
Top-flight German football is being shown live on the BBC this season after rights were secured to broadcast Friday night Bundesliga matches through to 2027.
The coverage continues on Friday, 8 May when two giants of German football, Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt, battle it out in our penultimate Bundesliga fixture of the season.
Matches will be available to watch live on the BBC Sport website, app and on BBC iPlayer every Friday, with clips of the biggest in-game moments across BBC Sport's social media channels.
Who's playing this week
Eintracht Frankfurt have only won four of their 17 Bundesliga matches in 2026. [Getty Images]
Borussia Dortmund are in a bit of a purple patch, losing three of their last four Bundesliga matches. That's more than they had lost in their previous 28 league matches. Two of these losses came against Bayer Leverkusen and Hoffenheim, two sides still fighting for a place in next season's Champions League, whereas their defeat last time out to Borussia Monchengladbach secured safety in the Bundesliga for The Foals.
Dortmund have already secured Champions League football next season but will be looking to finish their season strongly and return to the high standards they've set throughout the season. They boast the joint-most clean sheets in the Bundesliga this season with 14, and have shipped fewer goals than any other side in the league. A win on Friday night would also secure second place for BVB.
Eintracht Frankfurt have struggled for form all season but have been much poorer since the start of 2026. They have only won four of their 17 league games since the turn of the year. Frankfurt have also conceded the third most goals in the league this season (60) with only relegation-fighting Wolfsburg and Heidenheim shipping more.
The Eagles are in desperate need of a win on Friday night. After Stuttgart progressed to the DFB-Pokal final, it means seventh place in the Bundesliga will earn a Europa Conference League play-off position. Frankfurt currently sit in eighth place, a point behind Freiburg in seventh. A loss for Frankfurt on Friday night, followed by an Augsburg win in Hamburg on Sunday, would see Frankfurt fail to qualify for European football for the first time since the 2019/20 season. A win and the battle for seventh would go down to the final match of the season.
This fixture has been played out 113 times between the two sides, with Dortmund walking away with all three points on 56 occasions and Frankfurt winning 35 times. Dortmund will take confidence in the fact they have only lost one of their last 10 meetings with The Eagles. We can also expect goals on Friday night too, with this fixture only ever ending in a goalless draw twice, and the last time it did was back in April 1990.
Upcoming fixtures on BBC
List of confirmed fixtures and dates with more to be announced in due course:
(Kick-off times 19:30 GMT)
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Borussia Dortmund v Eintracht Frankfurt – 8 May
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TBC v TBC- 16 May
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Borussia Dortmund v Eintracht Frankfurt
Previous matches
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RB Leipzig 3-1 Union Berlin
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St. Pauli 1-1 Köln
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Augsburg 2-2 Hoffenheim








