| Vorrundentabelle | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pl. | Pl. | Verein | Sp. | Ge | Un | Ve | Tore | Diff | Pkte |
| 1. | (1) | Eintracht Braunschweig | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 35:12 | 23 | 35 |
| 2. | (2) | Rot-Weiss Essen | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 30:17 | 13 | 32 |
| 3. | (3) | VfB Lübeck | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 35:24 | 11 | 30 |
| 4. | (4) | Chemnitzer FC (A) | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 31:16 | 15 | 29 |
| 5. | (5) | KFC Uerdingen 05 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 21:15 | 6 | 29 |
| 6. | (6) | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 26:24 | 2 | 29 |
| 7. | (7) | SC Verl | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 28:28 | 0 | 26 |
| 8. | (8) | Holstein Kiel (N) | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 20:26 | -6 | 25 |
| 9. | (9) | Erzgebirge Aue | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 27:25 | 2 | 24 |
| 10. | (10) | Werder Bremen II | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 23:22 | 1 | 24 |
| 11. | (11) | Bayer 04 Leverkusen II (N) | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 27:35 | -8 | 24 |
| 12. | (12) | VfL Osnabrück (A) | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 21:20 | 1 | 21 |
| 13. | (13) | 1. FC Magdeburg (N) | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 22:25 | -3 | 20 |
| 14. | (14) | SC Paderborn 07 (N) | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 27:31 | -4 | 18 |
| 15. | (15) | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 18:27 | -9 | 18 |
| 16. | (16) | Dresdner SC | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 24:32 | -8 | 16 |
| 17. | (17) | Preußen Münster | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 20:35 | -15 | 16 |
| 18. | (18) | Fortuna Köln | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 10:31 | -21 | 9 |