
The final home game of the year against Werder Bremen will be played on Wednesday 13 December (20.30 CET) and the first match of the New Year at the BayArena against Bayern Munich is the opening fixture of the second half of the season on Friday 12 January 2018 (20.30 CET).
Matchday 15: Friday, 8 December, 20.30 CET: VfB Stuttgart v Bayer 04
Matchday 16: Wednesday, 13 December, 20.30 CET: Bayer 04 v SV Werder Bremen
Matchday 17: Sunday, 17 December, 15.30 CET: Hannover 96 v Bayer 04
DFB Cup Round of 16: Borussia Mönchengladbach v Bayer 04 (19/20 December)
Matchday 18: Friday, 12 January, 20.30 CET: Bayer 04 v Bayern Munich
Matchday 19: Saturday, 20 January, 15.30 CET: TSG Hoffenheim v Bayer 04
Matchday 20: Sunday, 28 January, 15.30 CET: Bayer 04 v FSV Mainz 05
Matchday 21: Saturday, 3 February, 15.30 CET: SC Freiburg v Bayer 04
Matchday 22: Saturday, 10 February, 15.30 CET: Bayer 04 v Hertha BSC

Two Saturdays, one Friday and one Sunday: The dates for the Bayer 04 Women's team games on matchdays 16 to 19 have been finalised. Three of the four matches scheduled by the German Football Association (DFB) on Tuesday will be played at home at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium.
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Despite a courageous display, the Bayer 04 Women missed out on a surprise at the start of the second half of the Bundesliga season. Coach Roberto Pätzold's team lost 3-0 to league leaders Bayern Munich on Monday night. An early goal from the clinical visitors, a disputed penalty and another spot-kick prevented Leverkusen, who are seventh in the table on 22 points from 14 games, from picking up a point in front of 3,011 spectators at the sold-out Ulrich Haberland Stadium.
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The Werkself rang in the Black and Red festive season with an emotional visit to Klinikum Leverkusen. Kristin Kögel, Melissa Friedrich and Louisa Remien from the Bayer 04 Women's team and Jonas Hofmann, Janis Blaswich and Niklas Lomb from the first team visited the young patients on the children's ward and, for the first time, on the ‘Zeitinsel’ children's palliative care unit. They brought a host of lovingly wrapped presents ensuring a big surprise for young and old alike.
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Four Bayer 04 players are in action at the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations being played in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January 2026: Eliesse Ben Seghir for the hosts, Edmond Tapsoba with Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Maza for Algeria and Christian Kofane with Cameroon. Updates on the AFCON matches involving Werkself players...
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