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Nurnberg relegated, European joy for Hamburg and Wolfsburg

By Lewis Rutledge   Last updated: 19th May 2008

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Nurnberg were relegated on the final day of the season as they lost 2-0 at home to Schalke, while Hamburg and Wolfsburg qualified for Europe.

Nurnberg needed to better Arminia Bielefeld's result against Stuttgart but they fell to a Schalke side striving for second spot and automatic qualification to the UEFA Champions League.

Marcelo Bordon was the star for Schalke as he netted a brace, opening the scoring after 19 minutes and then doubling his tally on 61 minutes.

Arminia Bielefeld played out a thrilling 2-2 draw at Stuttgart, whose defence of their title ended with a disappointing sixth-placed finish.

Robert Tesche's opener for Arminia after nine minutes was cancelled out by Mario Gomez's penalty on 73 minutes.

Stuttgart took a 2-1 lead through Manuel Fischer after 85 minutes but Christian Eigler equalised only a minute later.

There was an intriguing tussle for the two Uefa Cup spots as four teams started the day on 51 points.

Hamburg were the most convincing winners as they crushed Karlsruhe 7-0 to climb up to fourth place.

Rafael Van der Vaart set Hamburg on their way with a penalty after 23 minutes and Paolo Guerrero then scored a quick-fire hat-trick with goals on 34, 43 and 49 minutes.

Piotr Trochowski made it 2-1 in the 57th minute and Ivica Olic polished things off with two further goals, after 78 and 89 minutes.

Wolfsburg produced an impressive performance to defeat Borussia Dortmund 4-2 and take fifth spot.

Sascha Riether (3) and Marcelinho (6) gave Wolfsburg a flying start before Alexander Frei pulled one back after 25 minutes.

Marcel Schafer restored Wolfsburg's two-goal cushion on 62 minutes and Grafitu (76) made sure of the points after Dortmund had briefly threatened a comeback when Frei struck his second after 68 minutes.

Stuttgart in sixth will enter the Intertoto Cup but there will be no European football for Bayer Leverkusen after they slipped from fourth down to seventh with a 1-0 loss to Werder Bremen.

Markus Rosenberg netted the crucial goal to keep Werder second and ahead of Schalke.

Champions Bayern Munich brought their triumphant season to a close with a resounding 4-1 victory over Hertha Berlin.

Luca Toni did the early damage as he broke the deadlock after just three minutes and then added a second on 28 minutes, before Franck Ribery got in on the act after 32 minutes.

Toni completed his hat-trick after 61 minutes before Valeri Domovchiyski salvaged some pride for Hertha six minutes from time.

Already-relegated Hansa Rostock climbed off the foot of the table with 1 2-1 win at Bochum.

Enrico Kern (40) and Fin Bartels (77) found the target for Rostock after Mergim Mavraj had put Bochum ahead in the 36th minute

Duisburg's miserable season ended with a 4-2 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt to ensure they slumped below Rostock.

Ioannis Amanatidis gave Frankfurt an early lead (13) and Martin Fenin made it 3-0 at the break with goals on 15 and 38 minutes.

Claudio Niculescu (59) and Markus Daun (86) scored for Duisburg in the second half but Marcel Heller's strike on 78 minutes staved off any chance of a recovery.

Arnold Bruggink (24), Jiri Stajner (45), Vinicius Bergantin (59) and Hanno Balitsch (90) scored for Hannover as they beat Energie Cottbus 4-0 in a clash between two sides in mid-table.

Bayer Leverkusen 0 Werder Bremen 1

Bayern Munich 4 Hertha Berlin 1

Bochum 1 Hansa Rostock 2

Borussia Dortmund 2 Wolfsburg 4

Eintracht Frankfurt 4 Duisburg 2

Hamburg 7 Karlsruhe 0

Hannover 4 Energie Cottbus 0

Nurnberg 0 Schalke 2

Stuttgart 2 Arminia Bielefeld 2