Stuttgart will advance to the Bundesliga alongside Arminia Bielefield and the Heidenheim will contest the promotion against Werder Bremen, while Hamburg will remain, at least one more year, in the Bundesliga 2.
The three teams with goals in the second category of German football lost their respective matches on the last day of the tournament.
The Arminia Bielefield, who achieved the promotion days ago and who secured the first place in the category, clearly beat Heidenheim, that the second place was played this Sunday to go up with Stuttgart, surpassed by Darmstadt (1-3).
Hamburg did not take advantage of the stumbling block of Heidenheim and Stuttgart to tie at least third place and play the promotion to try to return to the first division. He suffered a hard blow in his stadium against Sandhausen (1-5).
Serdar Dursun, Mathias Bader and Tobias Kempe scored the Darmstadt goals that stormed the Mercedes Benz Arena. Veteran Mario Gomez scored Stuttgart's only goal, relieved by Heidenheim's defeat, which kept him in second place. Stuttgart will play in the Budesliga next year.
Arminia Bielefield reaffirmed their superiority throughout the tournament and beat Heidenheim, who stayed in third place and will compete in promotion promotion with Werder Bremen, second to last in the Bundesliga. Fabian Klos, Andreas Voglsammer and Jonathan Claus scored the goals for the second category champion.
The Hamburg, which dropped last year for the first time in its history, was on the verge of reaching the return. He experienced a failure in this last session thrashed by Sandhausen.
In addition, the historic Dinamo Dresden, last, and the Wehen, penultimate, descend to League 3. Nuremberg, recently in the top division, second to last, will play the promotion to stay in the second category.