Carl Zeiss Jena’s girls’s soccer staff is firstclass once more: On the final matchday of the second division season, FCC returned to the Bundesliga with two targets in opposition to relegated Hoffenheim II.
FC Carl Zeiss Jena returns to the ladies’s Bundesliga. After two years within the second division, coach Florian Kästner’s staff returned to the primary division in full on Sunday (May 26, 2024) with a 2-0 (0-0) win in opposition to relegated Hoffenheim II. Promotional targets got here late: Felicia Sophie Sträßer (84th) and Josephine Bonsu (ninetieth + third) scored solely within the final section of the sport.
Potsdam can be celebrating – Meppen remains to be within the second division
Jena completed second within the second division. With FCC, Turbine Potsdam additionally returns to the primary league. Potsdam gained 2-1 at Ingolstadt on Sunday after coming behind for some time and have been promoted to the second division champions. Despite a 5-1 win in opposition to Wolfsburg II, SV Meppen narrowly missed out on promotion and have been one level behind third-placed Jena.
Hoffenheim initially have the higher possibilities
Jena, who ended the season with one defeat at dwelling and because the strongest staff within the league on the street, struggled for a very long time to achieve “the purpose of the sport to go up”. Instead of the FCC girls, the Hoffenheim staff began with dedication and assault. The guests additionally had the most effective possibilities within the first half: proper from the beginning, Milena Röder hit the publish (seventh). Just earlier than the top of the half, TSG participant Leonie Schetter had already performed FCC goalkeeper Jasmine Janning, however the final objective scorer Felicia Sophie Sträßer made a save on the objective line (39).
The Jena followers within the stadium behind the Ernst Abbe stadium needed to wait a very long time for the primary actual massive likelihood for the FCC girls. Before the break, Melina Laura Reuter arrived very late with the most effective step (37′).
Redemption within the final stage
Jena dominated the sport for a very long time, however within the second half the assault of the Thuringians grew to become stronger. After 60 minutes it ought to have been 1-0: After a great preparation work from the precise by Bonsu, Merza Julevic already took out the TSG goalkeeper Lena Locher, however he shot previous the empty objective (sixtieth). Not lengthy after that, Julevic missed the left sort out once more (66th). So followers and gamers needed to panic till the 84th minute when Sträßer scored a saving objective after a free kick from midfield: Substitute Nicole Woldmann delivered the ball from 5 meters, Sträßer scored a saving objective with a header from the far publish. place (84.).
Arnold says goodbye with assist
The remaining resolution was made in the course of the offseason and due to the prep work accomplished by Jena veteran Julia Arnold, who will go away FCC after the season. Arnold drove the ball into the underside nook of the objective from 20 meters and Bonsu headed within the rebound to make it 2-0 (ninetieth + third). Now all of the dams are damaged. The remaining whistle shortly after was drowned out by the cheers.
Dirk Hofmeister