At the end of the 2020/21 season, the unthinkable happened in Bremen: Werder Bremen were relegated from the Bundesliga. Since 1981, since the arrival of Kuno Klotzer, the club had been uninterrupted members of the top flight. Forty years defined by Otto Rehhagel’s trophies, the 1992 European triumph, the Double of 2004 and the near-miracle of Valencia in 2009. All of it ended on 22 May 2021 with a 2–0 defeat at Borussia Monchengladbach.
Seventeenth place. Relegation.