BERLIN — St. Pauli took all three points from a 1-1 draw with Leipzig on Tuesday in a Bundesliga match postponed due to weather, with Martin Karls scoring a penalty in stoppage time.
Leipzig defender David Raum missed the ball and slipped at the wrong time, knocking Karls down and conceding the spot-kick.
Leipzig goalkeeper Péter Gulacs had his finger on the ball but was unable to stop Kaas’s stunning shot and the home side celebrated as if they had won.
St. Pauli have now won for the second year in a row following a derby draw with Hamburger SV, moving them one point ahead of bottom-placed Heidenheim with 15 matches remaining.
Leipzig surpassed Stuttgart on goal difference and moved into fourth place, the final spot for the lucrative Champions League.
Yann Diomande scored midway through the second half for the Red Bull-backed club, which failed to qualify for European competition last season.
Also on Tuesday, Hoffenheim clinched third place with a 2-0 win over Werder Bremen despite finishing with 10 men.
Leipzig’s Xaver Schlager (left) and St. Pauli’s Karol Metz compete for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC St. Pauli and RB Leipzig on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 in Hamburg, Germany. Credit: AP/Christian Charisius
Alexander Plas broke the deadlock with a brilliant shot into the top right corner before the break, and Grisha Plemel made it 2-0 early in the second half, just after Hoffenheim had Wouter Brugger sent off following a VAR check for a dangerous challenge on Cameron Puertas.
Hoffenheim maintain a three-point lead over Leipzig.
Both games on Tuesday had been called off earlier this month due to heavy snow, ice and snowdrifts across northern Germany, including Hamburg and Bremen.
Before the game, all four teams lined up behind a banner that read “We Remember” in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is celebrated on January 27 each year. Today marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of Nazi Germany’s death camps.