11.07.2025Women

Women's Bundesliga: Werkself at home to Union Berlin after big match opener

First away to the champions, then at home to a newly promoted club: The Werkself fixtures for the 2025/26 season in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga have been confirmed. A week after the season opener away to Bayern Munich in front of 25,000 fans at the Allianz Arena, the team led by coach Roberto Pätzold entertain newly promoted Union Berlin. That was announced by the German Football Association (DFB) on Friday. The opening match in Munich is on Saturday, 6 September (kick-off: 17:45 CEST) and the first home game on matchday 2 will be played between 12 and 15 September. The new season, with 14 top-flight teams instead of 12, ends for the Black and Reds with a home game against Werder Bremen on 17 May 2026.

The DFB announced at the end of May that the Werkself would play reigning champions Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in the official Bundesliga opener of the 2025/26 season. FC Bayern announced last Tuesday that 25,000 tickets for the game have already been sold - a club record. The big match is followed by the first home game for the Werkself against Bundesliga newcomers Union Berlin at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium. The DFB will announce the timings for the first four matchdays in around two weeks time.

Winter break after matchday 14

The Hinrunde derby away to FC Köln is on matchday five between 3 and 6 October with the Bayer 04 Women playing the Cologne side in the return match in the Rückrunde between 13 and 16 Fabry 2026. The opening Rückrunde fixtures on matchday 14 will be followed by a one-month winter break that ends on 23 January 2026. On the final matchday 26 (17 May 2026) all seven games will kick off at the same time.

Bayer 04 will, as usual, publish information on the start of ticket sales for home games in good time via the club media channels.

Bundesliga with 14 Teams for first time

The Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga will have 14 teams in the new season for the first time. The DFB agreed the expansion in the summer. While Turbine Potsdam were the only team to go down to league two in May, three teams have been promoted: FC Nürnberg, Hamburg SV and Union Berlin.

All 182 Bundesliga matches will be broadcast live on the pay streaming services MagentaSport and DAZN. The matchdays will usually start with a game on Friday at 18:30 CEST/CET. There will be two Saturday matches (12:00 and 14:00) and three on Sundays (14:00, 16:00 and 18:30) instead of two. Finally there will be a floodlit match on Mondays at 18:00, which will be shown on free TV on SPORT1.

In addition, ARD and ZDF will broadcast ten live games per season free of charge including the opening game for the Werkself in Munich on 6 September (ARD). That means 36 matches will be shown live on free TV. Match highlights will also be available on ARD/ZDF, MagentaSport, DAZN and Sky.

Bayer 04 Women Bundesliga fixture list:

Matchday 1

Bayern Munich vs Bayer 04

06/09, 17.45 CEST (Rückrunde: 19-22.12.)

Matchday 2

Bayer 04 vs Union Berlin

12-15.09. (Rückrunde: 23-26.01.26)

Matchday 3

FC Nürnberg vs Bayer 04

19-22.09. (Rückrunde: 30.01.-02.02.26)

Matchday 4

Bayer 04 vs Eintracht Frankfurt

23-25.09. (Rückrunde: 06-09.02.26.)

Matchday 5.

FC Köln vs Bayer 04

03-06.10. (Rückrunde: 13-16.02.26)

Matchday 6

TSG Hoffenheim vs Bayer 04

10.-13.10. (Rückrunde: 20.-23.02.26)

Matchday 7

Bayer 04 vs VfL Wolfsburg

17-19.10. (Rückrunde: 13-16.03.26)

Matchday 8

FC Carl Zeiss Jena vs Bayer 04

31.10-03.11. (Rückrunde: 20-23.03.26)

Matchday 9

Bayer 04 vs Hamburg SV

04-06.11. (Rückrunde: 27-30.03.26)

Matchday 10

SC Freiburg vs Bayer 04

07.-10.11. (Rückrunde: 24.-27.04.26)

Matchday 11

Bayer 04 vs SGS Essen

21-23.11. (Rückrunde: 01-04.05.26.)

Matchday 12

Bayer 04 vs RB Leipzig

05-09.12. (Rückrunde: 08-11.05.26)

Matchday 13

Werder Bremen vs Bayer 04

12-15.12. (Rückrunde: 17.05.26)

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