FC Köln 2-1 Borussia Dortmund: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 19 December 2015

Result

FC Köln 2-1 Borussia Dortmund

Bundesliga · Saturday 19 December 2015, 14:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

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FC Köln 2-1 Borussia Dortmund: match report

FC Köln defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 19 December 2015. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Sokratis Papastathopoulos opened the scoring in the 18th minute. FC Köln's goals came from Simon Zoller (82') and Anthony Modeste (90'). Borussia Dortmund scored through Sokratis Papastathopoulos (18').

Discipline: FC Köln received 3 yellow cards; Borussia Dortmund received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game FC Köln were 10th on 21 points from 16 and Borussia Dortmund 2nd on 38 points from 16. FC Köln went on to finish that season 10th with 43 points, and Borussia Dortmund 2nd with 78.

FC Köln lined up in a 4-4-2 and Borussia Dortmund in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sokratis of Borussia Dortmund (7.9), ahead of Jonas Hofmann (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 FC Köln wins, 2 draws and 8 for Borussia Dortmund.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Sokratis PapastathopoulosBorussia Dortmund · 0-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Pierre-Emerick AubameyangBorussia Dortmund
  • 72'Yellow card · Matthias LehmannFC Köln
  • 82'Goal · Simon ZollerFC Köln · 1-1
  • 83'Yellow card · Simon ZollerFC Köln
  • 90'Goal · Anthony ModesteFC Köln · 2-1
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Anthony ModesteFC Köln

Head-to-head

10 meetings: FC Köln 0, draws 2, Borussia Dortmund 8.

Team news

FC Köln expected line-up (4-4-2)

Timo Horn, Marcel Risse, Jonas Hector, Dominique Heintz, Dominic Maroh, Matthias Lehmann, Kevin Vogt, Leonardo Bittencourt, Anthony Modeste, Philipp Hosiner

Borussia Dortmund line-up (4-2-3-1)

Roman Bürki, Matthias Ginter, Sokratis, Mats Hummels, Ju-ho Park, İlkay Gündoğan, Julian Weigl, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, S. Kagawa, Jonas Hofmann, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang