2026/2027 season

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Eintracht Frankfurt

Head coach: Adi Hütter · 4-2-2-2

Rank

11th

Pts

8

P

6

Form

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The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings

5/10

Attack

2/10

Defence

5/10

Form

5/10

Confidence / mood

Current risk:High

11th with 8 pts from 6 matches: 2 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats.

10 goals scored, 16 conceded.

FC Cologne acted in the 0-1 defeat in Frankfurt against the ball with a five-chain. Coach René Wagner then explained the adjustment and why nothing countable jumped out.

kicker · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

FC Cologne prevailed Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday evening with just 1:0. After the whistle, the relief was great for coach Adi Hütter, especially Robin Koch got a special praise after the criticism of the last few weeks.

kicker · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Julian Franzke, Moritz Kreilinger and Jim Decker report from Frankfurt about the Friday evening match between Eintracht and Effezeh. The Frankfurters were allowed to breathe a sigh of relief, but still have to find each other. For the people of Cologne, it is important to work more meticulously.

kicker · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

For a long time Eintracht Frankfurt struggled against a harmless 1st FC Cologne, but then Noel Aseko reached deep into his trick box and Younes Ebnoutalib struck freezingly.

Sportschau · 16 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches

Wvs 1. FC Köln (H) · 1-0

Lvs RB Leipzig (A) · 0-6

Dvs SC Freiburg (H) · 2-2

Wvs 1. FSV Mainz 05 (A) · 3-1

Lvs FC Augsburg (H) · 1-4

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10 scored / 16 conceded over 6 matches played

Rest: 2 days since the last match · 2 matches played in the last 15 days

Home form

1W - 1D - 1L

Away form

1W - 1D - 1L

Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match

1.4

Goals conceded per match

2.6

At home

4 scored · 6 conceded in 3 matches

Away

3 scored · 7 conceded in 2 matches

Over 2.5 goals

4 of 5

Both teams score

3 of 5

Clean sheets

1 of 5

Failed to score

1 of 5

Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Eintracht Frankfurt play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity

Preferred system

4-2-2-2

Philosophy

The return of Adi Hütter's “Powerfussball”: intensity, aggressive pressing and high ball recovery, with the desire to carry the ball forward rather than circulate it — but with a more cautious balance than in his first spell, the Austrian having evolved towards greater defensive balance since his time at Monaco.

Attacking strengths

An attack capable of the spectacular: 11-0 in the first round of the Cup at St. Tönis (21/08/2026) and 3 goals as early as matchday 1 in Berlin, including a hat-trick from Younes Ebnoutalib, with close to 60% possession at half-time; in 2025-26, however, the club had finished only 8th with a negative goal difference (-4).

Defensive solidity

A department clearly identified as the weak point: a rearguard weakened by the departures of Nathaniel Brown, Rasmus Kristensen, Aurèle Amenda and Arthur Theate, a 0-7 thrashing suffered in a friendly against Brentford, then a 3-1 lead turned into 3-3 at Union Berlin with two goals conceded from set pieces and an equaliser in added time.

Pressing

High, aggressive pressing designed to compress the pitch very early; pre-season analyses stress that it is devastating when it works but opens up huge spaces once the first wave is beaten, notably because of Can Uzun's inconsistent tracking back.

Transitions

Immediate verticality after winning the ball, with two centre-forwards (Burkardt and Ebnoutalib) and full-backs pushed very high; in defensive transition, the team showed in Berlin that it could be pinned back and caught by long balls late in the match.

StrengthJonathan Burkardt up front, the emergence of Younes Ebnoutalib (a hat-trick on matchday 1), Can Uzun regarded as the club's best player and biggest asset, the arrival of under-21 international goalkeeper Noah Atubolu, and the clear playing identity brought by Hütter.

WeaknessA rebuilt and inexperienced central defence (Otávio, Maluze), the goalkeeper position up for grabs again after doubts over Kauã Santos, a defensive midfield still bedding in (Onyedika), a crowded treatment room and institutional instability in the closing stages of the transfer window.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood

Squad confidence

Ambivalent. Eintracht showed immediate attacking power with Younes Ebnoutalib's hat-trick in Berlin, but let a 3-1 slip and conceded an equaliser in stoppage time. Adi Hütter summed up the general feeling: “It annoys me, but I am not disappointed.” Noah Atubolu's loan has brought an immediate guarantee in goal and the signing of Lilian Brassier answers the defensive frailty. The sporting mood remains disturbed, however, by institutional instability.

Coach / players / board relationship

This is the club's sensitive point. The supervisory board backed Markus Krösche at its meeting on 2 September and ruled out an immediate departure, but further talks are already scheduled between the sporting director and the board's executive committee to clarify his position in the sporting structure. Adi Hütter, for his part, is said to have pushed internally for the squad to be strengthened, and the signing of Lilian Brassier on deadline day can be read as a partial answer. The club has also confirmed Sebastian Rode's return in an administrative role.

Mood with the supporters

A critical mood, and not only on social media: a hessenschau poll with more than 16,500 participants shows that 54.5% of voters give Markus Krösche a poor or very poor mark, against 2.7% who give him the highest. The window, judged laboured, and the succession of departures — Larsson, Bahoya, Nkounkou, Theate — weigh on the mood. Sebastian Rode's return to the structure is exactly the kind of identity signal that speaks to the fanbase.

Pressure on the head coach

Low on Adi Hütter, who has just arrived and enjoys the goodwill of his first spell between 2018 and 2021. The pressure is concentrated on the sporting directors, not the bench. His room for manoeuvre is, however, reduced by an injury list that still deprives the attack of Ansgar Knauff and Jessic Ngankam, and by a defence that conceded three goals on the opening day.

Club objectives

No official numerical objective could be verified. Verified facts: the club are in no European competition in 2026-27 after finishing 8th and are therefore playing the league and the DFB-Pokal. The staff's stated priority is to correct the defensive frailty that cost two points in Berlin, which the signing of Lilian Brassier answers.

Recent internal tensions

The uncertainty around Markus Krösche continues to take up space: backed on 2 September, he still has to explain himself to the supervisory board's executive committee, in a context where more than half of hessenschau's readers give him a poor mark. No tension between players is reported, and Jürgen Klopp's visit to training even provided a calm interlude, the national team head coach talking at length with Younes Ebnoutalib.

Absences

InjuredAnsgar Knauff — Thigh injury; declared unavailable until further notice since 30 August.

InjuredJessic Ngankam — Injured for close to four weeks; exact nature not specified by the sources consulted.

InjuredNnamdi Collins — Back problem, in fitness rehabilitation for a little over a month; still outside the group before Augsburg's visit.

BackRitsu Dōan — Absent on matchday 1 at Union Berlin, he reappears in LigaInsider's probable line-up for FC Augsburg's visit.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Borussia Dortmund — Eintracht Frankfurt

AwaySaturday 24 October at 18:30Matchday 7

In 6 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction

EstimateBorussia Dortmund — Eintracht Frankfurt

69 %

1 · Borussia Dortmund

16 %

X · draw

15 %

2 · Eintracht Frankfurt

In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Borussia Dortmund, 6 matches by Eintracht Frankfurt. Confidence: medium

The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures

League average. 193 goals scored over 104 team-matches played (18 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.86 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
TeamGoalsRawKept
Borussia Dortmund — attack11 in 6 matches0.990.99
Borussia Dortmund — defence4 in 6 matches0.360.68
Eintracht Frankfurt — attack10 in 6 matches0.900.95
Eintracht Frankfurt — defence16 in 6 matches1.441.22
The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Borussia Dortmund and 0.50 for Eintracht Frankfurt. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 2.23 goal scored on average by the host against 1.48 by the visitor, over the 44 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.51; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.42, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.19. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
Borussia Dortmund at home: 2.33 pts/match versus 2.33 overall over 3 matches → ×1.000
Eintracht Frankfurt away: 1.33 pts/match versus 1.33 overall over 3 matches → ×1.000
Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
λ_{Borussia Dortmund} = 1.86 × 0.99 × 1.22 × 1.19 × 1.000 = 2.67
λ_{Eintracht Frankfurt} = 1.86 × 0.95 × 0.68 × 1.000 = 1.20
Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 68.7%, draw 16.5%, away win 14.9% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-1 (only 8.9%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).

Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.

It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.

What other sources say

No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.

This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers

Noah Atubolu
Kauã Santos
Jens Grahl
Amil Šiljević

Defenders

Robin KochC
Arthur Theate
Otávio
Nnamdi Collins
Niels Nkounkou
Elias Baum
Keita Kosugi
Timothy Chandler
Jeremiaha Maluze
Julian Etse

Midfielders

Hugo Larsson
Raphael Onyedika
Mario Götze
Can Uzun
Farès Chaïbi
Oscar Højlund
Noël Aséko
Love Arrhov

Forwards

Jonathan Burkardt
Younes Ebnoutalib
Ritsu Dōan
Ansgar Knauff
Jean Bahoya
Malik Pimpong
Jessic Ngankam
Ayoube Amaimouni-Echghouyab

Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: sport.de — Eintracht Frankfurt 2026/2027 squad (https://www.sport.de/fussball/te530/eintracht-frankfurt/kader/), cross-checked with the official matchday 1 line-up (club website) and the captaincy confirmed by the club's official website and ran.de. Caveat: Arthur Theate still appears there although his loan to Bologna (€15m option to buy) was announced as concluded on 28/08/2026, and the arrival of Lilian Brassier (Rennes) does not yet appear..

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss16 Oct 2026

Frankfurt celebrates first home win since March – Ebnoutalib breaks the spell

Source: Welt Sport

rss17 Oct 2026

Laura Freigang secures Frankfurt in Leverkusen a point

Source: Sportschau

rss17 Oct 2026

Alarm – Suddenly the PK in Frankfurt is canceled

Source: Welt Sport

rss17 Oct 2026

From 2 pm live - Leverkusen and Frankfurt in the duel for the CL-seats

Source: Sportschau

rss16 Oct 2026

Ebnoutalib secures Eintracht Frankfurt victory against Cologne

Source: Sportschau

rss16 Oct 2026

El Mala: "Frankfurt was so dead"

Source: kicker

Institutional3 Sep 2026

Eintracht have announced Sebastian Rode's return to the club, this time as a trainee: the former captain will spend a year going through the company's various departments. “It is no secret that Eintracht shaped my career,” said Rode, who says he wants to make the most of this year of further training.

Source: hessenschau (HR)

Transfers3 Sep 2026

Goalkeeper Noah Atubolu, who arrived on loan from Freiburg, looked back on an eventful summer: “It was not an easy period, because things happened that should not happen.” He was initially targeting the Premier League and says he has learned lessons about the agency business.

Source: Fussballdaten

Head coach2 Sep 2026

In its pre-match analysis, FC Augsburg recall Adi Hütter's frame of mind after the 3-3 conceded at Union Berlin: “From our point of view, we let a 3-1 slip. It annoys me, but I am not disappointed.” The Austrian, back at Frankfurt after a first spell between 2018 and 2021, relies on a still very young squad, in which goalkeeper Noah Atubolu's loan convinced immediately, but which is without Nathaniel Brown, sold to Bayern Munich for €50m.

Source: FC Augsburg (site officiel)

Club2 Sep 2026

Frankfurt host FC Augsburg on Sunday 6 September at 17:30 to close matchday 2. The projected line-up keeps Noah Atubolu in goal, Robin Koch marshalling the defence, and pairs Can Uzun and Farès Chaïbi behind Jonathan Burkardt, with Mario Götze remaining an option in midfield. Three players are announced as unavailable — Jessic Ngankam, Ansgar Knauff and Nnamdi Collins — while Ritsu Dōan reappears in the projected eleven.

Source: LigaInsider

Institutional2 Sep 2026

Eintracht's supervisory board has ruled on Markus Krösche's future: the sporting director stays in post, an immediate departure after the window closed having been ruled out. His transfer record, notably the profitable sale of Jean-Mattéo Bahoya to Leeds United, weighed in the decision, despite reported differences over squad planning.

Source: Fussballdaten

Transfers1 Sep 2026

Eintracht have confirmed the arrival of French centre-back Lilian Brassier from Stade Rennais, a deal intended to bolster a back line that conceded three goals on the opening matchday.

Source: LigaInsider

Transfers1 Sep 2026

Niels Nkounkou has been loaned for a season to OGC Nice with a purchase option on deadline day, after the departures of Hugo Larsson to Fulham and Arthur Theate to Bologna.

Source: Fussballdaten

Institutional31 Aug 2026

Great turmoil around Eintracht on the eve of the close of the transfer window: the future of sporting director Markus Krösche (contract until 2028) is the subject of speculation, with Bild mentioning a possible departure within the calendar year, against a backdrop of a transfer window judged very laborious, a property deal in Croatia and internal pressure from Adi Hütter to strengthen the squad.

Source: hessenschau (HR)

Result29 Aug 2026

Frankfurt let a win that was all but secured slip away in Berlin: behind on the scoreboard and then virtual winners at 3-1, Eintracht conceded a 3-3 to Union Berlin, despite a Younes Ebnoutalib hat-trick. Adi Hütter summed it up: “We let a 3-1 slip. It annoys me, but I am not disappointed.”

Source: Site officiel de l'Eintracht Francfort

Other29 Aug 2026

Matchday 1 at Union Berlin: Frankfurt lead 3-1 thanks to a hat-trick from Younes Ebnoutalib (10', 11', 68') but concede a 3-3 equaliser to Tim Skarke in added time, after goals from Latte Lath (3') and Querfeld (79'). Bundesliga debuts for Noah Atubolu and the young Jeremiaha Maluze.

Source: Eintracht Frankfurt (site officiel)

News last verified on 17 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.

Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.