Third division clubs in a party mood
Two traditional clubs create return to 2nd league
Updated on May 10, 2025 – 4:13 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.

The penultimate matchday of the 3rd league will go to two cult clubs at the great moment that can return to the Bundesliga underground house-a team can even afford a defeat.
Ecstasy at Dynamo Dresden and Arminia Bielefeld: The two traditional clubs made a game day before the end of the season of the 3rd division promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. Both leaders Dynamo and Cup finalist Bielefeld benefited from the 1: 3 defeat of the third in the table Hansa Rostock against Energie Cottbus. Rostock cannot displace Dresden or Bielefeld from the two direct climbs.
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Cottbus pulled past Rostock, is the new third in the table, but like pursuers 1. FC Saarbrücken (2: 4 at Alemannia Aachen) no longer has an opportunity to rise directly.
So Dresden was able to afford a 0-1 defeat at Waldhof Mannheim. In front of 22,796 spectators, Kennedy Okpala met in the 62nd minute after a counterattack for decision. In Mannheim, shortly before the end, the fans of both camps sensed, the game had to be interrupted for ten minutes (read more about this here).
Bielefeld, however, was even able to celebrate the early climb “on the couch” – Arminia only plays at SpVgg Unterhaching on Sunday. The team was on their way to the game. The big crowning glory is now to follow on May 24th: Then Bielefeld will play in the DFB Cup final in the Berlin Olympic Stadium against VfB Stuttgart.
The club is also to be stabilized with the help of the sensational cup season, in which Bielefeld threw, among other things, Doublesieger Bayer Leverkusen. If the Arminia wins against Stuttgart, she also plays for the first time in her club history in the European Cup. The qualification for the Europa League would then be certain.
