The team led by head coach Achim Feifel are currently fifth in Germany's top flight on 23 points. The promoted club from Bremen are battling against relegation and are ninth with a four-point lead over the first relegation spot (eleventh). The team from Bremen have a rearranged match against SC Freiburg on Wednesday 17 March.
The Feifel team are in action on Sunday 21 March against bottom the table MSV Duisburg. The kick-off is at 14.00 CET with Bayer 04 broadcasting the Bundesliga match live on free of charge on the club's YouTube channel.
At the end of March, the Bayer 04 Women entertain Eintracht Frankfurt. The match at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium on Friday, 26 March, kicks off at 19.15 CET. The match against the team from Hessen will be broadcast live on Eurosport and MagentaSport.
Confirmed fixtures:
Rearranged match: MSV Duisburg v Bayer 04 (Sunday, 21 March, 14.00 CET)
Bayer 04 v Eintracht Frankfurt (Friday, 26 March, 19.15 CET)
Werder Bremen v Bayer 04 (Sunday, 18 April, 14.00 CEST)
Bayer 04 Leverkusen have appointed Carles Martínez Novell as the new head coach. The 42-year-old Spaniard worked for FC Toulouse in the French Ligue 1 until the end of the season. Martínez finished last term in ninth place with the club from the south of France. He will take over the Werkself on 1 July 2026 and has signed a contract to 30 June 2028. Martínez, whose contract with Toulouse expires at the end of the month, succeeds Kasper Hjulmand at Leverkusen, who is leaving the club after one season.
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Welcome to Leverkusen, Carles Martínez Novell. Bayer 04 have appointed the 42-year-old Spaniard as the new head coach on a contract to 2028. Martínez most recently worked for FC Toulouse in the French Ligue 1 until the end of the season. He previously spent four years at Barcelona's legendary academy La Masia in his home city. Bayer04.de introduces Martínez in more detail.
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Bayer 04 plans for the 2026/27 pre-season continue to take shape. The Werkself will kick off the new season in mid-July with the return to the training ground. The highlight will be the official season opener on 8 August at the BayArena, including a friendly against La Liga club Sevilla. Friendlies in Germany will take the team to neighbouring Monheim, Offenbach and Jena.
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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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