However, the following season, he eventually became first-choice and started five out of nine UEFA Champions League matches during the capital side's victorious campaign, but was substituted by Casillas in the final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen after suffering an injury.
In 2004–05 season, he returned to a central midfield role and played a vital part in Liverpool's run to the finals of the Champions League and was notable particularly for his marauding runs from midfield during matches against Bayer Leverkusen, Juventus and Chelsea.
In the 1999–2000 final, against fellow first-divisioner Valencia CF, he started the match as a sweeper in a 3–0 win, appearing as stopper two years later against Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2–1).
On 1 November 2011, Jonas scored the second fastest goal in Champions League history by netting inside 10.5 seconds, to give Valencia a 1–0 lead over Bayer Leverkusen.
It is understood that the player favoured a move to Florence over playing in the Bundesliga (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) and Premier League (Liverpool F.C.).
In domestic competitions, Wellmann represented the sports clubs SB DJK Würzburg and later TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
After playing two seasons with FK DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda in the Slovak Superliga he signed with Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1998 but for the next two years he managed only to play for the reserves team.
After a poor first season, he became a regular for the Merengues albeit as a substitute; in the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League final, in which he played the full 90 minutes, he was involved in the play that led to Zinedine Zidane's wonder strike against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, in an eventual 2–1 win.
In domestic competitions, he represented the sports club TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
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He scored twice, notably in the 3–0 win at the BayArena against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in April 2007, which was the fastest goal of the tournament that season.
Employed by Bayer 04 Leverkusen-sponsor Bayer after the end of his career, Dieter Herzog worked as a scout for his old club later on.
He made his Bundesliga debut in Werder Bremen's 3–3 draw at home to Bayer Leverkusen on 14 October 2000, coming on as a substitute for Dieter Eilts in the 58th minute.
Giske is the daughter of Anders Giske, a former professional footballer who captained the Norwegian National Football Team, as well as playing for clubs such as SK Brann, FC Nuremberg, Bayer Leverkusen and 1. FC Köln.
During this time he won two Israeli championships and played in the Champions League once again, this time scoring against Bayer Leverkusen at BayArena.
Sascha Lewandowski (born 5 October 1971) is a German football manager, who used to be the manager of Bundesliga team Bayer Leverkusen alongside Sami Hyypiä.
Kuzmanović started the 2010–11 season when he scored four goals in all competitions, including a 7–0 thrash victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach on 18 September 2010; a 4–1 loss against Bayer Leverkusen, scoring the only goal in the match on 25 September 2010; then scoring on matchday two in the Europa League campaign, as Stuttgart won 2–1 against Odense Boldklub on 30 September 2010 and scoring in a 2–0 win over St. Pauli on 24 October 2010.
VfL Wolfsburg is wholly owned and supported by automobile manufacturer VW, Bayer 04 Leverkusen by pharmaceutical company Bayer.