Elversberg's fairytale rise has reached football's summit — the Bundesliga — despite the German club hailing from a town of just 13,000 people that doesn't even have a train station, according to BBC News.
SV Elversberg's journey from the regional leagues to the top flight of German football is described as nothing short of meteoric, marking one of the most remarkable stories in the Bundesliga's history as the tiny club prepares to take on the country's elite.
Details of Elversberg's debut campaign and how they plan to compete against Germany's biggest clubs remain to be seen, but their mere presence in the Bundesliga is already being framed as a triumph of small-town ambition over football's usual financial hierarchies.