List of Bayer 04 Leverkusen players
This is a list of notable footballers who have played for Bayer Leverkusen. Generally, this means players that have played a significant amount of first-class matches for the club. Other players who have played an important role for the club can be included, but the reason why they have been included should be added in the 'Notes' column.
For a list of all Bayer Leverkusen players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Bayer Leverkusen players, and for the current squad see the main Bayer Leverkusen article.
Players are listed according to the date of their first team debut. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive league matches only; wartime matches are excluded. Substitute appearances included.
Table[edit]
Player | Nationality | Position | Bayer Leverkusen career | Appearances | Goals | Notes |
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Karl-Heinz Spikofski | Midfielder | 1950-1952 | 27 | 3 | ||
Udo Lattek | Forward | 1955-1957 | 6 | 2 | ||
Heinz Höher | Mifielder/Forward | 1957-1963 | 155 | 60 | ||
Zvonko Bego | Midfielder | 1960-1969 | 17 | 1 | ||
Uwe Klimaschefski | Forward | 1960-1963 | 25 | 10 | ||
Manfred Manglitz | Goalkeeper | 1961-1963 | 26 | 0 | ||
Werner Görts | Forward | 1962-1965 | 41 | 8 | ||
Franz-Josef Wolfframm | Midfielder | 1964-1966 | 0 | 0 | ||
Dieter Fern | Forward | 1965-1967 | 4 | 0 | ||
Leo Wilden | Defender | 1966-1969 | 0 | 0 | ||
Zvonko Bego | Midfielder | 1968-1969 | 17 | 1 | ||
Dieter Ferner | Goalkeeper | 1968-1973 | 4 | 0 | ||
Burkhard Segler | Midfielder | 1970-1972 | 0 | 0 | ||
Walter Posner | Defender | 1975-1984 | 274 | 5 | ||
Theodor Rielander | Midfielder | 1975-1978 | 44 | 2 | ||
Dieter Herzog | Midfielder | 1976-1983 | 193 | 29 | ||
Jürgen Gelsdorf | Defender | 1976-1986 | 296 | 26 | ||
Peter Hermann | Forward | 1976-1984 | 215 | 32 | ||
Thomas Hörster | Defender | 1977-1991 | 404 | 26 | ||
Kurt Eigl | Midfielder | 1979-1982 | 39 | 2 | ||
Dietmar Demuth | Defender | 1979-1983 | 92 | 14 | ||
Arne Larsen Økland | Forward | 1980-1983 | 101 | 43 | ||
Mathias Hönerbach | Defender | 1980-1981 | 0 | 0 | ||
Valentin Herr | Goalkeeper | 1980-1982 | 2 | 0 | ||
Christian Sackewitz | Forward | 1981-1982 | 20 | 2 | ||
Jürgen Röber | Forward | 1982–1986 | 105 | 18 | ||
Helmut Winklhofer | Defender | 1982-1985 | 90 | 5 | ||
Rüdiger Vollborn | Goalkeeper | 1982-1999 | 401 | 0 | ||
Herbert Waas | Forward | 1982-1989 | 209 | 72 | ||
Rudolf Wojtowicz | Defender | 1982-1986 | 76 | 2 | ||
Frank Saborowski | Defender | 1982-1984 | 41 | 0 | ||
Cha Bum-kun | Forward | 1983-1989 | 185 | 52 | ||
Ulrich Bittorf | Midfielder | 1983-1984 | 37 | 3 | ||
Dieter Bast | Defender/Midfelder/Forward | 1983-1986 | 71 | 2 | ||
Thomas Zechel | Midfilder/Defender | 1983-1988 | 70 | 6 | ||
Christian Schreier | Midfielder | 1984-1991 | 203 | 63 | ||
Falko Götz | Forward | 1984–1988 | 115 | 26 | ||
Florian Hinterberger | Midfelder | 1984-1990 | 105 | 2 | ||
Anders Giske | Defender | 1984-1985 | 29 | 1 | ||
Alois Reinhardt | Defender | 1984–1991 | 156 | 1 | ||
Knut Reinhardt | Midfielder | 1985–1991 | 118 | 5 | ||
Minas Hantzidis | Midfielder | 1985-1988 | 24 | 1 | ||
Wolfgang Rolff | Midfielder | 1986–1989 | 99 | 9 | ||
Jean-Pierre de Keyser | Defender | 1986-1990 | 81 | 1 | ||
Dirk Rehbein | Midfielder | 1986-1988 | 2 | 0 | ||
Erich Seckler | Defender | 1987–1992 | 86 | 2 | ||
Tita | Forward | 1987–1988 | 21 | 10 | ||
Ralf Falkenmayer | Midfielder | 1987-1989 | 48 | 7 | ||
Klaus Täuber | Forward | 1987-1989 | 31 | 8 | ||
Marek Leśniak | Forward | 1988–1992 | 119 | 20 | ||
Terje Olsen | Midfielder | 1988-1990 | 1 | 0 | ||
Oliver Pagé | Defender | 1988-1991 | 6 | 1 | ||
Claus-Dieter Wollitz | Midfielder | 1988-1989 | 7 | 0 | ||
Andreas Fischer | Defender | 1989–1994 | 151 | 13 | ||
Jorginho | Defender | 1989–1992 | 87 | 9 | ||
Martin Kree | Defender | 1989–1994 | 156 | 22 | ||
Markus von Ahlen | Midfielder Defender | 1989-1993 | 24 | 1 | ||
Dirk Heinen | Goalkeeper | 1990–1999 | 107 | 0 | ||
Franco Foda | Defender | 1990–1994 | 113 | 10 | ||
Ulf Kirsten | Forward | 1990–2003 | 350 | 182 | ||
Andreas Thom | Forward | 1990–1995 | 161 | 36 | ||
Ioan Lupescu | Midfielder | 1990–1996 | 184 | 4 | ||
Matthias Stammann | Midfielder | 1990-1994 | 41 | 1 | ||
Christian Wörns | Defender | 1991–1998 | 211 | 13 | ||
Markus Happe | Defender | 1991–1999 | 188 | 8 | ||
Heiko Scholz | Defender | 1992–1995 | 75 | 5 | ||
Pavel Hapal | Midfielder | 1992–1995 | 86 | 13 | ||
Josef Nehl | Midfielder | 1992–1996 | 56 | 5 | ||
Paulo Sérgio | Forward | 1993–1997 | 121 | 47 | ||
Bernard Schuiteman | Defender | 1993-1995 | 6 | 0 | ||
Bernd Schuster | Midfielder | 1993–1996 | 59 | 8 | ||
Taifour Diané | Forward | 1993-1995 | 1 | 0 | ||
Hans-Peter Lehnhoff | Midfielder | 1994–2000 | 139 | 11 | ||
Rudi Völler | Forward | 1994–1996 | 62 | 26 | ||
Mike Rietpietsch | Midfielder | 1994-1997 | 22 | 0 | ||
Walter Junghans | Goalkeeper | 1994 | 0 | 0 | ||
Markus Feldhoff | Forward | 1995–1998 | 77 | 14 | ||
Ramon Menezes | Midfielder | 1995-1996 | 15 | 1 | ||
Niko Kovač | Midfielder | 1996–1999 | 77 | 8 | ||
Robert Kovač | Defender | 1996–2001 | 127 | 1 | ||
Manuel Cardoni | Midfielder | 1996-1998 | 1 | 0 | ||
Zé Elias | Midfielder | 1996-1997 | 23 | 0 | ||
Stefan Beinlich | Midfielder | 1997–2000 | 80 | 24 | ||
Emerson | Midfielder | 1997–2000 | 88 | 11 | ||
Paulo Rink | Forward | 1997–2001 | 88 | 29 | ||
Artyom Bezrodny | Midfielder | 1997-1998 | 0 | 0 | ||
Zé Roberto | Midfielder | 1998–2002 | 113 | 17 | ||
Adam Matysek | Goalkeeper | 1998–2001 | 78 | 0 | ||
Bent Skammelsrud | Midfielder | 1998 | 8 | 0 | ||
Mehdi Pashazadeh | Defender | 1998-1999 | 0 | 0 | ||
Thomas Brdarić | Forward | 1999–2003 | 82 | 14 | ||
Oliver Neuville | Forward | 1999–2004 | 165 | 42 | ||
Bernd Schneider | Midfielder | 1999-2009 | 235 | 35 | ||
Frankie Hejduk | Defender/Midfielder | 1999-2003 | 19 | 1 | ||
Vratislav Greško | Defender | 1999-2000 | 15 | 0 | ||
Michael Ballack | Midfielder | 1999-2002
2010-2012 |
35 | 2 | ||
Frank Juric | Goalkeeper | 1999-2004 | 11 | 0 | ||
Pascal Zuberbühler | Goalkeeper | 2000-2001 | 14 | 0 | ||
Marko Babić | Midfielder | 2000–2007 | 144 | 13 | ||
Jurica Vranješ | Midfielder | 2000–2003 | 46 | 0 | ||
Pascal Ojigwe | Defender/Midfider | 2000-2003 | 30 | 0 | ||
Landon Donovan | Midfielder/Forward | 2000-2005 | 7 | 0 | ||
Hans-Jörg Butt | Goalkeeper | 2001-2007 | 191 | 7 | ||
Yıldıray Baştürk | Midfielder | 2001–2004 | 73 | 8 | ||
Lúcio | Defender | 2001-2004 | 92 | 15 | ||
Diego Placente | Defender | 2001-2005 | 123 | 3 | ||
Dimitar Berbatov | Forward | 2001-2006 | 154 | 69 | ||
Joey DiGiamarino | Defender | 2001-2002 | 0 | 0 | ||
Daniel Bierofka | Midfielder | 2002–2005 | 78 | 12 | ||
França | Forward | 2002–2005 | 102 | 29 | ||
Juan | Defender | 2002–2007 | 139 | 10 | ||
Christoph Preuß | Defender/Midfielder | 2002-2003 | 4 | 0 | ||
Radosław Kałużny | Defender | 2003–2004 | 12 | 0 | ||
Sebastian Schoof | Forward | 2003 | 7 | 2 | ||
Teddy Lučić | Defender | 2003-2005 | 11 | 0 | ||
Džemal Berberović | Defender | 2003-2005 | 0 | 0 | ||
Paul Freier | Midfielder | 2004–2008 | 111 | 17 | ||
Jacek Krzynówek | Midfielder | 2004–2006 | 52 | 9 | ||
Andriy Voronin | Forward | 2004–2007 | 92 | 32 | ||
Gonzalo Castro | Midfielder | 2005–2015 | 220 | 18 | ||
Stefan Kießling | Forward | 2006–2018 | 344 | 131 | ||
Pirmin Schwegler | Midfielder | 2006–2009 | 46 | 0 | ||
Assimiou Touré | Defender | 2006-2010 | 2 | 0 | ||
Sergej Barbarez | Forward | 2006-2008 | 61 | 11 | ||
Manuel Friedrich | Defender | 2007–2013 | 147 | 11 | ||
Theofanis Gekas | Forward | 2007–2010 | 50 | 13 | ||
Arturo Vidal | Midfielder | 2007–2011 | 117 | 15 | ||
Michal Kadlec | Defender | 2007–2013 | 128 | 8 | ||
Dmitri Bulykin | Forward | 2007-2008 | 15 | 2 | ||
Patrick Helmes | Forward | 2008–2011 | 57 | 28 | ||
Toni Kroos | Midfielder | 2009–2010 | 43 | 10 | ||
Daniel Schwaab | Defender | 2009–2013 | 96 | 0 | ||
Sami Hyypiä | Defender | 2009-2011 | 53 | 3 | ||
Gábor Király | Goalkeeper | 2009 | 0 | 0 | ||
Angelos Charisteas | Forward | 2009 | 13 | 1 | ||
Sidney Sam | Forward | 2010–2014 | 92 | 24 | ||
Thanos Petsos | Midifielder | 2010-2012 | 1 | 0 | ||
Bernd Leno | Goalkeeper | 2011–2018 | 233 | 0 | ||
David Yelldell | Goalkeeper | 2011-2016 | 1 | 0 | ||
Vedran Ćorluka | Defender | 2012 | 7 | 0 | ||
Dani Carvajal | Defender | 2012-2013 | 32 | 1 | ||
Heung Min Son | Forward | 2013–2015 | 62 | 21 | ||
Kostas Stafylidis | Midfielder/Defender | 2013-2015 | 1 | 0 | ||
Roberto Hilbert | Defender/Midifielder | 2013-2017 | 58 | 1 | ||
Julian Brandt | Midfielder | 2014–2019 | 165 | 34 | ||
Hakan Çalhanoğlu | Midfielder | 2014-2017 | 79 | 17 | ||
Vladlen Yurchenko | Midfielder | 2014-2018 | 13 | 1 | ||
Kyriakos Papadopoulos | Defender | 2014-2015
2015-2017 |
16 | 0 | ||
Ryu Seung-woo | Forward | 2014
2014-2017 |
0 | 0 | ||
Javier Hernández | Forward | 2015-2017 | 54 | 28 | ||
Kai Havertz | Midfielder | 2016–2020 | 118 | 36 | ||
Leon Bailey | Midfielder | 2017-2021 | 119 | 28 |
World Cup players[edit]
The following players have been selected by their country for the FIFA World Cup finals, while playing for Bayer Leverkusen.
- Cha Bum-kun (1986)
- Jorginho (1990)
- Ioan Lupescu (1994)
- Paulo Sérgio (1994)
- Emerson (1998)
- Jan Heintze (1998)
- Christian Wörns (1998)
- Ulf Kirsten (1994, 1998)
- Lúcio (2002)
- Yıldıray Baştürk (2002)
- Frankie Hejduk (2002)
- Carsten Ramelow (2002)
- Oliver Neuville (2002)
- Michael Ballack (2002)
- Hans-Jörg Butt (2002)
- Diego Placente (2002)
- Boris Živković (2002)
- Jurica Vranješ (2002)
- Jens Nowotny (2006)
- Bernd Schneider (2002, 2006)
- Jacek Krzynówek (2006)
- Fredrik Stenman (2006)
- Juan (2006)
- Marko Babić (2006)
- Assimiou Touré (2006)
- Andriy Voronin (2006)
- Stefan Kießling (2010)
- Toni Kroos (2010)
- Hans Sarpei (2010)
- Arturo Vidal (2010)
- Tranquillo Barnetta (2006, 2010)
- Eren Derdiyok (2010)
- Andrés Guardado (2014)
- Emir Spahić (2014)
- Son Heung-min (2014)
- Tin Jedvaj (2018)
- Julian Brandt (2018)
- Piero Hincapié (2022)
- Jeremie Frimpong (2022)
- Sardar Azmoun (2022)
- Exequiel Palacios (2022)
- Kai Havertz (2022)