
Training staff, the first team squad and management of Bayer 04 will stay at the conference hotel, owned by Bayer Gastronomie GmbH, until Sunday, 17 May and will commute to the training ground at the BayArena for the training sessions behind closed doors. The group will travel to Bremen on Sunday afternoon.
Bayer 04 are away to Werder Bremen at the Wohninvest Weserstadion at the end of matchday 26 on Monday, 18 May at 20.30 CET. That is followed by another away game at Borussia Mönchengladbach (22-24 May). The first home game at the BayArena will be played on 26 or 27 May with VfL Wolfsburg providing the opposition.


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 has gained a new partner in digital gaming platform Crown Coins, which joins the Bundesliga runners-up's Sponsors Club with immediate effect. The one-and-a-half-year contract runs until 30 June 2027.
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The Werkself host VfB Stuttgart this evening (10 January, 18:30 CET), a side whose recent Bundesliga form has been indifferent but who have regularly produced top performances in the DFB Pokal and UEFA Europa League, and who have a key player back in the squad in striker Ermedin Demirovic. Off the pitch, the BayArena faithful will be able to see the remaining stoppage time live on the video screens. The Matchday News.
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The Werkself face a tough challenge in the first game of 2026 when VfB Stuttgart visit the BayArena on Saturday, 10 January (kick-off: 18:30 CET). Ahead of the top-of-the-table clash, Kasper Hjulmand spoke about his impressions of training this week, anticipation of the start of the new calendar year and the personnel situation.
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