2011–12 3. Liga
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment
Kickers Offenbach Thomas Gerstner Sacked 30 April 2011 Off-season Arie van Lent 10 May 2011
VfB Stuttgart II Jürgen Seeberger Sacked 15 May 2011 Off-season Jürgen Kramny 1 July 2011
VfL Osnabrück Heiko Flottmann End of tenure as caretaker 31 May 2011 Off-season Uwe Fuchs 31 May 2011
SpVgg Unterhaching Klaus Augenthaler Resigned 3 June 2011 Off-season Heiko Herrlich 16 June 2011
Arminia Bielefeld Ewald Lienen Mutual consent 30 June 2011 Off-season Markus von Ahlen 1 July 2011
Arminia Bielefeld Markus von Ahlen Sacked 20 September 2011 19th Stefan Krämer 20 September 2011
Rot-Weiss Oberhausen Theo Schneider Sacked 4 October 2011 17th Mario Basler 24 October 2011
FC Carl Zeiss Jena Heiko Weber Sacked 30 October 2011 20th Petrik Sander 7 November 2011
VfL Osnabrück Uwe Fuchs Sacked 8 December 2011 12th Claus-Dieter Wollitz 15 December 2011
SV Wacker Burghausen Rudi Bommer Signed by Energie Cottbus 31 December 2011 9th Reinhard Stumpf 5 January 2012
SC Preußen Münster Marc Fascher Sacked 23 January 2012 14th Pavel Dochev 24 January 2012
SV Wehen Wiesbaden Gino Lettieri Sacked 15 February 2012 13th Peter Vollmann 16 February 2012
Teams -- Managerial changes
The 2011-12 3. Liga was the fourth season of the 3. Liga, Germany's third tier of its football league system. The season commenced on 22 July 2011, two weeks earlier than the 2011-12 Bundesliga season and one week after the 2011-12 2. Bundesliga season, and ended with the last games on 5 May 2012. The traditional winter break was held between the weekends around 18 December 2011 and 22 January 2012. The league comprises fourteen teams from the 2010-11 season, the last two teams from the 2010-11 2. Bundesliga, the losers of the promotion play-off between the 16th-placed 2. Bundesliga team and the third-placed 3. Liga team as well as the three champions of the three 2010-11 Regionalliga divisions.