Bundesliga 2 transfer centre opens summer window Germany; End-of-loan moves dominate
Official Bundesliga 2 transfer centre: Summer 2026 | Bundesliga 2
Official Bundesliga 2 transfer centre: Summer 2026
The summer transfer window is open from 1 July to 31 August 2026. Check out all the comings and goings at the 18 clubs in Germany’s second tier below…
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In:Julian Kania (Osnabrück, end of loan), Lukas Kunze (Hansa Rostock, end of loan), Max Lippert (Cologne, end of loan), Vincent Ocansey (Erzgebirge Aue, end of loan)
Out:Maximilian Bauer (Augsburg, end of loan), Noah Sarenren Bazee (Waldhof Mannheim), Jannik Rochelt (Hannover, end of loan), Mika Schroers (Alemannia Aachen, loan made permanent), Semir Telalović (Nuremberg, end of loan)
In:Samuel Bamba (Willem II, end of loan), Mathis Clairicia (Alverca, end of loan), Enis Çokaj (Panathinaikos), Lirim Jashari (Maastricht, end of loan), Colin Kleine-Bekel (St. Gallen, end of loan), Berkan Taz (Verl)
Out:Farid Alfa-Ruprecht (Bayer Leverkusen, end of loan), Matúš Bero (out of contract), Cajetan Lenz (Hoffenheim), Noah Loosli (out of contract), Callum Marshall (West Ham United, end of loan), Erhan Mašović (out of contract), Leandro Morgalla (Red Bull Salzburg, end of loan), Francis Onyeka (Bayer Leverkusen, end of loan), Romario Rösch (out of contract), Marcel Sobottka (out of contract), Kevin Vogt (retired), Kjell Wätjen (Borussia Dortmund, end of loan)
In:Hiroki Akiyama (Albirex Niigata, loan made permanent), Meldin Drešković (Nyíregyháza, end of loan), Leon Klassen (Grazer AK, end of loan), Fabio Torsiello (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan), Paul Will (Greuther Fürth, end of loan)
Out:Bartosz Białek (out of contract), Grayson Dettoni (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Serhat-Semih Güler (out of contract), Fabian Holland (out of contract), Fabian Nürnberger (out of contract), Marco Richter (Mainz, end of loan), Niklas Schmidt (Toulouse, end of loan)
Dynamo DresdenIn:Dennis Duah (Havelse, end of loan), Marlon Faß (Stuttgarter Kickers, end of loan), Paul Lehmann (Verl, end of loan), Dominik Kother (Duisburg, end of loan), Jonas Oehmichen (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan)
Out:Kofi Amoako (Hamburg), Ben Bobzien (Mainz, end of loan), Jason Ceka (Elversberg, end of loan), Konrad Faber (St. Gallen, end of loan), Claudio Kammerknecht (out of contract), Thomas Keller (Heidenheim, end of loan), Stefan Kutschke (retired), Jan-Hendrik Marx (out of contract), Robin Meißner (Osnabrück, loan made permanent), Julian Pauli (Cologne, end of loan), Jonas Sterner (Hannover, end of loan), Robert Wagner (Freiburg, end of loan)
In:Sanoussy Ba (Waldhof Mannheim, end of loan), Jona Borsum (Kickers Offenbach, end of loan), Justin Duda (Barockstadt, end of loan), Florian Flick (Nuremberg, loan made permanent), Walid Ould-Chikh (Heracles, end of loan)
Out:Faride Alidou (Kaiserslautern, end of loan), Anas Bakhat (out of contract), Leon Bell Bell (out of contract), Ken Izekor (Bayer Leverkusen, end of loan), Frederik Jäkel (RB Leipzig, end of loan), Patrick Nkoa (out of contract), Grant-Leon Ranos (Borussia Mönchengladbach, end of loan), Erencan Yardımcı (Hoffenheim, end of loan)
In:Gianluca Pelzer (Lübeck, end of loan)
Out:Mladen Cvjetinović (Holstein Kiel, end of loan), Marius Funk (out of contract), King Manu (Fortuna Düsseldorf, end of loan), Lukas Michelbrink (Hertha Berlin, end of loan)
In:Sebastian Jung (Komarno, end of loan), Philipp Müller (Jahn Regensburg, end of loan), Mathias Olesen (Grazer AK, end of loan), Leander Popp (Viktoria Cologne, end of loan), Omar Silah (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan), Matti Wagner (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan)
Out:Juan Cabrera (Vaduz), Aiman Dardari (Augsburg, end of loan), Jan Elvedi (Kaiserslautern, end of loan), Noel Futkeu (Eintracht Frankfurt), Branimir Hrgota (out of contract), Sayfallah Ltaief (Twente, end of loan), Timo Schlieck (RB Leipzig, end of loan), Keyan Varela (Servette, end of loan), Paul Will (Darmstadt, end of loan)
In:Lars Gindorf (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan), Jannik Rochelt (Arminia Bielefeld, end of loan), Jonas Sterner (Dynamo Dresden, end of loan), Leon-Oumar Wechsel (Jahn Regensburg, end of loan), Yunus Ünal (Hertha Berlin)
Out:Noel Aseko (Bayern Munich), Hendry Blank (Red Bull Salzburg, end of loan), Brooklyn Ezeh (out of contract), Enzo Leopold (out of contract), Maik Nawrocki (Celtic, end of loan), Håvard Nielsen (out of contract), Nahuel Noll (Hoffenheim, end of loan), Elias Saad (Augsburg, end of loan), Noah Weißhaupt (Freiburg, end of loan), Leo Weinkauf (out of contract), Daisuke Yokota (Gent, end of loan)
In:Maximilian Breunig (Magdeburg, end of loan), Luka Janes (Sonnenhof-Großaspach, end of loan), Thomas Keller (Dynamo Dresden, end of loan), Oualid Mhamdi (Verl), Kevin Müller (Schalke, end of loan)
Out:Hennes Behrens (Hoffenheim, end of loan), Eren Dinkçi (Freiburg, end of loan), Arijon Ibrahimović (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Diant Ramaj (Borussia Dortmund, end of loan), Leonidas Stergiou (VfB Stuttgart, end of loan)
In:Gustav Christensen (Ingolstadt, end of loan), Lukas Michelbrink (Energie Cottbus, end of loan), Jón Dagur Thorsteinsson (Brann, end of loan)
Out:John Brooks (out of contract), Diego Demme (out of contract), Jeremy Dudziak (out of contract), Tim Hoffmann (Verl), Dawid Kownacki (Werder Bremen, end of loan), Maurice Krattenmacher (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Toni Leistner (out of contract)
In:Mladen Cvjetinović (Energie Cottbus, end of loan), Max Geschwill (Magdeburg, end of loan), Louis Köster (Bochum, end of loan), Luca Prasse (Zwickau, end of loan), Moritz Reimers (Hamburg), Ben Schmit (Eintracht Trier), Tayar Tasdelen (HSC Hannover, end of loan)
Out:Patrick Erras (retired),Carl Johansson (out of contract), Tymoteusz Puchacz (Sabah FK, loan made permanent), Stefan Schwab (out of contract), Umut Tohumcu (Hoffenheim, end of loan)
In:Dickson Abiama (Rot-Weiss Essen, end of loan), Faride Alidou (Eintracht Braunschweig, end of loan), Jan Elvedi (Greuther Fürth, end of loan), Jannis Heuer (Preußen Münster, end of loan), Jannik Mause (Rot-Weiss Essen, end of loan), Yannick Onohiol (Hoffenheim), Frank Ronstadt (Viktoria Cologne, end of loan)
Out:Norman Bassette (Coventry City, end of loan), Atanas Chernev (Estrela Amadora, end of loan), Daniel Hanslik (out of contract), Paul Joly (Auxerre, end of loan), Ji-soo Kim (Brentford, end of loan), Florian Kleinhansl (out of contract), Kenny Prince Redondo (out of contract), Simon Simoni (Eintracht Frankfurt, end of loan), Luca Sirch (out of contract), Avdo Spahic (out of contract)
In:Noel Eichinger (Jahn Regensburg),Ferdinand Gebert (Astoria Walldorf), Kevin Wiethaup (Osnabrück), Paul Scholl (Bayern Munich, loan made permanent)
Out:Stephan Ambrosius (St. Gallen, end of loan), Dženis Burnić (out of contract), Philipp Förster (out of contract), Shio Fukuda (Borussia Mönchengladbach, end of loan), David Herold (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Aki Koch (out of contract), Leon Opitz (Werner Bremen, end of loan), Fabian Schleusener (out of contract), Roko Šimić (Cardiff City, end of loan)
In:Pierre Nadjombe (Alemannia Aachen, end of loan)
Out:Herbert Bockhorn (out of contract), Maximilian Breunig (Heidenheim, end of loan), Max Geschwill (Holstein Kiel, end of loan), Rayan Ghrieb (Nuremberg), Silas Gnaka (out of contract), Philipp Hercher (out of contract), Jean Hugonet (out of contract), Connor Krempicki (out of contract), Samuel Loric (out of contract), Marcus Mathisen (out of contract), Falko Michel (out of contract), Albert Millgramm (Paderborn), Noah Pesch (Borussia Mönchengladbach, end of loan), Laurin Ulrich (VfB Stuttgart, end of loan)
In:Jannik Hofmann (Rot-Weiss Essen, end of loan), Dustin Forkel (Schweinfurt, end of loan), Rayan Khrieb (Magdeburg), Michal Kukucka (Koper, end of loan), Ioannis Masouras (Omonoia Nicosia), Nicolas Ortegel (BFC Dynamo, end of loan), Winners Osawe (Schweinfurt, end of loan), Fynn Otto (Verl), Nick Seidel (Jahn Regensburg, end of loan), Semir Telalović (Arminia Bielefeld, end of loan)
Out:Tom Baack (out of contract), Tarek Buchmann (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Javier Fernández (Bayern Munich, end of loan), Florian Flick (Eintracht Braunschweig, loan made permanent), Eryk Grzywacz (Wolfsburg, end of loan), Henri Koudossou (Augsburg, end of loan), Rabby Nzingoula (Racing Strasbourg, end of loan), Danilo Soares (out of contract), Berkay Yilmaz (Freiburg, end of loan)
In:Finn Cramer (Jeddeloh, end of loan), Joschka Kroll (Wiedenbrück, end of loan), Robin Meißner (Dynamo Dresden, loan made permanent), Lion Semic (Helmond Sport, end of loan), Rohin Shivani (Lübeck, end of loan), Ibrahim Touray (Jeddeloh, end of loan), Jonathan Wensing (Meppen)
Out:Bashkim Ajdini (retired), Frederik Christensen (Brommapojkarna, end of loan), Luc Ihorst (out of contract), Julian Kania (Arminia Bielefeld, end of loan), Yigit Karademir (out of contract), Mats Remberg (Bocholt), Robert Tesche (retired), Kevin Wiethaup (Karlsruhe)
In:Martin Ens (Verl), Timur Gayret (Verl), Albert Millgramm (Magdeburg) Marco Wörner (Verl, end of loan), Tristan Zobel (Erzgebirge Aue, end of loan)
Out:Dennis Seimen (VfB Stuttgart, end of loan)
In:Erik Ahlstrand (Heracles, end of loan), Scott Banks (Barnsley, end of loan),Sam Klein(Brisbane Roar)
Out:Emil Gazdov (Montreal, end of loan), Andréas Hountondji (Burnley, end of loan), Karol Mets (out of contract), James Sands (New York City FC, end of loan), Danel Sinani (out of contract), Nikola Vasilj (out of contract)
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