Borussia Dortmund were crowned Bundesliga champions yesterday after a 2-0 win at home against Nuremberg gave them their first German league title since 2002.

After last week’s shock defeat at relegation-threatened Borussia Moenchengladbach, the hosts saw off Nuremberg to claim their seventh German crown and a place in next season’s Champions League.

The victory at a sold-out Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park stadium in front of 80,720 fans leaves Borussia eight points clear at the top of the table.

After second-placed Bayer Leverkusen lost 2-0 at Cologne, Dortmund were confirmed champions.

Paraguay striker Lucas Barrios proved his recent thigh injury is behind him by opening the scoring for his 14th goal of the season when he pounced on a blocked shot from Mario Goetze to fire home on 32 minutes.

It was 2-0 at the break as Poland striker Robert Lewandowski beat goalkeeper Raphael Schaefer to the ball after a long pass from Germany defender Mats Hummels and tapped home on 43 minutes.

Cologne striker Milivoje Novakovic scored twice in the second-half to settle the title race as Leverkusen went down to defeat.

Later in the day, Bayern Munich went third in the table as they blitzed Schalke with a 4-1 defeat.

The Royal Blues’ poor week continued after losing last Tuesday’s semi-final, first-leg, 2-0 at home to Manchester United.

Schalke were hit by three goals in less than 20 minutes, including top-scorer Mario Gomez’s 24th Bundesliga strike of the season, while Thomas Mueller scored twice.

Dutch winger Arjen Robben, who scored Bayern’s opening goal after just six minutes, was only denied a hat-trick by some excellent goalkeeping from Schalke’s Germany shot-stopper Manuel Neuer.

The win puts Bayern in pole position to claim the valuable third Champions League spot with two games left while Hanover drop to fourth after being beaten 1-0 at home to ‘Gladbach.

Results
B. Dortmund 2 - Nuremberg 0
B. Munich 4 - Schalke 1
Cologne 2 - B. Leverkusen 0
Hamburg 0 - Freiburg 2
Hanover 0 - B. M’gladbach 1
Mainz 3 - E. Frankfurt 0
Hoffenheim 1 - Stuttgart 2

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