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Club facts: Leverkusen

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Formed: 1904
Nickname: Werkself (Factory Team)

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
UEFA Champions League: (2002)
UEFA Cup (1): 1988

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
German Cup: 1 (1993)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2021/22: UEFA Europa League round of 16
2020/21: UEFA Europa League round of 32
2019/20: UEFA Europa League quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2018/19: UEFA Europa League round of 32
2017/18:
did not take part in UEFA club competition
2016/17:
round of 16
2015/16: UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2014/15: round of 16
2013/14:
round of 16
2012/13:
UEFA Europa League round of 32

Records
UEFA club competition
Biggest home win
6-1: Leverkusen v Dinamo Tbilisi
13/08/97, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round first leg
5-0 twice, most recently v Baník Ostrava
11/08/04, UEFA Champions League third qualifying round first leg

Biggest away win
1-6: Tervis Pärnu v Leverkusen
08/07/95, UEFA Intertoto Cup group stage
0-5: Zürich v Leverkusen
19/12/07, UEFA Cup group stage

Heaviest home defeat
0-5: Leverkusen v Manchester United
27/11/13, UEFA Champions League group stage

Heaviest away defeat
7-1: Barcelona v Leverkusen
07/03/12, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg

UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only)
Biggest home win
4-0: Leverkusen v Shakhtar Donetsk
23/10/13, group stage

Biggest away win
1-3: Deportivo La Coruña v Leverkusen
20/03/02, second group stage
0-2 five times, most recently v Lokomotiv Moskva
26/11/19, group stage

Heaviest home defeat
0-5: Leverkusen v Manchester United (see above)

Heaviest away defeat
7-1: Barcelona v Leverkusen (see above)