Bayer Leverkusen vs Nurnberg (28 October 2026) ⋆ DFB Pokal - 1/16-finals ⋆ Live Score, Results, H2H, Stats & Lineups

Match events

13' Goal - R. LubachAssist - W. Boving • 0 : 1
30' Goal - S. HaugenAssist - W. Boving • 0 : 2
41' Goal - E. TapsobaAssist - A. Garcia • 1 : 2
49' Goal - E. Tapsoba2 : 2
70' Penalty - P. Schick3 : 2
73' Yellow card - E. Fernandez
78' Goal - J. HofmannAssist - A. Garcia • 4 : 2
81' Yellow card - G. Masouras
87' Yellow card - Lucas
89' Goal - Lucas5 : 2

Match statistics

60%Ball Possession40%

25Shots Total5

10Shots On Goal3

87Dangerous Attacks23

134Attacks77

13Corners3

Full statistics

Match information

Country: Germany
Competition: DFB Pokal - 1/16-finals
Season: 2026/2027
Stage: 1/16-finals
Date: 28 October 2026
Kick-off: 19:45
Stadium: BayArena
Referee: F. Zwayer

Recent form

Bayer Leverkusen

WWWWL

Nurnberg

WWDDL

Clubs

Bayer Leverkusen

Founded: 1904
Country: Germany
Stadium: BayArena
City: Leverkusen
Capacity: 30 210
Surface: grass

Nurnberg

Founded: 1900
Country: Germany
Stadium: Max-Morlock-Stadion
City: Nürnberg
Capacity: 50 000
Surface: grass

Match commentary

It is all over: Bayer Leverkusen 5 : 2 Nurnberg.
89'Goal! Lucas scores for Bayer Leverkusen. 5 : 2.
87'Yellow card for Lucas (Bayer Leverkusen).
81'Yellow card for G. Masouras (Nurnberg).
78'Bayer Leverkusen score! A. Garcia sets it up and J. Hofmann finishes. 4 : 2.
73'Yellow card for E. Fernandez (Bayer Leverkusen).
70'P. Schick converts the penalty for Bayer Leverkusen. 3 : 2.
49'Goal! E. Tapsoba scores for Bayer Leverkusen. 2 : 2.
We are back for the second half.
Half-time. 1 : 2.
41'Bayer Leverkusen score! A. Garcia sets it up and E. Tapsoba finishes. 1 : 2.
30'Nurnberg score! W. Boving sets it up and S. Haugen finishes. 0 : 2.
13'Nurnberg score! W. Boving sets it up and R. Lubach finishes. 0 : 1.
Kick-off! The match is under way.

Line-up - Bayer Leverkusen • 4-2-3-1

23Tella

9Moreira10Tillman7Hofmann

24García8Andrich

3Gutiérrez2Medina12Tapsoba (C)17Vázquez

28Blaswich

9Afonso Moreira
28Janis Blaswich
10Malik Tillman
3Miguel Gutiérrez
12Edmond Tapsoba C
2Facundo Medina
23Nathan Tella
24Aleix García
8Robert Andrich
17Lucas Vázquez
7Jonas Hofmann

Substitutes

30Ibrahim Maza
4Jarell Quansah
15Tim Oermann
42Montrell Culbreath
6Ezequiel Fernández
22Victor Okoh Boniface
14Patrik Schick
1Mark Flekken
39Kénan Doganay

Line-up - Nurnberg • 4-2-2-2

9Haugen11Bøving

18Lubach10Justvan

6Markhiev8Fernández

14Ceresoli20Otto4Kalogeropoulos32Janisch

1Reichert (C)

6Adam Markhiev
1Jan Reichert C
20Fynn Otto
11William Bøving
10Julian Justvan
9Sigurd Haugen
14Andrea Ceresoli
4Alexios Kalogeropoulos
32Tim Janisch
8Javier Fernández
18Rafael Lubach

Substitutes

19Piet Scobel
5Styopa Mkrtchyan
28Can Yahya Moustfa
7Rayan Ghrieb
21Giannis Masouras
13Robin Lisewski
35Marc Kornwachs Barjuan
16Marko Soldić
41Eric Porstner

Coaches

Bayer Leverkusen: Carles Martinez
Nurnberg: Miroslav Klose

Team statistics

Bayer LeverkusenNurnberg

13Corners3

0Throw In0

0Free Kick0

0Goal Kick0

1Penalty0

5Substitution5

134Attacks77

87Dangerous Attacks23

60%Ball Possession40%

25Shots Total5

10Shots On Goal3

7Shots Off Goal0

8Shots Blocked2

19Shots Inside Box2

6Shots Outside Box3

10Fouls8

2Offsides0

2Yellow Cards1

1Saves5

609Passes Total424

538Passes Accurate350

Player statistics - Bayer Leverkusen

Player	Rating	Min	Goals	Assists	Shots	On target	Dribbles	Offsides
28Janis Blaswich	6.3	90	0	0	0	0	-	0
12Edmond Tapsoba C	8.9	90	2	0	4	3	-	0
2Facundo Medina	6.3	90	0	0	0	0	-	0
17Lucas Vázquez	8.2	90	1	0	1	1	-	0
3Miguel Gutiérrez	6.5	90	0	0	1	0	1/1	0
9Afonso Moreira	6.7	45	0	0	0	0	0/1	0
24Aleix García	9.0	90	0	2	1	0	-	0
7Jonas Hofmann	7.6	87	1	0	3	1	-	0
10Malik Tillman	6.2	45	0	0	0	0	0/1	0
8Robert Andrich	6.3	45	0	0	0	0	-	0
23Nathan Tella	6.7	68	0	0	3	2	0/1	2
6Ezequiel Fernández sub	6.9	45	0	0	0	0	-	0
30Ibrahim Maza sub	6.9	45	0	0	1	0	-	0
14Patrik Schick sub	7.2	45	1	0	3	3	0/2	0
4Jarell Quansah sub	6.7	22	0	0	0	0	-	0
22Victor Okoh Boniface sub	-	3	0	0	0	0	0/1	0

Player	Rating	Passes	Accurate	Accuracy	Key passes	Crosses
28Janis Blaswich	6.3	36	29	81%	0	-
12Edmond Tapsoba C	8.9	74	60	81%	1	0/1
2Facundo Medina	6.3	82	74	90%	0	-
17Lucas Vázquez	8.2	44	38	86%	4	1/4
3Miguel Gutiérrez	6.5	54	51	94%	1	1/6
9Afonso Moreira	6.7	25	22	88%	1	0/2
24Aleix García	9.0	112	106	95%	4	3/11
7Jonas Hofmann	7.6	37	32	86%	5	3/8
10Malik Tillman	6.2	9	9	100%	0	-
8Robert Andrich	6.3	33	30	91%	0	-
23Nathan Tella	6.7	28	24	86%	0	0/1
6Ezequiel Fernández sub	6.9	30	26	87%	0	-
30Ibrahim Maza sub	6.9	25	21	84%	1	0/1
14Patrik Schick sub	7.2	7	5	71%	1	-
4Jarell Quansah sub	6.7	8	7	88%	0	0/1
22Victor Okoh Boniface sub	-	5	4	80%	0	-

Player	Rating	Tackles	Interceptions	Clearances	Blocks	Duels won	Aerials	Fouls	YC
28Janis Blaswich	6.3	0	0	1	0	1/1	0	0	0
12Edmond Tapsoba C	8.9	0	2	2	1	1/3	1	0	0
2Facundo Medina	6.3	1	1	0	0	2/2	0	0	0
17Lucas Vázquez	8.2	2	1	1	0	5/9	1	2	1
3Miguel Gutiérrez	6.5	2	2	0	0	3/8	0	2	0
9Afonso Moreira	6.7	1	0	0	0	2/4	1	1	0
24Aleix García	9.0	1	2	0	0	1/1	0	0	0
7Jonas Hofmann	7.6	1	0	1	0	2/3	0	0	0
10Malik Tillman	6.2	1	0	0	0	1/6	0	1	0
8Robert Andrich	6.3	1	0	0	0	2/5	1	0	0
23Nathan Tella	6.7	2	0	0	0	3/10	0	1	0
6Ezequiel Fernández sub	6.9	0	1	1	1	0/2	0	1	1
30Ibrahim Maza sub	6.9	2	1	0	0	3/6	1	0	0
14Patrik Schick sub	7.2	1	0	0	0	4/10	2	1	0
4Jarell Quansah sub	6.7	0	0	0	0	0/1	0	1	0
22Victor Okoh Boniface sub	-	0	0	0	0	0/1	0	0	0

Player	Rating	Min	Saves	In the box	Punches	Conceded	Pens saved
28Janis Blaswich	6.3	90	1	0	0	2	0

Player statistics - Nurnberg

Player	Rating	Min	Goals	Assists	Shots	On target	Dribbles
1Jan Reichert C	6.5	90	0	0	0	0	-
4Alexios Kalogeropoulos	6.7	90	0	0	0	0	-
14Andrea Ceresoli	6.2	60	0	0	0	0	0/1
20Fynn Otto	6.3	90	0	0	0	0	1/2
32Tim Janisch	6.3	76	0	0	0	0	1/1
6Adam Markhiev	7.0	90	0	0	1	1	2/2
8Javier Fernández	6.9	87	0	0	0	0	1/1
10Julian Justvan	6.5	90	0	0	0	0	0/3
18Rafael Lubach	7.5	76	1	0	1	1	1/1
9Sigurd Haugen	7.3	60	1	0	1	1	-
11William Bøving	7.9	90	0	2	0	0	0/2
41Eric Porstner sub	5.9	30	0	0	0	0	-
19Piet Scobel sub	6.6	30	0	0	0	0	-
21Giannis Masouras sub	6.2	14	0	0	0	0	0/1
7Rayan Ghrieb sub	6.5	14	0	0	0	0	0/1
35Marc Kornwachs Barjuan sub	-	3	0	0	0	0	-

Player	Rating	Passes	Accurate	Accuracy	Key passes	Crosses
1Jan Reichert C	6.5	29	24	83%	0	-
4Alexios Kalogeropoulos	6.7	51	44	86%	0	-
14Andrea Ceresoli	6.2	23	18	78%	0	-
20Fynn Otto	6.3	65	57	88%	0	-
32Tim Janisch	6.3	37	32	86%	0	-
6Adam Markhiev	7.0	55	48	87%	0	-
8Javier Fernández	6.9	46	40	87%	0	-
10Julian Justvan	6.5	32	20	63%	0	1/3
18Rafael Lubach	7.5	24	19	79%	1	0/2
9Sigurd Haugen	7.3	6	5	83%	0	1/1
11William Bøving	7.9	20	15	75%	2	0/1
41Eric Porstner sub	5.9	19	16	84%	0	-
19Piet Scobel sub	6.6	8	5	63%	1	-
21Giannis Masouras sub	6.2	6	5	83%	0	-
7Rayan Ghrieb sub	6.5	1	0	0%	0	-
35Marc Kornwachs Barjuan sub	-	2	2	100%	0	-

Player	Rating	Tackles	Interceptions	Clearances	Blocks	Duels won	Aerials	Fouls	YC
1Jan Reichert C	6.5	0	0	2	0	-	0	0	0
4Alexios Kalogeropoulos	6.7	2	2	11	2	7/11	4	1	0
14Andrea Ceresoli	6.2	1	0	3	0	2/3	1	0	0
20Fynn Otto	6.3	0	4	12	2	3/4	2	1	0
32Tim Janisch	6.3	1	2	2	1	2/3	0	0	0
6Adam Markhiev	7.0	2	0	2	0	7/9	1	1	0
8Javier Fernández	6.9	2	1	2	2	4/8	1	0	0
10Julian Justvan	6.5	3	0	1	0	5/8	0	0	0
18Rafael Lubach	7.5	0	1	1	0	3/6	1	1	0
9Sigurd Haugen	7.3	0	0	1	0	0/2	0	1	0
11William Bøving	7.9	1	1	0	0	6/12	1	2	0
41Eric Porstner sub	5.9	1	1	1	0	2/3	1	0	0
19Piet Scobel sub	6.6	0	0	1	0	1/2	1	0	0
21Giannis Masouras sub	6.2	0	0	0	0	0/2	0	1	1
7Rayan Ghrieb sub	6.5	0	0	0	0	0/1	0	0	0
35Marc Kornwachs Barjuan sub	-	0	0	0	0	-	0	0	0

Player	Rating	Min	Saves	In the box	Punches	Conceded	Pens saved
1Jan Reichert C	6.5	90	5	5	1	5	0

Head-to-head

No previous meetings of these clubs in the data.

Form: last 9 matches

	Bayer Leverkusen	Nurnberg
W-D-L	7-1-1	5-3-1
Scored (per match)	22 (2.4)	21 (2.3)
Conceded (per match)	9 (1.0)	13 (1.4)
Clean sheets	5 / 9	1 / 9
Both teams scored	3 / 9	7 / 9
Over 2.5 goals	6 / 9	6 / 9

Recent form - Bayer Leverkusen

L25 October 2026 • Bundesliga • Hoffenheim 3 : 0 Bayer Leverkusen (Half-time 0 : 0)
W22 October 2026 • UEFA Europa League • OFI Crete 0 : 2 Bayer Leverkusen (Half-time 0 : 2)
W18 October 2026 • Bundesliga • Bayer Leverkusen 2 : 1 Freiburg (Half-time 1 : 1)
W15 October 2026 • UEFA Europa League • Lech Poznan 0 : 4 Bayer Leverkusen (Half-time 0 : 3)
W10 October 2026 • Bundesliga • Mainz 3 : 4 Bayer Leverkusen (Half-time 2 : 2)
W20 September 2026 • Bundesliga • Bayer Leverkusen 2 : 0 RB Leipzig (Half-time 1 : 0)
W16 September 2026 • UEFA Europa League • Bayer Leverkusen 2 : 0 Celje (Half-time 1 : 0)
D12 September 2026 • Bundesliga • Augsburg 2 : 2 Bayer Leverkusen (Half-time 0 : 1)
W5 September 2026 • Bundesliga • Bayer Leverkusen 4 : 0 Union Berlin (Half-time 2 : 0)

Recent form - Nurnberg

L24 October 2026 • 2. Bundesliga • Nurnberg 0 : 1 Kaiserslautern (Half-time 0 : 0)
D16 October 2026 • 2. Bundesliga • Cottbus 1 : 1 Nurnberg (Half-time 0 : 0)
D10 October 2026 • 2. Bundesliga • Nurnberg 4 : 4 Wolfsburg (Half-time 0 : 2)
W2 October 2026 • Club Friendlies • Nurnberg 3 : 1 Ingolstadt (Half-time 3 : 0)
W19 September 2026 • 2. Bundesliga • Karlsruher SC 0 : 1 Nurnberg (Half-time 0 : 1)
W11 September 2026 • 2. Bundesliga • Nurnberg 2 : 1 Hannover (Half-time 1 : 1)
D5 September 2026 • 2. Bundesliga • Holstein Kiel 2 : 2 Nurnberg (Half-time 1 : 1)
W29 August 2026 • 2. Bundesliga • Nurnberg 4 : 1 Arminia Bielefeld (Half-time 3 : 0)
W15 August 2026 • 2. Bundesliga • Greuther Furth 2 : 4 Nurnberg (Half-time 2 : 2)