Champions League and relegation showdowns loom on Bundesliga's final day

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Stuttgart has the fourth Champions League spot for now. Hoffenheim and Bayer Leverkusen want it. Stuttgart's final game is a tough one at Eintracht Frankfurt. A win there would almost certainly guarantee fourth spot. If Stuttgart drops points, Hoffenheim can snatch fourth with a better result at Borussia Moenchengladbach and return to the Champions League for the first time since 2017-18. Leverkusen needs to beat and hope Stuttgart and Hoffenheim lose. Champion of the Bundesliga in 2008-09, Wolfsburg hasn't been outside the top flight since 1997. It's one of the bottom three teams, all level on points, chasing one shot at survival. The teams in 17th and 18th — and Heidenheim — are relegated automatically. The side in 16th, Wolfsburg for now, goes into a promotion-relegation playoff against a second-division team. Wolfsburg visits St. Pauli on Saturday and a loss for either means relegation. Heidenheim could yet leapfrog both with a win at home to Mainz. The second division heads into its final day Sunday with promotion at stake. Schalke is already returning to the Bundesliga as champion but Elversberg, Hannover and Paderborn are level on points chasing the second spot. Elversberg, from a tiny town near the French border, has a goal-difference advantage and a win over relegated Preussen Muenster should do it.