| Competition: | 2. Bundesliga |
| Season: | 1982–83 |
| Winners: | SV Waldhof Mannheim |
| Promoted: | SV Waldhof Mannheim Kickers Offenbach Bayer Uerdingen |
| Relegated: | FC Augsburg SpVgg Fürth FSV Frankfurt TuS Schloß Neuhaus |
| League Topscorer: | Dieter Schatzschneider (31 goals) |
| Matches: | 380 |
| Average Attendance: | 5,110 |
| Prevseason: | 1981–82 |
| Nextseason: | 1983–84 |
The 1982–83 2. Bundesliga season was the ninth season of the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system.
SV Waldhof Mannheim, Bayer Uerdingen and Kickers Offenbach were promoted to the Bundesliga while FC Augsburg, SpVgg Fürth, FSV Frankfurt and TuS Schloß Neuhaus were relegated to the Oberliga.
For the 1982–83 season FSV Frankfurt, FC Augsburg, BV Lüttringhausen and TuS Schloß Neuhaus were newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga from the Oberliga while SV Darmstadt 98 and MSV Duisburg had been relegated to the league from the Bundesliga.
The league's top scorers:[1]
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 1 | Dieter Schatzschneider | Fortuna Köln/Hannover 96 | align=center | 31 |
| 2 | Bodo Mattern | SV Darmstadt 98 | 21 | ||
| Fritz Walter | SV Waldhof Mannheim | ||||
| 4 | Uwe Bein | Kickers Offenbach | 20 | ||
| Klaus Täuber | Stuttgarter Kickers | ||||
| align=center | 6 | Franz Michelberger | Kickers Offenbach | align=center | 19 |
| 7 | Uwe Dreher | Stuttgarter Kickers | 18 | ||
| Wolfgang Schäfer | SG Union Solingen | ||||
| 9 | Wolfgang Metzler | SpVgg Fürth | 17 | ||
| Heinz Traser | KSV Hessen Kassel |