In the week before Christmas the Werkself are away to FC Schalke in the early Wednesday evening spot (18.30 CET), before the final match ahead of the winter break on Saturday 22 December (15.30 CET) at the BayArena against Hertha Berlin. The home games against Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich are also Saturday afternoon fixtures. The DFB Cup tie in Heiden, probably to be played on the Tuesday, is followed with Bayer 04 kicking off Bundesliga matchday 21 at Mainz.
Matchday 15: Sunday, 16 December, 18.00 CET: Eintracht Frankfurt (Away)
Matchday 16: Wednesday, 19 December, 18.30 CET: FC Schalke 04 (A)
Matchday 17: Saturday, 22 December, 15.30 CET: Hertha BSC (Home)
Matchday 18: Saturday, 19 January, 15.30 CET: Borussia Mönchengladbach (H)
Matchday 19: Saturday, 26 January, 15.30 CET: VfL Wolfsburg (A)
Matchday 20: Saturday, 2 February, 15.30 CET: Bayern Munich (H)
DFB Cup, Round of 16: 5/6 February: FC Heidenheim (A)*
Matchday 21: Friday, 8 February, 20.30 CET: Mainz 05 (A)
*date to be confirmed
In the previous game against RB Leipzig in December last year, the Werkself turned came from behind to win 3-1 and further improved Leverkusen's already strong record against the Red Bulls. Montrell Culbreath stood out with his first goal on his debut for the Black and Reds. While the 18-year-old would certainly like to score a second goal against Leipzig on Saturday night, the attack-minded visitors come to the BayArena in confident mood after five Bundesliga victories in a row. The Nordkurve12 supporters group knows the Werkself will therefore once again be reliant on the vociferous support of the fans, and has once again called for the ‘Finally Red’ campaign in the run-in. Today’s matchday news.
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Video games manufacturer Electronic Arts (EA), together with the German Football League (DFL), announced the top male and female selections for the 2025/26 Bundesliga season this week. Bayer 04 striker Vanessa Fudalla is in the starting eleven of the women's "Team of the Season". Alejandro Grimaldo and Aleix Garcia have been selected as bench players in the men's team.
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This special event showed once again how strong Bayer 04 are as a team: As part of ‘BarmeniaGothaer gives joy’, the Werkself players Edmond Tapsoba, Ibrahim Maza and Christian Kofane supported the sale of individually designed T-shirts for a good cause at the Fanwelt on Thursday. Several hundred fans came to take part in the charity campaign. Leverkusen's main sponsor BarmeniaGothaer donated the proceeds to the Fondation Edmond Tapsoba, which helps people in Tapsoba's home country of Burkina Faso in their challenging everyday lives.
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With three games to play before the end of the season, the Bayer 04 Women can break one record and equal another at SGS Essen. After three wins on the bounce, coach Roberto Pätzold's team are aiming to maintain the chance of third place in Sunday’s away game (14:00 CEST, Stadion an der Hafenstraße).
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Rüdiger Vollborn has been at the club for 40 years, he holds the record number of Bundesliga appearances for the club (401) and is the only Bayer 04 player to have won both the UEFA Cup (1988) and the DFB Pokal (1993). And the Berliner stayed with the Werkself after ending his impressive playing career as he worked as a goalkeeping coach for the following nine years. Vollborn now works under the Bayer Cross as a fan liaison officer and club archivist. Since February 2021, the personalised Black and Red lexicon takes Werkself fans under the heading of 'Rudi recounts...' on a brief trip through the history of Bayer 04 every month…
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