Big win not enough: BVB Women narrowly miss 2. Bundesliga | OneFootball

Until the final matchday of the Regionalliga West, it remained open who would finish the season as champions and thus earn promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. A few minutes ago, it became clear: it will not be the BVB women. Even an 8-0 home win is no longer enough for them, because rivals FC Köln II won their match in Mönchengladbach and thus held on to their two-point lead until the finish.

With 65 points, the reserve team of 1. FC Köln had gone into this 26th and final matchday of the Regionalliga West. On 63 points, but with a significantly better goal difference, Borussia Dortmund’s women went into their last match at home against Vorwärts SpoHo Köln. That meant one thing was clear: only a slip-up by the Cologne side — in other words, no more than a draw in their game away to Borussia Mönchengladbach II — would still make BVB champions.

While it quickly became clear in Dortmund that the required win would be secured, things were much tighter on the Lower Rhine. BVB made it 1-0 against the Sport University team in the 7th minute and had built up a comfortable 5-0 lead by halftime. That was then extended to 8-0 by the final whistle, leaving them on 66 points with a goal difference of 114:13.

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BVB miss out on promotion by two points

But two more points were exactly what 1. FC Köln II’s women ended up with, after they won 2-0 in Mönchengladbach in a much tighter match. One draw too many ultimately cost the Dortmund side, who, like the Cologne team, had lost only two games all season. But Schwarzgelb also had three draws, while Köln II dropped points only twice that way.

The disappointment is likely still huge at the moment, especially since the scoreline in Mönchengladbach had kept hopes alive for quite a while that their rivals might stumble as needed. In the end, it was not enough. Finishing second and missing out on promotion for the first time after many years of climbing from division to division will take some time to process.

In the new 2026/27 season, however, there will once again be only one goal for the BVB women: to make up for the promotion to the 2. Bundesliga that was definitively missed today in the coming campaign.

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