
The first encounter of the evening between #B04eSports player Marc ‘MARC_LDW23’ Landwehr and Schalke’s Julius ‘JULI’ Kühle in the youngsters' duel on PlayStation 5 ended in a 1-1 draw. The following Xbox 1-v-1 involving Fabian ‘B04_DUBZJE’ de Cae was the only game of the night that produced a winner. The Leverkusen player was on the wrong end of a 6-1 scoreline against the Schalke eSports player Serhat ‘SERHATINHO’ Öztürk. The following 2-v-2, with Paul ‘B04_PAUL’ Degner playing alongside Landwehr, ended all square at 0-0.
The games against Bochum followed later in the evening. Landwehr's 1-v-1 on PS5 ended with a 2-2 draw, da Cae’s game on Xbox and the final 2-v-2 encounter produced goalless draws.
After 15 matchdays, the #B04eSports team are now eighth in the North West division of the VBL Club Championship with a four-point gap to the top six.
Next Tuesday, 1 February, brings the games against Hannover 96 (from 18.00 CET) plus VfL Wolfsburg (20.00 CET). These fixtures will again be streamed live as usual on the Bayer 04 Twitch channel.

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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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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Bayer 04 currently have a number of promising young talents on loan to various clubs in Europe with the aim of gaining match practice and furthering their individual development. Francis Onyeka and Farid Alfa-Ruprecht, for example, play for VfL Bochum 1848, while Artem Stepanov is a striker with 1. FC Nürnberg, coached by World Cup winner Miroslav Klose. Tim Oermann is a defender in the Austrian Bundesliga at top club SK Sturm Graz and Abdoulaye Faye is playing in France for FC Lorient, promoted to Ligue 1 this season. Bayer04.de reviews the first six months for the Leverkusen players out on loan.
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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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