The Bayer 04 travelling party landed in Munich shortly before 19:00 on Friday before heading to the team hotel. After a quiet night, the Werkself are now preparing to face the champions this afternoon.
While the majority of the Leverkusen delegation will return home on Saturday evening, Simon Rolfes will stay in Bavaria. Our sporting director is a guest on “Sky90” with Lena Wurzenberger of Bild and Lothar Matthäus to talk about the game against Bayern. Host Patrick Wasserziehr kicks off his show at 11:30 on Sunday.
Fernando Carro will fly back with the team and take part in “Die Lage der Liga” from the BayArena on Sunday morning. The 57-year-old CEO will discuss latest Bundesliga news from 9:00 with presenter Walter M. Straten and Alfred Draxler on www.bild.tv.
The DFB have appointed Daniel Siebert as the referee for Bayer 04’s game at Bayern. The 37-year-old has overseen 17 fixtures involving Leverkusen, of which 15 have been in the Bundesliga and two in the DFB Cup. The record so far is seven wins, three draws and seven defeats. The Werkself have received 32 yellows cards and four reds. His assistants are Lasse Koslowski and Jan Seidel. Robert Schröder is the VAR.
Werkself Radio will once again be freely available to all Bayer 04 fans for this game. Coverage starts at 15:00 – half an hour before kick-off – with Niko Hartmann live at the Allianz Arena. You can tune in on the new Bayer 04 app or the website.
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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No points in the Kraichgau: the Werkself lost 1-0 away to top-six rivals TSG Hoffenheim on Bundesliga Matchday 18. Wouter Burger scored the only goal with a free kick in the ninth minute. In an uneventful contest, the Werkself tried hard to find an equaliser but were repeatedly thwarted.
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The meeting between fifth and sixth on Saturday afternoon (17 January, 15:30 CET) is a hard one to predict. While the Werkself can take confidence from their historic record at TSG Hoffenheim, the hosts are currently enjoying their second-best Bundesliga campaign and have lost just one of their last 10 games. Another good omen for Bayer 04: Daniel Schlager also refereed Leverkusen's last victory in Sinsheim (4-1). The Matchday News.
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At the end of the winter training camp in Portugal, the Bayer 04 Women convincingly mastered their friendly ahead of the start of the second half of the season. In the match against Swiss league leaders Servette FCCF, coach Roberto Pätzold's team won 3-0 at the Monte Gordo Sports Complex. Carlotta Wamser (4’), Vanessa Fudalla (18’) and Loreen Bender (53’) scored for Bayer 04, who have been preparing for the Rückrunde in the Algarve since last Saturday.
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The German Football League (DFL) has rescheduled the postponed fixture at Hamburger SV on Bundesliga matchday 17. The match, due to be played on Tuesday, has now been rescheduled for Wednesday, 4 March (kick-off: 20:30 CET).
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