Hamburg fans seriously injured in promotion party

One Hamburg SV instrumentality suffered "life-threatening injuries" and 19 much were earnestly injured successful celebrations aft the team's instrumentality to the Bundesliga, section occurrence services said connected Sunday.

The Hamburg Fire Department launched what it called a "major exigency response" to contend with Hamburg fans celebrating promotion connected Saturday, erstwhile thousands of supporters stormed the field.

Some 44 supporters needed aesculapian treatment, including 25 who were taken to section hospitals, of whom 5 had conscionable insignificant injuries.

Hamburg clinched its long-awaited instrumentality to the apical division with a 6-1 rout of Ulm, ensuring they volition decorativeness successful the apical 2 of Germany's 2nd part and automatic promotion to the Bundesliga.

Hamburg endured six seasons of conscionable missing retired connected promotion since their demotion from the apical part earlier occurrence astatine the seventh attempt.

The nine was antecedently known arsenic "der Dino" due to the fact that it was the past surviving subordinate of the Bundesliga to person played each play since its enactment successful 1963.

They were yet relegated successful 2018 aft respective adjacent calls.