1. FC Union Berlin 1-1 1. FC Köln: Bundesliga Match Report, 1 November 2026

Köln had not taken a point away from home all season before this Sunday afternoon in Berlin, and they left with one: 1. FC Union Berlin 1-1 1. FC Köln. Union led 1-0 at half-time, so the order of events is clear even though the detail is not. Union scored before the break, Köln equalised after it, and nobody scored again. Who got either goal, and when, the record does not say.

Union started the day seventeenth on six points from seven games, with a goal difference of -12 built in three September games: 0-4 at Leverkusen, 1-3 at home to Schalke and 0-7 at Bayern. They had conceded one goal in the three matches since, beating Elversberg 1-0 and drawing 0-0 with Dortmund and 1-1 at Augsburg. Köln arrived fourteenth on eight points, goal difference -3, with a lopsided record: two wins and two draws at home, and three defeats from three trips, 1-4 at Stuttgart, 1-2 at Hamburg and 0-1 at Frankfurt.

The draw reads differently from each end. For Köln it is a first away point, and they came from behind to take it. For Union it is a fourth league game without defeat, but also a lead given up against a side three places above them. Köln's previous visit to the Alte Försterei, in May, finished 2-2 after they had led at the interval; this time the roles were reversed and it still finished level. Add Union's 1-0 win in Cologne last December and Köln have now gone three meetings without beating them.

In the table, almost nothing moved. Union go to seven points from eight games and Köln to nine, so the two-point gap between them at kick-off is still there, and both goal differences, -12 and -3, are unchanged. With 26 rounds left, one draw on the first day of November decides nothing at the bottom of the division.

Union finished eleventh on 39 points last season; seven from eight is a slower rate, worth about thirty over a full season, and most of the goals-against column was run up in September: fourteen of the nineteen they have now conceded came in those three games. Two conceded in their last four matches is the fairer guide to the side as it stands. Scoring is the other half of it: seven goals in eight games, three of them on the opening day against Frankfurt. Köln finished fourteenth on 32, and nine from eight is ahead of that pace. Their weakness has not changed: one point from four away games, against eight from four in Cologne.

We had no pick on this game: nothing was published here while the eighth round was being played, so the page records the match rather than settling a call.