Sunday 1 September 2024 2. Bundesliga winners to UEFA Conference League Group Stage: The Rise of FC Heidenheim FC Heidenheim's team for 2024/25. Rewind back to 2007 for a bit of history. Current manager, Frank Schmidt, became the manager of a small club whose arena is located in the state of Baden-Württemberg, when this team was in the 5th tier of German football. They're not the most expensive team in Germany like Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig & Borussia Dortmund, just to name a few. And since then, they've been on a big rise. They competed in the 3.Liga for 6 years, until they won promotion to the second tier of the German Bundesliga. Then there was a key moment in the club's history in the COVID-19 hit 2019/20 season. They finished 3rd in the Bundesliga relegation/promotion play-offs to face off a historic team in SV Werder Bremen, who were relegated in 2021 after spending 40 years in the Bundesliga. It was the second leg on July 6 2020, which was played at their ho
