FC Köln 3-1 Nürnberg: result and report

2. Bundesliga · Sunday 15 December 2024

Result

FC Köln 3-1 Nürnberg

2. Bundesliga · Sunday 15 December 2024, 12:30 UTC · half-time 3-0

FC Köln · Nürnberg · 2. Bundesliga predictions

FC Köln 3-1 Nürnberg: match report

FC Köln beat Nürnberg 3-1 in the 2. Bundesliga on Sunday 15 December 2024. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Damion Downs opened the scoring in the 6th minute. FC Köln's goals came from Damion Downs (6'), Florian Kainz (17', penalty) and Denis Huseinbasic (31'). Nürnberg scored through Jens Castrop (59').

Discipline: FC Köln received 4 yellow cards; Nürnberg received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game FC Köln were 8th on 25 points from 15 and Nürnberg 12th on 19 points from 15. FC Köln went on to finish that season 1st with 61 points, and Nürnberg 10th with 48.

FC Köln lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Nürnberg in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Damion Downs of FC Köln (8.8), ahead of Florian Kainz (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 FC Köln wins, 0 draws and 6 for Nürnberg.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Damion DownsFC Köln · 1-0
  • 17'Penalty goal · Florian KainzFC Köln · 2-0
  • 31'Goal · Denis HuseinbasicFC Köln · 3-0
  • 33'Yellow card · Timo HübersFC Köln
  • 41'Yellow card · Dominique HeintzFC Köln
  • 50'Yellow card · Berkay YilmazNürnberg
  • 55'Yellow card · Jan ThielmannFC Köln
  • 57'Yellow cardNürnberg
  • 59'Goal · Jens CastropNürnberg · 3-1
  • 85'Yellow card · Christian MatheniaNürnberg
  • 85'Yellow card · Dejan LjubicicFC Köln

Head-to-head

8 meetings: FC Köln 2, draws 0, Nürnberg 6.

Team news

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FC Köln line-up (3-4-2-1)

Marvin Schwäbe, Timo Hübers, Eric Martel, Dominique Heintz, Jan Thielmann, Dejan Ljubicic, Denis Huseinbasic, Leart Paçarada, Florian Kainz, Linton Maina, Damion Downs

Nürnberg line-up (3-5-2)

Jan Reichert, Finn Jeltsch, Robin Knoche, Ondrej Karafiat, Oliver Villadsen, Julian Justvan, Caspar Jander, Jens Castrop, Berkay Yılmaz, Mahir Emreli, Stefanos Tzimas