That can get really expensive for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga!
With the 2-2 win in Bielefeld, not only was the last little dream of promoting Düsseldorf carelessly thrown away…
It’s about one million euros – Fortuna hopes for Bielefeld relegation!
If Düsseldorf had brought home the deserved victory at Arminia, the Westphalians (14th place/ 29 points) would have been even deeper in the relegation mess.
And because of the distribution of the TV money after the complicated 5-year rating, Düsseldorf has to hope for Bielefeld’s relegation to the 3rd division.
Only then would Fortuna come ahead of Westphalia in the rankings, which were still playing in the Bundesliga last year. That would mean around one million more for Düsseldorf.
Defender Tim Oberdorf (26): “We players weren’t really aware of that before the game. We only deal with the sporty. We don’t go to the games to have more money next year. But we want to win the games. That goes with that.”
And Oberdorf is still angry about the 2-2 draw at Arminia: “It’s very annoying that we didn’t win. Bitter!”
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In the end, the draw could help Fortuna get another million less from the TV money pot. This year it was almost 16 million, Bielefeld received more than 19 million as TV money croesus, HSV came second 17.3 ahead of third from Düsseldorf.
As of now, Fortuna slips to 5th place and collects only 13.5 million.
Fortune mourns
Fortuna’s longtime cult stadium announcer Dieter Bierbaum passed away at the age of 80.
Sobottka only runs
At 2: 2 in Bielefeld, Marcel Sobottka (28) is missing with the flu. Now he was back on the grass for the first time, ran a few laps – and ended up looking battered.
