St. Pauli tie Tasmania Berlin’s Bundesliga home goalless record | OneFootball

A 0-2 home loss to Bochum on the 2024/25 Bundesliga’s final matchday didn’t trouble St. Pauli fans all that much. After all, Hamburg’s Kiezkicker were still able to celebrate another guaranteed season of German top flight football. Not since the mid 1990s have St. Pauli managed to engineer a top division stint that lasted longer than a year.

The promotion of city rivals Hamburg from the 2. Bundesliga last week also means that – for the first time since the 2010/11 season – there will be two editions of one of Germany’s greatest derbies in the Bundesliga. St. Pauli’s notoriously weak attack this season nevertheless means an ignominious record has been tied.

Alexander Blessin’s team only scored 28 league goals this season; by far the worst total of any Bundesliga side. Blessin’s squad were notorious for failing to score at home. The season-ending home defeat counted as the 11th time St. Pauli failed to score at the Millerntor this year.

It is such that the northern Pirates have drawn level with the worst Bundesliga side of all time, the SC Tasmania Berlin team of 1965/66 season. Tasmania still hold the record for number of games gone without a win (31) in the German top flight.

Famously, Schalke 04 nearly tied this mark during a stretch during the 2019/20 and 2020/21 campaign when the Königsblauen went 30 straight fixtures without a win. Tasmania fans unable to watch their fifth-tier side during the disbanding of play during the COVID-era actually showed up to Schalke matches to request that their record be upheld.

Tasmania still remain associated with just about everything dubious about German top flight football and hold over a dozen inglorious records. Their run of 11 home fixtures without scoring a goal has twice been tied, by the 2019/20’s Werder Bremen team and 2012/13’s SpVgg Greuther Fürth.

Interestingly enough, Heidenheim also came close to tying the Tasmania record on the season’s final matchday. FCH attacking midfielder Luca Kerber spared his team blushes by pulling back a goal ten minutes from time in what would end as a 1-4 defeat to Bremen. Tasmania nearly received more company today.

GGFN | Peter Weis