Managing director for sport Simon Rolfes gave his reaction: "A great draw! To get to play a Rhineland derby in the quarter-finals of the DFB Pokal is something special. It's going to be a great night of football for our fans at the BayArena. A place in the semi-finals is the clear target."
The quarter-finals will be played on 4/5 and 25/26 February 2025. Bayer 04 will publish details of the exact timings as soon as they're confirmed on the club's channels.
The semi-finals are then scheduled for 1/2 April 2025, with the final at Berlin's Olympiastadion taking place on 24 May 2025.
THE QUARTER-FINAL DRAW IN FULL:
RB Leipzig vs. VfL Wolfsburg
DSC Arminia Bielefeld vs. SV Werder Bremen
VfB Stuttgart vs. FC Augsburg
Bayer 04 vs. 1. FC Köln
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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After being nominated for the Bundesliga Goal of the Year 2025, Martin Terrier's wonderful strike for the opener against FC Köln is now also up for selection for the ARD Sportschau Goal of the Month award for December 2025. Bayer 04 fans have until 19:00 CET on 10 January to vote for the French forward.
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After a break of almost two weeks, the Bayer 04 Women begin preparing for games in 2026 on Sunday. Bayer04.de provides an overview of the dates at the start of the second half of the season.
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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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