FC St. Pauli face Gladbach in friendly as form search continues

FC St. Pauli host Borussia Mönchengladbach in a friendly as they look to build rhythm after a 1-1 draw with Cottbus and a mixed start to the season.

29 Sep 2026

Updated 16 Oct 2026 By Theo Hartmann · senior correspondent

FC St. Pauli will use the international break to play a friendly against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

The team is coming off a 1-1 draw with third-tier side Energie Cottbus. Martijn Kaars scored the equaliser in the 80th minute. In the 2. Bundesliga, FC St. Pauli sit eighth with seven points from six matches. Their record shows one win, four draws and one defeat, with a goal difference of eight scored and eight conceded.

Form ahead of the friendly

Their form over the last five competitive games has been patchy. A home win over VfL Wolfsburg was followed by a draw at Arminia Bielefeld, preceded by two losses to 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Rot-Weiß Essen. They face a Gladbach side also struggling for consistency. The Bundesliga outfit lost four of their last five, including a 5-0 thrashing at SC Freiburg, with a 3-0 win at Sportfreunde Siegen their sole recent bright spot.

Possible line-ups

Abdoulie Ceesay and Connor Metcalfe led the line. Extensive rotations from both sides are expected for the friendly to give players from the squad valuable minutes.

Attention is already turning to the next league fixture. On October 10th, FC St. Pauli host Karlsruher SC, who currently sit 14th in the table. The friendly against Gladbach kicks off at 15:30 local time.