Season trivia for 2. Bundesliga 2020/2021
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2020/2021 2. Bundesliga season in Germany.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Simon Zoller and Robert Zulj. Together they were behind 8 goals for Bochum in the 2016/2017 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2016/2017 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Serdar Dursun, playing for Darmstadt, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 19 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Darmstadt-Heidenheim.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2016/2017 was 6 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Christian Kühlwetter () - November 2020
Serdar Dursun () - April 2021
Fin Bartels () - May 2021
Serdar Dursun () - May 2021
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored eight times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2016/2017 season was Andreas Albers in , in total he did it nine times.
Most last goals in a match
In total, there were two players who scored the last goal of the match the most times, six times to be precise, and the players who did it were these:
Janni Serra ()
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2016/2017 season was Alexander Mühling, in total he scored nine penalties for his .
Most penalty goals by team
Holstein Kiel was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2016/2017 season, in total they scored ten of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, three players scored two goals in added time, and the players who did so were:
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was five goals, which four teams managed to do, and these were Bochum, Greuther Fürth, Darmstadt and Fortuna Düsseldorf.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2016/2017 season was Paul Jaeckel, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Eredivisie, which he did two times.
Most own goals by team
Fortuna Düsseldorf scored four own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2016/2017 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Guido Burgstaller in St. Pauli scored in 7 consecutive matches during the 2016/2017 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
The players with the most goals in the first half of the match scored 11 goals, and the players who did this were Serdar Dursun () and Dennis Srbeny ().
Players with most goals in the second half
Serdar Dursun in scored a total of 16 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Eredivisie during the 2016/2017 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were five teams that had 5 consecutive wins in the 2016/2017 season, and those teams were Hamburg, Greuther Fürth, Holstein Kiel, Fortuna Düsseldorf and St. Pauli.
Most matches in a row without losing
Hamburg were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2016/2017 season, playing 11 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
VfL Osnabrück had a streak of 9 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Eredivisie during the 2016/2017 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
St. Pauli managed the feat of not winning a single match in 13 consecutive matches during the 2016/2017 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Sandhausen have managed this in six matches during the 2016/2017 season, more than any other team in Eredivisie.