Schalke host Leipzig in matchday 8 of the Bundesliga

Schalke host Leipzig on 31 October 2026 at 17:30 Saudi time (Damascus), in a meeting between the two sides in matchday 8 of the Bundesliga for the 2026/27 season. The match will be broadcast on Shahid and MBC Action.

Leipzig sit in fifth place in the table with 12 points from 7 matches, having won 4, drawn 0 and lost 3, scoring 20 goals and conceding 11. In contrast, Schalke are in 16th place with 6 points from 7 matches, after 1 win, 3 draws and 3 defeats, scoring just 4 goals while conceding 7.

Schalke go into this match on the back of a series of negative results, having lost 0-2 away to Dynamo Dresden on 28 October, drawn 0-0 with Cologne on 24 October, lost 0-1 at home to Mainz on 17 October, and lost 1-2 to Freiburg on 11 October, preceded by a 0-0 draw with Elversberg.

Leipzig, meanwhile, arrive with greater confidence despite fluctuating results, having won 2-1 away to Rot-Weiss Essen on 27 October, and beaten Elversberg by a big score of 4-0 on 24 October, but lost 1-4 to Real Madrid on 21 October, suffered a heavy 1-6 defeat to Bayern Munich on 17 October, and beat Eindhoven 1-0 on 13 October.

In previous meetings between the two sides, the upper hand has always gone to Leipzig, with a 4-2 win when they hosted Schalke on 27 May 2023, while Schalke beat them by a big score of 1-6 when Leipzig were the away side on 24 January 2023. Leipzig also won 0-3 in February 2021, 4-0 in October 2020, and 0-5 in February 2020.