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
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) |
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 | ||
Werner Biskup | Defender | 1962-1965 | 30 | 3 | ||
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 | ||
Harald Klose | Forward | 1968-1969 | 0 | 0 | ||
Pavle Kiš | Forward | 1969-1970 | 0 | 0 | ||
Burkhard Segler | Midfielder | 1970-1972 | 0 | 0 | ||
Herbert Mühlenberg | Forward | 1972-1974 | 0 | 0 | ||
Gerhard Kentschke | Forward/Midfielder | 1973-1977 | 48 | 5 | ||
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 | ||
Wolfgang Patzke | Midfielder/Forward | 1983-1986 | 59 | 5 | ||
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 | ||
Günter Drews | Midfielder | 1985-1987 | 46 | 1 | ||
Peter Zanter | Defender | 1985-1988 | 40 | 0 | ||
Wolfgang Rolff | Midfielder | 1986–1989 | 99 | 9 | ||
Jean-Pierre de Keyser | Defender | 1986-1990 | 81 | 1 | ||
Dirk Rehbein | Midfielder | 1986-1988 | 2 | 0 | ||
Bernd Dreher | Goalkeeper | 1986-1990 | 9 | 0 | ||
Jürgen Luginger | Defender | 1986-1987 | 1 | 0 | ||
Christian Hausmann | Midfielder/Forward | 1986-1988 | 56 | 2 | ||
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 | ||
Andrzej Buncol | Midfielder | 1987-1992 | 123 | 14 | ||
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 | ||
Manfred Kastl | Forward | 1988-1989 | 26 | 6 | ||
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 | ||
Heiko Herrlich | Forward | 1989-1993 | 75 | 6 | ||
Holger Aden | Forward | 1989 | 2 | 0 | ||
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 | ||
René Rydlewicz | Midfielder | 1990-1994 1996-1997 | 28 | 2 | ||
Christian Wörns | Defender | 1991–1998 | 211 | 13 | ||
Markus Happe | Defender | 1991–1999 | 188 | 8 | ||
Stephan Hanke | Midfielder | 1991-1994 | 1 | 0 | ||
Heiko Scholz | Defender | 1992–1995 | 75 | 5 | ||
Pavel Hapal | Midfielder | 1992–1995 | 86 | 13 | ||
Josef Nehl | Midfielder | 1992–1996 | 56 | 5 | ||
Uwe Stöver | Defender | 1992-1993 | 9 | 1 | ||
Mario Tolkmitt | Midfielder | 1992-1996 | 55 | 0 | ||
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 | ||
Ralf Becker | Midfielder | 1993-1995 | 23 | 1 | ||
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 | ||
Claudio Reyna | Midfielder | 1994-1999 | 26 | 0 | ||
Markus Anfang | Midfielder | 1994-1995 | 0 | 0 | ||
Thomas Dooley | Defender | 1994-1995 | 21 | 3 | ||
Markus Kurth | Forward | 1994-1995 | 2 | 0 | ||
Markus Münch | Defender/Midfielder | 1994-1996 | 57 | 3 | ||
Markus Feldhoff | Forward | 1995–1998 | 77 | 14 | ||
Ramon Menezes | Midfielder | 1995-1996 | 15 | 1 | ||
Sebastian Barnes | Midfielder | 1995-1996 | 0 | 0 | ||
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 | ||
Jan Heintze | Defender | 1996-1999 | 87 | 5 | ||
Lars Leese | Goalkeeper | 1996-1997 | 0 | 0 | ||
Daniel Schumann | Defender | 1996-1997 | 0 | 0 | ||
Erik Meijer | Forward | 1996–1999 | 84 | 16 | ||
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 | ||
Boris Živković | Defender | 1997-2003 | 144 | 9 | ||
Thorsten Nehrbauer | 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 | ||
Zoran Mamić | Midfielder/Defender | 1998-2000 | 15 | 0 | ||
Jörg Reeb | Midfielder/Defender | 1998-2001 | 54 | 1 | ||
Dariush Yazdani | Midfielder | 1998-1999 | 0 | 0 | ||
Adam Ledwoń | Midfielder | 1998-1999 | 10 | 0 | ||
Aaron Mokoena | Midfielder/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 | ||
Torben Hoffmann | Defender | 1999-2000 | 19 | 0 | ||
John Thorrington | Midfielder | 1999-2001 | 0 | 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 | ||
Cha Du-ri | Defender/Midfielder | 2000-2002 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ali Mousavi | Forward | 2000 | 0 | 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 | ||
Thorsten Burkhardt | Midfielder | 2001-2002 | 0 | 0 | ||
Zoltán Sebescen | Defender/Midfielder | 2001-2004 | 32 | 3 | ||
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 | ||
Jan Šimák | Midfielder | 2002-2003 | 22 | 3 | ||
Daniel Bierofka | Midfielder | 2002-2005 | 78 | 11 | ||
Emanuel Pogatetz | Defender | 2002-2005 | 0 | 0 | ||
Nasir El Kasmi | Midfielder | 2002-2003 | 0 | 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 | ||
Cris | Defender | 2003 | 2 | 0 | ||
Paul Freier | Midfielder | 2004–2008 | 111 | 17 | ||
Jacek Krzynówek | Midfielder | 2004–2006 | 52 | 9 | ||
Andriy Voronin | Forward | 2004–2007 | 92 | 32 | ||
Jermaine Jones | Midfielder | 2004-2005 | 5 | 0 | ||
Paul Freier | Midfielder | 2004-2008 | 112 | 17 | ||
Roque Júnior | Defender | 2004-2007 | 35 | 0 | ||
Tranquillo Barnetta | Midfielder | 2004-2012 | 187 | 23 | ||
Gonzalo Castro | Midfielder | 2005–2015 | 220 | 18 | ||
Ahmed Reda Madouni | Defender | 2005-2007 | 29 | 3 | ||
Simon Rolfes | Midfielder | 2005-2015 | 288 | 41 | ||
Danko Lazović | Forward | 2005 | 9 | 0 | ||
Josip Tadić | Forward | 2005-2006 | 1 | 0 | ||
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 | ||
Karim Haggui | Defender | 2006-2009 | 59 | 3 | ||
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 | ||
Hans Sarpei | Defender | 2007-2010 | 42 | 0 | ||
Ricardo Faty | Midfielder | 2007 | 2 | 0 | ||
Patrick Helmes | Forward | 2008–2011 | 57 | 28 | ||
Renato Augusto | Midfielder | 2008-2012 | 101 | 9 | ||
Henrique | Defender | 2008-2009 | 27 | 0 | ||
Constant Djakpa | Defender | 2008-2011 | 9 | 0 | ||
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 | ||
Tomasz Bobel | Goalkeeper | 2009-2011 | 0 | 0 | ||
Gonzalo Vásquez | Midfielder/Forward | 2009-2011 | 0 | 0 | ||
Burak Kaplan | / | Midfielder | 2009-2011 | 4 | 2 | |
Sidney Sam | Forward | 2010–2014 | 92 | 24 | ||
Thanos Petsos | Midifielder | 2010-2012 | 1 | 0 | ||
Kevin Kampl | Midfielder | 2010-2011 2015-2017 | 53 | 4 | ||
Bernd Leno | Goalkeeper | 2011–2018 | 233 | 0 | ||
David Yelldell | Goalkeeper | 2011-2016 | 1 | 0 | ||
Hajime Hosogai | Midfielder/Defender | 2011-2013 | 17 | 0 | ||
Michael Ortega | Midfielder | 2011-2013 | 7 | 0 | ||
Vedran Ćorluka | Defender | 2012 | 7 | 0 | ||
Dani Carvajal | Defender | 2012-2013 | 32 | 1 | ||
Niklas Lomb | Goalkeeper | 2012- | 2 | 0 | ||
Heung Min Son | Forward | 2013–2015 | 62 | 21 | ||
Kostas Stafylidis | Midfielder/Defender | 2013-2015 | 1 | 0 | ||
Roberto Hilbert | Defender/Midifielder | 2013-2017 | 58 | 1 | ||
Andrés Palop | Goalkeeper | 2013-2014 | 0 | 0 | ||
Giulio Donati | Defender | 2013-2016 | 43 | 0 | ||
Emir Spahić | Defender | 2013-2015 | 49 | 3 | ||
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 | ||
Wendell | Defender | 2014-2021 | 186 | 7 | ||
Tin Jedvaj | Defender | 2014-2015 2015-2021 | 72 | 1 | ||
Javier Hernández | Forward | 2015-2017 | 54 | 28 | ||
Jonathan Tah | Defender | 2015- | 258 | 12 | ||
André Ramalho | Defender | 2015-2018 | 22 | 0 | ||
Kai Havertz | Midfielder | 2016–2020 | 118 | 36 | ||
Julian Baumgartlinger | Midfielder | 2016-2022 | 115 | 5 | ||
Ramazan Özcan | Goalkeeper | 2016-2020 | 3 | 0 | ||
Joel Pohjanpalo | Forward | 2016-2022 | 23 | 7 | ||
Joel Abu Hanna | Defender | 2016-2017 | 0 | 0 | ||
Aleksandar Dragović | Defender | 2016-2021 | 71 | 3 | ||
Leon Bailey | Midfielder | 2017-2021 | 119 | 28 | ||
Lucas Alario | Forward | 2017-2022 | 126 | 42 | ||
Panagiotis Retsos | Defender | 2017-2022 | 31 | 1 | ||
Lukas Hradecky | Goalkeeper | 2018- | 193 | 0 | ||
Paulinho | Forward/Midfielder | 2018-2023 | 57 | 8 | ||
Isaac Kiese Thelin | Forward | 2018-2019 | 6 | 0 | ||
Tomasz Kucz | Goalkeeper | 2018-2019 | 0 | 0 | ||
Sandra Jessen | Midfielder | 2019-2021 | 34 | 1 | ||
Moussa Diaby | Midfielder | 2019-2023 | 125 | 31 | ||
Daley Sinkgraven | Defender/Midfielder | 2019-2023 | 59 | 0 | ||
Edmond Tapsoba | Defender | 2020- | 128 | 3 | ||
Patrik Schick | Forward | 2020- | 89 | 43 | ||
Samed Onur | Midfielder | 2020-2021 | 0 | 0 | ||
Andrey Lunyov | Goalkeeper | 2021-2023 | 2 | 0 | ||
Timothy Fosu-Mensah | Defender/Midfielder | 2021- | 23 | 0 | ||
Piero Hincapié | Defender | 2021- | 83 | 3 | ||
Sadik Fofana | Defender/Midfielder | 2021- | 0 | 0 | ||
Demarai Gray | Midfielder | 2021- | 10 | 1 | ||
Iker Bravo | Forward | 2021- | 1 | 0 |
World Cup players
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)
References
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