For the team led by head coach Achim Feifel, the cup clash with the league rivals is the next but one competitive match: The meeting at the end of October comes after the Bundesliga away game at SC Freiburg and the forthcoming international break. The two teams will meet again two weeks later on matchday eight in the FLYERALARM Women's Bundesliga in Sinsheim in Baden-Württemberg.
Matchday 6, 16.10, 13.00 CEST
SC Freiburg vs Bayer 04
DFB Cup Round of 16, 31.10, 15.00 CEST
Bayer 04 vs TSG Hoffenheim
Matchday 7, 07.11, 16.00 CET
Bayer 04 vs FC Köln
Matchday 8, 14.11, 13.00 CET
TSG Hoffenheim vs Bayer 04
Matchday 9, 21.11, 18.00 CET
Bayer 04 vs Eintracht Frankfurt
Matchday 10, 3-5.12
Bayern Munich vs Bayer 04
Matchday 11, 10-12.12
Bayer 04 vs VfL Wolfsburg
Matchday 12, 17-19.12
Bayer 04 vs FC Carl Zeiss Jena
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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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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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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