Get a cold drink, make yourselves comfortable and click onto our Bayer 04 channel on YouTube. You’ll discover lots of entertaining and, above all, humorous Werkself output. With the ‘I know him’ feature, for example with Lars and Sven Bender, the players are tested on how well they know each other. Using posted texts, the duos of Kevin Volland & Ramazan ‘Rambo’ Özcan and Lukas Hradecky & Joel Pohjanpalo, guess which of their teammates’ Instagram accounts it is. There is also the ‘Black or Red?’ game where a number of Werkself players have difficulty deciding. What’s really tricky is, ‘What’s the question?’ – Jonathan Tah, Kai Havertz and Kerem Demirbay have already been under pressure.
Here’s a little taster of ‘04 wins’ with Nadiem Amiri and Karim Bellarabi – laughter guaranteed!
Leon Bailey und Moussa Diaby haben es selbst schon getestet: Das Werkself-Memory! Für 25 ausgewählte Schnappschüsse der Werkself gilt es das entsprechend gleiche Pärchenbild zu finden. Und das könnt ihr nun auch zu Hause spielen! HIER geht’s zur Online-Version. Wer lieber zu Hause mit „echten“ Karten spielt, kann sich die Memory-Karten auch einfach unter folgendem Download-Link herunterladen, zweimal ausdrucken und schon kann’s losgehen. Viel Spaß beim Spielen!
Team chef Alexander Wagner ensures the Werkself players get tasty and nutritious food, tailored to the needs of professional athletes, on their plates. But what dishes are there for Kevin Volland, Nadiem Amiri, Julian Baumgartlinger and Co.? Alex shows you! His ‘Pasta with chicken breast’ is possibly an inspiration for you to cook at home!? He shows you step-by-step how to do it and what you need:
Werkself podcast number 21 came out recently – Reiner Calmund was the guest this time round. The former mover and shaker at Bayer 04 was as we know him with one great comment after the next. This edition with ‘Calli’ and the previous 20 – including with Simon Rolfes, Ulf Kirsten, Stefan Kießling and Jonathan Tah –are available on the music and audio streaming platform Sound Cloud, popular podcast apps as well as on Spotify. A little tip: Subscribe to the Werkself podcast to make sure you don’t miss one:
https://soundcloud.com/werkself-podcast/
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A variety of stories, an entertaining mix of current and historic subjects, interesting interviews and profiles plus much more – always focussed on Bayer 04: That’s the Werkself magazine. All editions are now available online (in German) HERE.
Rüdiger Vollborn has been at the club for 40 years, he holds the record number of Bundesliga appearances for the club (401) and is the only Bayer 04 player to have won both the UEFA Cup (1988) and the DFB Pokal (1993). And the Berliner stayed with the Werkself after ending his impressive playing career as he worked as a goalkeeping coach for the following nine years. Vollborn now works under the Bayer Cross as a fan liaison officer and club archivist. Since February 2021, the personalised Black and Red lexicon takes Werkself fans under the heading of 'Rudi recounts...' on a brief trip through the history of Bayer 04 every month.
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Kasper Hjulmand has led the Werkself back to winning ways and is back in the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League with Bayer 04 after the 3-0 win against Villarreal on Wednesday evening. In an interview with the Werkself magazine at the BayArena in the team meeting room, directly opposite the dressing room, he provided some special insights for the current issue, which was published in January. A conversation with the 53-year-old coach about values, attitudes and personal experiences as well as interests outside of football.
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The thrilling 3-1 win for Bayer 04 against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Hinrunde is a fond memory for Alejandro Grimaldo, with his brace from free kicks, and coach Kasper Hjulmand, who was in the dugout under the Cross for the first time. Now comes the return fixture in the metropolis on the River Main and after going out of the DFB Pokal and the Champions League, the full focus at Eintracht, currently managed by two interim coaches, is now on the Bundesliga. For their part, the Werkself will do everything in their power to continue the longest winning run against a Bundesliga club. The matchday news.
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Bayer 04 have ended Artem Stepanov’s loan deal at Nürnberg and agreed a new loan to Utrecht in the Netherlands. The Ukrainian striker did not play as much as hoped for at the Bundesliga 2 club and will now continue his development in the Eredivisie for the rest of 2025/26.
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The draw for the knockout play-offs of the 2025/26 UEFA Champions League was made on Friday, 30 January and saw Bayer 04 paired with Olympiacos. It’s a reunion with the Greek side following the Werkself’s 2-0 loss in Athens on Matchday 7 of the league phase.
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