| Vorrundentabelle | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pl. | Pl. | Verein | Sp. | Ge | Un | Ve | Tore | Diff | Pkte |
| 1. | (1) | SV Darmstadt 98 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 25:14 | 11 | 32 |
| 2. | (2) | Hamburger SV | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 25:16 | 9 | 31 |
| 3. | (4) | 1. FC Heidenheim | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 24:13 | 11 | 27 |
| 4. | (3) | SC Paderborn 07 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 34:18 | 16 | 26 |
| 5. | (6) | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 25:16 | 9 | 26 |
| 6. | (5) | Hannover 96 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 22:17 | 5 | 24 |
| 7. | (7) | 1. FC Kaiserslautern (N) | 15 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 25:22 | 3 | 23 |
| 8. | (8) | Holstein Kiel | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 29:27 | 2 | 23 |
| 9. | (9) | Jahn Regensburg | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15:24 | -9 | 18 |
| 10. | (10) | Karlsruher SC | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 22:24 | -2 | 17 |
| 11. | (11) | Eintracht Braunschweig (N) | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17:24 | -7 | 17 |
| 12. | (12) | Hansa Rostock (N) | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 15:22 | -7 | 17 |
| 13. | (15) | 1. FC Magdeburg (N) | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 19:29 | -10 | 17 |
| 14. | (16) | SpVgg Greuther Fürth (A) | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 20:25 | -5 | 16 |
| 15. | (17) | SV Sandhausen | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 16:21 | -5 | 16 |
| 16. | (13) | FC St. Pauli | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 19:21 | -2 | 15 |
| 17. | (14) | 1. FC Nürnberg | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13:23 | -10 | 15 |
| 18. | (18) | Arminia Bielefeld (A) | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 18:27 | -9 | 11 |