| Vorrundentabelle | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pl. | Pl. | Verein | Sp. | Ge | Un | Ve | Tore | Diff | Pkte |
| 1. | (1) | SV Darmstadt 98 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 26:14 | 12 | 35 |
| 2. | (2) | Hamburger SV | 16 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 25:17 | 8 | 31 |
| 3. | (3) | 1. FC Heidenheim | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 28:16 | 12 | 30 |
| 4. | (6) | Hannover 96 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 24:17 | 7 | 27 |
| 5. | (4) | SC Paderborn 07 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 34:20 | 14 | 26 |
| 6. | (5) | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 25:18 | 7 | 26 |
| 7. | (7) | 1. FC Kaiserslautern (N) | 16 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 27:22 | 5 | 26 |
| 8. | (8) | Holstein Kiel | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 29:27 | 2 | 24 |
| 9. | (14) | SpVgg Greuther Fürth (A) | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 21:25 | -4 | 19 |
| 10. | (9) | Jahn Regensburg | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 16:25 | -9 | 19 |
| 11. | (11) | Eintracht Braunschweig (N) | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 18:25 | -7 | 18 |
| 12. | (12) | Hansa Rostock (N) | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 16:23 | -7 | 18 |
| 13. | (10) | Karlsruher SC | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 22:26 | -4 | 17 |
| 14. | (13) | 1. FC Magdeburg (N) | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 19:30 | -11 | 17 |
| 15. | (16) | FC St. Pauli | 16 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 19:21 | -2 | 16 |
| 16. | (15) | SV Sandhausen | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 19:25 | -6 | 16 |
| 17. | (17) | 1. FC Nürnberg | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 14:24 | -10 | 16 |
| 18. | (18) | Arminia Bielefeld (A) | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 20:27 | -7 | 14 |