1. FC Köln vs Bayer 04 Leverkusen prediction | 8 Nov 2026 | xGtoday


1. FC Köln
Ranking: #70 overall, #11 in Germany

76.0 → 75.1 (-0.9 over last 10 games)

Rating
4-1 04 Sep Stuttgart (A) 75.9 -0.1
1-1 12 Sep Bremen (H) 76.0 +0.1
2-1 19 Sep Hamburg (A) 75.9 -0.1
2-1 11 Oct Gladbach (H) 75.7 -0.2
1-0 16 Oct Frankfurt (A) 75.1 -0.6
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Ranking: #11 overall, #2 in Germany

83.9 → 85.4 (+1.5 over last 10 games)

Rating
2-0 16 Sep NK Celje (H) 85.3 0.0
2-0 20 Sep RB Leipzig (H) 85.7 +0.4
3-4 10 Oct Mainz 05 (A) 85.0 -0.7
0-4 15 Oct Lech Poznań (A) 85.6 +0.6
2-1 18 Oct Freiburg (H) 85.4 -0.2

1. FC Köln vs Bayer 04 Leverkusen: by the numbers

1. FC Köln trail Bayer 04 Leverkusen by 59 places in our proprietary European rankings, and by 9 in Germany.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen arrive on the stronger recent trend, moving +1.5 rating points over their last 10 matches against 1. FC Köln's -0.9.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen lost 1.3 rating points in the last contest between these two, on 25 April 2026.

The best xGtoday rating 1. FC Köln have ever held is 80.3, first set on 27 July 2017.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen first climbed to joint #3 in our European rankings on 15 September 2024.