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One more game. Then the 2025/26 Bundesliga season will be history. To wrap things up, Borussia Dortmund travel to SV Werder Bremen on Saturday (May 16, 3:30 p.m.).

Win, draw or defeat: BVB can no longer be denied the runners-up spot. In Bundesliga history (since the 1963/64 season), this means the Black and Yellows will finish second for the tenth time. The team secured this season’s runner-up finish last weekend with the 3-2 home win against Eintracht Frankfurt. In doing so, Dortmund drew level with previous sole record runners-up FC Bayern Munich in the statistics.

After a laborious season and a coaching change from Horst Steffen to Daniel Thioune, Bremen also secured survival in the top flight last week. Even though the Weser side have just 32 points to their name, they are no longer under threat from the bottom three. Wolfsburg, Heidenheim and St. Pauli have managed a meager 26 points so far.

SV Werder have seen better days, too. Bremen have celebrated seven runners-up finishes and even ended up on top four times – most recently in 2004. Their last major success came in the 2008/09 season, when the Green-Whites won the DFB-Pokal with a 1-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the final.

Kovac following in Lucien Favre’s footsteps

BVB and SVW have faced each other 113 times in the Bundesliga so far. Borussia lead with 50 wins to 42, alongside 21 draws and a goal difference of 185:178. In recent years, however, Bremen have had only a few positive experiences in direct clashes with Dortmund. They have won just one of the last 14 meetings – on Matchday 3 of the 2022/23 season, when they spectacularly turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 win late on. By contrast, the Westphalians won eight times. The clubs shared the points in five matches.

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Niko Kovac often has to listen to criticism because of what is allegedly an unattractive style of play. But BVB’s coach can point to a respectable points tally. His team collected 36 points in the first half of the season and 34 in the second half. That means second place behind FC Bayern in both cases.

With a win on the Weser, Borussia would move to 73 points. That would be their best result in seven years. In the 2018/19 campaign, BVB amassed 76 points under Lucien Favre.

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