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Football club
Bayer Leverkusen
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Full name
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH
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Nickname(s)
| Werkself
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Founded
| 1 July 2008
; 15 years ago
(
2008-07-01
)
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Ground
| Nachwuchsleistungszentrum Kurtekotten,
Cologne
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Capacity
| 1,140
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Owner
| TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen e. V.
[1]
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Sporting director
| Achim Feifel
[2]
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Head coach
| Robert de Pauw
[2]
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League
| Frauen-Bundesliga
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2023?24
| 6th of 12
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Website
| Club website
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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 football
.
History
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edit
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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 Koln rrh.
At Koln 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 Koln 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
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First-team squad
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- As of 26 September 2023
[3]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules
. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Former players
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Seasons
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Stadia
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- Kurt-Rieß-Anlage (2008?2011)
- Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion (Amateurstadion) (2011?2016)
- Nachwuchsleistungszentrum Kurtekotten (2016?)
References
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External links
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Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH
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Miscellaneous
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2024?25
clubs
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Former clubs
| Frauen-Bundesliga
(1997?present)
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Frauen-Bundesliga Nord
(1990?1997)
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Frauen-Bundesliga Sud
(1990?1997)
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