2012–13 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season

Bayer Leverkusen

2012–13 season
Sporting Director	Rudi Völler
Manager	Sami Hyypiä
Stadium	BayArena, Leverkusen, NRW
Bundesliga	3rd
DFB-Pokal	Round of 16
UEFA Europa League	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: Stefan Kießling (25) All: Stefan Kießling (27)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2012–13 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season is the 109th season in the club's football history. In 2012–13 the club plays in the Fußball-Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It is the clubs 34th season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga in 1979.

The club also takes part in the 2012–13 edition of the DFB-Pokal.

In Europe the club has qualified for the 2012–13 edition of the Europa League where it will play Metalist Kharkiv, Rapid Wien and Rosenborg BK in Group K of the group stage.

Review and events

In the 2011–12 season, Bayer Leverkusen finished 5th in the 2011–12 Bundesliga.^[1] Therefore, the club qualified for the 2012–13 Bundesliga, 2012–13 DFB-Pokal and 2012–13 Europa League.^[2]

Bayer Leverkusen rejected a bid for André Schürrle worth €25 million from Chelsea F.C..^[3] Bayer Leverkusen has decided not to sell Schürrle because they're 'unable to sign a replacement" because suitable replacements are "too expensive" and would be forced to sign "a weaker player" who is "overpriced".^[4] Bayer Leverkusen CEO Wolfgang Holzhäuser accused Bayern Munich coach of Jupp Heynckes "tapping up" Lars Bender.^[5] The club had rejected an "official" offer from Bayern Munich the previous week.^[5]

Matches

Legend

      Win       Draw       Loss       Postponed

Bundesliga

League results and fixtures

Match	Date	Time	Stadium	City	Opponent	Result1	Attendance	Goalscorers		Table		Source
								Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Opponent	Pos.	Pts
1	25 August 2012 (2012-08-25)	15:30	Commerzbank-Arena	Frankfurt	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	27,900	Kießling  30'	Aigner  57' Lanig  82'	T12	0	[MR 1] [MR 2]
2	1 September 2012 (2012-09-01)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	SC Freiburg	2–0	23,635	Castro  8' Wollscheid  54'	—	T9	3	[MR 3] [MR 4]
3	15 September 2012 (2012-09-15)	15:30	Signal Iduna Park	Dortmund	Borussia Dortmund	0–3	80,645	—	Hummels  29' Błaszczykowski  39' Lewandowski  78'	12	3	[MR 5] [MR 6]
4	23 September 2012 (2012-09-23)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–1	27,640	Kadlec  12'	Herrmann  3'	13	4	[MR 7] [MR 8]
5	26 September 2012 (2012-09-26)	20:00	SGL arena	Augsburg	FC Augsburg	3–1	25,211	Kießling  7' Wollscheid  39' Schürrle  44'	Werner  51'	8	7	[MR 9] [MR 10]
6	29 September 2012 (2012-09-29)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Greuther Fürth	2–0	25,700	Sam  50', 62'	—	7	10	[MR 11] [MR 12]
7	7 October 2012 (2012-10-07)	17:30	Mercedes-Benz Arena	Stuttgart	VfB Stuttgart	2–2	47,400	Kießling  13', 59'	Ibišević  19' (pen.), 45'	6	11	[MR 13] [MR 14]
8	20 October 2012 (2012-10-20)	15:30	BayArena	Lueverkusen	Mainz 05	2–2	28,077	Kießling  43' Castro  87'	Szalai  58' Risse  76'	5	12	[MR 15] [MR 16]
9	28 October 2012 (2012-10-28)	17:30	Allianz Arena	Munich	Bayern Munich	2–1	71,000	Kießling  42' Sam  87'	Mandžukić  77'	5	15	[MR 17] [MR 18]
10	4 November 2012 (2012-11-04)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Fortuna Düsseldorf	3–2	27,153	Sam  16' Schürrle  41' Castro  66'	Rafael  40' Bodzek  86'	4	18	[MR 19] [MR 20]
11	11 November 2012 (2012-11-11)	15:30	Volkswagen-Arena	Wolfsburg	VfL Wolfsburg	1–3	24,825	Kießling  90'+1'	Diego  4', 16' Dost  33'	5	18	[MR 21] [MR 22]
12	17 November 2012 (2012-11-17)	18:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Schalke 04	2–0	30,000	Schürrle  45' Kießling  67'	—	5	21	[MR 23] [MR 24]
13	25 November 2012 (2012-11-25)	17:30	Rhein-Neckar Arena	Sinsheim	1899 Hoffenheim	2–1	22,100	Bender  15' Carvajal  38'	Johnson  59'	5	24	[MR 25] [MR 26]
14	28 November 2012 (2012-11-28)	20:00	Weserstadion	Bremen	Werder Bremen	4–1	37,231	Castro  31', 52' Rolfes  74' Hegeler  79'	Petersen  54'	2	27	[MR 27] [MR 28]
15	1 December 2012 (2012-12-01)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	1. FC Nuremberg	1–0	22,000	Kießling  37'	—	2	30	[MR 29] [MR 30]
16	9 December 2012 (2012-12-09)	17:30	AWD-Arena	Hanover	Hannover 96	2–3	45,800	Castro  3' Kießling  58'	Huszti  20' (pen.), 69' (pen.) Diouf  56'	2	30	[MR 31] [MR 32]
17	15 December 2012 (2012-12-15)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Hamburger SV	3–0	29,489	Kießling  26', 66' Schürrle  36'	—	2	33	[MR 33] [MR 34]
18	19 January 2013 (2013-01-19)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–1	28,767	Boenisch  31' Kießling  33' Schürrle  58'	Meier  78'	2	36	[MR 35] [MR 36]
19	26 January 2013 (2013-01-26)	18:30	Mage Solar Stadion	Freiburg	SC Freiburg	0–0	22,500	—	—	2	37	[MR 37] [MR 38]
20	3 February 2013 (2013-02-03)	17:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Borussia Dortmund	2–3	30,210	Reinartz  58', 62'	Reus  3' Blaszczykowski  9' (pen.) Lewandowski  63'	3	37	[MR 39] [MR 40]
21	9 February 2013 (2013-02-09)	15:30	Borussia-Park	Mönchengladbach	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–3	45,000	Sam  52' Kießling  60' Schürrle  64'	Stranzl  44' de Jong  58' Herrmann  86'	3	38	[MR 41] [MR 42]
22	16 February 2013 (2013-02-16)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	FC Augsburg	2–1	22,784	Kießling  26' Bender  75'	Mölders  89'	3	41	[MR 43] [MR 44]
23	24 February 2013 (2013-02-24)	17:30	Trolli Arena	Fürth	Greuther Fürth	0–0	14,635	—	—	3	42	[MR 45] [MR 46]
24	2 March 2013 (2013-03-02)	18:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	VfB Stuttgart	2–1	27,058	Kießling  82' (pen.) Bender  86'	Ibišević  12' (pen.)	3	45	[MR 47] [MR 48]
25	9 March 2013 (2013-03-09)	15:30	Coface Arena	Mainz	Mainz 05	0–1	30,124	—	Ivanschitz  61' (pen.)	3	45	[MR 49] [MR 50]
26	16 March 2013 (2013-03-16)	18:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Bayern Munich	1–2	30,210	Rolfes  75'	Gómez  37' Wollscheid  87' (o.g.)	3	45	[MR 51] [MR 52]
27	30 March 2013 (2013-03-30)	15:30	Esprit Arena	Düsseldorf	Fortuna Düsseldorf	4-1
28	6 April 2012 (2012-04-06)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	VfL Wolfsburg
29	13 April 2013 (2013-04-13)	18:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Schalke 04	2-2
30			BayArena	Leverkusen	1899 Hoffenheim
31			BayArena	Leverkusen	Werder Bremen
32			Stadion Nürnberg	Nuremberg	1. FC Nuremberg
33	11 May 2013 (2013-05-11)	15:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Hannover 96
34	18 May 2013 (2013-05-18)	15:30	Imtech Arena	Hamburg	Hamburger SV

League table

2012–13 Fußball-Bundesliga table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bayern Munich (C)	34	29	4	1	98	18	+80	91	2013–14 UEFA Champions League group stage
2	Borussia Dortmund	34	19	9	6	81	42	+39	66
3	Bayer Leverkusen	34	19	8	7	65	39	+26	65
4	Schalke 04	34	16	7	11	58	50	+8	55	2013–14 UEFA Champions League play-off round
5	SC Freiburg	34	14	9	11	45	40	+5	51	2013–14 UEFA Europa League play-off round
6	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	14	9	11	49	46	+3	51	2013–14 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round

Source: Bundesliga.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

League summary table

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	19	8	7	65	39	+26	65	12	3	2	36	15	+21	7	5	5	29	24	+5

Last updated: 8 June 2013.
Source: kicker

DFB-Pokal

Main article: 2012–13 DFB-Pokal

Round	Date	Time	Stadium	City	Opponent	Result1	Attendance	Goalscorers		Source
								Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Opponent
1	18 August 2012 (2012-08-18)	15:30	Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld	Jena	Carl Zeiss Jena	4–0	8,043	Rolfes  3' Bellarabi  15' Kießling  81' Fernándes  90'	—	[MR 53]
2	31 October 2012 (2012-10-31)	19:00	Bielefelder Alm	Bielefeld	Arminia Bielefeld	3–2	24,771	Hegeler  23' Friedrich  56' Schürrle  94'	Hille  11' Schütz  82'	[MR 54]
R16	19 December 2012 (2012-12-19)	19:00	Volkswagen Arena	Wolfsburg	VfL Wolfsburg	1–2	10,781	Fagner  31' (o.g.)	Träsch  78' Dost  90'

Europa League

Main article: 2012–13 UEFA Europa League

Group Stage

Group results

Match	Date	Time	Stadium	City	Opponent	Result1	Attendance	Goalscorers		Table		Source
								Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Opponent	Pos.	Pts
1	20 September 2012 (2012-09-20)	21:05	BayArena	Leverkusen, Germany	Metalist Kharkiv	0–0	15,300	—	—	T2	1	[MR 55] [MR 56]
2	4 October 2012 (2012-10-04)	19:00	Lerkendal Stadion	Trondheim, Norway	Rosenborg	1–0	12,587	Kießling  76'	—	2	4	[MR 57] [MR 58]
3	25 October 2012 (2012-10-25)	19:00	Ernst-Happel-Stadion	Vienna, Austria	Rapid Wien	4–0	42,600	Wollscheid  37' Castro  56', 90+2' Bellarabi  58'	—	1	7	[MR 59] [MR 60]
4	8 November 2012 (2012-11-08)	21:05	BayArena	Leverkusen, Germany	Rapid Wien	3–0	19,842	Hegeler  4' Schürrle  53' Friedrich  66'	—	1	10	[MR 61] [MR 62]
5	22 November 2012 (2012-11-22)	19:00	Metalist Stadium	Kharkiv, Ukraine	Metalist Kharkiv	0–2	39,218	—	Cristaldo  46' Xavier  85'	2	10	[MR 63] [MR 64]
6	6 December 2012 (2012-12-06)	21:05	BayArena	Leverkusen, Germany	Rosenborg	1–0	10,513	Riedel  65'	—	2	13	[MR 65] [MR 66]

Group table

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Metalist Kharkiv	6	4	1	1	9	3	+6	13
Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	1	1	9	2	+7	13
Rosenborg	6	2	0	4	7	10	−3	6
Rapid Wien	6	1	0	5	4	14	−10	3

Group summary table

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
6	4	1	1	9	2	+7	13	2	1	0	4	0	+4	2	0	1	5	2	+3

Last updated: 19 February 2013.
Source: Group results

Knockout phase

Round of 32

First leg 14 February 2013	Bayer Leverkusen	0–1	Benfica	Leverkusen, Germany
		Match Report	61' Cardozo	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 25,375 Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz

Second leg 21 February 2013	Benfica	2–1 (3–1 agg.)	Bayer Leverkusen	Lisbon, Portugal
				Stadium: Estádio da Luz

Overall record

As of 3 May 2013

Competition	First match	Last match	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bundesliga	25 August 2012[2]	18 May 2013[2]	7001310000000000000♠31	7001160000000000000♠16	7000800000000000000♠8	7000700000000000000♠7	7001590000000000000♠59	7001380000000000000♠38	+21	7001516100000000000♠51.61
DFB-Pokal	18 August 2012[2]	19 December 2012[2]	7000300000000000000♠3	7000200000000000000♠2	5000000000000000000♠0	7000100000000000000♠1	7000800000000000000♠8	7000400000000000000♠4	+4	7001666700000000000♠66.67
Europa League	20 September 2012[2]	21 February 2013[2]	7000800000000000000♠8	7000400000000000000♠4	7000100000000000000♠1	7000300000000000000♠3	7001100000000000000♠10	7000500000000000000♠5	+5	7001500000000000000♠50.00
Total			7001420000000000000♠42	7001220000000000000♠22	7000900000000000000♠9	7001110000000000000♠11	7001770000000000000♠77	7001470000000000000♠47	+30	7001523800000000000♠52.38

Squad information

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals

As of 16 April 2013

Sources:^{[6][7][MR 53][MR 54][MR 56][MR 58][MR 60][MR 62][MR 64][MR 66][8][9]}

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Europa League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Bernd Leno	34	0	27	0	1	0	6	0
22	GK		David Yelldell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	GK		Michael Rensing	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	0
36	GK		Niklas Lomb	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Defenders
2	DF		Daniel Schwaab	18	0	12	0	2	0	4	0
4	DF		Philipp Wollscheid	29	3	21	2	1	0	7	1
5	DF		Manuel Friedrich	15	2	8	0	2	1	5	1
17	DF		Sebastian Boenisch	14	1	12	1	0	0	2	0
20	DF		Dani Carvajal	30	1	27	1	1	0	2	0
21	DF		Ömer Toprak	27	0	22	0	1	0	4	0
23	DF		Carlinhos	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
24	DF		Michal Kadlec	15	1	11	1	1	0	3	0
Midfielders
3	MF		Stefan Reinartz	31	2	24	2	2	0	5	0
6	MF		Simon Rolfes	34	4	25	3	2	1	7	0
8	MF		Lars Bender	35	3	28	3	2	0	5	0
13	MF		Jens Hegeler	29	3	22	1	1	1	6	1
14	MF		Hajime Hosogai	21	0	16	0	1	0	4	0
18	MF		Sidney Sam	28	5	22	5	2	0	4	0
27	MF		Gonzalo Castro	37	8	29	6	2	0	6	2
30	MF		Kolja Pusch	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
31	MF		Dominik Kohr	6	0	4	0	0	0	2	0
32	MF		Jonas Meffert	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
38	MF		Karim Bellarabi	11	2	8	0	1	1	2	1
	MF		Julian Riedel	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
Forwards
7	FW		Junior Fernándes	13	0	6	0	1	0	6	0
9	FW		André Schürrle	37	12	29	9	2	1	6	2
11	FW		Stefan Kießling	42	27	34	25	2	1	6	1
16	FW		Arkadiusz Milik	5	0	4	0	0	0	1	0
19	FW		Okan Aydın	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
37	FW		Tobias Steffen	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
No longer at the club
19	FW		Samed Yeşil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	MF		Renato Augusto	11	0	6	0	0	0	5	0

Minutes played, goal scorers and scoring rate

No.	Player	Total			Bundesliga			DFB-Pokal			Europa League
		MP	G	SR	MP	G	SR	MP	G	SR	MP	G	SR
40	Julian Riedel	90	1	1.00	0	0	—	0	0	—	90	1	1.00
18	Sidney Sam	694	5	0.65	494	5	0.94	40	0	0.00	160	0	0.00
11	Stefan Kießling	2,802	18	0.58	2,223	16	0.65	136	1	0.66	353	1	0.26
9	André Schürrle	2,775	9	0.29	2,147	6	0.25	278	1	0.32	350	2	0.51
38	Karim Bellarabi	659	2	0.27	411	0	0.00	68	1	1.32	180	1	0.50
13	Jens Hegeler	1,040	3	0.26	477	1	0.19	141	1	0.64	422	1	0.21
27	Gonzalo Castro	2,808	7	0.22	2,188	5	0.21	209	0	0.00	411	2	0.44
5	Manuel Friedrich	942	2	0.19	356	0	0.00	180	1	0.50	406	1	0.22
17	Sebastian Boenisch	963	1	0.09	775	1	0.12	90	0	0.00	98	0	0.00
8	Lars Bender	2,860	3	0.09	2,180	3	0.12	300	0	0.00	380	0	0.00
4	Philipp Wollscheid	2,970	3	0.09	2,160	2	0.08	180	0	0.00	630	1	0.14
24	Michal Kadlec	1,123	1	0.08	843	1	0.11	90	0	0.00	190	0	0.00
3	Stefan Reinartz	2,404	2	0.07	1,861	2	0.10	178	0	0.00	365	0	0.00
6	Simon Rolfes	2,457	3	0.11	1,737	2	0.10	136	1	0.66	584	0	0.00
20	Daniel Carvajal	2,443	1	0.04	2,069	1	0.04	210	0	0.00	164	0	0.00

Transfers

Out

15 GK René Adler 27 EU Bayer Leverkusen Transfer Summer 2017 Free [8]

Kits

Home

Home Alternate

Home Alt. 2

Away

Third

Type	Shirt	Shorts	Socks	First appearance / Info
Home	Red	Black	Red
Home Alt.	Red	Red	Red	UEFA EL, Group stage, October 4 against Trondheim
Home Alt. 2	Red	Black	Black	Bundesliga, Match 34, May 18 against Hamburg
Away	White	White	White
Third	Navy	Navy	Navy

Sources

Match reports

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9. ↑ "Werkself exit Europa League after 2-1 defeat". Bayer Leverkusen. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2013. 

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