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Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional association football, football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It competes in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football league system, German football, and plays its home matches at the BayArena. Founded in 1904 by employees of the pharmaceutical company Bayer (whose headquarters are in Leverkusen and from which the club draws its name), the club was formerly a department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and RTHC Bayer Leverkusen, sports clubs whose members participate in athletics, gymnastics, Bayer Giants Leverkusen, basketball, field handball, rowing, tennis and hockey. In 1999, the football department was separated from the sports club. Bayer Leverkusen's main colours are red and black, which feature across their playing kits and badge, and their main rivals are 1. FC Köln, Borussia Mönchenglad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BayArena
BayArena () is a Association football, football stadium in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been the home ground of Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 1958. History The stadium was originally known as ''Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion'' (; ), named after a former chairman of Bayer, Bayer AG, the club's founders. Its original capacity was 20,000. In 1986, a rebuilding project began to convert it into a modern facility; the project continued over the following decade and was completed in 1997, creating a modern all-seater stadium with a capacity of 22,500. The stadium was renamed ''BayArena'' in 1998. The former name was then used for the youth team stadium next to it. In 1999, a hotel attached to the stadium was completed, with some rooms having a view of the pitch. The stadium complex also includes a restaurant, which also overlooks the pitch, and conference facilities. The city of Leverkusen originally bid to become a venue for the Football World Cup 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Fußball Liga
The DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH (or simply Deutsche Fußball Liga; ; often shortened to DFL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of '' Die Liga – Fußballverband''. The DFL is responsible for entire operating business of the ''Ligaverband'', including the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga leagues. Since 1 July 2001, the DFL has organised the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. From 2005 until 2007, they also organised the DFL-Ligapokal. Since 2010, the DFL also has organised the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup. Function The DFL was founded on 19 December 2000 as an independent ''GmbH''. Since then, the ''Ligaverband'' has been the sole shareholder of the DFL, which has provided the capital stock in the amount of €1 million. The organisation is a subsidiary of the '' Ligaverband'', which acts as a representative for the 36 professional clubs in the top two leagues of German football. Today the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga are operated by the DFL, but jointly hosted by the German Football Asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberliga West (1947–63)
Oberliga () may refer to: Association football * Oberliga (football), currently the fifth tier of the German football league system, formerly the first * DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of football in East Germany until 1990, replaced by the NOFV-Oberliga * NOFV-Oberliga, replaced the DDR-Oberliga in 1990, now the fifth tier of football in the region Ice hockey * Austrian Oberliga The Austrian Oberliga was an ice hockey league in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of whi ... * Oberliga (ice hockey), formerly the first tier, now the third tier of ice hockey in Germany {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayer Leverkusen Performance Chart
Bayer AG (English: , commonly pronounced ; ) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of business include: pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products. The company is a component of the EURO STOXX 50 stock market index. Bayer was founded in 1863 in Barmen as a partnership between dye salesman Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880) and dyer Friedrich Weskott (1821–1876). The company was established as a dyestuffs producer, but the versatility of aniline chemistry led Bayer to expand its business into other areas. In 1899, Bayer launched the compound acetylsalicylic acid under the trademarked name Aspirin. Aspirin is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. In 2021, it was the 34th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Works Team
A works team, sometimes also referred to as factory team and company team, is a sports team that is financed and run by a manufacturer or other business, institution, or organization in a broad sense. Works teams have very close ties with their main sponsor and owner, and usually incorporate its logo, its name, or both, in the sport club or team logo. Sometimes, works teams contain or are entirely made up of employees of the supporting company. In motorsport, a works team or factory team is a manufacturer that builds its own car or motorbike including the engine. Company teams are owned, sponsored and managed by companies in order to raise awareness about those companies' brands, being usually named after those companies and brands as part and parcel of those companies' marketing strategy. Sometimes a single company (e.g. Red Bull GmbH) owns more than one team named after it competing in different sports or even in the same sport. When they meet certain criteria, college and u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Association Football Club Records And Statistics
This article details men's professional football club records and statistics (individual and collective) in Europe. The records and stats look across all European clubs competing in the highest divisions and levels of European professional football, allowing for cross-competition comparison. Therefore, the coverage only considers for domestic competitions the top-division of the national league and its cups (, league cup, super cup); for continental competitions, all UEFA club competitions including – although recognized but not organized by UEFA – the Fairs Cup as the predecessor to the UEFA Cup; and additionally, on an intercontinental scale, both the FIFA Club World Cup and its defunct predecessor, the Intercontinental Cup, which was endorsed by UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL (South America). All competitions for men's European football clubs Individual records Most goals in a season in all club competitions Only the period starting from the implementation of the modern of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Unbeaten Football Club Seasons
This is a list of unbeaten football club seasons. Men's football Africa ''(National top division only, minimum 18 matches in league calendar)'' Asia ''(National top division only, minimum 18 matches in league calendar)'' Europe AC MilanUnder manager Fabio Capello, AC Milan went undefeated throughout all of their 34 matches in the league to capture the 1991–92 Serie A, and went unbeaten between 1991 and 1993, an Italian record of 58 league matches in total. ArsenalArsenal won the 2003–04 Premier League title, finishing undefeated under manager Arsène Wenger, and went unbeaten for a total of 49 consecutive matches in the league between 2003 and 2004. JuventusUnder manager Antonio Conte, Juventus won the 2011–12 Serie A undefeated, becoming the first team to do so in a 38–game league season in Italy. Overall, in that season the team set a national record of 42 official matches unbeaten including the Italian Cup campaign, in which they reached the final. Finally, Juv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double (association Football)
The Double, in association football, is the achievement of winning a country's top tier division and its primary domestic cup competition in the same season. The lists in this article examine this definition of a double, while derivative sections examine much less frequent, continental instances. ''The Double'' can also mean beating a team both home and away in the same league season, a feat often noted as ''doing the double'' over a particular opponent. The first club to achieve a double was Preston North End in 1889, winning the FA Cup and The Football League in the inaugural season of the league. The team that holds the record for the most doubles is Linfield of Northern Ireland, with a total of 25. South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago are the two countries with the most Double-winning clubs, with 13 clubs each. Europe Albania In Albania, six teams have won the Double of the Kategoria Superiore and the Kupa e Shqipërisë. Andorra In Andorra, four teams have won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 DFB-Pokal
The 2023–24 DFB-Pokal was the 81st season of the annual German football cup competition. Sixty-four teams participated in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. The competition began on 11 August 2023 with the first of six rounds and ended on 25 May 2024 with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, a nominally neutral venue, which has hosted the final since 1985. The DFB-Pokal is considered the second-most important club title in German football after the Bundesliga championship. The DFB-Pokal is run by the German Football Association (DFB). The two-time defending champions were Bundesliga side RB Leipzig, after they had defeated Eintracht Frankfurt 2–0 in the previous final, but they were eliminated in the second round by VfL Wolfsburg. Bayer Leverkusen won their second title after defeating 1. FC Kaiserslautern 1–0 in the final. The winner of the DFB-Pokal would normally have earned automatic qualification for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Bundesliga
The 2023–24 Bundesliga was the 61st season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football competition. It began on 18 August 2023 and concluded on 18 May 2024. The fixtures were announced on 30 June 2023. On 14 April 2024, Bayer Leverkusen were crowned champions for the first time with five matches to spare following a 5–0 win over Werder Bremen, becoming the thirteenth different champion in Bundesliga history and ending previous holders Bayern Munich's run of eleven consecutive titles. Bayer Leverkusen crushed the competition en route to becoming the first Bundesliga team to finish a season unbeaten, with a record of 28 wins and six draws. Teams A total of 18 teams participated in the 2023–24 edition of the Bundesliga. Team changes SV Darmstadt 98 returned to the Bundesliga after a six-year absence while 1. FC Heidenheim competed in the Bundesliga for the first time in the club's history. Stadiums and locations Personnel and kits Managerial changes League table ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001–02 UEFA Champions League
The 2001–02 UEFA Champions League was the 47th season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the 10th since its rebranding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The tournament was won by Real Madrid, who beat Bayer Leverkusen in the final to claim their ninth European Cup title. The final's winning goal was scored by Zinedine Zidane, with a left-footed volley from the edge of the penalty area into the top left corner. Bayer Leverkusen eliminated all three English teams on their way to the final: Arsenal in the second group stage, followed by Liverpool in the quarter-finals and Manchester United in the semi-finals. Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy was the tournament's top scorer, scoring 10 goals from the first group stage through to the semi-final. Bayern Munich were the defending champions, but were eliminated by eventual winners Real Madrid in the quarter-finals. Association team allocation A total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
