Chelsea just took up preparations for the new season this week. After the 3-0 victory in the Club World Cup final against Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain in mid-July, Enzo Maresca’s team enjoyed a three-week holiday. The clash with the Werkself is the first friendly for the Blues.
The side from west London will not have much time for more matches as the Premier League campaign starts next weekend. Chelsea contest their second and final friendly the day after tomorrow, when they take on AC Milan at Stamford Bridge. Their first league clash will be staged on 17 August, when Chelsea entertain south London rivals Crystal Palace.
Bayer 04 and Chelsea have only faced off twice so far. The Werkself won 2-1 at the BayArena in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 2011/12, when Chelsea went on to win Europe’s premier club competition. The London side won the return fixture 2-0. Players like Fernando Torres, Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and John Terry were in action for Chelsea back then, with the likes of Michael Ballack, André Schürrle, Renato Augusto and Simon Rolfes, today’s managing director for sport, featuring for the Black and Reds.
About 350 fans will travel to England to support the Werkself at Stamford Bridge. The Bayer 04 Fan Liaison has compiled all the relevant info for the fans as usual. Click here for the Fan Information!
The last friendly ahead of the start of the 2025/26 season takes Bayer 04 to England: The Werkself are away to Club World Cup winners Chelsea on Friday, 8 August (kick-off: 20:00 CEST). The Bayer 04 Fan Liaison team brings you the latest information on the fixture at Stamford Bridge in London…
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There was a very special event for 50 of the over 70,000 Bayer 04 Club members on the afternoon of the Bayer 04 season launch event: At the press conference room at the BayArena, CEO Fernando Carro fielded lots and somewhat different questions from the fans. The Spaniard, under whose leadership since 2018 the number of members at Bayer 04 has almost tripled, shared his personal insight into the most important decision of his life and his way of managing staff.
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The open sale of season cards for the Werkself home games in the new Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga season has started. The season ticket is valid for all 13 games at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium including the match against the champions of Germany Bayern Munich and the derby against FC Köln. The first home game is against Union Berlin on Monday, 15 September (18:00 CEST).
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Anne Dannenberg took over the management of TecArena-Plus GmbH, a fully owned subsidiary of Bayer 04 Leverkusen GmbH, on 1 August 2025. She follows on from Ulrich Wölfer who left the company on 31 July 2025. Wölfer took over the management of TecArena-Plus GmbH in 2021 to start planning for an alternative, central and sustainable Bayer 04 venue. That task, which has developed into a concrete building project as the Bayer 04 Campus, is now the main responsibility for Dannenberg.
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