{"id":454689,"date":"2026-05-18T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454689\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:19:08","slug":"bundesliga-tiny-elversberg-promoted-to-become-smallest-town-with-team-in-germanys-top-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454689\/","title":{"rendered":"Bundesliga: Tiny Elversberg promoted to become smallest town with team in Germany’s top flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elversberg will become one of the smallest clubs ever to play in the Bundesliga after securing promotion with a 3-0 win against relegated Preussen Munster.<\/p>\n

Goals from Bambase Conte and David Mokwa put Elversberg in control after 15 minutes on Sunday, before Mokwa scored his second midway through the second half to wrap up a second-place finish.<\/p>\n

With a population of about 13,000 people, Spiesen-Elversberg will be the smallest town to be represented in the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n

Supporters spilled on to the pitch at the 10,000 capacity Waldstadion an der Kaiserlinde at full-time as Elversberg celebrated a remarkable third promotion in the past five years.<\/p>\n

Elversberg went close to promotion last season but were defeated 4-3 on aggregate by Heidenheim in the Bundesliga promotion-relegation play-off.<\/p>\n

Before that match, rail operator Deutsche Bahn, external<\/a> posted \u200ban image \u2060of a train with only one carriage, suggesting that Elversberg would not need a bigger service for the play-off.<\/p>\n

The club, founded in 1907 and based in the small state of Saarland in south-west Germany, were playing in the regionalised fourth tier as recently as 2021-22 and until 2023-24 had never played in the second tier.<\/p>\n

Their stadium is undergoing renovation in order to meet Bundesliga requirements, with capacity expected to increase to 15,000 by spring 2027.<\/p>\n

Elversberg will be joined in the Bundesliga next season by Schalke, who earned the 2. Bundesliga title to return to the top flight after three years away.<\/p>\n

The promotion-relegation play-off will be contested by Wolfsburg and Paderborn, who finished 16th in the top flight and third in the second division respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elversberg will become one of the smallest clubs ever to play in the Bundesliga after securing promotion with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-454689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}