# 2021–22 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season

The 2021–22 season was the 118th season in the existence of Bayer 04 Leverkusen and the club's 43rd consecutive season in the top flight of German football. In addition to the domestic league, Leverkusen participated in this season's edition of the DFB-Pokal and the UEFA Europa League.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 30 January 2022
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 | FIN | Lukas Hradecky (captain) |
| 4 | DF | GER | Jonathan Tah (3rd captain) |
| 5 | DF | NED | Mitchel Bakker |
| 6 | DF | CIV | Odilon Kossounou |
| 7 | FW | BRA | Paulinho |
| 8 | MF | GER | Robert Andrich |
| 9 | FW | IRN | Sardar Azmoun |
| 10 | MF | GER | Kerem Demirbay |
| 12 | DF | BFA | Edmond Tapsoba |
| 13 | FW | ARG | Lucas Alario |
| 14 | FW | CZE | Patrik Schick |
| 15 | MF | AUT | Julian Baumgartlinger (vice-captain) |
| 19 | FW | FRA | Moussa Diaby |
| 20 | MF | CHI | Charles Aránguiz (4th captain) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | GK | GER | Lennart Grill |
| 22 | DF | NED | Daley Sinkgraven |
| 24 | DF | NED | Timothy Fosu-Mensah |
| 25 | MF | ARG | Exequiel Palacios |
| 27 | MF | GER | Florian Wirtz |
| 29 | MF | DEN | Zidan Sertdemir |
| 30 | DF | NED | Jeremie Frimpong |
| 31 | FW | FRA | Amine Adli |
| 32 | MF | MAR | Ayman Azhil |
| 33 | DF | ECU | Piero Hincapié |
| 36 | GK | GER | Niklas Lomb |
| 37 | FW | GER | Emrehan Gedikli |
| 38 | MF | GER | Karim Bellarabi |
| 40 | GK | RUS | Andrey Lunyov |

### Players out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | GER | Yannik Schlößer (at 1. FC Nürnberg until 30 June 2022) |
| 11 | MF | GER | Nadiem Amiri (at Genoa until 30 June 2022) |
| 17 | FW | FIN | Joel Pohjanpalo (at Çaykur Rizespor until 30 June 2022) |
| 23 | DF | GER | Mitchell Weiser (at Werder Bremen until 30 June 2022) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 29 | MF | Zidan Sertdemir | Nordsjælland U19 | €2,500,000 | 1 July 2021 |
| 40 | GK | Andrey Lunyov | Zenit Saint Petersburg | Free | 10 July 2021 |
| 5 | DF | Mitchel Bakker | Paris Saint-Germain | €7,000,000 | 12 July 2021 |
| 6 | DF | Odilon Kossounou | Club Brugge | €23,000,000 | 22 July 2021 |
| 8 | MF | Robert Andrich | Union Berlin | €6,500,000 | 16 August 2021 |
| 33 | DF | Piero Hincapié | Talleres | €6,350,000 | 16 August 2021 |
| 31 | FW | Amine Adli | Toulouse | €15,000,000 | 26 August 2021 |
| 9 | FW | Sardar Azmoun | Zenit Saint Petersburg | €4,000,000 | 30 January 2022 |

### Out

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| 5 | MF | Sven Bender | N/A | Retired | 1 July 2021 |
| 6 | DF | Aleksandar Dragović | Red Star Belgrade | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 8 | MF | Lars Bender | N/A | Retired | 1 July 2021 |
| | FW | Yannik Schlößer | 1. FC Nürnberg | Loan | 9 July 2021 |
| 32 | FW | Samed Onur | Fatih Karagümrük | Free | 12 July 2021 |
| 39 | MF | Cem Türkmen | Clermont | Free | 12 July 2021 |
| 28 | MF | Demarai Gray | Everton | €2,000,000 | 22 July 2021 |
| 16 | DF | Tin Jedvaj | Lokomotiv Moscow | €4,000,000 | 24 July 2021 |
| 9 | FW | Leon Bailey | Aston Villa | €32,000,000 | 4 August 2021 |
| 18 | DF | Wendell | Porto | €4,000,000 | 19 August 2021 |
| 21 | GK | Lennart Grill | Brann | Loan | 30 August 2021 |
| 23 | DF | Mitchell Weiser | Werder Bremen | Loan | 31 August 2021 |
| 17 | FW | Joel Pohjanpalo | Çaykur Rizespor | Loan | 5 September 2021 |
| 3 | DF | Panagiotis Retsos | Hellas Verona | Free | 25 January 2022 |
| 11 | MF | Nadiem Amiri | Genoa | Loan | 29 January 2022 |
| 37 | FW | Emrehan Gedikli | Trabzonspor | €800,000 | 7 February 2022 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Bundesliga | 14 August 2021 | 14 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 3rd | 34 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 80 | 47 | +33 | 055.88 |
| DFB-Pokal | 7 August 2021 | 27 October 2021 | First round | Second round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 050.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 16 September 2021 | 17 March 2022 | Group stage | Round of 16 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 9 | +7 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 44 | 24 | 8 | 12 | 100 | 58 | +42 | 054.55 |
Source: Soccerway

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Bayern Munich (C) | 34 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 97 | 37 | +60 | 77 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 85 | 52 | +33 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 80 | 47 | +33 | 64 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | RB Leipzig | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 72 | 37 | +35 | 58 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Union Berlin | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 50 | 44 | +6 | 57 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
* ↑ Since the 2021–22 DFB-Pokal winners, RB Leipzig, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the Europa League group stage spot was passed to the sixth-placed team, and the Europa Conference League play-off round spot was passed to the seventh-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: DFB

#### 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 | D | W | W | L | W | W | W | L | D | L | D | W | W | W | L | D | L | D | W | W | W | W | L | W | D | L | W | W | D | L | W | W | W | W |
| Position | 7 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.

### UEFA Europa League
#### Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LEV | BET | CEL | FER |
| 1 | Bayer Leverkusen | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 4–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 |
| 2 | Real Betis | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 10 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 1–1 | — | 4–3 | 2–0 |
| 3 | Celtic | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 15 | −2 | 9 | Transfer to Europa Conference League | 0–4 | 3–2 | — | 2–0 |
| 4 | Ferencváros | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 3 | | 1–0 | 1–3 | 2–3 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 25 February 2022.

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | Europa League | Europa League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | FIN | Lukas Hradecky | 41 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | GER | Lennart Grill | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | GK | GER | Niklas Lomb | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | RUS | Andrey Lunyov | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 4 | DF | GER | Jonathan Tah | 42 | 2 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7+1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | NED | Mitchel Bakker | 30 | 0 | 19+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | CIV | Odilon Kossounou | 33 | 0 | 19+8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | BFA | Edmond Tapsoba | 29 | 1 | 19+3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 22 | DF | NED | Daley Sinkgraven | 18 | 0 | 3+9 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | NED | Timothy Fosu-Mensah | 8 | 0 | 0+6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | NED | Jeremie Frimpong | 34 | 2 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6+1 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | ECU | Piero Hincapié | 33 | 2 | 20+7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5+1 | 1 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | GER | Robert Andrich | 32 | 7 | 21+5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3+2 | 3 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Kerem Demirbay | 36 | 3 | 23+6 | 1 | 1+1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | AUT | Julian Baumgartlinger | 7 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | CHI | Charles Aránguiz | 32 | 2 | 16+10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4+1 | 1 |
| 25 | MF | ARG | Exequiel Palacios | 32 | 3 | 12+11 | 2 | 1+1 | 0 | 5+2 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Florian Wirtz | 31 | 10 | 22+2 | 7 | 0+1 | 0 | 5+1 | 3 |
| 29 | MF | DEN | Zidan Sertdemir | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | MF | GER | Karim Bellarabi | 22 | 4 | 9+7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2+3 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 7 | FW | BRA | Paulinho | 31 | 4 | 14+10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | IRN | Sardar Azmoun | 11 | 1 | 4+5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | ARG | Lucas Alario | 33 | 7 | 5+22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5+1 | 1 |
| 14 | FW | CZE | Patrik Schick | 31 | 24 | 26+1 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | FRA | Moussa Diaby | 42 | 17 | 32 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 7+1 | 4 |
| 28 | FW | ESP | Iker Bravo | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | FW | FRA | Amine Adli | 34 | 4 | 13+12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6+2 | 1 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | GRE | Panagiotis Retsos | 8 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | GER | Nadiem Amiri | 20 | 2 | 3+10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2+3 | 1 |
| 17 | FW | FIN | Joel Pohjanpalo | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | BRA | Wendell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | GER | Mitchell Weiser | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | MAR | Ayman Azhil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | FW | GER | Emrehan Gedikli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 14 May 2022 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | Pos | No. | Nat. | Player | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | UEFA EL | Total |
| 1 | FW | 17 | | Patrik Schick | 24 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| 2 | FW | 19 | | Moussa Diaby | 13 | 0 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | MF | 27 | | Florian Wirtz | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | MF | 8 | | Robert Andrich | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | FW | 13 | | Lucas Alario | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | FW | 7 | | Paulinho | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | FW | 31 | | Amine Adli | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | MF | 38 | | Karim Bellarabi | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | MF | 10 | | Kerem Demirbay | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | MF | 25 | | Exequiel Palacios | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | DF | 4 | | Jonathan Tah | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | 11 | | Nadiem Amiri | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | 20 | | Charles Aránguiz | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | DF | 30 | | Jeremie Frimpong | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | DF | 33 | | Piero Hincapié | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | FW | 9 | | Sardar Azmoun | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | DF | 12 | | Edmond Tapsoba | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 80 | 4 | 16 | 100 |
Last updated: 14 May 2022