2010–11 Dynamo Dresden season


The 2010–11 season saw Dynamo Dresden challenge for promotion from the 3. Liga for the first time since its foundation in 2008. After shaky start, they found themselves in contention for third place, behind the top two of Eintracht Braunschweig and Hansa Rostock. When a poor run of form in March and April put this position into jeopardy, manager Matthias Maucksch was sacked and replaced with Ralf Loose. The change had the desired effect - Dynamo win five of their last six games, beating Kickers Offenbach on the last day of the season to secure third place, and a playoff with VfL Osnabrück, who had finished third bottom in the 2. Bundesliga.
The first leg of the playoff, in Dresden, ended in a 1–1 draw, as did the 90 minutes of the second leg, but Dynamo scored two goals in extra time to win 4–2 on aggregate and return to the second division after a five-year absence.

Squad

Results

3. Liga

Playoff

Dynamo Dresden won 4–2 on aggregate; Dynamo promoted, Osnabrück relegated

DFB-Pokal

Saxony Cup

Transfers

In

PlayerFromDate
Shergo Biran1. FC Union BerlinSummer
Dennis BührerRot-Weiss EssenSummer
Alexander EssweinVfL WolfsburgSummer
Cristian FiélAlemannia AachenSummer
Marcel FrankeYouth teamSummer
Thomas FrankeEnergie CottbusSummer
Florian GrossertHansa RostockSummer
Denny HerzigRot-Weiss EssenSummer
Tim KisterRot-Weiss FrankfurtSummer
Toni LeistnerSC Borea DresdenSummer
Marc SandSK Austria KärntenSummer
Sebastian SchuppanSC Paderborn 07Summer
Marcel WächterYouth teamSummer
Dani SchahinSpVgg Greuther Fürth January

Out

PlayerToDate
Oliver BirnbaumVFC PlauenSummer
Cataldo CozzaEintracht TrierSummer
Pavel DobryChemnitzer FCSummer
Benjamin GirkeRadebeuler BC 08Summer
Christoph KlippelHallescher FCSummer
Christian MikolajczakEintracht TrierSummer
Ronny NikolCarl Zeiss JenaSummer
Volker OppitzRetiredSummer
Markus PalionisSC Paderborn 07Summer
Aleksandro PetrovicReleasedSummer
Halil Savran1. FC Union BerlinSummer
Tony SchmidtZFC MeuselwitzSummer
Mirko SoltauDynamo Dresden IISummer
Philipp ZeigerVFC Plauen Summer
Shergo Biran1. FC MagdeburgJanuary
Marc SandBayer Leverkusen IIJanuary
Tore Andreas GundersenHam KamMarch