1.FC Köln vs SC Freiburg

1. FC Köln and SC Freiburg are meeting for the 37th time in the Bundesliga. Freiburg are currently unbeaten in four matches against Köln (W3 D1) and have not conceded a goal in each of those matches. Freiburg has a higher win rate against FC than against any other team in the top flight (44%; at least 30 matches).

1. FC Köln has won their last four competitive matches; the last time the Cologne club managed this was in December 2024 (also four, with more recently in spring 2019: six in the 2. Bundesliga). The last time they had two wins at the start of the Bundesliga season was in the 2005/06 season under Uwe Rapolder (two).

SC Freiburg began a Bundesliga season with a defeat for the first time since 2018/19. That season, they finished 13th—their worst finish since then. They last suffered two defeats at the start of their Bundesliga campaign in 2018/19, against Frankfurt and Hoffenheim.

SC Freiburg are unbeaten in seven away matches in the Bundesliga, tying their longest such run in the top-flight (as from 1997 to 1998) and picking up 17 out of a possible 21 points (W5, D2). A win in Cologne would also mark the Breisgau club's first four consecutive away wins in the Bundesliga.

SC Freiburg have won all of their last three Bundesliga matches against newly promoted teams – however, the last time they faced 1. FC Köln in the top flight as a newly promoted team, in the 2019/20 season, the Breisgau team lost both of their season matches (1-2 h, 0-4 a).