🇩🇪 Leipzig in CL, Union make history, Stuttgart survive, pain for Hertha

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Dan Burke 14 May 2022

It was a decisive final day of the 2021/22 Bundesliga season.

Here’s what happened.

RB Leipzig clinch fourth place

Leipzig sealed fourth spot with a draw away at relegated Arminia Bielefeld, with Willi Orbán’s stoppage time equaliser cancelling out Janni Luca Serra’s opener.

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Domenico Tedesco’s side will join Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen in next season’s Champions League.

Europa League for Union Berlin and Freiburg

Union Berlin survived a second half scare to beat Bochum and finish fifth – their highest ever Bundesliga finish.

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That means Urs Fischer’s men will be playing Europa League football next season, along with Freiburg, who finished sixth after a final day defeat at Leverkusen.

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Köln finished seventh and will enter the Europa Conference League.

Stuttgart survive, Hertha to face relegation play-off

Stuttgart have successfully avoided relegation after a dramatic 92nd-minute winner from Wataru Endo saw them overcome Köln and lift the roof off the Mercedes-Benz Arena.

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That result means Hertha BSC will face a relegation play-off after losing away at Dortmund. Ishak Belfodil gave Felix Magath’s side the lead with a first half penalty, but Erling Haaland equalised from the spot on his final BVB appearance before substitute Youssoufa Moukoko netted the winner.