Hamburg celebrates Bundesliga return with goalless draw at Gladbach

BERLIN (AP) — Hamburger SV returned from a seven-year absence and emerged from its first game back in the Bundesliga with a 0-0 draw at Borussia Mönchengladbach.

The promoted side spent much of Sunday’s game defending, with goalkeeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes diving well to deny Gladbach captain Rocco Reitz among other saves.

“We knew we were coming up against a strong team that would have many people in midfield, so we kept it tight in the center and tried to hit on counterattacks,” Heuer Fernandes said. “Of course you never know where you stand after such a (difficult) pre-season, but I think everyone saw today how we can take on the league and that's exactly how it should go.”

Hamburg substitutes Jean-Luc Dompé and Yussuf Poulsen increased their team’s attacking threat for the last 15 minutes. William Mikelbrencis, another substitute, thought he’d scored a late winner but the goal was ruled out for offside.

Hamburg was the last surviving member of the Bundesliga to have played every season since its formation in 1963, earning the nickname “der Dino,” until it was finally relegated in 2018 after several close shaves.

Hamburg next faces city rival St. Pauli for a derby at home next Friday.

Gladbach signed Gio Reyna from Borussia Dortmund on Saturday but the American wasn't included in the squad.

Cologne marked its return as second-division champion with a 1-0 win at Mainz, which had Paul Nebel sent off on the hour-mark for a tactical foul to stop Jakub Kaminski. Kaminski would have been through on goal.

The sending off provided encouragement for Cologne, which had been primarily defending up to then, and Kaminski’s strike partner Marius Bülter headed the winner in the final minute.

“The whole 90 minutes were wild,” Cologne coach Lukas Kwasniok said after his Bundesliga debut. “It wasn't a culinary delight from a footballing point of view.”

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Cologne's Marius Buelter, second right, celebrates with his teammates after scoring during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Mainz and Cologne at the Mewa Arena in Mainz, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (Torsten Silz/dpa via AP)

Mainz's Danny da Costa, right, plays against Cologne's Jakub Kaminski during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Mainz and Cologne at the Mewa Arena in Mainz, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (Torsten Silz/dpa via AP)

Mainz's Jae-sung Lee, right, plays against Cologne's Joel Schmied during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Mainz and Cologne at the Mewa Arena in Mainz, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (Torsten Silz/dpa via AP)

Referee Sascha Stegemann talks to Hamburg's Jordan Torunarigha during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Hamburger SV at Borussia-Park in Mönchengladbach, Germany, Sunday Aug. 24, 2025. (Fabian Strauch/dpa via AP)

Hamburg's Giorgi Gocholeishvili, left, in a duel with Borussia's Lukas Ullrich during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Hamburger SV at Borussia-Park in Mönchengladbach, Germany, Sunday Aug. 24, 2025. (Fabian Strauch/dpa via AP)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A fire on Friday in one of Seoul's last-remaining shanty towns burned makeshift houses and forced about 260 residents to flee, but no casualties were reported.

The fire was completely contained more than eight hours after it broke out in Guryong village in southern Seoul, the National Fire Agency said in a statement.

The agency said that 258 residents were evacuated to safe places and that there were no causalities.

The fire agency said it will launch forensic and other examinations to find what caused the blaze and to determine the extent of damage to property. Agency officials said they couldn’t immediately confirm how many houses were burned or damaged.

Local fire officer Jeong Gwang-hun told a televised briefing earlier Friday that more than 1,200 personnel, including firefighters and police officers, were deployed to the scene.

The hillside village has occasionally had fires over the years, a vulnerability that observers say is linked to its tightly packed homes built with materials that easily burn.

The village is located near some of Seoul’s most expensive neighborhoods, with towering high-rise apartments and lavish shopping districts, and has long been a symbol of South Korea’s stark income inequalities.

The village was formed in the 1980s as a settlement for people who were evicted from their original neighborhoods under massive house clearings and redevelopment projects.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the city were removed from their homes in slums and low-income settlements during those years, a process that the military-backed leaders of the time saw as crucial to beautifying the city for foreign visitors ahead of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Choi Jin-seok/Newsis via AP)

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Choi Jin-seok/Newsis via AP)

Smoke rises at the scene of a fire in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Choi Jin-seok/Newsis via AP)