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The Bundesliga playoff battle to conclude the 2023/24 season was one of the most unpredictable stories in recent soccer history. The team finishing 16th in the Bundesliga, Bochum took on the third-place team from that season’s 2. Bundesliga. In this case, that was Fortuna Dusseldorf, a side that last played in the top flight in 2020. The tight affair went down to the wire, and the Bundesliga was capturing every moment along the way.
Relegation Rollercoaster is a new feature the Bundesliga produced to capture the hunt to stay in the Bundesliga. For much of the close of the 2023/24 Bundesliga campaign, fans focused on Bayer Leverkusen. Xabi Alonso’s side put together an undefeated season in Germany to be the first undefeated Bundesliga champion. Yet, the battle at the bottom was as much, if not more, entertainment for fans. That drama from the closing stages of the Bundesliga seasons is not available in a six-part documentary series organized by the DFL. The entire program is available on the Bundesliga website.
Koln, Bochum, Union Berlin, Mainz and Heidenheim hovered around the bottom four. The Bundesliga then covered some of the major moments from the close of their season. For example, Union Berlin went from the UEFA Champions League to a relegation candidate in one season while interchanging coaches. Many of the games among the relegation candidates had significance as to how the final table shaped up.
The series concludes with the aforementioned relegation playoff series between Fortuna Dusseldorf and Bochum. After losing 3-0 at home to Dusseldorf, Bochum needed a miracle to keep its Bundesliga hopes alive. The documentary crew captured how that unfolded in Dusseldorf.
Relegation Rollercoaster features several special guests and moments from Bundesliga
The deeper dive into how those four clubs handled the closing stages of the season will be worth a watch. Union Berlin’s dramatic late goal in the final game of the season kept it…
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Author : Kyle Fansler
Publish date : 2024-07-17 21:10:03
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