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FV Ettlingenweier II. FV Graben. Bundesliga, 9. SV Sandhausen. Union Berlin were promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in their history on Monday after beating Stuttgart in a promotion-relegation play-off Union Berlin defender Marvin Friedrich went from zero to hero and kept his side dreaming of promotion to Germany's top flight as they fought to a draw at Stuttgart in the first leg of the Bundesliga relegation play-off Robin Knoche crushed Holstein Kiel's dreams of promotion on Monday, as his header fired Wolfsburg to a win in the second leg of the relegation play-off, securing Bundesliga survival Divock Origi scored and set up a goal to help Wolfsburg seal a win over battling minnows Holstein Kiel in the Bundesliga relegation play-off, first-leg on Thursday VfL Wolfsburg were left red-faced before Thursday's Bundesliga relegation play-off, first-leg, at home to Holstein Kiel after their striker Divock Origi admitted never having heard of the second division minnows VfL Wolfsburg guaranteed their Bundesliga survival on Monday as Euro winner Vieirinha scored to secure a win away at Eintracht Braunschweig that sealed a aggregate victory in their relegation play-off Sportblog Refereeing howlers help Bayern's pursuit of Wolves.

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Published: 11 May Helmes and Kiessling keep Leverkusen's European hopes alive. It was as Phönix Karlsruhe that the club joined the Gauliga Baden , one of 16 top-flight divisions created in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich.

They slipped from the first division for a single season in , but returned to compete as a mediocre side over the next several years.

After World War II in , Phönix re-emerged to compete in the newly formed first division Oberliga Süd, finishing 15th in their first season there.

The club was relegated the following season. The group of clubs which came together to form VfB Mühlburg were an undistinguished lot, sharing just one season of upper-league play between them.

The new side, however, started to compete in the first-division Gauliga Baden immediately after the league was established in A lower-table side through the s, VfB's performance improved considerably in the following decade.

As war overtook the country, the Gauliga Baden was sub-divided at various times into a number of more local city-based circuits and the team was able to earn three-second-place finishes in divisional play.

The Gauliga Baden collapsed in —45 after playing a significantly reduced schedule in which many teams, including Mühlburg were unable to compete.

After the war the club slipped from top-flight competition until earning promotion to the Oberliga Süd in They generally competed as a mid-table side here with the exception of a strong performance in when they narrowly missed an advance to the national championship rounds after earning a third-place result just a single point behind SpVgg Fürth.

That season, they also made an appearance in the national final, where they lost 2—4 to Borussia Dortmund.

Their record earned them admission as one of sixteen founding clubs into Germany's new professional football league, the Bundesliga , when it began play in Karlsruhe struggled in the top flight, never managing better than a 13th-place finish over five seasons before finally being demoted to the second-division Regionalliga Süd.

Over the next three seasons, the team earned a first-place finish as well as two-second-place finishes there, but were unable to advance in the promotion rounds.

After the formation of the 2. Bundesliga , which consisted of two divisions at the time, KSC finished first in the 2. Bundesliga Süd and returned to the top flight for the —76 season, but were able to stay up for only two years.

They next returned to the first division in where they spent four seasons before being sent down again.

After a two-year absence they fought their way back to the Bundesliga in to begin an extended stay. Under the guidance of new coach Winfried Schäfer , KSC's return to the top flight was marked with some success as for the first time the team managed to work its way out of the bottom half of the league table.

Their stunning 7—0 second-round victory over Valencia, a top team in the Spanish La Liga at the time and in historical terms as well, might be considered the high point of the club's history in its centennial year.

Edgar "Euro Eddy" Schmitt scored 4 goals and became a club legend. They also played in the final of the DFB-Pokal in , but lost 0—1 to 1.

FC Kaiserslautern. As the millennium drew to a close, Karlsruhe faded. The club started the —98 Bundesliga season well, with two wins and a draw in their opening three matches, but their downfall began with a 1—6 defeat to Bayer Leverkusen on Day 4.

At the league winter break the club sat outside the relegation ranks, but a series of negative results pushed them down to 15th place until the second-last matchday of the season.

Schäfer was fired in March , but this did not keep the club from slipping to the Second Bundesliga after a 16th-place finish. The club needed an away draw against Hansa Rostock on the final day of the season to avoid relegation, but lost the match 2—4 while Borussia Mönchengladbach beat VfL Wolfsburg 2—0 to overtake KSC and finish 15th on goal difference.

KSC finished fifth in their first season in the 2. Bundesliga after relegation, only two points behind third-place SSV Ulm which was promoted to the Bundesliga.

However, a last place finish in a terrible — season played under dire financial circumstances dropped them down to the Regionalliga Süd III.

The club rebounded and on the strength of a first-place result in the Regionalliga made a prompt return to second division play. After four seasons of mediocre play that saw KSC narrowly avoid being sent further down, the team turned in a much-improved performance and earned a sixth-place result in — KSC secured the 2.