"We're very pleased to have been handed a home tie," said Achim Feifel, Bayer 04 Women's sporting director. "Bremen are a good Bundesliga outfit, who will also be giving their all to reach the semi-finals. If we want to get through it, we'll need to produce our best performance."
German handball international and Olympic silver medalist Julian Köster picked out the four pairings, along with the men's quarter-finals, at the German Football Museum. The Leverkusen ladies beat Bundesliga newcomers 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 1-0 in the round of 16 on 22 November.
The semi-finals will be played on 22 and 23 March, with the final again taking place at Köln's RheinEnergieSTADION, scheduled for 1 May 2025.
THE QUARTER-FINAL DRAW IN FULL:
TSG Hoffenheim vs. VfL Wolfsburg
Hamburger SV vs. Borussia Mönchengladbach
Bayer 04 vs. SV Werder Bremen
FC Bayern Munich vs. Eintracht Frankfurt
The next friendly for Bayer 04: A week after the 2-0 win in Bochum, the Werkself are away to top-flight Dutch side Fortuna Sittard today, Friday 1 August (kick-off: 19:00 CEST). The latest information on the match at the Fortuna Sittard Stadion close to the German border is here in today's match news.
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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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The Werkself entertain Italian club Pisa FC, newly promoted to Serie A, at the official season opener at the BayArena on Tuesday, 5 August (kick-off: 18:00 CEST). Bayer 04 fans can look forward to a varied programme of events and exciting promotions. Tickets for the season opener are on open sale with over 18,000 tickets sold so far. Read on for the latest information.
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An experienced addition to the Bayer 04 U19 coaching staff: Former Werkself player Hüzeyfe Doğan starts as assistant coach to Sergi Runge on 1 August.
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