Matchday News: Take strong home form into cup

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It's over seven and a half years since Nürnberg last set foot in the BayArena. On that occasion, Lucas Alario and Kevin Volland secured a 2-0 victory for the Werkself. It's a bit longer since the last cup encounter between the two clubs: in August 1993, Ulf Kirsten, Paulo Sergio and Bernd Schuster fired Bayer 04 to a 3-0 win over FCN. The recent head-to-head record looks similarly positive from a Leverkusen point of view, with six wins from the last seven competitive encounters. It's almost 15 years since the Black-and-Reds last lost to Nürnberg.

The Werkself have had plenty of joy in the DFB Pokal in recent times, too, reaching at least the semi-finals three years in a row. Before the 2-0 defeat at home to FC Bayern Munich in the semis last season, Bayer 04 had won six consecutive cup ties at the BayArena. While Carles Martínez's side can start a new run on Wednesday night, Patrik Schick has the next record in sight. The Czech international has scored six goals in cup home matches - no Werkself player has ever hit seven.

focus on franconians

Nürnberg are right in the mix in the promotion race in Bundesliga 2. After 14 competitive games without defeat, going back to the end of last season, Miroslav Klose's men lost again for the first time at the weekend, going down 1-0 to 1. FC Kaiserslautern despite having the majority of the chances. Ali Zoma, the joint top scorer in the second tier with Felix Klaus (Greuther Fürth) on seven goals, will miss out in Leverkusen, as he already did against FCK following shoulder surgery. However, Klose is not worried by his absence - find out how Der Club are shaping up ahead of the clash with the Werkself in our extensive opposition profile.

New wifi at BayArena

For the 2026/27 season, the BayArena has been fitted with a new Wi-Fi infrastructure. Instead of the ‘BayArena’ network, fans can now enjoy even better browsing on one of two faster networks: ‘Bayer04’ is the Wi-Fi network for modern devices and offers better bandwidth. Devices that, for technical reasons, cannot connect to this network, or on which it does not appear, can use ‘Bayer04-classic’ as a similarly good alternative. Since the home match against SC Freiburg, the original ‘BayArena’ network has now been switched off for good.