The SV Darmstadt 98 U21 team faces its final home game of the season in the LOTTO Hessenliga on Saturday (May 31st, 3pm). A hopefully exciting clash awaits the young Lilies against fourth-placed Türk Gücü Friedberg. A win could give the U21 team hope for a spot in the promotion round for the Regionalliga.
We want to mobilise all our strength in the last game to finish the season with a successful performance.
SV Darmstadt 98’s U21 team can still hope to qualify for the promotion round to the Regionalliga in their first Hessenliga season. After a decisive 6-0 home victory against TSV Steinbach Haiger, the U21 team will host fourth-placed Türk Gücü Friedberg next Saturday. If the young Lilies still want to advance to the promotion round, they’ll have to do their homework and win this match. And also hope for a slip-up from their opponents.
| Position | Team | Games | Goal Difference | Points |
| 1. | FSV Fernwald | 35 | +40 | 67 |
| 2. | FC Bayern Alzenau | 35 | +36 | 64 |
| 3. | RW Walldorf | 35 | +28 | 64 |
| 4. | Türk Gücü Friedberg | 35 | +28 | 62 |
| 5. | Eintracht Stadtallendorf | 35 | +18 | 60 |
| 6. | U21 | 35 | +32 | 59 |
| … |
This is how the Hessenliga table looks with one matchday left in the season. But why can the Junglilien still hope for the promotion round despite finishing sixth? This is because FSV Fernwald would forego promotion, and RW Walldorf and Eintracht Stadtallendorf have not applied for a Regionalliga license. However, the Darmstadt team would have to finish at least fourth in the final standings, as the regulations stipulate that promotion is no longer possible from fifth place onwards.
A home win against fourth-placed Türk Gücü Friedberg would see the U21s overtake Friedberg thanks to their better goal difference. At the same time, fifth-placed Eintracht Stadtallendorf cannot win away at FC Eddersheim. Only then would SVD be in fourth place in the table and thus in the promotion round. A lot of subjunctive. Therefore, the SV 98 U21s must first do their homework against Friedberg.
sv98.de wishes the U21 team good luck next Saturday!
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A second-division team on the Berlin Mount Olympus: Hannover 96 achieved something unique in 1992. On May 23, the Lower Saxony club defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach in the DFB Cup final, securing another major title in the club's history 38 years after their German championship win in 1954. Hannover became the first and, to this day, only "true" second-division team to win the DFB Cup, causing one of the biggest upsets in the competition's history.
