“A very difficult and sad situation” – Edin Džeko on his ex-club VfL Wolfsburg’s relegation threat | OneFootball

While Edin Džeko has played a key role in Schalke 04's promotion to the Bundesliga this season, his ex-club VfL Wolfsburg are facing a serious threat of dropping out of the German top flight.

With just one match remaining in the 2025/26 Bundesliga season, Wolfsburg sit in 16th place – the relegation playoff spot – level on points with 1. FC Heidenheim and FC St. Pauli in 17th and 18th respectively.

At a media roundtable on Friday, Bulinews.com asked Džeko about the current crisis at the club he helped win the Bundesliga title back in the 2008/09 season.

“It’s a very difficult and sad situation. I don’t think Wolfsburg deserve to be in that kind of situation, but at the same time it’s their own fault," Džeko responded, adding: 

“Sometimes you maybe don't think that something like this can happen when you have a team like they do, but football goes very fast, and then you can get into this situation at some point.”

On the brighter side for Wolfsburg, as Džeko went on to point out, they have managed to climb into the relegation playoff spot ahead of the final matchday after taking five points from their last four games. 

This means that a win over fellow relegation candidates St. Pauli on Saturday would be enough to avoid direct relegation and send them into a two-legged relegation playoff tie against the team that finishes third in the 2. Bundesliga.

“if I go back a few weeks, I think they’re in a better situation now because everything depends on them. They have one more game, and if they win it, they go to the playoffs,” said Dzeko. 

“I think the team is strong enough, and I think they can make it into the relegation playoffs. If they do, they will have two games and everything in their hands, and they have the quality to do it (avoid relegation, ed.).”

Whether Wolfsburg can avoid direct relegation will be settled on Saturday when they travel to Hamburg to face St. Pauli at the Millerntor-Stadion on Saturday at 15:30 CEST. At the same time, fellow strugglers 1. FC Heidenheim take on Mainz at home.

Dzeko, 40, scored 85 goals in 142 games for Die Wölfe between 2007 and 2011, when he was sold to Manchester City.