2000–01 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season

Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a German football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the most well-known department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a sports club whose members also participate in athletics, gymnastics, basketball and other sports.-Origins and early years:On 27 November...

had a solid season, where it managed to qualify for another Champions League

UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

campaign, following a 4th place finish. Unlike the previous season, it failed to actively challenge for the Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga

The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...

title for the second year running, also going out of the Champions League already in the group stage.

The most important players of the season included Oliver Neuville

Oliver Neuville

Oliver Patric Neuville is a retired German footballer who played as a striker.During an 18-year professional career, he played mainly for Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Mönchengladbach , amassing Bundesliga totals of 334 games and 91 goals.Neuville gained almost 70 caps for the German national...

, who scored 15 goals, plus attacking midfielder Michael Ballack

Michael Ballack

Michael Ballack is a German professional footballer, who is currently playing for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of his international team. Ballack has worn the number 13 shirt for every team he has played for except for Kaiserslautern...

, who cemented his position as Germany's new dominant playmaker.

Goalkeepers

Pascal Zuberbühler

Pascal Zuberbühler is a Swiss footballer who is currently the goalkeeping coach for the Philippines. He was recently released by Fulham after coming to the end of his contract.-Club career:...

Adam Matysek

Adam Matysek is a retired Polish football goalkeeper.He made 34 appearances for the Polish national team, and was a member of their squad at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, although he did not play any matches at the tournament.After his playing career, Matysek worked for the Polish Football Association...

Frank Jurić

Frank Juric

Frank Jurić is an Australian football goalkeeper of Croatian descent. He is currently the goalkeeping coach of A-League club Perth Glory.-Club career:...

Tom Starke

Tom Starke is a German football goalkeeper who currently plays for 1899 Hoffenheim.-External links:...

Defenders

Vratislav Gresko

Vratislav Greško

Vratislav Greško is a Slovak footballer who currently plays for the 2. liga club ŽP ŠPORT Podbrezová. His preferred position is left-back, although he has also been used as a left-sided midfielder or defender during his career...

Torben Hofmann

Lúcio

Lucimar Ferreira da Silva , commonly known as Lúcio, is a World Cup-winning Brazilian footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club Inter and the Brazil national team. He is a strong defender with good aerial play, who adds presence in the attack.Lúcio began his professional career in 1997, in one...

Jörg Reeb

Jörg Reeb is a German football player who is currently playing for ASC Dudweiler.-External links:...

Jens Nowotny Boris Živković

Boris Živkovic

Boris Živković is a former Croatian football player. He played as a defender and through career he played all defending positions. He played as right and left full back and centre back. At one point of his career he even played as defensive midfielder....

Robert Kovač

Robert Kovac

Robert Kovač is a retired Croatian football defender.- Early career :Kovač started his career in lower league clubs Rapide Wedding and Hertha Zehlendorf before making his Bundesliga debut with 1. FC Nuremberg in 1995...

Diego Placente

Diego Rodolfo Placente is an Argentine footballer who plays at left-back for Nacional.-Club:Placente started playing professionally in 1996 with Argentinos Juniors, before moving to Argentine giant River Plate in 1997. He transferred to Bayer Leverkusen in 2001, where he played until 2005 when his...

Midfielders

Andreas Neuendorf

Andreas "Zecke" Neuendorf is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hertha BSC II.-Career:Neuendorf has played for Bayer Leverkusen and Hertha BSC. He left Berlin after the 2006-07 season, having played with the club for six years...

Marko Babić

Robson Ponte

Robson Ponte is a Brazilian former footballer. He spent most of his career at Bayer Leverkusen in Germany and Urawa Red Diamonds in Japan.-Club career:Although Ponte is born in Brazil, he also holds Italian nationality...

Zé Roberto Michael Ballack

Michael Ballack

Jurica Vranjes

Pascal Ojigwe

Pascal Ojigwe is a retired Nigerian footballer. He also holds German citizenship.-Honours:* UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2002.* Bundesliga champion: 1998.* DFB-Pokal finalist: 2002.* Bundesliga runner-up: 2002....

Frankie Hejduk

Frank Daniel "Frankie" Hejduk is an American soccer player who currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer. He formerly played as right back for Columbus Crew, where he was team captain, and the United States national team.-Youth and College:Hejduk attended San Dieguito High...

Marquinhos

Marcos Vicente dos Santos

Marcos Vicente dos Santos or simply Marquinhos , is a Brazilian attacking midfielder. He currently plays for Grêmio.-Contract:*Atlético-MG 23 July 2007 to 31 December 2007*Iraty 6 April 2006 to 6 April 2009...

Bernd Schneider Landon Donovan

Landon Donovan

Landon Timothy Donovan is an American soccer player for the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer in the United States. He usually plays as a withdrawn forward, and can also be used as an attacking midfielder on either wing....

Carsten Ramelow

Anel Džaka

Anel Džaka is a Bosnian-born German footballer who plays as a midfielder.-Career:He began his career with Bayer 04 Leverkusen, where he made three Bundesliga appearances in three years as well as making it onto the bench for the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final...

Attackers

Ulf Kirsten Paulo Rink

Paulo Rink

Paulo Roberto Rink , is a Brazilian-born German football centre forward, who retired in 2007.Rink began his career playing for Atlético Paranaense. After a solid career with the club, he negotiated with Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and was transferred for US$6M, the highest transfer fee paid for an...

Dimitar Berbatov

Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

Thomas Brdarić Oliver Neuville

Oliver Neuville

Markus Daun

Markus Daun is a German former footballer. He used to play as a striker for Alemannia Aachen. He spent seven seasons in the Bundesliga with Bayer 04 Leverkusen, SV Werder Bremen, 1. FC Nuremberg and MSV Duisburg....

Sources

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