Together with her new teammates, Carlotta Wamser stepped onto the training ground just before ten in the morning. The wingback signed from Eintracht Frankfurt reached the semi-finals with Germany at the Euros in July and she played her way into the limelight with her impressive performances in Switzerland. After a ten-day break, she is immediately working with her new club to lay the foundations for a successful new season. The Euros turned out to be less successful for Cornelia Kramer, who made her first appearance in the tournament finals like Wamser, with Denmark being knocked out in the group stages. The striker also returned to training on Monday morning. The duo worked individually while the rest of the team had lots of drills involving the ball.
Coach Roberto Pätzold had almost his full squad available for the first time this summer. Only Juliette Vidal and Amy Wrigge (both with slight muscular problems), Caroline Kehrer (knee) and Shen Menglu (torn cruciate) missed the session.
The Werkself started the pre-season at the end of June before the two-week break with friendlies against TSG Hoffenheim (0-2), PEC Zwolle (1-1) and Ajax (1-0). There are four more friendlies in the coming weeks: The Black and Reds play the Belgian club KVC Westerlo on Saturday, 9 August (13:00 CEST) at Kurtekotten and it’s the same venue a week later on Friday, 15 August (12:00 CEST, 3×45 minutes) against PSV Eindhoven from the Netherlands.
The training camp in Rieden (Bavaria) starts two days later with the Leverkusen Women fine tuning from 17 to 23 August for the start of the season. There is another friendly a day before returning on Friday, 22 August (14:00 CEST) with a game against VfL Wolfsburg. After the return to Leverkusen, the Pätzold team play Belgian club Standard Liège at Kurtekotten on Saturday, 30 August (16:00 CEST, 3×45 minutes). The new season in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga begins a week later on Saturday, 6 September (17:45 CEST, live on ARD, MagentaSport and DAZN) with the official opening fixture away to the German champions Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.
The summer timetable can be found HERE.
From the 2027/28 season, the Women’s Bundesliga will be organised by an independent league association. Following the unanimous decision taken at the DFB Bundestag (national conference) on Friday afternoon, the league’s separation from the DFB is now official.
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A special visit to the BayArena: 222 members from volunteer fire brigades in Leverkusen, the Rheinisch-Bergisch district and the Oberbergisch district watched the Werkself’s 2–0 home win over Slovenian champions NK Celje live in the stadium. Bayer 04 had invited them to the 2026/27 Europa League opener as a thank-you for their tremendous dedication. They watched the match together in Block F4.
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