How many games are left in the 3. Liga?

There are 280 of 380 3. Liga matches still to play in the 2026-27 season. 100 have been played, which is 26% of the campaign. The next match is Rot-Weiß Essen v SSV Jahn Regensburg on Fri 23 Oct, and the season finishes on Sat 22 May.

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The season in numbers

Matches in the season380
Played so far100
Still to play280
Season complete26%
Teams20
Matches each team plays38

Each of the 20 clubs plays every other side twice — once at home, once away — which is 38 matches per club and 380 in total. With 280 left there are roughly 28 rounds of fixtures to come, at 10 matches a round.

Every club has played the same number of matches so far, so the table is a straight comparison — no games in hand to account for.

Games left, club by club

ClubPlayedLeft
Alemannia Aachen1028
FC Ingolstadt 041028
FC Saarbrücken1028
FC Viktoria Köln1028
Fortuna Düsseldorf1028
Fortuna Köln1028
Hansa Rostock1028
Havelse1028
Hoffenheim II1028
MSV Duisburg1028
Preußen Münster1028
Rot-Weiß Essen1028
SG Sonnenhof Grossaspach1028
SSV Jahn Regensburg1028
Stuttgart II1028
SV Meppen1028
SV Wehen1028
Verl1028
Waldhof Mannheim1028
Würzburger Kickers1028

When does it finish?

The last scheduled 3. Liga match of 2026-27 is on Sat 22 May. Dates for individual games move — television picks, cup runs and weather all shift them — so treat the final day as the fixed point and everything before it as provisional. These counts come straight from the fixture list and refresh several times a day, so they stay right as games are played and rearranged.

Next up: this week's 3. Liga fixtures · full table, form and over 2.5 records. Match counts describe the schedule, not a prediction — our ratings are explained in the methodology.