BERLIN (AP) 鈥� Small-town club Elversberg clinched promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time on Sunday by finishing runner-up in Germany鈥檚 second division behind .
Early goals from Bambas茅 Cont茅 and David Mokwa, then another from Mokwa, gave Elversberg a 3-0 win at home over last-place Preu脽en M眉nster, enough for the team to finish ahead of Paderborn on goal difference.
Elversberg will be the 59th club to play in the top division since the Bundesliga’s formation in 1963.
Three teams were level going into the final round, with both Hannover and Paderborn hoping for an unlikely favor from already relegated M眉nster against Elversberg, which had the better goal difference.
Hannover was on course to finish third for the playoff when it was leading Nuremberg 3-2, but Luka Lochoshvili scored late for the visitors to let Paderborn move above Hannover into third place with a 2-0 win at Darmstadt.
As a result, Paderborn will face Wolfsburg in a two-leg playoff to decide which plays in the Bundesliga next season.
Wolfsburg, which on Saturday, will host the first leg of their playoff on Thursday.
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