The 2011–12 season of Hertha BSC began on 31 July 2011 with a DFB-Pokal match against ZFC Meuselwitz, and ended on 15 May 2012 with the second leg of the Bundesliga relegation play-offs.

For the first time since 2006–07, Hertha made it past the 2nd round of the DFB-Pokal, making it as far as the quarterfinals before losing to Borussia Mönchengladbach.

On 18 December, Hertha BSC fired head coach Markus Babbel after a disagreement with Michael Preetz.

[4] Fortuna Düsseldorf won a spot in the promotion/relegation playoff against first division side Hertha BSC.

[11][12] Campino, singer for Die Toten Hosen, called Hertha BSC's protest "indecent".

[14] The players being investigated are Levan Kobiashvili, Christian Lell, Thomas Kraft and Andre Mijatović.

[14] 2nd leg referee Wolfgang Stark was a key witness at the first hearing at the German Football Association.

[14] Sports law expert Michael Lehner said that Hertha BSC can hope for replay after the second leg of the promotion/relegation playoff.

[16][17][18] The sports German Football Association court president Hans Eberhard Lorenz stated, "The appeal was unsuccessful, because no ground of opposition was to prove the referee has traded at any time conform to the rules, and the alleged Hertha BSC-sided weakness due to the interruption could not be proven.." He also stated that "There was no Berlin players injured or assaulted or were needed to be replaced.

[21] Another incident reported by Die Welt the next day was that Hertha BSC players attacked second leg referee Wolfgang Stark.

Dates and times of these matches were determined by the Deutsche Fußball-Liga as following:[26] Note: Results are given with Hertha BSC score listed first.