 The winter break was in effect between weekends around 18 December 2010 and 15 January 2011.As in the previous year, the league comprise the teams placed fourth through fifteenth of the 2009–10 season, the worst two teams from the 2009–10 Bundesliga, the best two teams from the 2009–10 3.Liga, the losers of the Bundesliga relegation play-off between the 16th-placed Bundesliga team and the third-placed 2.