{"id":13122,"date":"2026-05-13T07:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/13122\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:26:57","slug":"bundesliga-leipzig-mathematically-secure-champions-league-spot-relegation-battle-to-be-decided-at-the-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/13122\/","title":{"rendered":"Bundesliga: Leipzig mathematically secure Champions League spot, relegation battle to be decided at the last minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gt-block\">Leipzig (Germany) 11 May 2026 &#8211; Penultimate round of Bundesliga in the archives, the official announcement has arrived on the third team to qualify for the Champions League for Germany. It will be theRB Leipzig to flank Bayern e Borussia in the next Champions League season, while the fate of Hoffenheim e Stuttgart will be decided on the last day of the championship. Historic success for theUnion Berlin, the first for a woman in the coaching role in one of the top five leagues. It will be a splendid sprint to avoid relegation, with the bottom three tied on points and only one place in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of the weekend&#8217;s matches <\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Penultimate weekend of football in Germany as far as the Bundesliga: a super exciting championship where there are still several verdicts to be made official. Among these, however, there is no longer the fate of Leipzig to be decided. The Red Bulls beat 2-1 St. Pauli and in this way they snatch the arithmetic certainty of qualification for the next Champions League, joining Bayern e BorussiaHowever, the fight for fourth place remains fierce. Stuttgart wins the match against the 3-1 comeback Leverkusen and returns to fourth place, right in front of the aspirins. On equal points with the Swabians is theHoffenheim in turn winning 1-0 in the match against Werder BremenThe final round, the thirty-fourth, will decide who will be the fourth German team in the Champions League next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">But it&#8217;s not just the Europe that counts, there are also important points to be had in the fight for seventh place, the one that is worth the Conference League. The Freiburg maintains the position, but fails to secure the pass to the continental competition. After reaching the final of Europa League, the black and white hawks fall 3-2 at home toHamburg, but in the same way, with the same result, Frankfurt is also defeated in its away match against Dortmund. Instead, the winner isaugsburg 3-1 against Borussia Monchengladbach and reaches the same number of points as theEintracht and -1 from FreiburgThree-way sprint for seventh place, with three long-distance matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">The fight to avoid relegation will also be a tough one to experience on the final day. In fact, if the Wolfsburg for 0-1 his challenge against the Bayern Munich on the day of the transition to the new logo, also the St. Pauli loses against the Leipzig. Instead, the winner isHeidenheim, a surprising 1-3 at home to Colonia, which increasingly fuels the rossobl\u00f9&#8217;s hopes of survival. This is because at the moment the teams in the last three positions are tied at 26 points, with only goal difference deciding who is virtually not yet relegated, but registered for the play-off. At the moment that place is occupied by Wolfsburg, but on the last day there will be a direct clash against the St. Pauli to decide the fate of both in a challenge to Hamburg. All this while theHeidenheim will host the Mainz within friendly walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">To complete this thirty-third round of Bundesliga the historic success of theUnion BerlinThe Giallorossi&#8217;s 1-3 victory on the pitch of Mainz it is in fact the first victory since Marie-Louise Eta sits on the Berlin bench, thus becoming the first female coach to have won a match as a coach in one of the top five leagues. A huge gender barrier has fallen in German football, broken down by the girl born in Dresden wearing the yellow and red tracksuit of theUnion Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Bundesliga matchday 33 results <\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Borussia Dortmund-Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2: 2&#8242; Uzun (F), 42&#8242; Guirassy (B), 45+1&#8242; Schlotterbeck (B), 72&#8242; Inacio (B), 87&#8242; Burkardt (F).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Augsburg-Borussia Monchengladbach 3-1: 24&#8242; Gregoritsch (A), 42&#8242; Fellhauer (A), 72&#8242; Gregoritsch (A), 90+2&#8242; Reyna (B).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Hoffenheim-Werder Bremen 1-0: 26&#8242; Tour\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">RB Leipzig-St. Pauli 2-1: 45&#8242; Schlager (R), 54&#8242; Orban (R), 86&#8242; Ceesay (S).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Stuttgart-Bayer Leverkusen 3-1: 1&#8242; Garcia (B), 5&#8242; Demirovic (S), 45+7&#8242; pen. Mittlestadt (S), 58&#8242; Undav (S).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Wolfsburg-Bayern Munich 0-1: 56&#8242; Olise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Hamburg-Freiburg 3-2: 14&#8242; Jatta (A), 16&#8242; Matanovic (F), 64&#8242; Vuskovic (A), 67&#8242; Balde (A), 87&#8242; Matanovic (F).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Cologne-Heidenheim 1-3: 8&#8242; Schopper (H), 10&#8242; Bulter (C), 28&#8242; Ibrahimovic (H), 72&#8242; Schoppner (H).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Mainz-Union Berlin 1-3: 38&#8242; Ilic (U), 48&#8242; Becker (M), 88&#8242; Burke (U), 90+1&#8242; Juranovic (U).<\/p>\n<p>Bundesliga table matchday 33 <\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich 86, B. Dortmund 70, RB Leipzig 65, Stuttgart 61, Hoffenheim 61, Bayer Leverkusen 58, Freiburg 44, E. Frankfurt 43, Augsburg 43, Mainz 37, Hamburg 37, Union Berlin 36, Borussia Mon. 35, Cologne 32, Werder Bremen 32, Wolfsburg 26, Heidenheim 26, St. Pauli 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leipzig (Germany) 11 May 2026 &#8211; Penultimate round of Bundesliga in the archives, the official announcement has arrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14773,18,846,3226,14776,5582,9427,14775,14774],"class_list":{"0":"post-13122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-arithmetically","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-bundesliga","11":"tag-champions-league","12":"tag-decides","13":"tag-last","14":"tag-leipzig","15":"tag-salvation","16":"tag-sprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122","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=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}