BERLIN, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The final round of the 2023-2024 Bundesliga season ushered in on the 18th, and Bayer Leverkusen defeated Augsburg 2-1 at home, becoming the first team in the history of the Bundesliga to win the championship undefeated in a single season.
Bayer Leverkusen, who have won the title ahead of schedule, will have the only suspense in this season's Bundesliga whether they can finish undefeated. The "Pharmaceutical Factory", which played at home in the last round, was full of confidence, and took advantage of the opponent's mistake in the 12th minute of the day, and Boniface opened the scoring. In the 27th minute, Bayer Leverkusen made the score 2-0 by Andrich in a corner kick. Augsburg pulled one back in the second half.
In the end, Bayer Leverkusen won the title unbeaten with 28 wins, six draws and 90 points, and they have scored in 33 of their 34 Bundesliga games this season, the second-highest total of 89 goals in the league, behind Bayern Munich's 94 and the fewest goals conceded (24).
In terms of relegation, Union Berlin beat Freiburg 2-1 at home and Mainz beat Wolfsburg 3-1 away, and both winners were relegated. Cologne lost 1:4 to Heidenheim away, and finally ranked second to last and confirmed relegation; Bochum lost 4-1 away to Bremen and finished third from bottom and will need to play a relegation play-off against Fortuna Dusseldorf, who are third in the Bundesliga.
Bayern's final game ended in defeat, losing 2:4 away to Hoffenheim, and this season has no results on three fronts in the Champions League, Bundesliga, and German Cup. The defeat saw Bayern fall to third in the league table, overtaken by Stuttgart, who won 4-0 at home to Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Borussia Dortmund thrashed relegated Darmstadt 4-0 at home to finish fifth in the table, after announcing that Reuss, who had left Dortmund at the end of the season, contributed a pass and a shot in the curtain call. Leipzig drew 2-2 away at Eintracht Frankfurt and finished fourth and sixth in the table.