DSC Arminia Bielefeld has gained promotion to the 2nd Division Bundesliga with a 1-0 win against rivals VfL Osnabrück in a German 3rd Division match at the SchücoArena on Saturday.

The club from the Westphalia region was ranked 2nd in the league table with 73 points to their tally ahead of the match today, while the visitors from Osnabrück were just behind them on the 3rd spot with 70 points. Coach Stefan Krämer and his team knew that a win would seal their dream to return to the 2nd Division with just one match left after the derby today.

And Bielefeld did no mistake in front of a full capacity crowd of 26,500 fans at their very own SchücoArena. Bielefeld dominated the match from the word “go”. But neither the hosts nor the visitors were able to open the score sheet in the first half.

It needed an excellent counter-attack to break the deadlock, when Sebastian Hille put a perfect header past keeper Manuel Riemann to give Arminia the lead in the 56th minute. Bielefeld, riding high on the lead and the fantastic support by their fans, continued to put pressure on Osnabrück.

But Bielefeld had to settle for a 1-0 win which was more than enough to hand them a promotion to the 2nd Divison Bundesliga.

The celebrations kicked-off right after the final whistle with players, officials and fans giving vent to their feelings. The former 1st Division Bundesliga side had to experience major financial crunch in the last few years which brought them to the verge of bankruptcy. But a new administration and proper planning helped the club to restructure and to gain the best results with their limited ressources.

The team and the city celebrating the promotion at the moment in the city center at an official function in front of the city hall.

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German 3rd Division | Matchday 37
at the SchücoArena, Bielefeld

DSC ARMINIA BIELEFELD 1-0 VFL OSNABRÜCK

GOALS
1-0 Sebastian Hille (56′)

LINE-UPS

DSC Arminia Bielefeld
1 Patrick Platins; 37 Christian Müller, 14 Michael Hornig (6′ 4 Marcel Appiah), 5 Thomas Hübener, 7 Marc Lorenz; 6 Tom Schütz [C], 16 Philipp Riese; 30 Sebastian Hille (65′ 31 Sebastian Glasner), 21 Patrick Schönfeld, 13 Johannes Rahn; 10 Pascal Testroet (74′ 8 Tim Jerat)

Unused Subs
24 Stefan Ortega Moreno; 2 Jonas Strifler, 18 Christopher Kullmann, 19 Felix Burmeister

VfL Osnabrück
1 Manuel Riemann [C]; 19 Nils Fischer, 5 David Pisot, 14 Timo Beermann, 6 Alexander Krük; 4 Claus Costa (58′ 13 Emil-Gabriel Jula), 8 Timo Staffeldt;  9 Marcus Piossek, 22 Yannic Thiel (58′ 32 Daniel Nagy), 7 Gaetano Manno (71′ 29 Sebastian Neumann); 11 Simon Zoller

Unused Subs
24 Marcus Rickert; 10 Andreas Glockner, 18 Adriano Grimaldi, 21 Paul Thomik

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee
Wolfgang Stark

Assistant Referees
Thomas Färber, Florian Kornblum

BOOKINGS

Yellow Cards
41′ Patrick Platins (DSC Arminia Bielefeld)
41′ Claus Costa (VfL Osnabrück)
49′ Marcel Appiah (DSC Arminia Bielefeld)
71 Pascal Testroet (DSC Arminia Bielefeld)
78′ Daniel Nagy (VfL Osnabrück)

Yellow-Red Cards
none

Red Cards
none

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