Eintracht Frankfurt are in the last four of the UEFA Europa League thanks to a 3-2 win away to Barcelona in the second leg of the quarter-finals. As the Eagles are playing West Ham United in the semi-final first leg on Thursday 28 April, the Bundesliga match at Bayer 04 will not be played the following day. Instead the date originally set by the DFL remains: Monday 2 May at 20.30 CEST at the BayArena. The match is the penultimate home game for the Black and Reds in the current season.
Rudi Völler is handing over the post of Leverkusen sporting managing director at the end of the season to sporting director Simon Rolfes but he will be working as a member of the shareholders committee and as a Bayer 04 ambassador from the summer. In honour of the 1990 World Cup winner, stories will be collected from fans, associates and colleagues of Völler and they will be put together as a commemorative book to be presented to Völler on the last matchday of the season. Send your messages, congratulations or photos via email to voeller.abschied@gmx.de. The Bayer 04 fan liaison section will also accept postal contributions. The closing date for submission is 7 May.
Robert Andrich is part of the first edition of the sport show 'At Broski' on the streaming service 'GamerBrother' (1 million subscribers on YouTube). In addition to the Werkself player, the journalists Georg Holzner and Niklas Levinsohn plus the video creator Der Van De Keller will also make their debuts. The monthly broadcast cannot only be followed live on the streaming service Twitch but also in person at the Cologne venue Xperion. However, tickets for the first show on Sunday 24 April at 13.30 CEST were sold out in two minutes.
A Cup thriller live at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium – and you can be there. Get your tickets now for the DFB Cup semi-final between the Bayer 04 Women’s team and FFC Turbine Potsdam. A tip: For the match on Monday 18 April (kick-off: 18.30 CEST) there is a 10% discount at the Bayer 04 online shop with the purchase of at least 04 tickets. All seats have already been sold out. Click here for the tickets.
Bayer 04 congratulates Hannes Wolf and Teddy Lucic on Good Friday. Wolf was appointed caretaker manager at the Werkself in March of last year. The now 41-year-old coach temporarily gave up his post as Germany U18 coach and in Wolf's eight games in charge in the Bundesliga, Bayer 04 picked up an average of 1.5 points per game – and qualified for the Europa League. The coach then returned to the DFB as agreed and Bayer 04 Leverkusen brought in the current head coach Gerardo Seoane. Many happy returns and much success with the Germany U19s, Hannes.
Lucic, the second birthday boy with a Black and Red past, moved under the Bayer Cross as a player in the summer of 2003. The central defender came from AIK Solna from his home country Sweden and in the following 18 months Lucic made 11 Bundesliga appearances for the Werkself. The former Leverkusen player ended his playing career in Sweden in 2010. Many happy returns to you too on your 49th birthday.
Former Bundesliga and Germany keeper Manfred Manglitz, who was promoted to the Oberliga West with Bayer 04 in 1962, passed away on Monday at the age of 86.
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Justine Brandau and Lobke Loonen joined the Bayer 04 Women’s squad in quick succession this summer. The two Dutch players have been friends since their youth days, and are now playing for the same club for the first time. In an interview at the training camp in Rieden, Brandau and Loonen talk, amongst other things, about their experiences as opponents in the Vrouwen Eredivisie, the dynamic within their new team and their first few weeks in Leverkusen.
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The Werkself fixture list for the 2026/27 season in the Google Pixel Women’s Bundesliga has been finalised. To kick off the season, coach Roberto Pätzold’s team travel to RB Leipzig between 21 and 24 August. The fixtures were announced by the German Football Association (DFB) on Thursday morning. The season will conclude with a home match on 23 May 2027 against newly promoted side Mainz 05.
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On Wednesday evening, Monheim City Council voted against a planning resolution for the Bayer 04 Campus on Alfred-Nobel-Straße in Monheim in a secret ballot, with 19 votes in favour, 25 against and one abstention. The legal status of the project therefore remains unchanged.
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