The Leverkusen U15 side, recently crowned champions of the Regionalliga West, will continue to be managed by Oliver Schoepp in the coming season. Assistant manager Alexander Nuss will remain at his side. Leon Haasler (previously U11s) and Ömer Kizililrmak (previously U14s) will be promoted internally to the U15 coaching staff.
The U14 team will be managed in future by Louis Ferlings, who most recently worked as a technical and personal coach in the Bayer 04 youth academy. Thanos Petsos (previously with the U15s) and Marcel Schuhmacher (previously with the U13s) are joining the team as assistant coaches from within the club, whilst Peter Quast remains with the U14s.
Max Sabottka (head coach), Felix Eibl and Michael Plesch (both assistant coaches) will remain together as the coaching team and move up from the U12s to the U13s.
Nicholas Kuberka is taking charge of the Bayer Leverkusen U12 team, having moved from the youth ranks at Union Berlin to Bayer 04. He will be joined by Nikita Kamenyuka (previously in charge of the U11s) and former player Kosi Saka, who most recently worked at Borussia Mönchengladbach.
There have also been changes to the U11 coaching team. Jeremie Bootz joins from Fortuna Düsseldorf, and he will be supported by Wim Frankenstein (previously at Future Kids) and Ben Schobert, who has recently returned from a semester abroad having previously worked at SC Fortuna Bonn.
The U11 to U15 coaches for 2026/27:
U15s:
U14:
U13s:
U12s:
U11s:
Werkself TV shows the highlights of the 4-0 victory in the friendly match against KRC Genk...
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In their third friendly of this pre-season, Bayer 04 played on home soil for the first time – and won there too! The Werkself claimed a comfortable 4-0 victory against Belgian top-flight side KRC Genk at the Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion. Jeanuel Belocian (9’) and Nathan Tella (42’) gave a dominant Leverkusen a 2-0 lead at the break, which Afonso Moreira (51’) and Christian Kofane (53’) doubled after the break. Among the many second-half substitutions was Patrik Schick, who made his first friendly appearance of the summer.
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The Werkself continue their 2026/27 pre-season preparations with their third friendly against Belgian top-flight side KRC Genk at the Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion on Wednesday 29 July (kick-off 15:00 CEST). Werkself-TV is broadcasting the match live and in full in a stream from 14:50 CEST...
After the children from the Bayer 04 Football Academy grilled Janis Blaswich and Simeon Rapsch last week, another group of 20 young Werkself fans gathered at the BayArena press conference room on Tuesday afternoon, 28 July . This time, the kids directed their questions at Tim Oermann and Jonah Berghoff. Defender Oermann raved about his school days, whilst talented midfielder Berghoff revealed to the young footballers, amongst other things, who his favourite player is – and he is also at Bayer 04. To round things off, the pair naturally obliged with all requests for autographs and selfies.
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Bayer 04 are back on the pitch. Following the first training sessions, the Werkself play the first pre-season friendly on Saturday, July 18. The match against Oberliga club Sportfreunde Baumberg kicks off at 15:30 CEST in Monheim am Rhein. Fans unable to attend the match can watch head coach Carles Martínez’s first game in charge for free via a livestream at bayer04.de and on the Bayer 04 app, as well as on Werkself.tv (exclusively for members). Just log on and watch the games live. All the other Werkself preseason friendlies leading up to the 2026/27 season will also be streamed live for free.
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