1. FC Union Berlin

The central meeting point for all travelling fans, recommended by Real Madrid and the Spanish authorities, is located in the Avenida de Brasil. From there, the stadium is a good 10-minute walk away.

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35-time Spanish champions, 20-time cup winners and record Champions League winners – Real Madrid are a club defined only by superlatives. As early as the 1950s, Real were among the world’s best and won the European Cup five times in a row between 1956 and 1960. President Santiago Bernabéu, who led Real between 1943 and 1978, is considered the father of this success, having been instrumental in professionalising the club, signing stars such as Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás, Raymond Kopa and Günther Netzer, as well as building a new stadium  that bore his name from 1955 and still does to this day. 

“No new dynasty was founded,” he writes. “No unbroken run of success was initiated. 1966 is the beginning of what became known as los años del desiertos – the wilderness years.”

1. FC Union Berlin: Rönnow – Juranović, Doekhi, Bonucci (80. Jaeckel), Leite, Gosens – Král, Tousart (83. Kemlein) – Becker (80. Fofana), Behrens (66. Volland), Laïdouni (66. Aaronson) 

That this coming Sunday’s match will be between the only two unbeaten teams in the Regionalliga Nordost was not necessarily to be expected before the season. While Union have great ambitions, FC Carl Zeiss Jena II have been more of a mid-table team in the league in recent years, finishing sixth in last two seasons.

Tickets are now on sale online at the Union Zeughaus.  Children up to the age of 12 are admitted free of charge, but require an appropriate free ticket**.

Under head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo, Hoffenheim have started the new season with three wins from four games. After a narrow 2-1 home defeat to SC Freiburg on matchday one, TSG went on to pick up three points against 1. FC Heidenheim, VfL Wolfsburg and 1. FC Köln respectively, icluding, for the first time since their promotion to the Bundesliga 16 years ago, winning their first two away games of a season. Brandenburg-born Maximilian Beier, who is the top scorer in Matarazzo’s team with three goals and one assist, has played a big part in this.

Attendance: 21.632 
Goals: 0-1Kramarić (22. Pen), 0-2 Beier (38.) 

1. FC Union Berlin: Wagner – Metzker, K. Orschmann, Niesler, Reissner – Rurack (66. Lange), Frank (91. Bach), Heiseler – Youssef (46. Blaschka), Abu Sabbah (79. Görsdorf), D. Orschmann (79. Trojahn)