The playing surface at the home ground of the Werkself has been named Pitch of the Year for the 2021/22 season by the DFL (German Football League). The award has been made since 2013/14 in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for the outstanding quality of pitches. The winners are determined by marks from the team captains and referees on the condition of the pitch over the whole season as well as a range of measurements taken by an expert committee and testing by the stadium ground staff.
Bayer 04 receive the award for a second time. The first time for the Werkself was in the 2017/18 season. It's a title not only won by the pitch at the BayArena. The Ulrich Haberland Stadium and the Kurtekotten Performance Centre have twice been voted Pitch of the Year as home grounds for the Bayer 04 Women's team. Since the 2019/20 season, the German Football Association (DFB) has also made an award for the highest quality pitch in the Women's Bundesliga over the course of a whole season. Both the first award and the one for the 2020/21 season went to Leverkusen.
31 in total – that is the number of goals the Bayer 04 Women's team scored last season in the FLYERALARM Women's Bundesliga. From long-range shots into the top corner, through converted penalties and tap-ins from close range – they are all there. Milena Nikolic proved to be the most prolific scorer for the Black and Reds with a total of seven goals. A compilation of all the goals are available to watch again and enjoy HERE on the club's platforms.
The sports tribunal of the German Football Association (DFB) has imposed a fine in the sum of €6,250 on Bayer 04 in a single judge hearing following an indictment by the DFB control committee due to unsporting behaviour by their supporters. Immediately before kick-off in the Bundesliga match at Greuther Fürth (4-1), Leverkusen supporters let off at least five flares. That meant the kick-off was delayed by one and a half minutes.
Borussia Dortmund (€16,450) and Erzgebirge Aue (€9,200) were also fined due to flares being let off by their supporters.
The editors of the sports journal Kicker have published the rankings for the two remaining groups of positions for the first half of 2022. In the category of ‘Offensive wing players’, Werkself player Moussa Diaby finished second behind Eintracht Frankfurt’s Filip Kostic. The 22-year-old Frenchman stood out mainly with his impressive return of eight goals and seven assists in 17 matches in the Bundesliga Rückrunde and he was named in the ‘International class’.
Teammate Paulinho also made it into the rankings of the best attacking players on the wings and finished in seventh place. Ten starts, "good solutions in space", the ability to pick out teammates plus a match-winning brace against VfL Wolfsburg (2-0) put the Werkself number seven in the so-called ‘National class’
Amongst the strikers, Patrik Schick was third in the ‘International class’ behind Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski and Red Bull Leipzig's Christopher Nkunku. The reasoning: "Patrik Schick was not completely able to build on to his performances in the Hinrunde. That was primarily due to his injury on matchday 23 that meant he missed four games." Patrik scored eight goals in 13 Rückrunde games compared with 16 goals in 14 games in the Hinrunde.
At the summit of the Mexican league MX on Wednesday 8 June, an interview with Fernando Carro, Bayer 04 CEO, was broadcast in the context of the #Bayer04MexicoTour. The Werkself spent six days in the country in the middle of May as part of the celebrations for the centenary of Bayer AG in Mexico with a friendly against the top-flight side Deportivo Toluca plus a range of PR events. The aim of the tour was to promote and extend the strong and long-standing relationship with the country of Mexico, with its people and Bayer AG. The whole interview (in Spanish) is available HERE.
The former Werkself player Rudolf Wojtowicz today celebrates his 66th birthday – many happy returns. The defender joined Leverkusen for the 1982/83 season from the then top Polish club Szombierki Bytom. The former Poland international played 80 games for the Black and Reds in four seasons. Wojtowicz now works for VfL Wolfsburg as a scout.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen have extended the contract with U19 midfielder Jonah Berghoff ahead of schedule. The Germany U18 international has signed professional terms with the club to 30 June 2030.
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With sixth place at the end of the 2025/26 Bundesliga campaign, Bayer 04 ended a season in the top third of the table for the ninth time in a row. While the Werkself were narrowly eliminated in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 by eventual finalists Arsenal, the Black and Reds reached the semi-finals of the DFB Pokal for the third season in succession. As in previous years, you once again have the opportunity to vote for your Player of the Season. Voting is exclusively for Bayer 04 Club members and only via the Bayer 04 app up to and including 11 June.
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With 46 points in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga, the Bayer 04 Women’s team once again broke the previous season's club record and ended up in fifth place - 15 wins is also a record. As in previous years, you now have the opportunity to vote for your Player of the Season. Voting is open exclusively to Bayer 04 Club members and only via the Bayer 04 app by 11 June.
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The guests at the Scala Club in Leverkusen were amazed when host Reiner Calmund suddenly brought the Managing Director of Sport at Bayer 04, Simon Rolfes, and record Werkself appearance maker Rüdiger Vollborn onto the stage. As part of the show "An Evening with Football & Friends", organised by long-serving Bayer 04 managing director and general manager Calmund, the two surprise guests drew plenty of applause - and provided great entertainment in exciting conversations about the past and future.
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