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:
The Germany U19 team were beaten 2-0 by record champions Spain in the final of the U19 European Championship in Wales. Bayer 04 players Montrell Culbreath and Francis Onyeka (on loan at SV 07 Elversberg) were in the starting line-up and played the full 90 minutes.
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Bayer 04 Leverkusen have signed France U17 international Kenan Doganay. The 1.90-metre-tall defensive midfielder, who has Turkish roots, joins Leverkusen from the U19s at French top-flight club Olympique Lyon. He will initially train with and play for the U19 team.
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The Sports Tribunal of the German Football Association (DFB) has fined Bayer 04 Leverkusen €185,000 for spectators setting off pyrotechnic devices during a total of five competitive matches. This relates to four Bundesliga matches and the DFB Pokal semi-final against Bayern Munich. The highest individual fine relates to the away match at FC Köln at the end of April.
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Bayer 04 Leverkusen have extended the contract with U19 goalkeeper Simeon Rapsch. The Germany youth international goalkeeper has signed a long-term contract with the Werkself running to 30 June 2029. The 18-year-old joined Leverkusen from FC Viktoria Köln in the summer of 2024.
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