Bodo/Glimt vs Borussia Dortmund: Champions League Preview

Bodo/Glimt vs Borussia Dortmund kicks off at the Aspmyra Stadion on Wednesday night, with Dortmund looking to build on a winning start to the Champions League league phase against a Bodo/Glimt side still searching for their first points. Kick-off is 21:00 SAST (19:00 UTC), with Swiss referee Urs Schnyder in charge.

Dortmund sit 14th in the 36-team table after a 3-2 win over Villarreal on matchday one, while Bodo/Glimt are 36th and without a point after a 5-0 defeat away at Bayern Munich. For South African fans following the Champions League, this looks on paper like a routine away win for Dortmund, but Bodo/Glimt’s recent home record in Europe says the Norwegian champions are never as beatable at the Aspmyra Stadion as the scoreline in Munich suggests.

What time does Bodo/Glimt vs Borussia Dortmund kick off?

The match kicks off at 21:00 SAST (19:00 UTC) on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, at the Aspmyra Stadion in Bodo, Norway. It is Dortmund’s first trip to Norway since a 4-3 comeback win at Odd in the 2015/16 season, when they came back from 3-0 down.

What is the team news for Borussia Dortmund?

Dortmund have injury concerns in defence and midfield heading into the trip north. Centre-back Emre Can is out with a knee injury, Giorgos Konstantelias is sidelined with a knee problem of his own, and Jean Lerma is unavailable with a muscle injury. Nico Schlotterbeck has been given rest rather than being managed as an injury, which points to squad rotation given the travel involved in facing Bodo/Glimt. Serhou Guirassy, who scored twice on matchday one against Villarreal and now has 21 goals in 29 Champions League appearances, is expected to lead the line regardless of the changes elsewhere.

This is Dortmund’s 11th straight season reaching the Champions League league phase, though last season was a reminder that status alone guarantees nothing: they finished 17th in the 2025/26 league phase and then lost 4-3 on aggregate to Atalanta in the knockout play-off. They have also lost their last three away matches in the competition, a run Wednesday’s trip to Norway will either extend or end.

What is the team news for Bodo/Glimt?

Bodo/Glimt have their own absentees to work around. Forward Ola Bjortuft is suspended after picking up a red card, while Henrik Evjen (knee), August Mikkelsen (groin), Marcus Riisnaes (knee) and Isak Sjong are all carrying injuries, along with Jostein Kitolano. Manager Kjetil Knutsen will have to juggle those gaps against a Dortmund side that, on paper, is the stronger squad by a wide margin.

Even so, Bodo/Glimt’s home form in Europe is the main reason this is not a straightforward trip for Dortmund. They have won their last five home European matches and scored two or more goals in 11 of their last 13 continental fixtures, home and away, numbers built on a run to last season’s round of 16, where they beat Inter Milan in the play-off round before losing 3-0 and 5-0 to Sporting CP across the two legs of the knockout tie. This is their fifth Champions League campaign since 2021, and they go into matchday two having taken only one point on the road in Europe this season.

Have Bodo/Glimt and Dortmund met before?

Yes, once, at Signal Iduna Park in December 2025, when the sides drew 2-2. Julian Brandt scored twice for Dortmund that night, while Haitam Aleesami and Jens Petter Hauge replied for Bodo/Glimt. Dortmund have otherwise lost only one of seven matches against Norwegian opposition, winning four and drawing two, though Wednesday is their first visit to Norwegian soil since that 2015/16 win at Odd. Hauge, now at Bodo/Glimt, also has a personal quirk in this fixture: he scored against Dortmund on his Bundesliga debut for Eintracht Frankfurt back in August 2021, and he remains one of the players Dortmund’s defenders will be told to track closely on Wednesday, alongside top Eliteserien scorer Kasper Waarst Hogh and midfielder Patrick Berg.

What would a result mean for the Champions League table?

A Dortmund win would take them to six points from two games, matching the kind of start that usually sets up a straight run into the knockout rounds rather than the play-off route they were forced into last season. A Bodo/Glimt win, by contrast, would be a notable European scalp given the gap in squad depth and would move the Norwegian champions off the foot of the table after their heavy opening defeat to Bayern Munich. Either way, Dortmund’s away record in this competition over the last three matches is poor enough that their manager will want more control of the game than they showed in some of those results, even against a weakened Bodo/Glimt side.

UEFA’s own build-up to the match covers the head-to-head context and both clubs’ matchday one results in full (uefa.com).

This is one of nine Champions League matchday two fixtures involving English and European giants this week; see our AS Roma vs Real Madrid preview for another of the night’s big ties, and check our Champions League predictions hub for every fixture and kick-off time this week. Follow tonight’s score as it happens on our live scores page.

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