Bayern Munich celebrates Bundesliga title with last home win for Thomas Müller

BERLIN (AP) — Thomas Müller led Bayern Munich's Bundesliga title celebrations after helping the team beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 in his last home game for the club on Saturday.

After being presented with the trophy, Bayern captain Manuel Neuer gave it to Müller to hoist toward the Munich sky and start the confetti-filled revelry.

There was another outpouring of emotion when Harry Kane got his chance to lift the “salad bowl” — it's the England captain's first team trophy after a career of near-misses.

Kane was still holding onto the trophy even as Neuer got the customary beer showers underway by dousing Müller after a speech to the crowd. But soon Kane was soaked, too, and he let the trophy out of his grip.

Bayern won its record-extending 34th German championship title last weekend.

Michael Olise made sure of Saturday's win by scoring one goal and setting up the other for Kane's league-leading 25th of the season to get the party underway in Munich.

Bochum and Holstein Kiel were relegated while Leipzig’s hopes of Champions League qualification ended after drawing at Werder Bremen 0-0.

Last-placed Bochum lost at home to Mainz 4-1, and Kiel lost at home 2-1 to Freiburg, which consolidated fourth place and was poised for Champions League qualification.

Leipzig’s scoreless draw in Bremen left it four points behind Freiburg with one round remaining, meaning it can no longer qualify for Europe's lucrative premier competition.

Neither Bochum nor Kiel have any possibility of catching third-from-bottom Heidenheim following the latter’s 3-0 win at Union Berlin. Heidenheim made sure of at least a relegation playoff place.

With one game left to play, Bochum had 22 points, Kiel 25, and Heidenheim 29 – just two behind St. Pauli, which had two matches remaining. St. Pauli plays its penultimate match at third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.

It's Bochum’s seventh demotion from the top division. The club was promoted to the Bundesliga as the second division champion in 2021, ending an 11-year absence from the top division.

Bochum defeated Bayern 3-2 away in March, but it was Dieter Hecking’s team’s only win in its last 11 games.

“I’ve been relegated before, it’s anything but nice. You could see it with the lads, tears were flowing,” Bochum captain Maximilian Wittek said. “It’s among the worst things that can happen in football.”

Kiel was promoted for the first time only last season and coach Marcel Rapp’s team has quickly returned to the second division.

Kiel scored first but Johan Manzambi equalized before the break and Lucas Höler headed Freiburg toward the Champions League.

Freiburg moved four points clear of Borussia Dortmund, which visits Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday for Xabi Alonso’s last home game as Leverkusen coach. A Leverkusen win would send Freiburg to the Champions League.

After seven years away, Hamburger SV clinched its return to the Bundesliga by routing Ulm 6-1 in Germany’s second division.

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Bayern Munich fans cheer during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Munich, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Bayern's Harry Kane celebrates after the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Munich, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Bayern's Thomas Mueller, centre, celebrates with the championship shield after the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Munich, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Bayern Munich players celebrate after Bayern's Harry Kane scored his side's opening goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Munich, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Kiel's Lewis Holtby is comforted by Fiete Arp after the German Bundesliga soccer match between Holstein Kiel and SC Freiburg in Kiel, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Claus Bergmann/dpa via AP)

Werder's Marvin Ducksch, right, and Leipzig's Kosta Nedeljkovic, left, challenge for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between SV Werder Bremen and RB Leipzig in Bremen, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP)

Kiel's Carl Johansson, front, and Freiburg's Patrick Osterhage, second right, challenge for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Holstein Kiel and SC Freiburg in Kiel, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Claus Bergmann/dpa via AP)

From left, Bochum's Mats Pannewig , Bernardo , Myron Boadu and Dani De Wit during the German Bundesliga soccer match between VfL Bochum and FSV Mainz 05 in Bochum, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Anke Waelischmiller/dpa via AP)

Heidenheim's Adrian Beck, right, and Berlin's Benedict Hollerbach, left, challenge for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between 1. FC Union Berlin and FC Heidenheim in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Andreas Gora/dpa via AP)

Freiburg's Magnus Knudsen, right, and Kiel's Steven Skrzybski, second right, challenge for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Holstein Kiel and SC Freiburg in Kiel, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Claus Bergmann/dpa via AP)

Heidenheim's Patrick Mainka, left, and Berlin's Benedict Hollerbach, right, challenge for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between 1. FC Union Berlin and FC Heidenheim in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Andreas Gora/dpa via AP)

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers on Tuesday gave final passage to a bill that aims to void a city of Savannah ordinance that imposes fines and possible jail time for leaving guns in unlocked cars.

The state Senate gave final approval to the measure, which says cities and counties can't regulate how guns are stored. It also lets gun owners sue local governments who impose any such rules in violation of state law, collecting at least $25,000 in damages if they win.

Senate Bill 204 now goes to Gov. Brian Kemp's desk for his signature or veto.

Mayor Van Johnson and Savannah’s city council voted unanimously in 2024 to outlaw keeping firearms in unlocked vehicles, with maximum penalties of a $1,000 fine and 30 days in jail. They said the law would make it harder for criminals to steal guns in a state where lawmakers have widely abolished restrictions on owning and carrying firearms.

But the rules have left gun rights advocates fuming, saying that the city is in effect punishing gun owners who had their guns stolen.

“Ultimately what Savannah was doing was regulating citizens' right to have a gun in their car,” former state Sen. Colton Moore, a Republican from Trenton, told The Associated Press. “Their car was getting broken into, and they were going from a victim of a crime now to being a criminal. And that’s what we don’t want to happen going forward.”

Moore resigned from the Senate Tuesday after the bill passed because he filed to run for the congressional seat left vacant by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation.

Johnson said Tuesday that if Kemp signs the bill into law, the city will stop issuing citations.

“Obviously we’re going to comply with the law,” Johnson said in a phone interview with the AP. “So should the governor sign it, we won’t enforce that ordinance anymore. But there might be other ordinances that come forth.”

He declined to say what other type of gun safety measure city officials might consider.

Johnson, a Democrat and former police officer, has touted the gun ordinance as a way to make gun owners act responsibly without infringing on their rights to own or carry firearms. He said Tuesday that the number of gun thefts from unlocked vehicles reported to Savannah police had dropped 30% since the ordinance took effect.

“It’s a sad thing that the General Assembly says over 200 guns stolen from unlocked vehicles is OK,” the mayor said.

Georgia law already prohibits city and county governments from regulating firearm “possession, ownership, transport, carrying, transfer, sale, purchase (or) licensing.”

Savannah city officials have insisted since the gun ordinance took effect that they were regulating storage of firearms, something the state law didn’t explicitly forbid. State lawmakers changed that by adding the word “storage” to the existing law.

Gun control advocates said lawmakers were wrong to preempt Savannah's ordinance.

“Time and time again, young people in this state are told that our safety isn’t a priority. But this bill takes it a step further by actually punishing the cities that are stepping up to protect us when our state lawmakers won’t,” Nolan Tanner said in a statement. He is a volunteer with the chapter of Students Demand Action at Jenkins High School in Savannah.

In November, a Chatham County Recorder’s Court judge threw out the case of a man cited for violating the Savannah gun ordinance, ruling that it violates state law and the U.S. Constitution.

However, that ruling only applied to the case of the defendant who challenged the gun ordinance as part of his criminal defense. Johnson said at the time the city would keep enforcing it.

Johnson also said he is not worried about the additional legal liability and potential fines spelled out in the bill.

"I don’t believe it could be retroactive,” he said.

Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia.

Republican Colton Moore, who resigned from the state Senate to run for Congress, poses for a photo outside the Georgia Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

FILE - Mayor Van Johnson speaks at a news conference, March 11, 2020, in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum, File)