
Fans, families and children can enjoy a packed programme at the BayArena (P3) for the whole day. There will be no shortage of games and fun for the younger fans: You can join in with a large number of football and action activities from a bouncy castle through the popular Robokeeper to the Bayer 04 Soccer School soccer cage. The Soccer School, fan liaison plus the different Bayer 04 clubs - Löwenclub, Teens, Club, and Silberlöwen – will be on site all day to present their programmes for the forthcoming season. There is also a diverse and multicultural offer of food and drink throughout the day.
Car park P3 at the BayArena will be a playground for young and old from 10.30 CEST through to 16.30 CEST.
The highlights: The presentation of the Werkself squad on stage the day after the first competitive match of the campaign – away to third division SV 07 Elversberg in the DFB Cup. And the Women’s team with their new coach Robert de Pauw will also be presented on stage.

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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Sustainability once again had many faces at Bayer 04 in 2025: In community activity, the club supported countless regional campaigns, including the Leverkusener Tafel, the Frauenennotruf Leverkusen e.V. and the homeless aid organisation "Kältegang". But the Black and Reds have also been involved in good causes around the world - including the Young Coaches training programmes in Uganda and Ecuador plus the Genuine World Cup in the USA, where the Inclusion Werkself competed. Bayer 04 was also fully committed to the environment and underwent external and independently certification in accordance with the European environmental management standard EMAS, for example, to analyse and optimise the club’s environmental efforts. Looking back at sustainability in 2025.
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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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