St. Pauli gained access to the Bundesliga this Sunday (12), after 13 years in the second division of German football. The club from a popular neighborhood in Hamburg will join Holstein Kiel in the elite next season.
Thanks to a 3-1 home victory over bottom club Osnabruck, coach Fabian Hurzeler’s team, just 31 years old, regained the lead in the Second Division. As a result, they surpassed Kiel, another club from northern Germany, in the Championship standings.
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— FC St. Pauli (@fcstpauli) May 12, 2024
With 66 points, St. Pauli will finish the season ahead of Fortuna Dusseldorf. Third in the table, Fortuna will compete in the access playoff against the 16th placed team in the Bundesliga on the 23rd and 27th of May.
The 2024/2025 season will be St. Pauli’s ninth in the German football elite, the first since the team’s last relegation in 2011.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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