Bayer 04 Leverkusen, also known as Bayer Leverkusen, Leverkusen, or simply known as Bayer, is a German women's football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia.[2] The club plays in the Frauen-Bundesliga, the top tier of German women's football.

Bayer Leverkusen

Full name	Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH
Nickname(s)	Werkself
Founded	1 July 2008; 14 years ago (2008-07-01)
Ground	Nachwuchsleistungszentrum Kurtekotten, Cologne
Capacity	1,140
Owner	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen e. V.[1]
Sporting director	Achim Feifel[2]
Head coach	Robert de Pauw[2]
League	Frauen-Bundesliga
2021–22	7th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

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The origin of Bayer Leverkusen women's football section lies at the SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach, which in the 1970s and 1980s was the dominating club in German women's football. In that period Bergisch Gladbach won the national women's football championship nine times which today is still the record. They also won the DFB-Pokal three times. After the inception of the Bundesliga in 1990 their performance declined through the 1990s, eventually leading to relegation.

In 1996 the women's team moved from SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach to TuS Köln rrh. At Köln the team played mostly second-tier football with a few seasons in the third tier in between. Their greatest success was a semi-final appearance in the 2007–08 cup. However the team was not able to find sponsors, that would help to realize the team's ambitions of playing Bundesliga football again. Contemporaneously Bayer Leverkusen pronounced their interest to establish a women's football section of their own. On 25 June 2008 the women's football department of TuS Köln rrh. disbanded to join Bayer Leverkusen.

In their first season at Bayer Leverkusen the team finished 7th in the south group of the 2. Bundesliga. The following season Leverkusen became champions of the 2. Bundesliga and would thus play in the Bundesliga in the 2010–11 season. In its debut season the team finished 8th.

The following season the team finished 11th in the table, yet wasn't relegated as Hamburger SV announced its disestablishment of the women's section. Since the 2012–13 season, Leverkusen had been coached by Thomas Obliers, until his resignation in 2017. Leverkusen were relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga soon after.

Players

First-team squad

As of 21 August 2022.[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Anna Klink 2 DF  GER Selina Ostermeier 3 DF  GER Melissa Friedrich 4 MF  POL Sylwia Matysik 6 MF  GER Elisa Senß 7 FW  BRA Ivana Fuso (on loan from Manchester United) 8 MF  GER Lisanne Gräwe 9 FW  GER Chiara Bücher 10 FW  BIH Milena Nikolić 11 FW  GER Kristin Kögel 13 DF  GER Caroline Siems 14 DF  GER Juliane Wirtz 16 MF  GER Sofie Zdebel

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW   SUI Amira Arfaoui 18 MF  NED Jill Baijings 20 MF  SRB Dina Blagojević 22 MF  GER Alexandra Emmerling 24 DF  HUN Lilla Turányi 26 MF  GER Clara Fröhlich 27 GK  GER Friederike Repohl 29 FW  GER Annika Enderle 30 MF   SUI Lara Marti 31 MF  GER Verena Wieder 34 GK  GER Anne Moll

Former players

Seasons

Stadia

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• Kurt-Rieß-Anlage (2008–2011)
• Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion (Amateurstadion) (2011–2016)
• Nachwuchsleistungszentrum Kurtekotten (2016–)

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

[es] Bayer 04 Leverkusen (femenino)