Hannover 96 4-1 FC Köln: result and report

Bundesliga · Sunday 18 March 2012

Result

Hannover 96 4-1 FC Köln

Bundesliga · Sunday 18 March 2012, 16:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

Hannover 96 · FC Köln · Bundesliga predictions

Hannover 96 4-1 FC Köln: match report

Hannover 96 beat FC Köln 4-1 in the Bundesliga on Sunday 18 March 2012. The half-time score was 1-1.

Lars Stindl opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Hannover 96's goals came from Lars Stindl (19'), Jan Schlaudraff (61', penalty), Andrea Pirlo (67') and Andrea Pirlo (83'). FC Köln scored through Kevin Pezzoni (43').

Discipline: Hannover 96 received no yellow cards; FC Köln received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Hannover 96 were 8th on 35 points from 25 and FC Köln 13th on 28 points from 25. Hannover 96 went on to finish that season 7th with 48 points, and FC Köln 17th with 30.

Hannover 96 lined up in a 4-4-2 and FC Köln in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Hannover 96 wins, 0 draws and 4 for FC Köln.

Going into the match Hannover 96's last five read L-D-L-W-D and FC Köln's W-D-L-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · Lars StindlHannover 96 · 1-0
  • 43'Goal · Kevin PezzoniFC Köln · 1-1
  • 61'Yellow card · SerenoFC Köln
  • 61'Penalty goal · Jan SchlaudraffHannover 96 · 2-1
  • 67'Goal · Andrea PirloHannover 96 · 3-1
  • 83'Goal · Andrea PirloHannover 96 · 4-1

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Hannover 96 5, draws 0, FC Köln 4.

Team news

Hannover 96 line-up (4-4-2)

Ron-Robert Zieler, Karim Haggui, Mario Eggimann, Steven Cherundolo, Sérgio Pinto, Lars Stindl, Manuel Schmiedebach, Mohammed Abdellaoue, Jan Schlaudraff, Christian Schulz, Konstantin Rausch

FC Köln expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

Michael Rensing, Pedro Geromel, Sascha Riether, Ammar Jemal, Henrique Sereno, Mišo Brečko, Mato Jajalo, Christian Clemens, Martin Lanig, Lukas Podolski, Sławomir Peszko