Status: 20.05.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Fortuna Düsseldorf is one of the few second division teams that made it through relegation to the Bundesliga. Will it work again after 2012? VfL Bochum will be the touchstone. The trend is different in the second division relegation. So Jahn Regensburg can hope.
The final decisions about future league membership will be made in the two elimination duels between the Bundesliga sixteenth and the second division third and the second division sixteenth and the third division third.
From the Bundesliga, VfL Bochum has to play in the two games against Fortuna Düsseldorf, third in the second division. The first game will take place on May 23rd in Bochum’s Ruhr Stadium. The second leg in the Düsseldorf European Championship Stadium is scheduled for May 27th. The relegation for the 2nd league is contested by SV Wehen Wiesbaden and Jahn Regensburg. Second division team Wiesbaden initially has home advantage on May 24th and has to play in Regensburg on May 28th. Kick-off for all games is 8:30 p.m.
Which channels broadcast the games?
All games will be shown on free TV on Sat.1. The “ran Fußball” team with presenter Matthias Opdenhövel, commentator Wolff-Christoph Fuss, reporter Andrea Kaiser and reporter Markus Herwig as well as European champion Stefan Kuntz as an expert will report from the stadiums.
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The pay TV channel Sky will also broadcast the four games live. You can also follow the duels live in the WELT sports ticker. Click here to go to the Bundesliga relegation ticker. And here you can find the ticker for the second division relegation. Immediately after the end of the game, videos with the highlights of each game will be available on WELT.
Which mode is played?
As in the European Cup, away goals no longer count twice if the score is tied and there is no third playoff – as there used to be. If there is a tie on points and goals, the game goes into extra time and then a penalty shootout.
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Who has prevailed more often?
In 25 decisive duels between the first and second division teams so far – ten of which took place between 1982 and 1991 – the second division teams have only been able to prevail six times, and only twice in the past twelve years: Union Berlin in 2019 (against VfB Stuttgart) and Fortuna in 2012 Düsseldorf (against Hertha BSC). The trend in the games between second and third division teams is completely different: in 15 duels so far, the lower-class teams from the 3rd division have prevailed eleven times.
