Two dramatic three-way showdowns will dominate the final day Bundesliga Stuttgart leads the race on Saturday champions league Having qualified, former champions Wolfsburg will be fighting to avoid historic relegation.
The top three spots after Bayern Munich have already been decided. sealed the title Last month, Borussia Dortmund again took second place, with Leipzig third.
major matches
Stuttgart are currently the fourth team to qualify for the Champions League. Hoffenheim and Bayer Leverkusen want it.
Stuttgart’s final match will be a tough match against Eintracht Frankfurt. A win there will almost certainly secure 4th place. If Stuttgart drop points, Hoffenheim could get a better result against Borussia Mönchengladbach to take fourth place and return to the Champions League for the first time since the 2017-18 season.
Leverkusen needs to win against Hamburger SV and hope Stuttgart and Hoffenheim lose.
Wolfsburg, the 2008-09 Bundesliga champions, have not been out of the top flight since 1997. They are one of the bottom three teams tied for points and are chasing a shot at survival.
St. Pauli and Heidenheim teams in 17th and 18th place will be automatically relegated. Wolfsburg, currently in 16th place, will face a promotion/relegation play-off against second-division teams.
Wolfsburg visit St. Pauli on Saturday, and a loss for either team will see them relegated. Heidenheim could leapfrog both teams if they win against Mainz at home.
The second division will enter its final day on Sunday with promotion on the line. Schalke are already back in the Bundesliga as champions, while Elversberg, Hannover and Paderborn are tied on points and chasing second place.
Elversberg, who hail from a small town near the French border, have a goal difference advantage and should be able to get away with a win against relegated Prussia Munster.
Featured players
If Stuttgart qualify for the Champions League, it will be thanks to Deniz Undav, who has scored 19 goals in the Bundesliga this season, second only to Harry Kane.
Hoffenheim’s progress into the Champions League depended on the combination of Andrej Kramaric, who has appeared in more than 300 games for the club, and young forward Fisnik Aslani.
England captain Kane’s shot to break Robert Lewandowski’s single-season Bundesliga scoring record may have disappeared with Bayern choosing to focus on Lewandowski’s fitness ahead of the Champions League, but he can still finish games in style.
Kane has scored 33 goals in the Bundesliga for Bayern and 55 in all competitions heading into Saturday’s game against Cologne.
who is out
Bayern’s Canadian left-back Alphonso Davies hamstring injury One month left until the World Cup. His clubmate Serge Gnabry said: excluded myself This happened when he played for Germany in a tournament after tearing his thigh muscle.
off the field
It’s the last game for the coach. Marie-Louise EtaShe has been appointed as Union Berlin’s interim manager, becoming the first woman to become a head coach in one of Europe’s five major men’s leagues. she won her first victory last week.
Saturday’s match against Augsburg will be the last of Eta’s five matches in charge. She will take over the Union women’s team next season.
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