When the team played the first promotion match against Solingen 95, they wore the Bayer Cross on their claret shirts for the first time. A highly focused performance brought a brilliantly played 2-1 victory. Nevertheless, Solingen were considered to be the favourites in the return match.
In brilliant sunshine under blue skies, ten coaches and countless cyclists made their way from Leverkusen to Solingen a week later to support their team. The game ended in a 2-0 victory with two goals from right-winger Friedrich 'Fritz' Schorn. After a defensive tussle for 75 minutes, the two goals were netted within three minutes to put our 'Sportverinigung' in the second division for the first time.
Andrzej Buncol was born in Gleiwitz in Silesia on 21 September 1959. Andrzej started playing football there for the small club Piast Gliwice in the Polish industrial town. At the age of 18 he moved up to the first team where he played for two years. The top-flight Polish club Ruch Chorzow signed the technically gifted midfielder in 1979 for the first team. He immediately gained a regular berth there and made his debut for the Poland team. He played for Poland in all the games at the 1982 World Cup going out to the eventual World Cup winners Italy in the semi-finals. In the third-place play-off, the team led by world-class player Zbigniew Boniek beat France 3-2.
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Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker was born in Schleswig on 23 September 1984. He started his story as a footballer in the state of Schleswig-Holstein at the small village club with TSV Bollingstedt. When his parents moved to Bonn for work in 1995, he signed for SV Beuel 06, a club in the former Federal German capital of Bonn.
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On that day, the league game or championship football competition match, as it is was called back then, for TuS 04 Leverkusen, who were the football section of the future Bayer 04 Leverkusen for a long-term time, played on the Pitch on the Dhünn.
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In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of September. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
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‘Los Galacticos’ were a collection of world famous players at Real Madrid. Names like Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, David Beckham, Roberto Carlos, Raul and Iker Casillas are still familiar to every football fan today.
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