FC Augsburg 1-2 SC Freiburg: Bundesliga Match Report, 31 October 2026

Augsburg had the lead at the break and nothing to show for it at the end: FC Augsburg 1-2 SC Freiburg. The half-time score was 1-0, so Augsburg's goal came in the first half and both of Freiburg's in the second, with no reply from the home side after the interval. That is the whole shape of the comeback as the record has it; the scorers and the timing are not part of it.

It ended a short slide for Freiburg. They came in third on 13 points from seven games, goal difference +7, but on two straight defeats, 1-2 at Leverkusen and 1-3 at home to Bayern, after an unbeaten start of four wins and a draw. Augsburg were ninth on nine points, goal difference +4, with a record that had stalled after a fast start: 3-0 over Schalke and 4-1 at Frankfurt in the first two rounds, then five games without a win, three of them draws. Their home form had been the solid part, unbeaten in four with a win over Schalke and draws with Leverkusen, Bayern and Union.

This was therefore Augsburg's first home defeat of the season and their sixth league game without a win. For Freiburg it was a first win at Augsburg in the recent record. Their previous two visits had finished 0-0 in March 2025 and 2-2 in January, and Augsburg had won 3-1 in Freiburg in August 2025. Freiburg's last league win over them before this was a 3-1 at home in October 2024. There was no pick of ours on this fixture, or on any game in that round; the site sat idle over the last weekend of October.

Freiburg move to 16 points from eight games and a goal difference of +8; Augsburg stay on nine, with their +4 down to +3. The gap between them, four points at kick-off, is now seven.

Eight games cannot carry a race on their own. Last season the two finished four points apart, Freiburg seventh on 47 and Augsburg ninth on 43. Freiburg have already banked more than a third of that 47, at two points a game, a pace worth well over 60 across a full season. Nobody should lean on that after the two defeats that came just before it. It was, though, the first time this season they had turned a half-time deficit into a win; the two previous times they trailed at the break, at Frankfurt and at home to Bayern, they drew and lost.

Augsburg's nine from eight is a little under last season's rate, and the trend matters more than the total: seven points from the first three rounds, two from the next five. Failing to hold leads is part of that. They have now been ahead at half-time in four games and won one, losing 3-2 at Werder Bremen and drawing 2-2 with Bayern from 1-0 up at the break.