“For me this is the absolute big one of the round of 16. Football fans can look forward to an intense match-up,” said Bayer 04 managing director sport Simon Rolfes. “We want to win in Dortmund to achieve our goal of getting to the final in Berlin.”
It will be the second game against Dortmund in the space of a few days, following the Bundesliga meeting at the BayArena the previous Saturday.
Information on tickets will be available once details for the match are confirmed.
The quarter-finals are scheduled for 3/4 and 10/11 February 2026, with the semi-finals on 21/22 April. The final at the Olympiastadion is to be played on 23 May.
Round of 16 fixtures:
Borussia Dortmund - Bayer 04
Hamburg - Holstein Kiel
Union Berlin - Bayern Munich
Bochum - VfB Stuttgart
Hertha Berlin - Kaiserslautern
Freiburg - Darmstadt
Borussia Mönchengladbach - St. Pauli
RB Leipzig - Magdeburg
Bayer 04 lost 3-0 away at Bayern Munich on Matchday 9 in the Bundesliga on Saturday. Serge Gnabry and Nicolas Jackson netted for the unbeaten league leaders in the first half, with Loïc Badé’s own goal before the break rounding out the scoring.
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The Werkself are away at Bayern Munich, who have won all 14 of their competitive fixtures in 2025/26, for Saturday evening’s Bundesliga match (kick-off: 18:30 CET). However, Bayer 04 are also in good form themselves, earning 16 of a possible 18 points in their six league games under Kasper Hjulmand. The 2023/24 double winners are also unbeaten in their last five Bundesliga meetings with the reigning champions. Here’s all you need to know ahead of the game at the Allianz Arena.
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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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After the disappointing 5-1 defeat against VfL Wolfsburg, the Bayer 04 Women had two weeks to regroup. On Sunday, 2 November (13:00 CET, ad-hoc arena at Erst-Abbe-Sportfeld), coach Roberto Pätzold's team will be aiming for their fifth win of the season on matchday 8 in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga.
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