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2011–12 1. FC Union Berlin season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ97275884 ↗
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The 2011–12 1. FC Union Berlin season was the 106th season in the club's history. The club competed in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football; it was the club's third consecutive season in the league, following promotion from the 3. Liga in 2009. Union Berlin finished 7th. The club also competed in the DFB-Pokal but were eliminated in the first round by Rot-Weiss Essen.

2. Bundesliga

League table

Matches

DFB-Pokal

Appearances and goals

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Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with names struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

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The public source identifies “2011–12 1. FC Union Berlin season” as season of football team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Union, Berlin and season.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Union, Berlin and season providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2011–12 1. FC Union Berlin season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.