Peter Bosz appears first on TV late on Saturday evening. From 23.00 CET, Sven Voss presents the 90-minute broadcast and he will talk to the Dutchman about the impressive points haul for the Werkself in the season to date. The ZDF broadcast is live on TV and streamed on zdf.de and the episode will then be available from the ZDFmediathek.
Rudi Völler is a guest on Doppelpass on Sunday morning. In the first episode of the New Year, presenter Thomas Helmer will talk to the 60-year-old sporting managing director from Leverkusen and former player Sandro Wagner. Also on the show are Sport1 pundit Stefan Effenberg, journalist Florian Wichert (t-online.de) plus Mounir Zitouni. The latter was a professional footballer and he played for Völler’s former club Kickers Offenbach from 2001 to 2003.
The Sport1 broadcast starts at 11.00 CET on TV and will also be streamed on sport1.de. Doppelpass is then also available on catch up at sport1.de.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen will have to manage without centre-back Edmond Tapsoba in the coming weeks. The Burkina Faso international returned to the Werkself from the Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco with a muscle injury.
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The Werkself are away to Hamburg SV at the end of the Hinrunde in the 2025/26 Bundesliga campaign. The match at the newly promoted club is on Tuesday night, 13 January (kick-off: 20:30 CET). Ahead of the first encounter with HSV since 2018, Kasper Hjulmand spoke about the strengths of the opponents, lessons learnt from the home defeat against VfB Stuttgart and provided a squad update.
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In Germany, the temperatures are currently around zero, leaving even professional footballers freezing - but not the Bayer 04 Women. Roberto Pätzold's team have fled the cold to the south and are preparing for the second half of the season at a training camp in the Algarve, almost 2,000 kilometres away from home as the crow flies. The Leverkusen squad landed in Faro on Saturday morning and have already completed the first three training sessions over the weekend.
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It was a disappointing Saturday night. The Werkself lost 4-1 to VfB Stuttgart to start the new year on Bundesliga matchday 16 in 2025/26, a result that left both players and fans disappointed. "We played without any passion," said Alejandro Grimaldo honestly afterwards. Teammate Jarell Quansah was even more self-critical, emphasising: "We were miles off it in the first half. You can't put in a performance like that, especially in front of our own fans and I can only apologise to them, to be honest." Read on for the reaction, facts and stats from the clash with VfB Stuttgart in the Werkself review.
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