Bundesliga play-off rules

Rules of Bundesliga play-offs: After the end of each Bundesliga season, the top two teams can directly get the promotion places according to the points, and the third team will play the play-offs with the last team in Bundesliga to decide the final promotion and demotion places.

This season, the third place in the Bundesliga participated in the Bundesliga upgrade play-offs. They played two rounds of home and away play-offs with the third lowest score in the Bundesliga, and finally got a first-class place. The Bundesliga 16 team will be relegated to the Bundesliga if it loses, and the Bundesliga 16 team will reserve the quota if it wins.

In the Bundesliga upgrade play-offs, the arrangement of home and away games is very important. In order to ensure the fairness of the game, the game generally adopts the way of alternating home and away games.

That is, the first game is played by the team with lower ranking as the home team, and the second game is played by the team with higher ranking as the home team. If the two teams rank equally, the first game will be decided by drawing lots, and the second game will be decided by the other team.

History of Bundesliga events:

The German Football League B is the second league in the German Football League system, second only to the German Football League A. All teams participating in the Bundesliga season can be automatically selected for the annual German Cup.

1974, the German Football Association launched the second-level football league. At that time, there were 40 clubs, which were divided into two leagues, the North League and the South League. The winner was upgraded to the German Football League. 198 1, two leagues merged into one league, and the number of clubs was reduced to 20.

199 1 During the season of 1992, due to the GDR club's participation, German B became two groups, each group 12 team. 1992-93 season, the Bundesliga was reduced to 24 teams. In the 1994-95 season, the Bundesliga was reduced to 18, and it has been preserved to this day.