2017–18 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season

The 2017–18 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season was the 114th season in the football club's history and 39th consecutive and overall season in the top flight of German football, the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga Nord in 1979. In addition to the domestic league, Bayer Leverkusen also participated in this season's edition of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal. This was the 60th season for Leverkusen in the BayArena, located in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The season covers a period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

Bayer Leverkusen

2017–18 season
Owner	Bayer AG
Managing director	Michael Schade
Manager	Heiko Herrlich
Stadium	BayArena
Bundesliga	5th
DFB-Pokal	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Kevin Volland (14 goals) All: Kevin Volland (14 goals)
Biggest win	Leverkusen 4–0 Freiburg Gladbach 1–5 Leverkusen
Biggest defeat	Leverkusen 2–6 Bayern Dortmund 4–0 Leverkusen
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2016–17 2018–19 →
All statistics correct as of 21 May 2018.

Kits

Home

Away

Third

Fourth

Players

Squad information

As of 31 January 2018^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   GER Bernd Leno (vice captain) 3 DF   GRE Panagiotis Retsos 4 DF   GER Jonathan Tah 5 DF   GER Sven Bender 8 MF   GER Lars Bender (captain) 9 FW   JAM Leon Bailey 10 FW   GER Julian Brandt 11 FW   GER Stefan Kießling 13 FW   ARG Lucas Alario 15 MF   AUT Julian Baumgartlinger 16 DF   CRO Tin Jedvaj 17 FW   FIN Joel Pohjanpalo

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF   BRA Wendell 20 MF   CHI Charles Aránguiz 21 MF   GER Dominik Kohr 22 MF   UKR Vladlen Yurchenko 28 GK   AUT Ramazan Özcan 29 MF   GER Kai Havertz 30 MF   GER Sam Schreck 31 FW   GER Kevin Volland 36 GK   GER Niklas Lomb 37 MF   GER Marlon Frey 38 MF   GER Karim Bellarabi 39 DF   GER Benjamin Henrichs

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bundesliga	18 August 2017	12 May 2018	Matchday 1		34	15	10	9	58	44	+14	044.12
DFB-Pokal	11 August 2017	17 April 2018	First round	Semi-finals	5	4	0	1	14	9	+5	080.00
Total					39	19	10	10	72	53	+19	048.72

Last updated: 21 May 2018
Source: Competitions

Bundesliga

Main article: 2017–18 Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	1899 Hoffenheim	34	15	10	9	66	48	+18	55	Qualification to Champions League group stage
4	Borussia Dortmund	34	15	10	9	64	47	+17	55
5	Bayer Leverkusen	34	15	10	9	58	44	+14	55	Qualification to Europa League group stage
6	RB Leipzig	34	15	8	11	57	53	+4	53	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
7	VfB Stuttgart	34	15	6	13	36	36	0	51

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.^[2]

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	15	10	9	58	44	+14	55	8	5	4	29	19	+10	7	5	5	29	25	+4

Last updated: 21 May 2018.
Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	L	D	L	W	L	W	D	D	W	W	D	D	W	D	W	W	D	L	W	W	D	L	W	L	W	W	L	D	W	W	L	L	D	W
Position	15	14	17	12	14	10	11	12	9	8	9	9	6	9	5	4	4	5	2	2	2	5	4	5	5	4	5	5	4	3	4	5	5	5

Updated to match(es) played on 21 May 2018. Source: Bundesliga
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Bayern Munich v Bayer Leverkusen

18 August 2017 (2017-08-18) 1	Bayern Munich	3–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Munich
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Süle   9' Tolisso   18' Lewandowski   53' (pen.)	Report	Mehmedi   65'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Tobias Stieler

Bayer Leverkusen v 1899 Hoffenheim

26 August 2017 (2017-08-26) 2	Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	1899 Hoffenheim	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Wendell   32' (pen.) Bellarabi   49'	Report	Kramarić   47' Uth   70'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 27,106 Referee: Harm Osmers

Mainz 05 v Bayer Leverkusen

9 September 2017 (2017-09-09) 3	Mainz 05	3–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Mainz
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Mutō   45' Diallo   57' Serdar   71'	Report	Kohr   22'	Stadium: Opel Arena Attendance: 24,876 Referee: Markus Schmidt

Bayer Leverkusen v SC Freiburg

17 September 2017 (2017-09-17) 4	Bayer Leverkusen	4–0	SC Freiburg	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Volland   21', 34' Aránguiz   29' Brandt   86'	Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 26,232 Referee: Sven Jablonski

Hertha BSC v Bayer Leverkusen

20 September 2017 (2017-09-20) 5	Hertha BSC	2–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Berlin
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Leckie   16' Kalou   24'	Report	Brandt   84'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Berlin Attendance: 32,825 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

Bayer Leverkusen v Hamburger SV

24 September 2017 (2017-09-24) 6	Bayer Leverkusen	3–0	Hamburger SV	Leverkusen
18:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Volland   20', 83' Alario   23'	Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 27,601 Referee: Robert Kampka

Schalke 04 v Bayer Leverkusen

29 September 2017 (2017-09-29) 7	Schalke 04	1–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Gelsenkirchen
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Goretzka   34'	Report	Bailey   61'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 61,515 Referee: Guido Winkmann

Bayer Leverkusen v VfL Wolfsburg

15 October 2017 (2017-10-15) 8	Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	VfL Wolfsburg	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	L. Bender   29' Alario   61'	Report	Origi   44' Błaszczykowski   69'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 29,104 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

Borussia Mönchengladbach v Bayer Leverkusen

21 October 2017 (2017-10-21) 9	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–5	Bayer Leverkusen	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Johnson   7'	Report	S. Bender   48' Bailey   59' Brandt   61' Volland   69' Pohjanpalo   81'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 53,053 Referee: Bastian Dankert

Bayer Leverkusen v 1. FC Köln

28 October 2017 (2017-10-28) 10	Bayer Leverkusen	2–1	1. FC Köln	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Bailey   54' S. Bender   73'	Report	Guirassy   23'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

FC Augsburg v Bayer Leverkusen

4 November 2017 (2017-11-04) 11	FC Augsburg	1–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Augsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Danso   49'	Report	Volland   47'	Stadium: WWK Arena Attendance: 26,133 Referee: Christian Dingert

Bayer Leverkusen v RB Leipzig

18 November 2017 (2017-11-18) 12	Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	RB Leipzig	Leverkusen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Bailey   44' Volland   74'	Report	Werner   13' (pen.) Forsberg   54' (pen.)	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 29,218 Referee: Harm Osmers

Eintracht Frankfurt v Bayer Leverkusen

25 November 2017 (2017-11-25) 13	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Frankfurt
15:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Volland   76'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

Bayer Leverkusen v Borussia Dortmund

2 December 2017 (2017-12-02) 14	Bayer Leverkusen	1–1	Borussia Dortmund	Leverkusen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Volland   30'	Report	Yarmolenko   73'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Robert Hartmann

VfB Stuttgart v Bayer Leverkusen

8 December 2017 (2017-12-08) 15	VfB Stuttgart	0–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Stuttgart
20:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Havertz   20' L. Bender   80'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 54,650 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

Bayer Leverkusen v Werder Bremen

13 December 2017 (2017-12-13) 16	Bayer Leverkusen	1–0	Werder Bremen	Leverkusen
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Alario   11'	Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 26,620 Referee: Tobias Stieler

Hannover 96 v Bayer Leverkusen

17 December 2017 (2017-12-17) 17	Hannover 96	4–4	Bayer Leverkusen	Hanover
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Bebou   12' Füllkrug   21' (pen.) Klaus   45' Korb   83'	Report	Brandt   11' Mehmedi   25' Bailey   47', 67'	Stadium: HDI-Arena Attendance: 32,800 Referee: Sören Storks

Bayer Leverkusen v Bayern Munich

12 January 2018 (2018-01-12) 18	Bayer Leverkusen	1–3	Bayern Munich	Leverkusen
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Volland   70'	Report	Martínez   32' Ribéry   59' Rodríguez   90+1'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Daniel Siebert

1899 Hoffenheim v Bayer Leverkusen

20 January 2018 (2018-01-20) 19	1899 Hoffenheim	1–4	Bayer Leverkusen	Sinsheim
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Szalai   86'	Report	Bailey   43' Baumgartlinger   51' Alario   70', 90+3'	Stadium: Wirsol Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 28,017 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

Bayer Leverkusen v Mainz 05

28 January 2018 (2018-01-28) 20	Bayer Leverkusen	2–0	Mainz 05	Leverkusen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Bailey   48' Wendell   68' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 25,471 Referee: Frank Willenborg

SC Freiburg v Bayer Leverkusen

3 February 2018 (2018-02-03) 21	SC Freiburg	0–0	Bayer Leverkusen	Freiburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report		Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Robert Kampka

Bayer Leverkusen v Hertha BSC

10 February 2018 (2018-02-10) 22	Bayer Leverkusen	0–2	Hertha BSC	Leverkusen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Lazaro   43' Kalou   58'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 25,601 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

Hamburger SV v Bayer Leverkusen

17 February 2018 (2018-02-17) 23	Hamburger SV	1–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Hahn   70'	Report	Bailey   40' Havertz   50'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 45,691 Referee: Felix Brych

Bayer Leverkusen v Schalke 04

25 February 2018 (2018-02-25) 24	Bayer Leverkusen	0–2	Schalke 04	Leverkusen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Burgstaller   11' Bentaleb   89' (pen.)	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Daniel Siebert

VfL Wolfsburg v Bayer Leverkusen

3 March 2018 (2018-03-03) 25	VfL Wolfsburg	1–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Mehmedi   79'	Report	Alario   31' (pen.) Brandt   78'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 24,354 Referee: Felix Zwayer

Bayer Leverkusen v Borussia Mönchengladbach

10 March 2018 (2018-03-10) 26	Bayer Leverkusen	2–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Leverkusen
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Alario   39' Brandt   90+3'	Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 28,809 Referee: Robert Hartmann

1. FC Köln v Bayer Leverkusen

18 March 2018 (2018-03-18) 27	1. FC Köln	2–0	Bayer Leverkusen	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Osako   9' Zoller   69'	Report		Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Harm Osmers

Bayer Leverkusen v FC Augsburg

31 March 2018 (2018-03-31) 28	Bayer Leverkusen	0–0	FC Augsburg	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 25,831 Referee: Frank Willenborg

RB Leipzig v Bayer Leverkusen

9 April 2018 (2018-04-09) 29	RB Leipzig	1–4	Bayer Leverkusen	Leipzig
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Sabitzer   17'	Report	Havertz   45' Brandt   51' Retsos   56' Volland   69'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 35,617 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

Bayer Leverkusen v Eintracht Frankfurt

14 April 2018 (2018-04-14) 30	Bayer Leverkusen	4–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Brandt   20' Volland   71', 77', 88'	Report	Fabián   23'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Felix Brych

Borussia Dortmund v Bayer Leverkusen

21 April 2018 (2018-04-21) 31	Borussia Dortmund	4–0	Bayer Leverkusen	Dortmund
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Sancho   13' Reus   55', 79' Philipp   63'	Report		Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 81,360 Referee: Markus Schmidt

Bayer Leverkusen v VfB Stuttgart

28 April 2018 (2018-04-28) 32	Bayer Leverkusen	0–1	VfB Stuttgart	Leverkusen
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Gentner   67'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Tobias Welz

Werder Bremen v Bayer Leverkusen

5 May 2018 (2018-05-05) 33	Werder Bremen	0–0	Bayer Leverkusen	Bremen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Weser-Stadion Attendance: 41,000 Referee: Robert Hartmann

Bayer Leverkusen v Hannover 96

12 May 2018 (2018-05-12) 34	Bayer Leverkusen	3–2	Hannover 96	Leverkusen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Alario   3', 18' Brandt   55'	Report	Füllkrug   90+1' Harnik   90+4'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Guido Winkmann

DFB-Pokal

Main article: 2017–18 DFB-Pokal

Karlsruher SC v Bayer Leverkusen

11 August 2017 (2017-08-11) First round	Karlsruher SC	0–3 (a.e.t.)	Bayer Leverkusen	Karlsruhe
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Kohr   93' Pohjanpalo   99' Bailey   105'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 17,073 Referee: Robert Hartmann

Bayer Leverkusen v Union Berlin

24 October 2017 (2017-10-24) Second round	Bayer Leverkusen	4–1	Union Berlin	Leverkusen
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Brandt   36' Alario   58' Wendell   89' (pen.) Aránguiz   90+2'	Report	Daube   46'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 24,326 Referee: Frank Willenborg
Note: The match, originally scheduled for 18:30 CEST, was delayed to 18:35 CEST due to a traffic jam around the stadium.

Borussia Mönchengladbach v Bayer Leverkusen

20 December 2017 (2017-12-20) Round of 16	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Mönchengladbach
18:40 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Bailey   70'	Stadium: Borussia-Park Attendance: 49,016 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

Bayer Leverkusen v Werder Bremen

6 February 2018 (2018-02-06) Quarter-finals	Bayer Leverkusen	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Werder Bremen	Leverkusen
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Brandt   31', 55' Bellarabi   111' Havertz   118'	Report	Kruse   4' (pen.) Jóhannsson   7'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 25,653 Referee: Marco Fritz

Bayer Leverkusen v Bayern Munich

17 April 2018 (2018-04-17) Semi-finals	Bayer Leverkusen	2–6	Bayern Munich	Leverkusen
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	L. Bender   16' Bailey   72'	Report	Lewandowski   3', 9' Müller   52', 64', 78' Thiago   60'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Daniel Siebert

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	GER	Bernd Leno	38	0	33	0	5	0
28	GK	AUT	Ramazan Özcan	1	0	1	0	0	0
36	GK	GER	Niklas Lomb	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	BRA	André Ramalho	3	0	0+3	0	0	0
3	DF	GRE	Panagiotis Retsos	28	1	18+6	1	2+2	0
4	DF	GER	Jonathan Tah	33	0	27+1	0	5	0
5	DF	GER	Sven Bender	34	2	29	2	5	0
16	DF	CRO	Tin Jedvaj	10	0	6+4	0	0	0
18	DF	BRA	Wendell	30	3	26	2	4	1
39	DF	GER	Benjamin Henrichs	28	0	11+12	0	2+3	0
Midfielders
8	MF	GER	Lars Bender	24	3	20+1	2	2+1	1
15	MF	AUT	Julian Baumgartlinger	24	1	17+5	1	2	0
20	MF	CHI	Charles Aránguiz	31	2	27	1	3+1	1
21	MF	GER	Dominik Kohr	32	2	18+10	1	4	1
22	MF	UKR	Vladlen Yurchenko	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	MF	GER	Kai Havertz	35	4	22+8	3	4+1	1
30	MF	GER	Sam Schreck	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	MF	GER	Marlon Frey	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	MF	GER	Karim Bellarabi	29	2	13+11	1	3+2	1
Forwards
9	FW	JAM	Leon Bailey	34	12	25+5	9	2+2	3
10	FW	GER	Julian Brandt	39	12	26+8	9	4+1	3
11	FW	GER	Stefan Kießling	8	0	0+8	0	0	0
13	FW	ARG	Lucas Alario	26	10	17+6	9	1+2	1
17	FW	FIN	Joel Pohjanpalo	8	2	0+7	1	0+1	1
31	FW	GER	Kevin Volland	35	14	30+1	14	4	0
Players transferred out during the season
6	DF	AUT	Aleksandar Dragović	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
14	MF	SUI	Admir Mehmedi	15	2	8+4	2	2+1	0
44	MF	SVN	Kevin Kampl	1	0	0	0	1	0

Last updated: 12 May 2018
Source: Competitions

References

1. "Werkself". Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
2. "Ligaverband: Ligastatut" [League Association: League Regulations] (PDF). DFB.de. German Football Association. p. 214. Retrieved 16 August 2016.