Bayer 04 Leverkusen in European football

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen in international football competitions

Club	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Seasons played	30
First entry	1986–87 UEFA Cup
Latest entry	2024–25 UEFA Champions League
Titles
Europa League	1 1988

Bayer Leverkusen was founded in 1904 by employees of the German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG, whose headquarters are in Leverkusen and from which the club draws its name. The club has won one UEFA Cup, one DFB-Pokal, and won their first Bundesliga title in the 2023–24 season. They have also finished runners-up five times in the Bundesliga and once each in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

Bayer Leverkusen has competed in European competition for 30 seasons, first qualifying for the 1986–87 UEFA Cup through a sixth placed finish in the 1985–86 Bundesliga, being Germany's fourth representative at the tournament. The club has played in three European finals: they won the two-legged 1988 UEFA Cup final against Espanyol on penalties, lost 2–1 in the 2002 Champions League final against Real Madrid fourteen years later, and lost 3–0 to Atalanta in the 2024 Europa League final twelve years after this.

Overall record

As of 10 December 2024

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
UEFA Champions League	123	47	27	49	183	185	−2	038.21
UEFA Cup/Europa League	141	73	31	37	253	144	+109	051.77
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	6	3	2	1	15	8	+7	050.00
Total	270	123	60	87	451	336	+115	045.56

Results

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate		Reference
1986–87	UEFA Cup	First round	Kalmar FF	4–1	3–0	7–1		[1][2]
		Second round	Dukla Prague	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
1987–88	UEFA Cup	First round	Austria Wien	5–1	0–0	5–1		[3][4]
		Second round	Toulouse	1–0	1–1	2–1
		Third round	Feyenoord	1–0	2–2	3–2
		Quarter-finals	Barcelona	0–0	1–0	1–0
		Semi-finals	Werder Bremen	1–0	0–0	1–0
		Final	Espanyol	3–0 (a.e.t.)	0–3	3–3 (3–2 p)
1988–89	UEFA Cup	First round	Belenenses	0–1	0–1	0–2		[5][6]
1990–91	UEFA Cup	First round	Twente	1–0	1–1 (a.e.t.)	2–1		[7][8]
		Second round	GKS Katowice	4–0	2–1	6–1
		Third round	Brøndby	0–0	0–3	0–3
1993–94	Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Zbrojovka Brno	2–0	3–0	5–0		[9]
		Second round	Panathinaikos	1–2	4–1	5–3
		Quarter-finals	Benfica	4–4	1–1	5–5 (a)
1994–95	UEFA Cup	First round	PSV Eindhoven	5–4	0–0	5–4		[10][11]
		Second round	Kispesti Honvéd	5–0	2–0	7–0
		Third round	GKS Katowice	4–0	4–1	8–1
		Quarter-finals	Nantes	5–1	0–0	5–1
		Semi-finals	Parma	1–2	0–3	1–5
1997–98	UEFA Champions League	Second qualifying round	Dinamo Tbilisi	6–1	0–1	6–2		[12][13]
		Group F	Lierse	1–0	2–0	2nd
			Monaco	2–2	0–4
			Sporting CP	4–1	2–0
		Quarter-finals	Real Madrid	1–1	0–3	1–4
1998–99	UEFA Cup	First round	Udinese	1–0	1–1	2–1		[14][15]
		Second round	Rangers	1–2	1–1	2–3
1999–2000	UEFA Champions League	Group A	Lazio	1–1	1–1	3rd		[16][17]
			Maribor	0–0	2–0
			Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	2–4
	UEFA Cup	Third round	Udinese	1–2	1–0	2–2 (a)		[18][19]
2000–01	UEFA Champions League	Group A	Spartak Moscow	1–0	0–2	3rd		[20][21]
			Sporting CP	3–2	0–0
			Real Madrid	2–3	3–5
	UEFA Cup	Third round	AEK Athens	4–4	0–2	4–6		[22][23]
2001–02	UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round	Red Star Belgrade	3–0	0–0	3–0		[24][25]
		Group F	Lyon	2–4	1–0	2nd
			Barcelona	2–1	1–2
			Fenerbahçe	2–1	2–1
		Group D	Juventus	3–1	0–4	1st
			Deportivo La Coruña	3–0	3–1
			Arsenal	1–1	1–4
		Quarter-finals	Liverpool	4–2	0–1	4–3
		Semi-finals	Manchester United	1–1	2–2	3–3 (a)
		Final	Real Madrid	1–2 (N)
2002–03	UEFA Champions League	Group F	Olympiacos	2–0	2–6	2nd		[26][27]
			Manchester United	1–2	0–2
			Maccabi Haifa	2–1	2–0
		Group A	Barcelona	1–2	0–2	4th
			Internazionale	0–2	2–3
			Newcastle United	1–3	1–3
2004–05	UEFA Champions League	Group B	Real Madrid	3–0	1–1	1st		[28][29]
			Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	2–4
			Roma	3–1	1–1
		Round of 16	Liverpool	1–3	1–3	2–6
2005–06	UEFA Cup	First round	CSKA Sofia	0–1	0–1	0–2		[30][31]
2006–07	UEFA Cup	First round	Sion	3–1	0–0	3–1		[32][33]
		Group B	Club Brugge	—	1–1	3rd
			Tottenham Hotspur	0–1	—
			Dinamo București	—	1–2
			Beşiktaş	2–1	—
		Round of 32	Blackburn Rovers	3–2	0–0	3–2
		Round of 16	Lens	3–0	1–2	4–2
		Quarter-finals	Osasuna	0–3	0–1	0–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	First round	União de Leiria	3–1	2–3	5–4		[34][35]
		Group E	Toulouse	1–0	—	1st
			Spartak Moscow	—	1–2
			Sparta Prague	1–0	—
			Zürich	—	5–0
		Round of 32	Galatasaray	5–1	0–0	5–1
		Round of 16	Hamburger SV	1–0	2–3	3–3 (a)
		Quarter-finals	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–4	1–0	2–4
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	Group B	Rosenborg	4–0	1–0	1st		[36][37]
			Atlético Madrid	1–1	1–1
			Aris	1–0	0–0
		Round of 32	Metalist Kharkiv	2–0	4–0	6–0
		Round of 16	Villarreal	2–3	1–2	3–5
2011–12	UEFA Champions League	Group E	Chelsea	2–1	0–2	2nd		[38][39]
			Genk	2–0	1–1
			Valencia	2–1	1–3
		Round of 16	Barcelona	1–3	1–7	2–10
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	Group K	Metalist Kharkiv	0–0	0–2	2nd		[40][41]
			Rosenborg	1–0	1–0
			Rapid Wien	3–0	4–0
		Round of 32	Benfica	0–1	1–2	1–3
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	Group A	Manchester United	0–5	2–4	2nd		[42][43]
			Real Sociedad	2–1	1–0
			Shakhtar Donetsk	4–0	0–0
		Round of 16	Paris Saint-Germain	0–4	1–2	1–6
2014–15	UEFA Champions League	Play-off round	Copenhagen	4–0	3–2	7–2		[44][45]
		Group C	Monaco	0–1	0–1	2nd
			Benfica	3–1	0–0
			Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–0	2–1
		Round of 16	Atlético Madrid	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)	1–1 (2–3 p)
2015–16	UEFA Champions League	Play-off round	Lazio	3–0	0–1	3–1		[46][47]
		Group C	BATE Borisov	4–1	1–1	3rd
			Barcelona	1–1	1–2
			Roma	4–4	2–3
	UEFA Europa League	Round of 32	Sporting CP	1–0	3–1	4–1		[48][49]
		Round of 16	Villarreal	0–0	0–2	0–2
2016–17	UEFA Champions League	Group E	CSKA Moscow	2–2	1–1	2nd		[50][51]
			Monaco	3–0	1–1
			Tottenham Hotspur	0–0	1–0
		Round of 16	Atlético Madrid	2–4	0–0	2–4
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	Group A	Ludogorets Razgrad	1–1	2–3	1st		[52][53]
			AEK Larnaca	4–2	5–1
			Zürich	1–0	2–3
		Round of 32	Krasnodar	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	Group D	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–2	2–0	3rd		[54][55]
			Juventus	0–2	0–3
			Atlético Madrid	2–1	0–1
	UEFA Europa League	Round of 32	Porto	2–1	3–1	5–2		[56][57]
		Round of 16	Rangers	1–0	3–1	4–1
		Quarter-finals	Internazionale	1–2 (N)
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	Group C	Nice	6–2	3–2	1st		[58][59]
			Slavia Prague	4–0	0–1
			Hapoel Be'er Sheva	4–1	4–2
		Round of 32	Young Boys	0–2	3–4	3–6
2021–22	UEFA Europa League	Group G	Ferencváros	2–1	0–1	1st		[60][61]
			Celtic	3–2	4–0
			Real Betis	4–0	1–1
		Round of 16	Atalanta	0–1	2–3	2–4
2022–23	UEFA Champions League	Group B	Club Brugge	0–0	0–1	3rd		[62][63]
			Atlético Madrid	2–0	2–2
			Porto	0–3	0–2
	UEFA Europa League	Knockout round play-offs	Monaco	2–3	3–2 (a.e.t.)	5–5 (5–3 p)		[64][65]
		Round of 16	Ferencváros	2–0	2–0	4–0
		Quarter-finals	Union Saint-Gilloise	1–1	4–1	5–1
		Semi-finals	Roma	0–0	0–1	0–1
2023–24	UEFA Europa League	Group H	BK Häcken	4–0	2–0	1st		[66]
			Molde	5–1	2–1
			Qarabağ	5–1	1–0
		Round of 16	Qarabağ	3–2	2–2	5–4
		Quarter-finals	West Ham United	2–0	1–1	3–1
		Semi-finals	Roma	2–2	2–0	4–2
		Final	Atalanta	0–3 (N)
2024–25	UEFA Champions League	League phase	Feyenoord	—	4–0
			Milan	1–0	—
			Brest	—	1–1
			Liverpool	—	0–4
			Red Bull Salzburg	5–0	—
			Internazionale	1–0	—
			Atlético Madrid	—
			Sparta Prague		—

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