BFC Dynamo is coming back late
VfB Oldenburg has made it into the 3rd division. After the 2-0 win in the first leg in Berlin, the champions of the Regionalliga Nord were able to afford a 1-2 (1-1) home defeat against the former East German record champions BFC Dynamo in the second playoff game on Saturday. The Lower Saxony are the fourth and last third division promoted after Rot-Weiss Essen, SpVgg Bayreuth and SV Elversberg.
In front of 12,000 spectators in the sold-out Marschweg Stadium, Max Wegner gave Oldenburg the lead in the 34th minute. Niklas Brandt equalized just before the break (44′). In the sixth minute of stoppage time, Philip Schulz scored to make it 1-2. The Berlin top scorer Christian Beck could have made the question of promotion exciting again earlier. But the 34-year-old hit the post in the 56th minute and the crossbar in the 57th minute. In addition, VfB defender Marcel Appiah saved after a Beck header on the goal line (67th).
The game had to be briefly interrupted in the second half because a large police force marched in front of the Berlin fan block. Some of the 1,300 supporters who had traveled with them threw pyrotechnics onto the pitch several times. The BFC had actually gone into these two promotion games as favorites because they had previously left ambitious clubs such as Carl Zeiss Jena, Energie Cottbus and Chemnitzer FC behind in the Regionalliga Nordost.
The Oldenburgs played in the 2nd Bundesliga from 1990 to 1993 and in the 1996/97 season and narrowly missed promotion to the Bundesliga in 1992. After that, however, the Lower Saxony temporarily fell down to the fifth class. Since the club is now returning to professional football after 25 years, there will also be derbies against VfL Osnabrück and SV Meppen again in the coming season.
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