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Club facts: Leverkusen

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Formed: 1904
Nickname: Werkself (Works XI)

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

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 1 (2024)
German Cup: 1 (1993)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise)
2022/23: semi-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2021/22:
round of 16
2020/21: round of 32
2019/20:
 
quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2018/19:
round of 32
2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition
2016/17:
UEFA Champions League round of 16
2015/16:
round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2014/15: UEFA Champions League round of 16
2013/14:
UEFA Champions League round of 16

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 Cup/UEFA Europa League
Biggest home win
5-0: Leverkusen v Kispest Honvéd
01/11/94, second round second leg

Biggest away win
0-5: Zürich v Leverkusen (see above)

Heaviest home defeat
1-4: Leverkusen v Zenit
03/04/08, quarter-final first leg
0-3: Leverkusen v Osasuna
05/04/07, quarter-final first leg

Heaviest away defeat
3-0 three times, most recently v Parma
18/04/95, semi-final second leg