Mainz miss promotion by one goal: The 4:1 win at Eintracht Braunschweig on the final day of the 2002/03 second-division season is a match no Mainz fan will ever forget. Mainz missed promotion by one single goal. The beneficiaries were bitter rivals Eintracht Frankfurt, who in the third minute of injury time made it 6:3 against already-relegated Reutlingen through Alexander Schur and overtook Mainz on goal difference by precisely one strike.
Jürgen Klopp and his players followed the drama by mobile phone and collapsed into tears in the stadium on Hamburger Straße.
