Top of the table: after Paderborn’s first promotion in 2014, they sat first after four matchdays - and 18th after 34. A fact nobody in Paderborn was particularly keen to accept afterwards. “We weren’t the worst team,” captain Uwe Hünemeier insisted. Goalkeeper Lukas Kruse, who conceded 65 goals, told a Kicker special on the 2014/15 season: “It was simply an unnecessary relegation. We don’t belong in Bundesliga 2, not that year.
We didn’t deserve it.”