2012–13 3. Liga
| Season | 2012–13 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Karlsruher SC |
| Promoted |
Karlsruher SC Arminia Bielefeld |
| Relegated |
Kickers Offenbach SV Babelsberg 03 Alemannia Aachen |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 953 (2.51 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
Anton Fink Fabian Klos (20 goals) |
| Biggest home win |
Rot-Weiß Erfurt 5–0 Borussia Dortmund II (1 September 2012) 1. FC Saarbrücken 5–0 Hallescher FC (24 November 2012) Chemnitzer FC 5–0 SpVgg Unterhaching (18 May 2013) |
| Biggest away win | Rot-Weiß Erfurt 0–4 1. FC Heidenheim (28 July 2012) Alemannia Aachen 0–4 Karlsruher SC (9 February 2013) SV Babelsberg 03 0–4 SV Wacker Burghausen (11 May 2013) |
| Highest scoring |
SC Preußen Münster 5–2 (9 August 2012) SpVgg Unterhaching 4–3 Borussia Dortmund II (22 September 2012) Kickers Offenbach 5–2 SV Babelsberg 03 (6 October 2012) SpVgg Unterhaching 4–3 Chemnitzer FC (24 November 2012) Karlsruher SC 5–2 1. FC Heidenheim (1 December 2012) Alemannia Aachen 3–4 Hansa Rostock (12 April 2013) Borussia Dortmund II 4–3 Rot-Weiß Erfurt (7 May 2013) |
| Longest winning run | 10 games Karlsruher SC |
| Longest unbeaten run | 19 games Karlsruher SC |
| Longest winless run | 14 games SV Wehen Wiesbaden |
| Longest losing run | 6 games F.C. Hansa Rostock |
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The 2012–13 3. Liga was the fifth season of the 3. Liga, Germany's third-level football league. The season began on the weekend of 21 July 2012 and ended with the last games on 18 May 2013, with a winter break held between the weekends around 15 December 2012 and 26 January 2013.
The league consisted of twenty teams: The teams placed fourth through seventeenth of the 2011–12 season, the worst two teams from the 2011–12 2nd Bundesliga, the three division champions of the 2011–12 Fußball-Regionalliga and the losers of the relegation play-off between the 16th-placed 2nd Bundesliga team and the third-placed 3rd Liga team.
At the end of the 2011–12 season, SV Sandhausen and VfR Aalen were directly promoted to the 2012–13 2nd Bundesliga. Sandhausen, having been a charter member of the 3rd Liga for its first four seasons, left the third level after five seasons overall, while Aalen celebrated their second consecutive promotion within twelve months. The two promoted teams were replaced by Alemannia Aachen and , who finished in the bottom two places of the 2011–12 2nd Bundesliga table and thus were directly relegated. Aachen gave their debut in the 3rd Liga, returning to the third level after thirteen seasons, while Rostock returned to the league after only one year in the second tier.
On the other end of the table, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, FC Carl Zeiss Jena and SV Werder Bremen II were relegated to the 2012–13 Fußball-Regionalliga; Oberhausen entered the newly formed Regionalliga West, with Jena going to the Regionalliga Nordost and Werder Bremen reserves being admitted to the Regionalliga Nord. The three relegated teams will be replaced by the champions of the three 2011–12 Regionalliga divisions. Borussia Dortmund II from the Western division and Stuttgarter Kickers from the Southern Division returned after absences of two and three years respectively, while Hallescher FC from the Northern division will return to a national level of football for the first time since the 1991–92 2nd Bundesliga season and to third level after 18 years.
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