Gladbach starts the season with emotional duel against promoted HSV!

Gladbach starts the season with emotional duel against promoted HSV!

St Pauli, Deutschland - Football plays again and the anticipation is great! On August 22, 2025 it will finally start when the FC Bayern Munich against RB Leipzig opened the new Bundesliga season in the Allianz Arena. But shortly afterwards it gets exciting in the Borussia Park, because Borussia Mönchengladbach welcomes the Hamburger SV, which after a long dry spell of seven years in the highest league of German football. In this emotional duel, the Gladbacher meet the last opponent of the HSV, and the expectations are high - both for the players and fans.

The exact date for the encounter between Gladbach and the HSV has not yet been determined (it will be between 23 and 24 August), but the DFL schedule for the 2025/26 season is already delighting the first games. The Hamburger SV, whose last appearance in the Bundesliga took place on May 12, 2018 against Mönchengladbach, wants to prove itself in this new season. HSV head coach Merlin Polzin is optimistic and speaks of an exciting start that will inspire the fans, while board member Stefan Kuntz highlights the tradition and class of these first games.

a difficult start for Gladbach

For Borussia Mönchengladbach, the start of the season could be challenging. The club has had difficulties with the starting program in the last two seasons, which also affects the point output of head coach Gerard Seoane. Last season, the team only scored 6 points in the first six games, and was only moderately proven. More precisely, Gladbach only won 5 points in the 2023/24 season. The club management and the fans therefore hope for a significant increase in the current season, while Seoane is criticized due to a weak final sprint in the previous season.

• 1. Matchday: Borussia Mönchengladbach - Hamburger SV (home game)
• 2. Matchday: VfB Stuttgart - Borussia Mönchengladbach (away game)
• 3. Match day: Borussia Mönchengladbach - Werder Bremen (home game)
• 4. Game day: Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Borussia Mönchengladbach (away game)
• 5. Matchday: Borussia Mönchengladbach - Eintracht Frankfurt (home game)
• 6. Matchday: Borussia Mönchengladbach - SC Freiburg (home game)

The first six encounters are anything but easy for Gladbach. After the start against the promoted HSV, there is an away game at VfB Stuttgart, which was completed last season with the DFB Cup and a solid ninth place. Even in the following games there are no easy opponents like Werder Bremen or Bayer Leverkusen.

permanent derby and more highlights

for the fans of Borussia Mönchengladbach are also waiting for tension -charged derbies in the season. The highlight could be the Rhein derby against 1. FC Köln on the 10th matchday in Gladbach. Previously, the team meets the top-class opponents such as Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig, while the north-south duel against FC Bayern Munich will cause Ekstra on the third matchday-each game will part of the exciting return of the HSV to the Bundesliga.