Updated October 25, 2026: Sport-Club Freiburg host FC Bayern München in Bundesliga Matchday 7 at Europa-Park Stadion on Sunday. The confirmed kickoff is 5:30 p.m. in Freiburg, Germany, on Central European Time (CET, UTC+01:00), which is 16:30 UTC. The date, venue, and time are listed in the Bundesliga’s official fixtures schedule and match center. Bayern’s latest update confirms Jonas Urbig will start in goal; the final starting elevens for both sides are a separate announcement.
The league schedule gives the local kickoff as 17:30 CET and the UTC equivalent as 16:30. The match center identifies Europa-Park Stadion as the venue. For a calendar entry or travel plan, keep the date and time-zone label together; a clock time without its zone can be misleading on a daylight-saving transition weekend.
Sunday, October 25, is the date Europe returns from summer time to standard time. The European Union’s published summertime guidance describes the autumn clock change on the last Sunday in October. By the evening kickoff in Freiburg, Germany is on Central European Time, UTC+01:00, rather than Central European Summer Time, UTC+02:00. That is why the official Bundesliga fixture table’s 17:30 CET matches 16:30 UTC.
Some club preview pages have displayed the same 17:30 kickoff with a CEST label. For the precise conversion, follow the Bundesliga schedule’s CET and UTC columns alongside the date. International readers can use 16:30 UTC as the reference and convert it to their own location using the offset in effect there on October 25. The reader market is not specified here, so no single overseas broadcast time or local conversion is assumed.
Bayern will be without Manuel Neuer for the trip to Freiburg. The club says the goalkeeper is dealing with persistent tendonitis in his foot, and the Bundesliga match center reports that Jonas Urbig will therefore start. This is a confirmed goalkeeper update, while the remaining team sheet should still be checked when the official lineups are released.
Assistant coach Aaron Danks confirmed that Joshua Kimmich will not be involved because of a personal bereavement. Jamal Musiala is unavailable while recovering from a muscle injury, Minjae Kim is out with a slight muscle strain, and Luis Díaz is expected to miss several weeks after a minor tear in his left hamstring. These absences are reported in the league’s match coverage and Bayern’s official match preview. Availability notes can change, so use the final team sheet for the definitive match-day list.
Bayern head coach Vincent Kompany will not lead the team at Europa-Park Stadion. The club said he remained under medical care after being taken to hospital on Friday. In an update on Saturday, board member Max Eberl said Kompany was stable and would stay in hospital for several more days while examinations continued. Bayern said that a return would depend on his recovery; Eberl indicated the timeline was being discussed in weeks rather than days. The club has not announced a diagnosis or a return date, so neither should be inferred. Danks and the coaching staff are handling the team’s football operations for this match.
Freiburg’s official preview raised a question over Yannik Engelhardt, who was substituted early during the team’s midweek match in Monaco. The club’s wording leaves his status uncertain; it does not confirm that he is ruled out. The Bundesliga’s Matchday 7 injury and suspension roundup separately lists Florent Muslija as unavailable with an ACL tear and says Yuito Suzuki is available again after serving a suspension. Those notes help explain the current squad picture, but they do not confirm Freiburg’s starting XI.
As of this update, the Bundesliga’s official lineup page still labels both sides’ formations as predicted. It says the confirmed starting lineups will be published around 60 minutes before kickoff. A predicted 4-2-3-1 is not an official selection, and projected lists should not override a newer club or league announcement. Check the lineups page again close to the match for all starters, substitutes, and late changes.
Freiburg come into the fixture after a 2–1 Bundesliga defeat at Bayer Leverkusen and a 3–0 loss away to Monaco in the UEFA Conference League. Bayern’s most recent match was a 2–2 draw with Arsenal in the Champions League. The Bundesliga preview also notes Bayern’s 6–1 league win over RB Leipzig the previous weekend. These results are useful context for the Matchday 7 meeting, but they do not establish how Sunday’s game will play out.
Freiburg coach Julian Schuster described Bayern as the biggest challenge of a demanding run of matches and said his side needed to improve details against an opponent of that quality. Bayern’s own preview describes the fixture as a contest between the league leaders and a Freiburg side that had been among the early front-runners. Those are each club’s pre-match assessments, not a prediction of the result.
The Bundesliga match center is the primary place to check the confirmed lineups, match events, and live text coverage. Bayern’s official preview says its website and app will carry live text and free web-radio commentary. For viewers in Germany, Freiburg’s official broadcast notice lists DAZN for this Sunday Bundesliga game; rights and services vary by country, so viewers elsewhere should check the licensed broadcaster in their own market.
Fans attending in person should use Freiburg’s current ticket and stadium notices for entry, transport, and access guidance. The venue is Europa-Park Stadion in Freiburg. Check the club’s official arrival information close to departure, especially if traveling across the city on match day, rather than relying on old directions or unofficial resale listings.
The confirmed essentials are the Matchday 7 fixture, the Freiburg venue, and a 17:30 CET kickoff on October 25, which converts to 16:30 UTC. Bayern’s latest updates name Urbig as the starting goalkeeper and report several absences; Kompany remains under medical care with no diagnosis or return date announced. Freiburg’s Engelhardt is a question mark rather than a confirmed absence, while Muslija is listed out and Suzuki is available after suspension. The official team sheets will settle the remaining lineup questions.
Official sources: Bundesliga fixtures; Bundesliga match center; FC Bayern preview; FC Bayern: Manuel Neuer update; SC Freiburg preview; Bundesliga Matchday 7 availability roundup; European Commission summertime guidance.
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