{"id":14315,"date":"2025-05-11T05:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/hamburg-promotion-ends-seven-year-bundesliga-absence-for-german-side\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T05:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T05:11:38","slug":"hamburg-promotion-ends-seven-year-bundesliga-absence-for-german-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/hamburg-promotion-ends-seven-year-bundesliga-absence-for-german-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg: Promotion ends seven-year Bundesliga absence for German side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hamburg have earned promotion back to the Bundesliga to end a seven-year absence from the German top flight.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Needing a win to confirm their return, the six-time German champions thrashed Ulm 6-1 at home on Saturday and fans engulfed the pitch at the Volksparkstadion at the final whistle to celebrate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamburg, who are one of only three German clubs to win the European Cup, were relegated from the Bundesliga for the first time in 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s indescribable,&#8221; said 34-year-old coach Merlin Polzin, whose side are a point clear of second-placed Cologne at the top of Bundesliga 2 with one game left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Something had been building in the background. We&#8217;re back. In the end, it&#8217;s the result of incredibly hard work. A very special moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/czj491ynv1eo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg have earned promotion back to the Bundesliga to end a seven-year absence from the German top flight. Needing a win to confirm their return, the six-time German champions thrashed Ulm 6-1 at home on Saturday and fans engulfed the pitch at the Volksparkstadion at the final whistle to celebrate. Hamburg, who are one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14317,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions\/14317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}