Matchdays 13 to 17 in the 3rd division have been scheduled. MSV Duisburg and Rot-Weiss Essen will meet on Saturdays.

The DFL has announced the schedules for match days 13 to 17. For Rot-Weiss Essen and MSV Duisburg, four of the five games will be played on a Saturday, and the ball will roll once each on Sunday.

Many fans in the Ruhr region will mark Saturday, October 28, boldly in their calendars. The derby between MSV and RWE will then be played at the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena in Duisburg at 2 p.m. The game will be played on Sunday.

For Rot-Weiss Essen, it then continues with a home double-header at Hafenstrasse. First, second-division relegated Arminia Bielefeld will be Essen’s guests on November 4 (Saturday, 2 p.m.), followed a good week later by Waldhof Mannheim (Sunday, November 12, 4:30 p.m.).

On Match Days 16 and 17, the Essen team will be back in action on Saturdays at 2 p.m.. First up is FC Ingolstadt (November 25), followed a week later by SV Sandhausen at home.

For MSV, the away trip to Mannheim is on the schedule after the derby, where MSV plays host to SV Waldhof on Sunday, November 5. The schedule continues with three games on Saturdays at 2 p.m.: first against FC Ingolstadt (November 11), then at SV Sandhausen (November 25) and to start December with the home game against VfB Lübeck (December 2).

The match days 13 to 17 at a glance:

Matchday 13 (October 28-30):

SpVgg Unterhaching- SV Waldhof Mannheim (Fri., 7 p.m.).

Arminia Bielefeld- FC Ingolstadt

Borussia Dortmund II – SV Sandhausen

MSV Duisburg – Rot-Weiss Essen

Viktoria Cologne – 1860 Munich

SSV Ulm 1846 – Hallescher FC (all Sat., 2 p.m.)

Jahn Regensburg – SC Preußen Münster (Sat., 4:30 p.m.)

1. FC Saarbrücken – Dynamo Dresden (Sun., 1.30 p.m.)

SC Verl – VfB Lübeck (Sun., 4.30 p.m.)

SC Freiburg II – Erzgebirge Aue (Sun., 7.30 p.m.)

Matchday 14 (Nov. 3-5):

Erzgebirge Aue – SC Verl (Fri., 7 p.m.)

SV Sandhausen – 1. FC Saarbrücken

Dynamo Dresden – SC Freiburg II

VfB Lübeck – SpVgg Unterhaching

Rot-Weiss Essen – Arminia Bielefeld

1860 Munich – Jahn Regensburg (all Sat., 2 p.m.)

FC Ingolstadt – Borussia Dortmund II (Sat., 4:30 p.m.)

SV Waldhof Mannheim – MSV Duisburg (Sun., 1.30 p.m.)

SC Preußen Münster – SSV Ulm 1846 (Sun., 4.30 p.m.)

Hallescher FC – Viktoria Köln (Sun., 7.30 p.m.)

Matchday 15 (Nov. 10-12):

Viktoria Köln – Dynamo Dresden (Fri., 7 p.m.)

1. FC Saarbrücken – 1860 Munich

SC Verl – Hallescher FC

Arminia Bielefeld – SV Sandhausen

MSV Duisburg – FC Ingolstadt

SpVgg Unterhaching – Erzgebirge Aue (all Sat., 2 p.m.)

Borussia Dortmund II – VfB Lübeck (Sat., 4:30 p.m.)

SC Freiburg II – SC Preußen Münster (Sun., 1.30 p.m.)

Rot-Weiss Essen – SV Waldhof Mannheim (Sun., 4.30 p.m.)

Jahn Regensburg – SSV Ulm 1846 (Sun., 7.30 p.m.)

Matchday 16 (Nov. 24-26):

SV Waldhof Mannheim – SC Verl (Fri., 7 p.m.)

Erzgebirge Aue – Borussia Dortmund II

SV Sandhausen – MSV Duisburg

1860 Munich – SpVgg Unterhaching

Hallescher FC – 1. FC Saarbrücken

FC Ingolstadt – Rot-Weiss Essen (all Sat., 2 p.m.)

SSV Ulm 1846 – SC Freiburg II (Sat., 4:30 p.m.)

VfB Lübeck – Arminia Bielefeld (Sun., 1:30 p.m.)

Dynamo Dresden – Jahn Regensburg (Sun., 4.30 p.m.)

SC Preußen Münster – Viktoria Köln (Sun., 7.30 p.m.)

Matchday 17 (Dec. 1-3):

SpVgg Unterhaching – Hallescher FC (Fri., 7 p.m.)

MSV Duisburg – VfB Lübeck

1st FC Saarbrücken – SC Preußen Münster

Rot-Weiss Essen – SV Sandhausen

SV Waldhof Mannheim – FC Ingolstadt

Arminia Bielefeld – Erzgebirge Aue (all Sat., 2 p.m.)

Viktoria Köln – SSV Ulm 1846 (Sat., 4:30 p.m.)

SC Verl – Dynamo Dresden (Sun., 1.30 p.m.)

Jahn Regensburg – SC Freiburg II (Sun., 4.30 p.m.)

Borussia Dortmund II – 1860 Munich (Sun., 7.30 p.m.)