SV Werder Bremen 2-0 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim: Bundesliga Match Report, 31 October 2026

Hoffenheim had won the previous three meetings with Werder Bremen, two of them at the Weserstadion. This one went the other way: SV Werder Bremen 2-0 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. It was goalless at half-time, so both Werder goals came after the break, and Hoffenheim did not score at all. The record goes no further than that, and the two goals cannot be placed more precisely than the second half.

Three points and three places separated them beforehand. Werder started the day seventh on 12 points from seven games, goal difference +1, and unbeaten since losing 4-1 at Freiburg on the opening weekend: three wins and three draws since, the latest a 3-2 at Mainz. Hoffenheim were tenth on nine, goal difference exactly zero, and had just put together their first consecutive wins of the season, 2-1 at Mönchengladbach and 3-0 over Leverkusen.

Two numbers make this result stand out. It is Werder's first clean sheet of the season, from a side that had conceded in each of its first seven games. And Hoffenheim, who had scored in all seven of their previous games and at least twice in six of them, drew a blank for the first time.

Hoffenheim's three straight wins in the fixture had come 3-1 and 2-0 in Bremen, in February 2025 and January, and 1-0 at home in May. Werder's previous league win over them was a 4-3 away in September 2024.

A three-point gap at kick-off is now six. Werder go to 15 points from eight games and a goal difference of +3; Hoffenheim stay on nine, with theirs down to -2. It is also Werder's first back-to-back league wins of the season, and their home record stays unbeaten at three wins and a draw from four. Hoffenheim are now on fourteen goals scored and sixteen conceded, and this was only the second time this season they have lost by more than one goal, after the 3-1 at Paderborn.

Set against last season, the two clubs have swapped places. Werder finished fifteenth on 32 points, and fifteen from eight is almost half of that total already. Hoffenheim finished fifth on 61, a European place, and their current rate would leave them well short of it, a little over one point a game against nearly 1.8. Neither change is settled: there are 26 rounds still to play, and Hoffenheim had arrived on two straight wins. But where last season's final table had Hoffenheim twenty-nine points ahead, this result leaves Werder six clear of them.

Like the rest of that round, this match went unpreviewed here, so there is no pick to settle; the site was standing still that weekend.