Overview
- Kickoff is set for Saturday, 4 October, at 20:30 at Dresden’s Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion in the evening top match.
- Coach Thomas Stamm says Dresden have "rewarded themselves too little" at home and calls for collective improvement after conceding 13 league goals without a home clean sheet.
- Dresden are without suspended midfielder Vinko Sapina, while KSC miss injured centre-back Marcel Franke.
- KSC sit sixth after a 1–0 win over Magdeburg and are strong at home this season, yet they have not recorded an away victory.
- Former KSC youth product Dominik Kother faces his old club, and Dresden striker Christoph Daferner leads the team with three goals and scored in the 2021 home win over Karlsruhe.