German football club Kaiserslautern could be playing in the Europa League and in the domestic third division at the same time next season. This extraordinary scenario is possible because the club reached the German Cup final on May 25 in Berlin with a 2-0 victory at third-tier Saarbrücken on Tuesday night. The Cup winner gets direct entry into the Europa League, but at the same time Kaiserslautern are in third-last place in the second division. It means that Kaiserslautern could be relegated by
Second division Kaiserslautern ended the fairytale run of third tier Saarbrücken in the German Cup with a 2-0 semi-final victory on Tuesday to reach the final for the first time in 21 years. Almamy Touré set up Marlon Ritter to head the opening goal in the 53rd minute, and then clinched matters himself with a 75th-minute header for visiting twice Cup winners Kaiserslautern. The defeat ended Saarbrücken's remarkable campaign during which they had upset a Bundesliga trio of record Cup winners Baye
Andreas Brehme – whose penalty kick in the 1990 World Cup final led West Germany to victory – has died aged 63, his former team Bayern Munich announced on Tuesday.
Second-division club Magdeburg have condemned racist online abuse of their player Luc Castaignos after a league match on Friday and to threatened legal against the offender. "Magdeburg condemns these insults in the strongest possible terms and distances itself from the person who wrote these despicable sentences," the club said. "Luc, we stand firmly by your side, the entire Magdeburg club lives diversity and tolerance." Castaignos failed to convert a penalty in the game against Holstein Kiel wh
Hertha Berlin's dream of reaching the German Cup final in their Olympic Stadium home venue for the first time ended extactly there in a 3-1 quarter-final exit against second tier rivals Kaiserslautern on Wednesday. Jan Elvedi's in the sixth minute, Richmond Tachie in the 38th, and Filip Kaloc in the 69th were on target for the clinical visitors, with the third ending Hertha's comeback efforts earlier in the second half. Fabian Reese got a stoppage time consolation goal while not to blame for the