Bayer Leverkusen football club
Club Information | ||||||||||
| League: 1. Bundesliga (Ger) | ||||||||||
| Year Founded: 1904 | ||||||||||
| Location: Leverkusen, Germany | ||||||||||
| Stadium: BayArena | ||||||||||
| Capacity: 22500 | ||||||||||
| Official Website: bayer04.de | ||||||||||
| Record Transfer Fees Paid: £5m for Jan Simak from Hannover 96 in 2002 | ||||||||||
| Record Transfer Fees Received: £10.89m for Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur in 2006 | ||||||||||
| Average age of players: 28 years | ||||||||||
| Number of foreigners: 7 | ||||||||||
| Longest serving player: Simon Rolfes (6 years) | ||||||||||
Squad Information | ||||||||||
| No. | Name | Pos. | Age | Birthplace | Ht | Wt | Contr. | Signed | From | Fee |
Staff | ||||||||||
| - | Jupp Heynckes (Ger) | Mgr | 67 | Moenchengladbach | - | - | - | 2009 | Bayern Munchen (Ger) | Hired |
| - | Rudiger Vollborn (Ger) | Coa. | 49 | - | - | - | - | 2003 | Un-attached | Hired |
| - | Rudi Voller (Ger) | DoF | 52 | Hanau | 180 | - | 06/2012 | 2005 | Un-attached | Hired |
Goalkeepers | ||||||||||
| - | Rene Adler (Ger) | GK | 27 | Leipzig | 189 | 80 | 06/2012 | - | - | - |
Defenders | ||||||||||
| - | Vedran Corluka (Cro) | RB | 26 | Doboj | 193 | 84 | 06/2012 | 2012 | Tottenham Hotspur (Eng) | Loan |
| - | Vratislav Gresko (Slvk) | LB | 34 | Presburg | 183 | 72 | 06/2009 | 2007 | 1.FC Nurnberg (Ger) | Free |
| - | Hans Sarpei (Gha) | LB | 35 | - | 178 | 68 | 06/2009 | 2007 | VfL Wolfsburg (Ger) | Bosman |
| - | Manuel Friedrich (Ger) | CD | 32 | Bad Kreuznach | 189 | 78 | 06/2013 | 2007 | FSV Mainz 05 (Ger) | £2.02m |
| - | Lukas Sinkiewicz (Ger) | CD | 26 | Tichau | 186 | 81 | 06/2011 | 2007 | 1.FC Koln (Ger) | £? |
| - | Sascha Dum (Ger) | DF | 25 | Leverkusen | 188 | 83 | 06/2010 | - | - | - |
Midfielders | ||||||||||
| - | Carsten Ramelow (Ger) | DM | 38 | Berlin | 185 | 80 | 06/2008 | - | - | - |
| - | Michael Ballack (Ger) | CM | 35 | Gorlitz | 189 | 80 | 06/2012 | 2010 | Chelsea (Eng) | Free |
| 27 | Gonzalo Castro (Ger) | MF | 24 | - | 173 | 72 | 06/2012 | - | - | - |
| - | Renato Augusto (Bra) | MF | 24 | Rio de Janeiro | 185 | 85 | 06/2013 | 2008 | Flamengo (Bra) | £3.95m |
| - | Hanno Balitsch (Ger) | MF | 31 | Darmstadt | 182 | 74 | - | 2010 | Hannover 96 (Ger) | Bosman |
| - | Tranquillo Barnetta (Swi) | MF | 26 | St. Gallen | 176 | 62 | - | - | - | - |
| - | Pierre De Wit (Ger) | MF | 24 | - | 172 | 67 | 06/2010 | 2006 | Youth | Free |
| - | Simon Rolfes (Ger) | MF | 30 | Ibbenb?ren | 189 | 79 | 06/2013 | 2005 | Alemannia Aachen (Ger) | £443.8k |
| - | Arturo Vidal (Chl) | MF | 24 | Santiago | 180 | 74 | - | - | - | - |
Forwards | ||||||||||
| - | Eren Derdiyok (Swi) | ST | 23 | - | 190 | 83 | 06/2013 | 2009 | FC Basel (Swi) | £4.36m |
| - | Patrick Helmes (Ger) | ST | 28 | - | 182 | - | - | 2008 | 1.FC Koln (Ger) | Bosman |
| - | Stephan Kiessling (Ger) | ST | 28 | Lichtenfels | 194 | 75 | 06/2015 | 2006 | 1.FC Nurnberg (Ger) | £3.41m |