Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a soccer club from Leverkusen . The women's soccer department has existed since July 1st, 2008 when the women's soccer department of TuS Köln rrh was taken over. The first team played in the Bundesliga from 2010 to 2017 and again since 2018 . The second team competes in the Middle Rhine League (fourth class). There are also three girls' teams.
The roots of the department are at SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach . The team dominated German women's football from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Between 1977 and 1989 she was German champion nine times. The DFB Cup has been won three times. In 1981 the team represented Germany at an unofficial world championship in Taiwan and became tournament winners. In 1990 Bergisch Gladbach was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga and was third in the northern group in its first season . Then things slowly went downhill and in 1994 the team was relegated from the Bundesliga. After failing to qualify for the promotion round in 1996, the department joined TuS Köln rrh. over.
TuS Cologne rrh. (1996 to 2008)
After a few placements in midfield, the team was relegated in 1999 from the then second-rate Regionalliga West . After the immediate resurgence, the success curve pointed up again. After the 2003/04 season, the club qualified fourth in terms of sport for the newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga , but decided not to participate for organizational reasons. A year later, the team became champions and this time they made the move. In the 2nd Bundesliga they came fourth twice and fifth once. In 2008 the team reached the cup semi-finals . In front of over 3,000 spectators, however, she was defeated by 1. FC Saarbrücken 0-2.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (since 2008)
Despite the sporting success, the club failed to find new sponsors in order to achieve the desired promotion to the Bundesliga. At about the same time, Bayer 04 Leverkusen expressed an interest in setting up a women's football department. On June 5, 2008, the women's soccer department of TuS Köln rrh broke up. and moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen. After the 2008/09 season ended in seventh place, the team was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga in the following season as champions of the 2nd Bundesliga South. After three match days without a point win or scoring, they were initially in last place in the table, were ultimately able to secure relegation three match days before the end of the season and ended the season in eighth place. In 2011/12 they missed the sporting league as eleventh in the table, but remained first class, as Hamburger SV withdrew its team from Bundesliga play. In the following season things went much better under the new coach Thomas Obliers and the season ended in eighth place. In the two following seasons too, positions in the lower mid-range of the table were achieved. In 2017, the Leverkusen women rose and a year later rose again.
orange background: Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, green background: Regionalliga West
The second team played (like the second substitute for TuS Köln rrh.) In the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons in the Mittelrhein Association. For the 2010/11 season she was promoted to Regionalliga West , the third-highest German division for women. After the 2017/18 season, the team was relegated to the fourth-class Middle Rhine League.
Girls teams
The B-Juniors have been part of the B-Juniorinnen-Bundesliga West since it was founded in 2012 and play there for a place in the final round of the German championship. The team has been taking part in the Gütersloher Hallenmasters , the largest German indoor tournament for B juniors, since 2010, and came in second in 2011 and 2014 and third in 2010. In 2018 and 2019, the B-Juniors won the tournament. The C-Juniors have been competing in the U-17 regional league since the 2013/14 season. on. The D-Juniors have been playing in the junior performance relay of the Berg football district since the 2018/2019 season.
Stadion
The Bundesliga team initially played their home games on the Kurt Rieß facility in Leverkusen, which had space for 2,000 spectators. Since the completion of the construction work in the Ulrich Haberland Stadium and the approval by the DFB, the team has played in it. Since the 2016/17 season, the team has been training at the Kurtekotten youth training center in Cologne, where they also play most of their competitive games. However, top games should still take place in the Ulrich Haberland Stadium. The second team plays their games on the Im Bühl sports facility in Schlebusch . The youth teams play their home games at the youth performance center and at partner clubs in Leverkusen.
Fernando Carro (Chair) Rudi Völler (Sports)
