- Michael Ballack
Michael Ballack is a German football player. He is the current captain of the German national team, and plays club football for Chelsea F.C. in the English FA Premier League.
- Clemens Fritz
Clemens Fritz (born December 7, 1980 in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany) is a German footballer, who plays as a right-back for Werder Bremen. Probably his best attribute in football is his pace, in which it had sometimes been compared to that of Cristiano Ronaldo, his passing and crossing abilities, and his team effort.
- Tranquillo Barnetta
Tranquillo Barnetta (born 22 May 1985 in St. Gallen) is a Swiss football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Bayer Leverkusen. His father and mother are Italian but he grew up near by St. Gallen, Switzerland and has played since 21 for the Swiss national team. Barnetta started his career with FC St. Gallen in Switzerland, but he was soon snapped up by the German side Leverkusen. He has also enjoyed a loan spell at Hannover 96.
- Landon Donovan
Landon Timothy Donovan (born March 4, 1982 in Ontario, California), is an American professional soccer player, who is the co-all-time leading scorer for the U.S. National Team (along with Eric Wynalda). He also serves as captain of the Los Angeles Galaxy.
- Juan Silveira dos Santos
Juan Silveira dos Santos (IPA:, usually called Juan is football player at the position of central defender that currently plays for A.S. Roma. On June 21 2007, he was bought by A.S. Roma for €6.3m. Prior to signing for Roma, he previously played five years for German club Bayer Leverkusen and for Flamengo in Brazil. He is part of the Brazil national football team which he captained in the 2004 Copa América and the 2007 Copa América final, …
- Manuel Friedrich
Manuel Friedrich (born September 13, 1979 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German football defender. He started to play football at the club SG Guldental 07 and transferred to 1. FSV Mainz 05 in 1995, signing his first professional contract with then Second Bundesliga side in the summer of 1999. However, he had to wait until February 26, 2000 to make his Second Bundesliga debut for the club in their home match against Energie Cottbus.
- Claudio Reyna
Claudio Reyna (born July 20, 1973 in Livingston, New Jersey) is an American soccer player. He was the captain of the U.S. national team before retiring from international soccer immediately following the USA's exit from the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Reyna currently plays for Red Bull New York of Major League Soccer, where he is team captain.
- Oliver Neuville
Oliver Patric Neuville is a Swiss-German football player. He was born of a German father and an Italian mother in Locarno, Switzerland. His name (properly pronounced in French – not German – fashion) stems from his Belgian grandfather. He has one son Lars-Oliver (*1997). Neuville started his career in his native Switzerland with Servette (1992-96). He also played in Spain for Tenerife (1996-97), …
- Simon Rolfes
Simon Rolfes (born January 21, 1982) is a professional soccer player from Germany, currently playing for Bayer Leverkusen. Rolfes uses the number 6 for national and club play. He is 6'2" and weighs 174 lbs.
- Ricardo Faty
Ricardo Faty (Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, 4 August 1986) is a French Defensive midfielder, who currently plays for the Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. However, he is owned by Italian Serie A giants AS Roma who agreed a two-year loan stint for him at the German club. He is the younger brother of Jacques Faty, who plays for French Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille. Though they were born in France, their father is Senegalese and their mother is from Capo Verde.
- Roque Júnior
José Vítor Roque Júnior is a Brazilian footballer who was part of the 2002 World Cup winning team. Roque Júnior grew up in São José dos Campos, SP. He is widely known as a fearsome defender; he is a tough tackler and a quick thinker. These attributes are matched by his lack of pace and frequent poor timing of tackles.
- Theofanis Gekas
Theofanis Gekas is a footballer who currently plays for German side Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He has been very successful in the last few years, being top goalscorer of the Greek League (17 goals) in 2005 and runner-up in 2006 (15 goals), and top scorer of the German Bundesliga in 2007 (20 goals). He has also won 14 caps of the Greek National Team. Gekas has been described as a prolific forward with a vision for goal.
- Aaron Mokoena
Aaron Mokoena (born November 25, 1980 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African football player who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers F.C. as a defender or midfielder. A signing from K.R.C. Genk in January 2005, "Mbazo" or "The Axe", as he is known, is the youngest ever player to have represented South Africa, having played in 1999 for the 2000 Summer Olympics qualifiers, and proceeding to make a worthy replacement for Lucas Radebe as captain of his country.
- Bernd Schneider
Bernd Schneider (born November 17 1973 in Jena, Thuringia region) is a German football player. He currently plays for Bayer Leverkusen, which he helped reach second place in the Bundesliga in 2000 and 2002. In addition, he plays for the German national team, including for the squads that reached second place in the 2002 World Cup and third place in the 2006 World Cup. On the field, Schneider goes by the nickname "Schnix", …
- Andriy Voronin
Andriy Viktorovych Voronin is a Ukrainian footballer, who currently plays for Liverpool FC. He usually plays as a striker, but can also play on the wing or as a play-maker. His previous clubs include Chornomorets Odessa, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Mainz, Köln and Bayer 04 Leverkusen. In the 2002-03 season, Voronin became top goalscorer in the 2nd Bundesliga. At international level he has frequently been played in midfield.
- Paul Freier
Paul Freier (born 26 July 1979 in Bytom) is a Silesian, Polish-born German football (soccer) player who currently plays as a midfielder for Bayer Leverkusen. Freier started his career with his VfL Bochum and played there for several seasons before moving to Leverkusen in 2004. He is a member of the German national team and was recently called up as a backup squad member in the 2006 World Cup.
- Erik Meijer
Erik Meijer (born August 2, 1969 in Meerssen, Limburg) is a retired Dutch soccer player. Standing at 189 cm, he was known as a header specialist. Meijer started his career at Fortuna Sittard (1987-89), and broke through in the early 1990s at Dutch Eredivisie club MVV Maastricht and was transferred to PSV Eindhoven in 1994, where he failed to play much because Ronaldo, Luc Nilis and Wim Kieft blocked the striker positions.
- Hans Sarpei
Hans Adu Sarpei (born 28 June 1976) in Tema, Ghana is a Ghanaian International football defensive midfielder who currently, as of May 2007, plays for Bayer Leverkusen. Sarpei who has a German passport, moved to Germany from Ghana with his Parents, when he was a child. He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 African Cup of Nations and the 2006 World Cup squads. He was with VfL Wolfsburg for 6 seasons, …
- Lúcio Ferreira da Silva
Lucimar Ferreira da Silva more commonly known as Lúcio, is a Brazilian football defender who plays for FC Bayern Munich He is also known for being a part of the 2002 FIFA World Cup winning Brazilian national team. He is married to Dione with whom he has three children: Victoria, João Victor, and Valentinna. He is widely considered as Brazil's best central defender and a key member of the Brazilian squad's defense.
- Bernd Dreher
Bernd Dreher (born November 2 1966 in Leverkusen) is a German football (soccer) player. He is currently the third goalkeeper as well as a goalkeeper coach for Bayern Munich. The 40-year-old keeper originally hung up his gloves in summer 2003, taking up the role of Bayern youth goalkeeping coach and lending a hand to senior counterpart Sepp Maier in his efforts to keep Oliver Kahn and Michael Rensing in peak form.
- Holger Fach
Holger Fach is a German football manager and former gymnast. Between 1981 and 1998 he played 416 Bundesliga games for Fortuna Düsseldorf, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayer Uerdingen, Bayer Leverkusen and 1860 München. He scored 67 goals during this period, and won the DFB-Pokal with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1995. Between 1988 and 1989 he earned five caps for the national team.
- Dieter Herzog
Dieter Herzog is a former German international football player. Herzog played in 250 Bundesliga matches (46 goals) for Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in his professional career, after starting his senior career with Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 in a lower division and joining Düsseldorf a year before the club returned to Bundesliga in 1971. He was part of the Düsseldorf team that ended third in Bundesliga in 1972-1973 and 1973-1974, …
- Falko Götz
Falko Götz is a former soccer player and now coach. A defender, Götz began his career in East Germany with Vorwärts and later BFC Dynamo. In 1983, before a European Cup match against Partizan Belgrade, he escaped and fled to the west. For this rule breach, he was banned by FIFA for one year, but was able to stay in the west, joining Bayer Leverkusen, where he stayed for five years, moving to 1. FC Köln in 1988.
- René Adler
René Adler is a German footballer. His first club was VfB Leipzig, but in 2000 he moved to Bayer Leverkusen. Adler has been a club captain at all levels of competition and at the Dutch Under-19 championships he was one of the star players of the tournament, attracting attention from clubs such as Feyenoord Rotterdam and Arsenal and Chelsea. Due to his good performances, Rudi Völler nominated Adler to his first senior appearance against Werder Bremen.
- Stefan Schwarz
Stefan Schwarz is a Swedish former footballer. Born to a German father, he played as a midfielder. He was capped for the Swedish national side on 69 occasions, often as captain. He played at the World Cup 1990 and 1994 finals, and at the Euro 1992 finals. He began his career at his hometown club Malmö. In 1990 he played as a youthplayer in Leverkusen before moving on to Benfica where he played from 1990 to 1994,he also played for Arsenal, Fiorentina, …
- Sergej Barbarez
Sergej Barbarez (born September 17, 1971 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a famous and popular Bosnian-Herzegovian football midfielder playing for Bayer Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga.
- Dimitar Berbatov
Dimitar Berbatov (born January 30, 1981 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a striker for English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur and Bulgaria.
- Andrzej Buncol
Andrzej Buncol is a retired Polish football player. He played for clubs such as Ruch Chorzów, Legia Warszawa, FC Homburg (West Germany), Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) and Fortuna Düsseldorf (Germany). He played for the Polish national team. He was a participant at the 1982 FIFA World Cup (where Poland won third place) and the 1986 FIFA World Cup. After the 1986 World Cup he emigrated to West Germany.
- Lukas Sinkiewicz
Lukas Sinkiewicz is a professional German footballer who plays as a defender for Bayer 04 Leverkusen and for Germany. He signed a 4 years contract with Leverkusen on summer 2007. Previously he played for 1. FC Köln. He extended his original contract with 1. FC Köln on 19 January 2006, which expired on June 30, 2007, to 30 June 2009
- Christian Schreier
Christian Schreier (born February 4, 1959) is a German former footballer who is currently manager of Union Berlin. He played as an attacking midfielder, most notably with VfL Bochum and Bayer Leverkusen, and won one cap for West Germany, in 1984. His biggest successes came in 1988, when he won the UEFA Cup and an Olympic bronze Medal.
- Yıldıray Baştürk
Yıldıray Baştürk is a Turkish footballer. The son of a miner, Baştürk began his football career at Sportfreunden Wanne-Eickel. As a teenager Baştürk played for SG Wattenscheid 09, and his breakthrough in the Bundesliga came with city rivals VfL Bochum, for whom he even played in the UEFA Cup. After the 2001 transfer to Bayer 04 Leverkusen more success was coming his way. Baştürk and Leverkusen finished second in the German league, …
- Christian Wörns
Christian Wörns is a professional German footballer, currently playing for Borussia Dortmund.
- Jermaine Jones
Jermaine Jones (born November 3, 1981 in Frankfurt am Main) is an American-German football (soccer) player who plays for FC Schalke 04, Germany. He has also played for Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen. His father is an African-American soldier stationed in Germany. He was injured for 8 months and only in the last game of the first half of the season returned to the squad. Jones grew up in Frankfurt-Bonames, one of the worst neighborhoods in Frankfurt.
- Paulo Rink
Paulo Roberto Rink is a German-Brazilian football player who plays for Atlético Paranaense. He began his career playing for Atlético Paranaense. After a solid career with Atletico, he negotiated with Bayer Leverkusen, and he was transferred for 6 million USD, the highest transfer fee paid for an Atlético Paranaense player at that time. He remained there for four year, having a break of six months, when he was loaned out to Santos FC.
- Rudi Völler
Rudolf 'Rudi' Völler is a German former international football striker, and a former manager of the German national team. He won the FIFA World Cup in 1990 as a player and coached the national team to second place at the 2002 World Cup. He was born in Hanau, Hesse.
- Stefan Beinlich
Stefan Beinlich (born January 13, 1972 in East Berlin) is a German footballer. The midfielder began his career at Berlin clubs BFC Dynamo and SG Bergmann-Borsig. For SG, he played 20 times in the 1990-91 season, scoring 5 goals. During the 1991-92 season he signed for English Premiership side Aston Villa in his first professional contract. In total Beinlich played sixteen times for Aston Villa, scoring one goal.
- Thomas Dooley
Thomas Dooley (born May 12, 1961, in Bechhofen, Germany) is a retired German-American soccer defender and defensive midfielder, a long-time member and former captain of the United States national team. Dooley, born to a German mother and a U.S. Army father, started his professional career in 1984 with third division club FC Homburg. Prior to that, he had played as a forward with amateur team FK Pimasens.
- Pirmin Schwegler
Pirmin Schwegler (born March 9 1987) is a Swiss football player who currently plays as midfielder for Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga. He is he brother of Christian Schwegler
- Udo Lattek
Udo Lattek is a former German football (soccer) player and coach, and is now a now television sportscaster. With 14 major titles, Lattek is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game, and the most successful coach with German teams and Bayern Munich. He further won important trophies with Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Barcelona. Further to that he coached Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04 and 1. FC Köln.
- Daniel Bierofka
Daniel Bierofka is a German footballer. Born in Munich, he has played for SpVgg Feldmoching, SpVgg Unterhaching, FC Bayern München (between 1994 and 2000), TSV 1860 München (between 2000 and 2002) and Bayer 04 Leverkusen (between 2002 and 2005). For the 2005/06 and 2006/07 seasons Bierofka played with VfB Stuttgart. In June 2007, Bierofka returned to TSV 1860 München with TSV 1860 München committing to a deferred payment of 400000 Euros.