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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Sport
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Dramatic late goal saves Heidenheim's Bundesliga status
Heidenheim will play in the Bundesliga again next year after overcoming Elversberg 2-1 with a dramatic stoppage time goal in the German league's most lucrative playoff on Monday. The teams drew 2-2 in Heidenheim last Thursday and Heidenheim secured its place in the top tier with a 4-3 aggregate triumph after Leo Scienza completed a superbly worked goal in the fifth minute of injury time. The playoff, known in Germany as the 'Relegation,' is between the teams that finish third-to-last in the Bundesliga and second in Bundesliga 2. Heidenheim's victory meant the top tier club has won all six playoffs. It ended Elversberg's fairy tale rise for at least one more year and broke the hearts of a capacity crowd at Elversberg's tiny home ground. The club from the Saarland was aiming to become the smallest ever club to play in the Bundesliga based on population size. Elversberg is in Spiesen-Elversberg, a town of around 13,000. It has been in the Bundesliga 2 for only two seasons. ___ AP soccer:
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dramatic late goal saves Heidenheim's Bundesliga status
Heidenheim will play in the Bundesliga again next year after overcoming Elversberg 2-1 with a dramatic stoppage time goal in the German league's most lucrative playoff on Monday. The teams drew 2-2 in Heidenheim last Thursday and Heidenheim secured its place in the top tier with a 4-3 aggregate triumph after Leo Scienza completed a superbly worked goal in the fifth minute of injury time. Advertisement The playoff, known in Germany as the 'Relegation,' is between the teams that finish third-to-last in the Bundesliga and second in Bundesliga 2. Heidenheim's victory meant the top tier club has won all six playoffs. It ended Elversberg's fairy tale rise for at least one more year and broke the hearts of a capacity crowd at Elversberg's tiny home ground. The club from the Saarland was aiming to become the smallest ever club to play in the Bundesliga based on population size. Elversberg is in Spiesen-Elversberg, a town of around 13,000. It has been in the Bundesliga 2 for only two seasons. ___ AP soccer:
Associated Press
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Dramatic late goal saves Heidenheim's Bundesliga status
Heidenheim will play in the Bundesliga again next year after overcoming Elversberg 2-1 with a dramatic stoppage time goal in the German league's most lucrative playoff on Monday. The teams drew 2-2 in Heidenheim last Thursday and Heidenheim secured its place in the top tier with a 4-3 aggregate triumph after Leo Scienza completed a superbly worked goal in the fifth minute of injury time. The playoff, known in Germany as the 'Relegation,' is between the teams that finish third-to-last in the Bundesliga and second in Bundesliga 2. Heidenheim's victory meant the top tier club has won all six playoffs. It ended Elversberg's fairy tale rise for at least one more year and broke the hearts of a capacity crowd at Elversberg's tiny home ground. The club from the Saarland was aiming to become the smallest ever club to play in the Bundesliga based on population size. Elversberg is in Spiesen-Elversberg, a town of around 13,000. It has been in the Bundesliga 2 for only two seasons. ___ AP soccer:
BBC News
21-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
World Football Could the German Bundesliga be about to welcome its smallest ever team?
SV Elversberg, from a small town of around 13,000 people, face Heidenheim in a promotion/relegation play-off. If they win – and most second-tier teams don't – they will welcome Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen and the rest to their stadium with a capacity of 10,000. The club's Sporting Director, Nils Ole-Book, has been telling World Football's Mani Djazmi how they've gone from the fourth tier to the brink of the big time in just three years. Photo: Cornerflag of SV Elversberg in the Ursapharm-Arena Stadium before the Second Bundesliga match between SV 07 Elversberg and SC Preußen Münster at Ursapharm-Arena on March 15, 2025 in Spiesen-Elversberg, Germany. (Credit:)
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
German rail firm jokes over tiny fan train for Bundesliga play-off
Employees sit at the counters in the modernized Deutsche Bahn (DB) travel centre at Hamburg Central Station. The centre reopens after a year of renovations, marked by a small ceremony. Marcus Brandt/dpa German rail firm Deutsche Bahn has joked that a small one carriage train will be enough to transport fans between Elversberg and Heidenheim for the Bundesliga play-off legs. Spiesen-Elversberg has a population of only 13,000 and a stadium holding just 9,000, making it arguably the smallest place ever to play in the men's football Bundesliga if the second-tier club win the play-off. Advertisement In Thursday's first leg, they visit Bundesliga third-bottom side Heidenheim, who have a stadium of just 15,000 and population of 50,000. The second leg at Elversberg is on Monday. A photograph of the tiny fan train was posted by a Deutsche Bahn Instagram account and has received largely positive comments from amused social media users. Clubs from big cities with easy train connections normally meet in the play-off. Saarland's Spiesen-Elversberg does not even have a train station. Deutsche Bahn's journey planner suggests first a local bus and then a complicated train route to reach Heidenheim, which could last six and a half hours and include as much a six changes depending on the timing of the journey. By road the route is under four hours. Heidenheim left a wink as a comment on the post and wrote: "This is just a joke. We advise all fans to go by special bus or car. After all, we actually want to get there for kick-off." Advertisement But defeat for Baden-Württemberg's Heidenheim and relegation to the second tier after two seasons in the top flight will have serious consequences. "In the Bundesliga, our total budget is around 80 million ($90 million), in the second division it would be around half that," chief executive Holger Sanwald told dpa.
