After Darmstadt 98, 1. FC Cologne is the second team to be relegated from the Bundesliga. The traditional club lost 1:4 (0:3) at 1. FC Heidenheim on the last matchday and ended the season in 17th place. With a home win against SC Freiburg, Union Berlin overtook VfL Bochum, which was defeated after a 1:4 defeat (0:1) against Werder Bremen slipped to relegation place 16. In the relegation they meet Fortuna Düsseldorf, third in the second division.
There was also something happening in the top half of the table on the last matchday. FC Bayern lost 2:4 (2:1) against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and thus lost second place to the surprise team of the season, VfB Stuttgart, which ended the season with a 4:0 (2:0) against Borussia Mönchengladbach finished.
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Leverkusen became the first team to go undefeated
The new champions Leverkusen became the first team to end a Bundesliga season without a single defeat with a 2-1 win against Augsburg. However, with 90 points, Bayer missed FC Bayern Munich’s historic points record from the 2012/13 season by one point.
Bayer, whose first championship title has been secured since April 14th, is now unbeaten in a total of 51 competitive games. There are still two games left in the current season: On Wednesday, Leverkusen will face Atalanta Bergamo in the finals of the Europa League. In the DFB Cup they will play against second division team 1. FC Kaiserslautern next Saturday.
A treble is still possible for Leverkusen in the current season. But even so, it is a special season for everyone at Leverkusen: apart from Josip Stanišić as a supplementary player with FC Bayern, no current Bayer player has ever been a German champion. After the final whistle, captain Lukáš Hrádecký accepted the championship trophy from DFL managing director Marc Lenz.
Cologne residents say goodbye to fans at a safe distance
After the defeat, the 1. FC Köln players said goodbye to their own fans from a distance of a good 20 meters and protected by security forces. “I’ve experienced so much with FC, I’ve been here for five and a half years. We’ve always managed it somehow,” says captain Florian Kainz. “Not this season, that’s very disappointing.” The fans were also disappointed, they sang: “We are from Cologne and you are not.” It is the seventh relegation in 1. FC club history.
The opposite picture emerged in Stuttgart. It was an “indescribable football festival,” said coach Sebastian Hoeneß, who was splashed with champagne by his players. The 73 points that Stuttgart scored this season were “something very, very special”. The number represents a record for VfB: the club has never collected so many points in a Bundesliga season before. After the game, striker Jamie Leweling stood at the DJ desk and the Champions League anthem played from the stadium loudspeakers.
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After Darmstadt 98, 1. FC Cologne is the second team to be relegated from the Bundesliga. The traditional club lost 1:4 (0:3) at 1. FC Heidenheim on the last matchday and ended the season in 17th place. With a home win against SC Freiburg, Union Berlin overtook VfL Bochum, which was defeated after a 1:4 defeat (0:1) against Werder Bremen slipped to relegation place 16. In the relegation they meet Fortuna Düsseldorf, third in the second division.
There was also something happening in the top half of the table on the last matchday. FC Bayern lost 2:4 (2:1) against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and thus lost second place to the surprise team of the season, VfB Stuttgart, which ended the season with a 4:0 (2:0) against Borussia Mönchengladbach finished.
