🇩🇪 Title race, promotion, relegation: final 2.BuLi round preview | OneFootball

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After the last round of the Bundesliga, it's time for the truth in the Second Division of German football!

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There is still no total definition about champion, access, and relegation, so stay tuned as we tell you everything about the 2. Bundesliga! 👇

Who takes the trophy? 🏆

Hamburg secured direct access with a thrashing, 6-1, over Ulm, in #33.

In this last round, the club visits Greuther Fürth and can confirm the title if they achieve a result equal to or better than Cologne's, who faces Kaiserslautern at home.

Cologne will be champion – and also secure access – if they win, and HSV stumbles.

If they draw, Hamburg would have to lose by 25 goals to leave the leadership of the 2.BuLi.

Beyond HSV, who goes up directly? 🤔

Cologne, Elversberg, and Paderborn still dream of direct access to the Bundesliga 25/26, alongside Hamburg.

Cologne goes up directly if they draw or win against Kaiserslautern, or Elversberg and Paderborn don't win their games against Schalke and Karlsruhe, respectively.

Elversberg, in turn, can surpass Cologne and conquer direct access in two scenarios:

For Paderborn, the situation is a bit more complicated to surpass Elversberg and Cologne and achieve direct access.

There are two scenarios, with the second depending on an incredible victory to overcome the goal difference.

Who goes to the playoff?

Five clubs can still finish in third place to dispute the playoff against Heidenheim, who finished the Bundesliga in 16th – OneFootball broadcasts the two games of the relegation playoff!

Cologne finishes in third if they lose to Kaiserslautern and Elversberg or Paderborn win — both have a better balance.

Cologne finishes in 4th if they lose, and both Elversberg and Paderborn win.

Elversberg guarantees at least 3rd place if:

Paderborn can finish in third place in three scenarios, two of them winning their match, and one, even drawing:

Fortuna Düsseldorf, in turn, can finish in third place if:

Jahn Regensburg and Ulm are already relegated to the 3. Liga, with Dynamo Dresden and Arminia Bielefeld, who played in the Bundesliga in recent years, guaranteed in the 2025/26 season of the 2. Bundesliga.

Energie Cottbus (62 points, balance +13), Saarbrücken (62 pts, balance +11), and Hansa Rostock (60 pts, balance +9) dispute the place in the playoff in the last round.

The article was written based on information from the official 2. Bundesliga website

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