With an assist from Charles Aránguiz, Brandt hit the ball from the edge of the box on 55 minutes with a powerful shot that flew into the top left corner. Following Kai Havertz' nomination for April Goal of the Month that saw him finish runner-up to the winner Matheus Cunha from RB Leipzig, the vote includes a Werkself player for the second time in succession. Since last Saturday, 1 June, it has been possible to vote for Julian Brandt (still a Leverkusen player) on the Sportschau website.
Voting is open to Sunday 16 June (midnight). In addition to the strike from our number 10, the other options for May are the goals scored by Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich), Maximilian Wolfram (Carl Zeiss Jena), Cihan Özkara (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen) and Nadiem Amiri (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim).
Strengthening the Bayer 04 Leverkusen youth teams: Konstantinos Kotsifakis will join the Werkself from Bundesliga 2 club Hertha Berlin for the 2026/27 season, where he will be a permanent member of the Leverkusen U19 coaching set-up. The German-Greek will also take on an operational role in coaching the Bayer 04 Future Team. The 29-year-old was most recently head coach of the U17s at Hertha Berlin.
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Another award for the Bayer 04 head groundsman and staff: After coming top in the 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2024/25 seasons, the BayArena pitch came second in the Bundesliga Pitch of the Year ranking for the 2025/26 season. VfL Wolfsburg secured the top spot this year, with TSG Hoffenheim in third place.
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Opening opponents, derby weekends, the opponents in the season finale: This information and more will be available to Bayer 04 fans on Thursday, 2 July, when the 2026/27 Bundesliga fixture list is published.
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Rüdiger Vollborn has been at the club for 40 years, he holds the record number of Bundesliga appearances for the club (401) and is the only Bayer 04 player to have won both the UEFA Cup (1988) and the DFB Pokal (1993). And the Berliner stayed with the Werkself after ending his impressive playing career as he worked as a goalkeeping coach for the following nine years. Vollborn now works under the Bayer Cross as a fan liaison officer and club archivist. Since February 2021, the personal Black and Red lexicon takes Werkself fans under the heading of 'Rudi recounts...' on a brief trip through the history of Bayer 04 every month…
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