Bundesliga 2025: Dortmund, Frankfurt seal Champions League spots; Freiburg accept Europa League

Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt certified for the Champions League on the final day of the Bundesliga on Saturday, leaving Freiburg to be content material reaching the Europa League.

Dortmund clinched fourth place and the final for Champions League qualification after a 3-0 dwelling win over already-relegated Holstein Kiel, which performed with 10 males after lower than 10 minutes.

It’s a outstanding turnaround beneath coach Niko Kovač, who took over in February when Dortmund was languishing in eleventh place. Dortmund gained its final 5 Bundesliga video games.

Frankfurt stayed third with a 3-1 win in Freiburg, which dropped to fifth because of this, two factors behind Dortmund. Freiburg wanted to win to qualify for the Champions League rather than Frankfurt.

Mainz overcame three disallowed targets and drew with Bayer Leverkusen 2-2 to qualify for the Convention League in sixth place, some extent forward of Leipzig, which missed out on European qualification after shedding at dwelling to Stuttgart 3-2.

Stuttgart subsequent faces Arminia Bielefeld within the German Cup ultimate subsequent weekend.

Bayern Munich, which clinched the title with two rounds to spare, completed the season a 4-0 winner at Hoffenheim in Thomas Müller’s final Bundesliga sport for the membership. It was his 503rd.

Harry Kane changed Müller for the final half hour and arrange Serge Gnabry for Bayern’s third aim earlier than he accomplished the scoring along with his league-leading twenty sixth.

It’s the second consecutive 12 months Kane has completed because the Bundesliga top-scorer.

Whereas Mainz was taking part in for European qualification, Leverkusen was pondering of the longer term within the final sport for the membership for coach Xabi Alonso and a few gamers.

Mainz had two early targets dominated out for offside then one other dominated out by means of VAR earlier than Anthony Caci lastly gave the house crew a deserved lead.

However Leverkusen emerged a special facet after the break. Patrik Schick scored twice to jeopardize Mainz’s European spot.

A Jonathan Burkardt penalty stored Mainz forward of Leipzig, which twice squandered a lead towards Stuttgart.

It was Leverkusen’s thirty fourth away sport with out defeat, a brand new Bundesliga report.

Heidenheim stayed within the relegation playoff place after shedding at dwelling to Werder Bremen 4-1. Frank Schmidt’s crew subsequent faces a two-leg playoff towards the facet that finishes third within the second division to find out which performs within the Bundesliga subsequent season.

Backside membership Bochum, relegated final weekend, signed off with a 2-0 win at St. Pauli for its first victory since beating Bayern 3-2 away in early March.

Wolfsburg gained at Borussia Mönchenglabach 1-0 and Union Berlin gained in Augsburg 2-1.