A good defensive performance in the first half gives the Werkself a satisfying 0-0 scoreline against the favourites from the other side of the Rhine. FC Köln, without their star players Hans Schäfer and Jupp Röhrig, are the better team over the whole game but a battling Bayer team opened the scoring through centre forward Fritz Tiede just after the restart. FC Köln reply straightaway. Georg Stollenwerk levels on 53 minutes and then puts his team ahead with two goals to make it 3-1. The Bayer 04 team were not impressed by the hat-trick. Left winger Hans Schultz pulled a goal back. And there are still 15 minutes left to score an equaliser.
Suddenly one attack after the next besieged the Köln goal. Right winger Waldemar Langwagen breaks down the right flank in the last minute and whips in a cross. FC Köln player Stefan Langen tries to clear the ball but to the shock of the Köln team and the unbridled joy of the Leverkusen side he only succeeds in turning the ball into his own net. So, the match ends in a fortunate but not undeserved sharing of the points.
Harry Gniech was born on 14 October 1951 in Leverkusen-Schlebusch. At the age of six, he joined SV Bayer 04, initially in the athletics section. The boy actually wanted to play football, but was only allowed to switch to the football team when he turned nine. Harry quickly established himself as a playmaker in midfield. Despite his talent, the path from the youth team to the first-team squad was a long one back then. In the 1973–74 season, his former U19 coach, Friedhelm Renno – who was by then in charge of Bayer 04’s first team – selected him for his first match with the professional squad.
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Henrique Adriano Buss, known as Henrique, was born on 14 October 1986 in Marechal Cândido Rondon, a town in the Brazilian state of Paraná. At the age of 13, he joined Coritiba FC and made the step up to the first team in 2006. Henrique helped the team gain promotion to the Brazilian top flight and then moved on to Palmeiras FC. After just five matches for his new club, the 1.85-metre-tall centre-back was signed by Barcelona in 2008 for ten million euros and loaned to Bayer 04 for one year for a fee of €400,000.
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Constant Djakpa was born on 17 October 1986 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He started playing football at the age of five. He took his first steps in professional football at Stella Club d’Adjamé, before moving on to Sogndal IL in Norway. His path eventually led him to Germany via the Romanian club Pandurii Târgu Jiu.
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In this video you can see impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 from the month of October. It's not always about the beauty of the goals, but also a reminder of special games and players.
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In the first week of October 1966, professional footballers decided to take an unusual step – they went on strike. They felt compelled to resort to this action, which was relatively uncommon until then, to give greater weight to their demands for fair pay. They reasoned that, with three draws, they were entitled to a bonus; at the very least, a points bonus of 75 Deutschmarks that was agreed before the start of the season.
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