
The opening match of the season is between newly promoted FFC Turbine Potsdam and the champions of Germany Bayern Munich on Friday 30 August (kick-off: 17.00 CEST). The timing of games in the first few matchdays will probably be announced by the DFB at the end of July.
The Hinrunde derby at FC Köln on matchday eight will be played between 1 and 4 November and the Bayer 04 Women will entertain the team from Cologne in the Rückrunde between 11 and 14 April 2025. The opening game of the Rückrunde on matchday 12 will be followed by a six-week winter break that ends on 31 January 2025. As usual, all six games on the final matchday (22) on 11 May 2025 will kick off at the same time.
Bayer 04 will announce information on the start of ticket sales for home games at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium in good time on the club media channels.
As with last season, all 132 Bundesliga matches in the coming campaign can be seen live on the subscription channels MagentaSport and DAZN. Matchdays generally start, as with last season, with a game on a Friday at 18.30. Two games are played on Saturdays (12.00 and 14.00) and the same goes for Sundays (14.00 and 18.30). The matchday ends with a floodlit match on Monday kicking off at 19.30 and is broadcast free on SPORT1. In addition, ARD and ZDF can broadcast ten live games per season so that there will be a total of 32 matches live on free to air television. Match highlights will be shown on ARD/ZDF, MagentaSport, DAZN and Sky.
In the coming season, the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga will be played for the last time with twelve teams. There will be an increase to 14 teams for the 2025/26 season.

Matchday 1, 31.8.-2.9. (Rückrunde: 13-16.12.)
SC Freiburg vs Bayer 04
Matchday 2, 13-16.9. (Rückrunde: 31.1.-3.2.25)
Bayer 04 vs Eintracht Frankfurt
Matchday 3, 20-23.9. (Rückrunde: 7-10.2.25)
SGS Essen vs Bayer 04
Matchday 4, 27-30.9. (Rückrunde: 14-16.2.25)
Bayer 04 vs TSG Hoffenheim
Matchday 5, 4-7.10. (Rückrunde: 7-10.3.25)
Bayer 04 vs FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Matchday 6, 11-14.10. (Rückrunde: 14-17.3.25)
Werder Bremen vs Bayer 04
Matchday 7, 18-20.10. (Rückrunde: 28-30.3.25)
Bayer 04 vs Bayern Munich
Matchday 8, 1-4.11. (Rückrunde: 11-14.4.25)
FC Köln vs Bayer 04
Matchday 9, 8-11.11. (Rückrunde: 25-28.4.25)
Bayer 04 vs FFC Turbine Potsdam
Matchday 10, 15-18.11. (Rückrunde: 2-5.5.25)
RB Leipzig vs Bayer 04
Matchday 11, 6-9.12. (Rückrunde: 11.5.25)
Bayer 04 vs VfL Wolfsburg

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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Opening opponents, derby weekends, the opponents in the season finale: This information and more will be available to Bayer 04 fans on Thursday, 2 July, when the 2026/27 Bundesliga fixture list is published.
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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 personal 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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