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4.07.2024Bundesliga

2024/25 Bundesliga fixtures: Bayer 04 to host RB Leipzig in first home game

The Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) has released the fixtures list for the 2024/25 Bundesliga season. One week after opening the campaign away at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayer 04 welcome RB Leipzig to the BayArena for their first home game. The defending champions will finish the season away at Mainz on Saturday, 17 May 2025.
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As was the case last season, the Werkself’s first home game of the campaign comes against Leipzig. That is followed this year by an international break. Things then resume with Matchday 3’s game away at Hoffenheim (13-15 September).

The first meeting with Bayern Munich comes on Matchday 5 at the Allianz Arena (27-29 September). That is followed by back-to-back home fixtures against newcomers Holstein Kiel and then Eintracht Frankfurt.

Matchday 9 sees last season’s runners-up VfB Stuttgart come to the BayArena (1-3 November). The other promoted side St. Pauli visit on Matchday 13 (6-8 December).

Finish year at BayArena

The final Bundesliga game of 2024 sees Freiburg come to the BayArena (20-22 December). After a two-and-a-half-week winter break, action resumes on the weekend of 10-12 January 2025 with a visit to Borussia Dortmund for Matchday 16.

We reach the halfway stage of the season with a home game against Mainz on Matchday 17 (14/15 January). The list then begins to repeat itself with a home fixture against Gladbach (17-19 January).

Information on tickets for each game will follow in due course.

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Bayer 04’s Bundesliga fixture list

Matchday 1, Friday, 28 August (8.30pm CEST) - Matchday 18: 17-19 January 2025
Borussia Mönchengladbach - Bayer 04

Matchday 2, 30 August-1 September – Matchday 19: 24-26 January 2025
Bayer 04 – RB Leipzig

Matchday 3, 13-15 September – Matchday 20: 31 January-2 February 2025
Hoffenheim - Bayer 04

Matchday 4, 20-22 September – Matchday 21: 7-9 February 2025
Bayer 04 – Wolfsburg

Matchday 5, 27-29 September – Matchday 22: 14-16 February 2025
Bayern Munich – Bayer 04

Matchday 6, 4-6 October – Matchday 23: 21-23 February 2025
Bayer 04 – Holstein Kiel

Matchday 7, 18-20 October – Matchday 24: 28 February-2 March 2025
Bayer 04 - Eintracht Frankfurt

Matchday 8, 25-27 October – Matchday 25: 7-9 March 2025
Werder Bremen – Bayer 04

Matchday 9, 1-3 November – Matchday 26: 14-16 March 2025
Bayer 04 – VfB Stuttgart

Matchday 10, 8-10 November – Matchday 27: 28-30 March 2025
Bochum – Bayer 04

Matchday 11, 22-24 November – Matchday 28: 4-6 April 2025
Bayer 04 – Heidenheim

Matchday 12, 29 November-1 December – Matchday 29: 11-13 April 2025
Union Berlin – Bayer 04

Matchday 13, 6-8 December – Matchday 30: 19/20 April 2025
Bayer 04 – St. Pauli

Matchday 14, 13-15 December – Matchday 31: 25-27 April 2025
Augsburg – Bayer 04

Matchday 15, 20-22 December – Matchday 32: 2-4 May 2025
Bayer 04 – Freiburg

Matchday 16, 10-12 January 2025 – Matchday 33: 9-11 May 2025
Borussia Dortmund – Bayer 04

Matchday 17, 14/15 January 2025 – Matchday 34: Saturday, 17 May 2025 (3.30pm CEST)
Bayer 04 – Mainz

>>>>> Get all Bayer 04 fixtures in your calendar here! <<<<<

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