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Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, besides known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( german : [ ˌbaɪ̯ɐ ˈleːvɐˌkuːzn̩ ] ), Bayer Leverkusen, or just Leverkusen, is a german professional football golf club based in Leverkusen in the state of matter of north Rhine-Westphalia. [ 4 ] The club competes in the Bundesliga, the top tier of german football, and plays its base matches at the BayArena. [ 5 ] [ 1 ]
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The club was founded in 1904 by employees of the german pharmaceutical company Bayer AG, whose headquarters are in Leverkusen and from which the golf club draws its name. It was once the best-known department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a sports club whose members besides participate in athletics, gymnastics, basketball and other sports including the RTHC Bayer Leverkusen ( rowing, tennis and ice hockey ). In 1999 the football department was separated from the sports club and is nowadays a classify entity formally called Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH. [ 5 ] Bayer were first gear promoted to the Bundesliga in 1979, and have remained in the acme division ever since. The club ‘s independent colours are loss and bootleg, both having been used as the chief shirt color and with crimson and black stripes besides having been used as home tinge. Bayer Leverkusen have finished five times runner-up in the Bundesliga without winning the competition, a read in german football. The club has won one DFB-Pokal and one UEFA Cup. [ 6 ] Bayer besides finished runner-up in the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, falling 2–1 to Real Madrid in the final examination. Their local rivals are 1. FC Köln. [ 7 ]
history [edit ]
Origins and early years [edit ]
On 27 November 1903, Wilhelm Hauschild wrote a letter – signed by 170 of his boyfriend workers – to his employer, the Friedrich Bayer and Co., seeking the ship’s company ‘s support in starting a sports club. [ 8 ] The caller agreed to support the enterprise, and on 1 July 1904 Turn- und Spielverein Bayer 04 Leverkusen was founded. [ 8 ] On 31 May 1907, a separate football department was formed within the club. [ 8 ] In the polish of sports in Germany at the time, there was significant animosity between gymnasts and other types of athletes. finally this contributed to a split within the club : on 8 June 1928, the footballers formed a separate association – Sportvereinigung Bayer 04 Leverkusen – that besides included the handball and fistball players, athletics, and box, while the gymnasts carried on as TuS Bayer 04 Leverkusen. SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen took with them the club ‘s traditional discolor of crimson and bootleg, with the gymnasts adopting blue and yellow .
historic chart of Bayer Leverkusen league performance after WWII Through this period, and into the 1930s, SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen played third and one-fourth class football. [ 9 ] In 1936, they earned promotion to the irregular highest class of play of the period. [ 9 ] That was besides the class that the golf club wore the conversant “ Bayer “ cross for the inaugural clock time. [ 9 ] They made their first appearance in upper league play in 1951, in the Oberliga West and played there until 1956, after which they were relegated .
Stadtpark against SV Sodingen in 1955 A freekick in the old stadiumagainst SV Sodingen in 1955 SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen would not return to the upper leagues until 1962, barely one season before the constitution of Germany ‘s fresh professional league, the Bundesliga. The next class saw the club in the Regionalliga West, tier II, where their performances over the future few seasons left them well down the league table .
2. Bundesliga to Bundesliga, UEFA Cup, and DFB-Pokal [edit ]
SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen made something of a discovery in 1968 by winning the division title, but was unable to advance through the playoff round to the first gear division. The club was relegated again in 1973, but made a quick return to what was now called the 2. Bundesliga after equitable one temper spent in the third division. Four years late, the clubhouse handily secured a place in the Bundesliga to start to play there in the 1979–80 season. By the mid-1980s, SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen had played its way into the upper berth half of the league mesa and was well-established there by the end of the ten. It was during this clock, in 1984, that the two-halves of the club that had parted ways over a half hundred earlier were re-united as TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen e.V. The newfangled club took red and blank as its color. In accession to becoming an established Bundesliga side, the club earned its first honor with a dramatic gain in the 1988 UEFA Cup. polish 0–3 to Espanyol after the first leg of the final examination, Bayer Leverkusen drew even in the reappearance peer and then captured the claim on punishment kicks, 3–2. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] That same year, long-time Bayer Leverkusen executive Reiner Calmund became the general director of the club. This is regarded as one of the most crucial moves in the baseball club ‘s history, as Calmund ushered in a decade and a one-half of the club ‘s greatest successes through calculating, far-sighted musician acquisitions. After the german reunion in 1990, Reiner Calmund was agile to sign east german stars Ulf Kirsten, Andreas Thom and Jens Melzig. The three players would become blink of an eye crowd favourites, and make significant contributions to the team. Calmund besides established groundbreaking contacts in brazilian football, befriending Juan Figer, one of Brazil ‘s most herculean player agents. Over the next few years, budding superstars, such as Jorginho and Paulo Sérgio, joined the team, as did Czech leading Pavel Hapal. The club besides signed charismatic players, such as Bernd Schuster, and Rudi Völler, helping to ensure the team ‘s popularity and growing achiever .
1923–1928
1928–1938
1948–1965
1965–1970
1970–1976
1976–1984
1984–1990
1990–1996
Since 1996
The club captured its adjacent award in 1993 with a 1–0 winnings in the DFB-Pokal over a surprise Hertha BSC amateurish police squad on 12 June 1993. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the adopt temper, in a game besides known for its 45 thousand “ german Goal of the year ” by Schuster ( a goal which was later besides named “ Goal of the Decade ” ), Bayer played Eintracht Frankfurt early in the temper, and, as both a “ tiptoe of the hat ” to its own history ampere well as an attempt to possibly upset the Frankfurt team, Bayer played in its new third colours, which were antique crimson and black stripes, like jersey to those Frankfurt by and large wore at the prison term. This proved so popular with the fans that, very shortly thereafter, the team reverted to its “ retro ” colours of red and black, colours used on all home jerseys ever since. After a near disaster in 1996 when the club faced a delegating battle, Bayer Leverkusen established itself as a herculean side, offering a technically please offensive style of play under new bus Christoph Daum, who was besides helped by the sign of players such as Lúcio, Emerson, Zé Roberto and Michael Ballack. Daum was later to be famously fired for a cocaine scandal that besides cost him his rise to the role of the Germany national team coach. [ 13 ] [ 14 ]
The Nearly man [edit ]
The team earned a series of four-second-place finishes from 1997 to 2002. The finishes of 2000 and 2002 were heart-breaking for supporters as on both occasions the team had the Bundesliga championship within its grok. In 2000, Bayer Leverkusen needed merely a puff against SpVgg Unterhaching to win the claim, but an own goal by Michael Ballack helped send the team to a crushing 2–0 defeat, while Bayern Munich clinched the title with a 3–1 victory over Werder Bremen. Two years late, the club surrendered a five-point lead atop the league table by losing two of its last three matches while Borussia Dortmund swept ahead with three consecutive victories in its final matches. The 2002 season has been dubbed the “ soprano repugnance ”, as Bayer Leverkusen were besides beaten 4–2 in the DFB-Pokal final by Schalke 04 and lost the UEFA Champions League final 2–1 to Real Madrid, which besides led to some of the English-language media dubbing them “ Neverkusen “. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Leverkusen was the first team to reach the final examination of the Champions League without ever having won a national championship. [ 18 ]
holocene years [edit ]
Leverkusen against rivals Köln in the Bundesliga in 2012 The club went through startling reversals of fortune in the adjacent two seasons. In the 2002 off-season, the team lost influential midfield stars Michael Ballack and Zé Roberto to archrivals Bayern Munich. The team then flirted with delegating through most of the 2002–03 season, leading to the open fire of Klaus Toppmöller, who had coached the team during its most successful year, and he was replaced by the inexperienced Thomas Hörster. Charismatic bus Klaus Augenthaler took up the reins in the final two games of the season and helped avoid disaster with a acquire over his previous club, 1. FC Nürnberg. He then led Bayer Leverkusen to a third-place eat up and a Champions League place the following year. That following season ‘s carry in the Champions League saw the club get some measure of revenge on Real Madrid, opening its group stage campaign with a 3–0 rout of the spanish giants, [ 19 ] helping Leverkusen to win the group. [ 20 ] Leverkusen, however, was defeated in the first gear smasher round by eventual champions Liverpool. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The club finished sixth during the 2004–05 season to qualify for the next season ‘s UEFA Cup. early in 2005, Augenthaler was fired as coach after the club got off to its worst Bundesliga start in over 20 years, with only one gain in its first four league matches and a 0–1 home passing to CSKA Sofia in the first branch of its UEFA Cup match-up. [ 23 ] Former Germany national team coach Rudi Völler, who had been named sporting director anterior to the temper, took charge of five matches as caretaker coach. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Michael Skibbe, who was Völler ‘s assistant coach with the home team, was named as his successor in October 2005. [ 25 ] Skibbe turned Leverkusen ‘s season round and guided the cabaret to a sixth-place finish in 2006, earning another UEFA Cup position, and then repeated that feat with a one-fifth place Bundesliga polish in 2007. [ 25 ] The 2007–08 season was not a successful one for Leverkusen despite a good startle to the season ; five out of the last ten league matches were lost to clubs in the lower half of the table. Michael Skibbe was heavily criticised towards the conclusion of the season after he continuously changed his starting line up. Bayer Leverkusen besides lost a lot of its back towards the end of the season : in the 1–2 home loss against Hertha BSC, the Leverkusen fans caused a lot commotion, with fans chanting for the net of Skibbe, while some Ultras, who had seen enough, set fire to their jerseys and threw them onto the field. Michael Skibbe was sacked soon thereafter, leaving the club on 21 May 2008, with club officials stating that his deviation was ascribable to the failure to qualify for the postdate season ‘s UEFA Cup group stage. [ 26 ] The 2008–09 season got murder to a great get down for Bayer Leverkusen under raw coach Bruno Labbadia, who the baseball club had acquired from 2. Bundesliga baseball club SpVgg Greuther Fürth. [ 27 ] As the season progressed, however, the team failed to achieve any wins against top clubs in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen did manage to reach the DFB-Pokal final on 30 May 2009 in Berlin, but fell 0–1 to Werder Bremen. [ 25 ] [ 28 ] Leverkusen finished the season in ninth home in the Bundesliga board and Labbadia moved to Hamburger SV in June 2009. [ 29 ] Shortly thereafter, Leverkusen presented Jupp Heynckes as its fresh coach, who had previously managed Bayern Munich after Jürgen Klinsmann ‘s deviation. [ 30 ] In the 2010–11 season, Bayer Leverkusen finished runner-up therefore qualifying for the Champions League for the first gear time since 2005. however, Heynckes decided not to extend his contract and left Bayer Leverkusen in the 2011 close season to take over at Bayern Munich for a third fourth dimension. [ 31 ] In the 2012–13 and 2015–16 seasons, Leverkusen finished third base with coach Sami Hyypiä and Roger Schmidt respectively, but were knocked out in the round of 16 of the Champions League the following season both times. In the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, Leverkusen reached the quarter-finals for the foremost time since 2008, [ 32 ] but were ultimately knocked out by Inter Milan in a 2–1 loss .
club culture [edit ]
BayArena, the stadium of Bayer Leverkusen In contrast to many other german football clubs, which hold close ties to their propertyless roots, Bayer Leverkusen strives for a clean, family-friendly image. [ 33 ] The BayArena has the reputation of being one of the most family-friendly football stadiums in Germany. [ 33 ] Ironically, Bayer 04 was the first Bundesliga club whose fans identified themselves as Ultras and the city of Leverkusen is one of the old industrial cities of Germany. [ 34 ] Bayer Leverkusen is perceived by some to have an ongoing trope problem of a different screen. [ 35 ] Although they are a financially healthy club with a stable of impregnable players, many fans of the traditional clubs denounce Bayer Leverkusen as being a “ plastic club ” without traditions or a perpetrate fan nucleotide, existing entirely as a creation of their rich pharmaceutical company patron – Bayer AG. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] As a result, the cabaret and their fans have started to emphasize their industrial origins with pride, calling themselves “ Werkself ” ( Eng. “ Factory team ”, “ Millhanders ” ) or “ Pillendreher ” ( Eng. “ Tablet twisters ” ). [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Bayer Leverkusen ‘s corporate origins, however, are far from unique. other clubs, including PSV, Carl Zeiss Jena and Sochaux, share a similar reputation of being whole shebang teams. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] As distinguished from the versatile Red Bull teams ( Salzburg, New York and Leipzig ) which has been established or redefined in the holocene past primarily for commercial reasons, the formation of Bayer Leverkusen was motivated by the idea of promoting the live conditions of local anesthetic factory workers early in the twentieth century. In view of this tradition, UEFA allows Bayer Leverkusen to use the brand name Bayer in european club competitions while disallowing such name practices most notably to Red Bull Salzburg. [ 42 ]
charity [edit ]
In March 2020, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, and RB Leipzig, the four german UEFA Champions League teams for the 2019/20 season, jointly gave €20 million to Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams that were struggling financially during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 43 ]
Honours [edit ]
domestic [edit ]
league [edit ]
Bundesliga
2. Bundesliga North
cup [edit ]
DFB-Pokal
DFB-Supercup
european [edit ]
UEFA Cup
UEFA Champions League
youth [edit ]
In Europe [edit ]
As of 25 February 2021.
| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UEFA Champions League | 111 | 42
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24 | 45 | 167 | 172 | −5 | 0 37.84 |
| UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League | 113 | 56 | 26 | 31 | 192 | 114 | +78 | 0 49.56 |
| UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 8 | +7 | 0 50.00 |
| Total | 230 | 101 | 52 | 77 | 374 | 294 | +80 | 0 43.91 |
Players [edit ]
team [edit ]
- As of 9 November 2021[44]
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Players out on loan [edit ]
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past players [edit ]
Records [edit ]
Coaching history [edit ]
- As of 1 July 2021[46]