The team from Swabia are currently third in the second division on 23 points, two points behind the leaders Hamburg SV and Armenia Bielefeld. This will be the third meeting with VfB in the DFB Cup – with the Werkself having a good record to date: Bayer 04 run out winners both in the 1-0 win after extra time in the 1991 quarter-finals as well as in the 3-0 victory in the second round in 2002. Bayer 04 went out at the semi-final stage in both seasons.
The start of advance ticket sales will be announced shortly. As usual, tickets can be purchased via the usual methods (online via the ticket web shop, by phone on 0049 (0)214 5000 1904 and in person at the Bayer 04 fan shops at the BayArena and in Leverkusen City).
Tuesday 4 February 2020, 18.30 CET:
FC Kaiserslautern v Fortuna Düsseldorf
Eintracht Frankfurt v RB Leipzig
Tuesday 4 February 2020, 20.45 CET:
Schalke 04 v Hertha BSC
Werder Bremen v Borussia Dortmund
Wednesday, 5 February 2020, 18.30 CET:
Bayer 04 Leverkusen v VfB Stuttgart
SC Verl v FC Union Berlin
Wednesday, 5 February 2020, 20.45 CET:
FC Saarbrücken vs Karlsruher SC
FC Bayern Munich v TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Strengthening the Bayer 04 Leverkusen youth teams: Konstantinos Kotsifakis will join the Werkself from Bundesliga 2 club Hertha Berlin for the 2026/27 season, where he will be a permanent member of the Leverkusen U19 coaching set-up. The German-Greek will also take on an operational role in coaching the Bayer 04 Future Team. The 29-year-old was most recently head coach of the U17s at Hertha Berlin.
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Another award for the Bayer 04 head groundsman and staff: After coming top in the 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2024/25 seasons, the BayArena pitch came second in the Bundesliga Pitch of the Year ranking for the 2025/26 season. VfL Wolfsburg secured the top spot this year, with TSG Hoffenheim in third place.
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Opening opponents, derby weekends, the opponents in the season finale: This information and more will be available to Bayer 04 fans on Thursday, 2 July, when the 2026/27 Bundesliga fixture list is published.
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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 personal 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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