For the 2002–03 season Wacker Burghausen, Eintracht Trier, VfB Lübeck and Eintracht Braunschweig were newly promoted to the 2.
During the 2002–03 season, Wacker Burghausen, Eintracht Trier, VfB Lübeck, and Eintracht Braunschweig were promoted to the second tier of German football.