The entertaining 2.Bundesliga season 2019/20 took place on Sunday. The league had a surprise winner in Arminia Bielefeld, a classic breakdown of Hamburger SV in the most important game of the season, and a historic giant in Nuremberg, who was in danger of falling into the German third division.
Here’s a look at how the table is done and what it means:
The implications:
champion: Arminia Bielefeld
Promotion to the Bundesliga: Arminia Bielefeld, Stuttgart
Promotion playoffs: Heidenheim
descent Start of the game: Nuremberg
descent: Contractions Wiesbaden, Dynamo Dresden
2009: relegation from the Bundesliga
2011: relegation to the 3rd division
2013: Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga
2014: relegation to the 3rd league
2015: Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga
2017: On the verge of bankruptcy
2020: Back in the Bundesliga!Arminia Bielefeld are relentless! #DSCFCH pic.twitter.com/pML1EAlErS
– DW Sports (@dw_sports) June 28, 2020
Arminia Bielefeld and Stuttgart return in the Bundesliga. Bielefeld was in the 3rd division at the beginning of this decade, but now they have won the 2nd Bundesliga in a trot. For Stuttgart, the German giants are back in the first division after only one year.
In the funniest round of events, Hamburg will play in the 2nd Bundesliga again next season, even though it is in first or second place over long distances. After returning from the COVID 19 break, HSV took two wins from eight games, which went against the two relegations in Wehen Wiesbaden and Dynamo Dresden. However, let’s set up the scene for what happened on the last day of the season.
After the HSV had dropped to fourth place, he had to beat Sandhausen while Heidenheim lost to Bielefeld so that the HSV got into the promotion playoffs. Heidenheim perfectly created the conditions for this by going out and losing 0-3. In an incredible “boy, this is Hamburg for you!” Turn of events, HSV lost 1-5! It was simply an incredible capitulation for a club trying to find its way back into the Bundesliga.
At the end of the table, Dynamo Dresden and Wehen Wiesbaden were sent to the third division for the next season, where they are now opponents for Bayern Munich II. In more shocking news, Nuremberg faces a possible relegation to the third division for the first time since the 1996/97 season, but they will get the chance to save themselves through the relegation playoffs.
