Promotion was hardly in doubt for VfB Lübeck for the majority of the season – but the title was. For many weeks, the men from Lübeck were locked in a battle with the Hamburger SV reserves for the Regionalliga Nord championship. However, the Red Shorts had not applied for a licence for the 3. Liga. Despite promotion being set in stone, the final day of the season was a dramatic affair: Lübeck only scored the winning goal that lifted them up to first place in the table in the fourth minute of stoppage time, meaning they celebrated their return to the 3. Liga along with the title.

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1. FC Union Berlin: Rönnow; Trimmel, Knoche, Friedrich, Gießelmann; Möhwald (Prömel 70), Khedira, Haraguchi; Becker (Öztunali 77), Behrens (Awoniyi 70), Voglsammer (Puchacz 77)

The Netherlands international has been used as a makeshift number ten of late. This has worked against Barcelona as Man Utd advanced in the Europa League.

“For me, Borussia Dortmund is passion, tradition and the best atmosphere you can have in a football stadium,” says Moritz – and he has immortalised the BVB fans on his jersey design. The soundtrack of “Auf geht’s Dortmund, kämpfen und siegen” (Let’s go Dortmund, fight and win) made it onto his jersey, because the fans’ chants are what make a stadium visit. Find out why Moritz also had to sing himself in the video.

Nikola Soldo said: “After pre-season, it was clear that I wouldn’t get the game time that I need to develop as a young player in order to make the next step in professional football. At FCK, I will give my all and work hard to play and support the club and their goal of establishing themselves in the 2. Bundesliga.”

According to one report, Bayern Munich has already made the decision to move on from Manchester Joao Cancelo after this season.

TSG keeper Oliver Baumann, who has been the TSG Hoffenheim captain since Benjamin Hübner hung up his boots in December 2022, will continue to fulfil the role. This was decided by head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo at the end of pre-season and communicated to the squad. Baumann’s deputies are Andrej Kramarić and Grischa Prömel, who is therefore a new vice-captain. In addition to the three team captains, John Anthony Brooks, Florian Grillitsch and Pavel Kadeřábek were voted onto the six-man Team Council by the entire squad.

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“This behaviour is shameful and we won’t tolerate it. We apologise to those affected. Anti-Semitism is unfortunately still present in our society, which is why it also shows itself in the stadium. However, we will never tolerate discrimination in our ranks. It is important to remain vigilant and to work tirelessly against it. We support the investigations of the police with all sources of information available to us,” said 1. FC Union Berlin’s president Dirk Zingler.