of the 2021-22 season, with the Telstar 18 (used in the 2018 FIFA World Cup) being the first official ball. |
| 2019 | Kwasi Okyere Wriedt from Ghana becomes the first non-German top scorer in the league, scoring 24 goals for Bayern Munich II |
| 2019 | SV Wehen Wiesbaden is promoted to the 2. Bundesliga after 10 consecutive years in the 3. Liga. |
| 2019 | Introduction of card warnings for club officials, similar to player regulations. |
| October 2019 | DFB published a balance sheet report revealing a record turnover of €185 million, offset by an average loss of €1.5 million in the 3. Liga, marking the ninth deficit year in eleven years. |
| September 2019 | Hansa Rostock received the highest financial distribution in the first year of the new system, topping the categories of 'positive annual result' and 'planned quality' after achieving a record turnover of €19 million in the 2018-19 season. |
| 2018 | 3. Liga registered more than 3 million spectators for the first time, with an average of over 8,000 spectators, and six clubs achieving a five-digit average attendance in the 2018–19 season. |
| 2018 | League structure changed, increasing relegation from three to four teams per season and introducing a modified promotion system. |
| 2018 | First season with four relegated teams, regular Monday games, and no U23 teams from higher-class clubs qualifying for the league. |
| September 2018 | First distribution of financial pots takes place, with Hansa Rostock receiving the highest amount for top performance in 'positive annual result' and 'planned quality' categories, following a record turnover of €19 million in the 2018-19 season. |
| September 2018 | The German Football Association (DFB) decided to introduce financial fair play and a youth development fund in the 3. Liga to improve clubs' economic situations and strengthen talent development. A total of €3.5 million was to be distributed among clubs. |
| July 2018 | League structure modified to relegate four teams instead of three to the Regionalliga, expanding the league's relegation system |
| July 2018 | Modification of the promotion system: Three out of five Regionalliga champions now gain direct promotion, with the remaining two contesting a play-off for the fourth promotion spot. |
| July 2018 | New media rights contract begins, with SportA and Telekom jointly holding media rights to the 3. Liga. ARD and state broadcasters reduce live game coverage to 86 games. |
| April 2018 | Chemnitzer FC filed for bankruptcy and was relegated after a nine-point deduction. |
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