
Get a cold drink, make yourselves comfortable and click onto our Bayer 04 channel on YouTube. You’ll discover lots of entertaining and, above all, humorous Werkself output. With the ‘I know him’ feature, for example with Lars and Sven Bender, the players are tested on how well they know each other. Using posted texts, the duos of Kevin Volland & Ramazan ‘Rambo’ Özcan and Lukas Hradecky & Joel Pohjanpalo, guess which of their teammates’ Instagram accounts it is. There is also the ‘Black or Red?’ game where a number of Werkself players have difficulty deciding. What’s really tricky is, ‘What’s the question?’ – Jonathan Tah, Kai Havertz and Kerem Demirbay have already been under pressure.
Here’s a little taster of ‘04 wins’ with Nadiem Amiri and Karim Bellarabi – laughter guaranteed!
Leon Bailey und Moussa Diaby haben es selbst schon getestet: Das Werkself-Memory! Für 25 ausgewählte Schnappschüsse der Werkself gilt es das entsprechend gleiche Pärchenbild zu finden. Und das könnt ihr nun auch zu Hause spielen! HIER geht’s zur Online-Version. Wer lieber zu Hause mit „echten“ Karten spielt, kann sich die Memory-Karten auch einfach unter folgendem Download-Link herunterladen, zweimal ausdrucken und schon kann’s losgehen. Viel Spaß beim Spielen!
Team chef Alexander Wagner ensures the Werkself players get tasty and nutritious food, tailored to the needs of professional athletes, on their plates. But what dishes are there for Kevin Volland, Nadiem Amiri, Julian Baumgartlinger and Co.? Alex shows you! His ‘Pasta with chicken breast’ is possibly an inspiration for you to cook at home!? He shows you step-by-step how to do it and what you need:
Werkself podcast number 21 came out recently – Reiner Calmund was the guest this time round. The former mover and shaker at Bayer 04 was as we know him with one great comment after the next. This edition with ‘Calli’ and the previous 20 – including with Simon Rolfes, Ulf Kirsten, Stefan Kießling and Jonathan Tah –are available on the music and audio streaming platform Sound Cloud, popular podcast apps as well as on Spotify. A little tip: Subscribe to the Werkself podcast to make sure you don’t miss one:
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A variety of stories, an entertaining mix of current and historic subjects, interesting interviews and profiles plus much more – always focussed on Bayer 04: That’s the Werkself magazine. All editions are now available online (in German) HERE.



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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Bayer 04 Leverkusen will have to manage without goalkeeper Mark Flekken and forward Nathan Tella for the time being.
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After a week in the Algarve, the Bayer 04 Women returned home on Saturday afternoon. The Werkself had six training sessions, two friendlies and a lot of time together as a team. Roberto Pätzold's team will be back in action in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga next Friday for the start of matchday 15.
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"We didn’t make the right decision at the right moments," said captain Robert Andrich after the 1-0 defeat away to TSG Hoffenheim, where Bayer 04 endeavoured to control the game but failed to score. The Werkself also had two enforced substitutions due to injuries. Nevertheless, the coach, captain and debutant Janis Blaswich are positive about the coming weeks. The Werkself review.
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Werkself TV shows the highlights of Bayer 04's 0-1 loss at TSG Hoffenheim on Matchday 18 of the 2025/26 Bundesliga season...
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