Women: Summer timetable 2021
The old season is over and the new campaign is round the corner. The squad under head coach Achim Feifel are due to return to Leverkusen on 19 July.
Before that, the Bayer 04 Women's squad will start with individual schedules at home from 5 July. The first full training session of the new season will be on Tuesday 20 July with new signings Friederike Abt, Dina Blagojević, Clara Fröhlich and Irina Pando meeting up with their new teammates for the first time.
The first friendly against the Dutch top-flight club PEC Zwolle is set to be played two and a half weeks after the start of training. Two days later, the Werkself Women’s squad head off to a training camp in Westerburg am Wiesensee in a repeat of recent years. That will include a friendly against Bundesliga rivals TSG Hoffenheim. There is another pre-season friendly against league runners-up and DFB Cup winners VfL Wolfsburg a week after their return to Leverkusen .
The new 2021/22 season kicks off on the weekend of 27 to 29 August.
key dates:
5 July: Home training starts with individual routines
20 July: First full training session
7 August: Friendly v PEC Zwolle, kick-off: 14.00 CEST, Kurtekotten
9-13 August: Training camp in Westerburg/Wiesensee
12 August: Friendly v TSG Hoffenheim, kick-off: tbc, Westerburg
20 August: Friendly v VfL Wolfsburg, kick-off and venue: tbc
27-29 August: Matchday 1 in the FLYERALARM Women's Bundesliga
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