Bayer 04 Leverkusen

german association football clubhouse

football cabaret
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, besides known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( german : [ ˌbaɪ̯ɐ ˈleːvɐˌkuːzn̩ ] ), Bayer Leverkusen, or merely Leverkusen, is a german professional football baseball club based in Leverkusen in the state of north Rhine-Westphalia. [ 4 ] The club competes in the Bundesliga, the top grade of german football, and plays its family matches at the BayArena. [ 5 ] [ 1 ]

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The club was founded in 1904 by employees of the german pharmaceutical caller Bayer AG, whose headquarters are in Leverkusen and from which the 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 divide entity formally called Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH. [ 5 ] Bayer were first promoted to the Bundesliga in 1979, and have remained in the top class ever since. The cabaret ‘s chief colours are crimson and blacken, both having been used as the main shirt color and with loss and black stripes besides having been used as home color. Bayer Leverkusen have finished five times runner-up in the Bundesliga without winning the contest, a record 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. Their local anesthetic 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 companion workers – to his employer, the Friedrich Bayer and Co., seeking the company ‘s support in starting a sports club. [ 8 ] The caller agreed to support the first step, 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 meaning animosity between gymnasts and early types of athletes. finally this contributed to a split within the club : on 8 June 1928, the footballers formed a branch affiliation – Sportvereinigung Bayer 04 Leverkusen – that besides included the handball and fistball players, athletics, and packing, while the gymnasts carried on as TuS Bayer 04 Leverkusen. SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen took with them the club ‘s traditional color of red and black, with the gymnasts adopting blue and scandalmongering .
historic chart of Bayer Leverkusen league performance after WWII Through this period, and into the 1930s, SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen played one-third and fourth class football. [ 9 ] In 1936, they earned promotion to the second highest class of looseness of the time period. [ 9 ] That was besides the year that the club wore the familiar “ Bayer “ intersect for the first time. [ 9 ] They made their first appearance in upper league gambling 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 temper before the formation of Germany ‘s new professional league, the Bundesliga. The next year saw the cabaret in the Regionalliga West, tier II, where their performances over the adjacent few seasons left them good 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 part deed, but was unable to advance through the playoff attack to the foremost division. The club was relegated again in 1973, but made a immediate recurrence to what was now called the 2. Bundesliga after barely one season spent in the third base 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 means into the upper one-half of the league table and was well-established there by the end of the ten. It was during this time, in 1984, that the two-halves of the baseball club that had parted ways over a one-half hundred earlier were re-united as TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen e.V. The new club took red and whiten as its semblance. In addition to becoming an established Bundesliga side, the baseball club earned its foremost award with a dramatic acquire in the 1988 UEFA Cup. down 0–3 to Espanyol after the first base leg of the final, Bayer Leverkusen drew even in the return match and then captured the deed on penalty kicks, 3–2. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] That same class, long-time Bayer Leverkusen executive Reiner Calmund became the general coach of the baseball club. This is regarded as one of the most crucial moves in the club ‘s history, as Calmund ushered in a ten and a half of the golf club ‘s greatest successes through calculating, far-sighted musician acquisitions. After the german reunion in 1990, Reiner Calmund was immediate to sign east german stars Ulf Kirsten, Andreas Thom and Jens Melzig. The three players would become instantaneous 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 powerful player agents. Over the next few years, budding superstars, such as Jorginho and Paulo Sérgio, joined the team, as did Czech star 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 cabaret captured its next honor in 1993 with a 1–0 win in the DFB-Pokal over a surprising Hertha BSC amateur squad on 12 June 1993. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the following season, 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 season, and, as both a “ lean of the hat ” to its own history arsenic well as an try to possibly upset the Frankfurt team, Bayer played in its new third base colours, which were antique loss and black stripes, alike new jersey to those Frankfurt generally wore at the prison term. This proved so popular with the fans that, identical curtly thereafter, the team reverted to its “ retro ” colours of crimson and black, colours used on all home jerseys ever since. After a approach calamity in 1996 when the club faced a relegation battle, Bayer Leverkusen established itself as a brawny slope, offering a technically please unsavory expressive style of play under raw coach 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 excellently fired for a cocaine scandal that besides cost him his rise to the role of the Germany home 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 title within its compass. In 2000, Bayer Leverkusen needed entirely a pull back against SpVgg Unterhaching to win the title, but an own finish by Michael Ballack helped send the team to a crushing 2–0 frustration, while Bayern Munich clinched the deed with a 3–1 victory over Werder Bremen. Two years late, the golf club surrendered a five-point lead atop the league mesa by losing two of its last three matches while Borussia Dortmund swept ahead with three straight victories in its final matches. The 2002 temper has been dubbed the “ treble horror ”, as Bayer Leverkusen were besides beaten 4–2 in the DFB-Pokal final by Schalke 04 and lost the UEFA Champions League final examination 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 of the Champions League without ever having won a national backing. [ 18 ]

late years [edit ]

Leverkusen against rivals Köln in the Bundesliga in 2012 The club went through startling reversals of luck in the following 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 temper, leading to the discharge of Klaus Toppmöller, who had coached the team during its most successful year, and he was replaced by the inexperienced Thomas Hörster. Charismatic coach Klaus Augenthaler took up the reins in the concluding two games of the season and helped avoid calamity with a succeed over his previous baseball club, 1. FC Nürnberg. He then led Bayer Leverkusen to a third-place finish and a Champions League place the follow year. That following season ‘s run in the Champions League saw the clubhouse get some measure of retaliation on Real Madrid, opening its group stage campaign with a 3–0 spread-eagle of the spanish giants, [ 19 ] helping Leverkusen to win the group. [ 20 ] Leverkusen, however, was defeated in the first 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 on in 2005, Augenthaler was fired as coach after the club got off to its worst Bundesliga start in over 20 years, with only one win in its first four league matches and a 0–1 home loss to CSKA Sofia in the first leg of its UEFA Cup match-up. [ 23 ] Former Germany national team coach Rudi Völler, who had been named sporting conductor anterior to the season, took charge of five matches as caretaker coach. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Michael Skibbe, who was Völler ‘s assistant passenger car with the home team, was named as his successor in October 2005. [ 25 ] Skibbe turned Leverkusen ‘s season approximately and guided the club to a sixth-place eat up in 2006, earning another UEFA Cup invest, and then repeated that feat with a fifth place Bundesliga finish in 2007. [ 25 ] The 2007–08 season was not a successful one for Leverkusen despite a good originate to the season ; five out of the last ten-spot league matches were lost to clubs in the lower half of the table. Michael Skibbe was heavily criticised towards the end of the season after he endlessly changed his starting line up. Bayer Leverkusen besides lost a lot of its support towards the end of the season : in the 1–2 family loss against Hertha BSC, the Leverkusen fans caused much whirl, with fans chanting for the displace 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 passing was due to the failure to qualify for the follow season ‘s UEFA Cup group stage. [ 26 ] The 2008–09 season got off to a great begin for Bayer Leverkusen under newly coach Bruno Labbadia, who the baseball club had acquired from 2. Bundesliga 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 concluding on 30 May 2009 in Berlin, but fell 0–1 to Werder Bremen. [ 25 ] [ 28 ] Leverkusen finished the season in one-ninth place in the Bundesliga table and Labbadia moved to Hamburger SV in June 2009. [ 29 ] Shortly thereafter, Leverkusen presented Jupp Heynckes as its newly director, who had previously managed Bayern Munich after Jürgen Klinsmann ‘s passing. [ 30 ] In the 2010–11 season, Bayer Leverkusen finished runner-up thus qualifying for the Champions League for the foremost clock 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 gear time. [ 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 follow season both times. In the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, Leverkusen reached the quarter-finals for the inaugural 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 trope. [ 33 ] The BayArena has the repute of being one of the most family-friendly football stadiums in Germany. [ 33 ] Ironically, Bayer 04 was the foremost Bundesliga clubhouse whose fans identified themselves as Ultras and the city of Leverkusen is one of the erstwhile industrial cities of Germany. [ 34 ] Bayer Leverkusen is perceived by some to have an ongoing image trouble of a different sort. [ 35 ] Although they are a financially healthy club with a stable of strong players, many fans of the traditional clubs denounce Bayer Leverkusen as being a “ credit card club ” without traditions or a give fan base, existing entirely as a universe of their fat pharmaceutical company sponsor – Bayer AG. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] As a result, the club 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 bodied origins, however, are far from unique. other clubs, including PSV, Carl Zeiss Jena and Sochaux, share a similar reputation of being work teams. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] As distinguished from the respective 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 living conditions of local factory workers early in the twentieth hundred. In position of this tradition, UEFA allows Bayer Leverkusen to use the trade name name Bayer in european club competitions while disallowing such mention 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

Win%

UEFA Champions League
111
42

Players [edit ]

police squad [edit ]

As of 9 November 2021[44]

note : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Players out on lend [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .