{"id":10007,"date":"2026-05-03T20:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/10007\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:33:16","slug":"schalke-wins-germanys-second-division-title-a-day-after-bundesliga-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/10007\/","title":{"rendered":"Schalke wins Germany\u2019s second division title a day after Bundesliga promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELVERSBERG, Germany (AP) \u2014 Schalke became Germany\u2019s second division champion, a day after it clinched promotion back to the Bundesliga<\/a>, thanks to other results in the league on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Paderborn, which had been second, nine points behind Schalke, slumped to a 5-1 loss at Elversberg.<\/p>\n

Elversberg capitalized on third-place Hannover\u2019s dramatic 3-3 draw with last-place Preu\u00dfen M\u00fcnster and moved second, eight points behind Schalke with two rounds remaining.<\/p>\n

It means Schalke is certain to finish top of the division even if it loses its remaining games against Nuremberg and Eintracht Braunschweig.<\/p>\n

Schalke clinched promotion back to the Bundesliga after a three-year absence on Saturday with a 1-0 win at home over Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n

Elversberg is best-placed to join it in the top division. The top two are promoted automatically, while the third-placed team faces a two-leg play off against the team that finishes third from bottom in the Bundesliga to determine which plays in the first division next season.<\/p>\n

With two rounds remaining, Schalke had 67 points, ahead of Elversberg on 59, with Hannover and Paderborn both on 58 points. Hannover had the better goal difference. Fifth-place Darmstadt (51 points) can no longer catch the top four.<\/p>\n

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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELVERSBERG, Germany (AP) \u2014 Schalke became Germany\u2019s second division champion, a day after it clinched promotion back to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[846,5,9247,710,259],"class_list":{"0":"post-10007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bundesliga","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-hannover","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}