Club: | Bayer Leverkusen |
Season: | 2018–19 |
Owner: | Bayer AG |
Chairman: | Michael Schade |
Chrtitle: | Managing director |
Stadium: | BayArena |
League: | Bundesliga |
Cup1: | DFB-Pokal |
Cup2: | Europa League |
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Prevseason: | 2017–18 |
Nextseason: | 2019–20 |
The 2018–19 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season was the 115th season in the football club's history and 40th 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 editions of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal, and the second-tier continental cup, the UEFA Europa League. This was the 61st season for Leverkusen in the BayArena, located in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The season covers a period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.
The season was the first since 2005-06 without Stefan Kießling, who retired after the 2017-18 season.
Player | From | Source | |||||||
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1 | GK | Lukáš Hrádecký | Eintracht Frankfurt | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | Free | [1] | |
6 | DF | Aleksandar Dragović | Leicester City | Loan return | Summer | 2021 | Free | [2] | |
7 | FW | Paulinho | Vasco da Gama | Transfer | Summer | 2020 | €18,500,000 | [3] | |
23 | DF | Mitchell Weiser | Hertha BSC | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | €12,000,000 | [4] | |
24 | GK | Thorsten Kirschbaum | 1. FC Nürnberg | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | Free | ||
30 | FW | Sam Schreck | Bayer Leverkusen U19 | Promoted to first team | Summer | 2021 | Free | ||
32 | FW | Jakub Bednarczyk | Bayer Leverkusen U19 | Promoted to first team | Summer | 2019 | Free | ||
35 | FW | Chinedu Ekene | Bayer Leverkusen U19 | Promoted to first team | Summer | 2019 | Free | ||
40 | GK | Tomasz Kucz | Bayer Leverkusen U19 | Promoted to first team | Summer | 2019 | Free | ||
— | FW | Dennis Mbay | Bayer Leverkusen U19 | Promoted to first team | Summer | 2019 | Free |
Player | To | Source | ||||||
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1 | GK | Bernd Leno | Arsenal | Transfer | Summer | €25,000,000 | [5] | |
11 | FW | Stefan Kießling | Retired | Released | Summer | Free | [6] | |
22 | MF | Vladlen Yurchenko | Released | Summer | Free | [7] | ||
36 | GK | Niklas Lomb | SV Sandhausen | Loan | Summer | Free | ||
37 | MF | Marlon Frey | Released | Summer | Free |