The denied Fair Play prize: in August 2015 Leipzig were involved in the last DFB-Pokal match to be abandoned. At third-tier Osnabrück, the then second-division Bulls were 1–0 down when a lighter hit referee Petersen on the head in the 71st minute. Before the sporting court hearing, Leipzig offered to replay the match because they did not want to progress on a green-table ruling.
The DFB refused on legal-certainty grounds. Leipzig went through without playing and lost the chance to be properly credited for fair play, though they had genuinely tried.