Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Bayer Leverkusen have finished as runner-up in the Bundesliga five times without winning the competition, a record in German football.
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Bayer Leverkusen agreed to support the initiative, and on 1 July 1904 Turn- und Spielverein Bayer 04 Leverkusen was founded.
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Bayer Leverkusen was the first team to reach the final of the Champions League without ever having won a national championship.
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Bayer Leverkusen then led Bayer Leverkusen to a third-place finish and a Champions League place the following year.
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Bayer Leverkusen was defeated in the first knockout round by eventual champions Liverpool.
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Bayer Leverkusen finished the season in ninth place in the Bundesliga table and Labbadia moved to Hamburger SV in June 2009.
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Shortly thereafter, Leverkusen presented Jupp Heynckes as its new manager, who had previously managed Bayern Munich after Jurgen Klinsmann's departure.
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Ironically, Bayer 04 was the first Bundesliga club whose fans identified themselves as Ultras and the city of Leverkusen is one of the old industrial cities of Germany.
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Bayer Leverkusen is perceived by some to have an ongoing image problem of a different sort.
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