For the 2002–03 season Wacker Burghausen, Eintracht Trier, VfB Lübeck and Eintracht Braunschweig were newly promoted to the 2.
The teams Wacker Burghausen, Eintracht Trier, VfB Lübeck, and Eintracht Braunschweig gained promotion to the second division in the 2002-2003 season.