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1989–90 2. Bundesliga

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ321480 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1989–90 2. Bundesliga season was the sixteenth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system.

Hertha BSC and SG Wattenscheid 09 were promoted to the Bundesliga while KSV Hessen Kassel, SpVgg Bayreuth, Alemannia Aachen and SpVgg Unterhaching were relegated to the Oberliga.

League table

For the 1989–90 season KSV Hessen Kassel, SpVgg Unterhaching, MSV Duisburg and Preußen Münster were newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberliga while Stuttgarter Kickers and Hannover 96 had been relegated to the league from the Bundesliga.

Results

Top scorers

The league's top scorers:

References

External links

2. Bundesliga 1989/1990 at Weltfussball.de (in German)

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Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1989–90 2. Bundesliga” is sports season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bundesliga, sports and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bundesliga, sports and season is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “sports season” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q321480. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “1989–90 2. Bundesliga” 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.