LEVERKUSEN, Germany (AP) — Manchester, Barcelona, Milan, Leverkusen? An often-overlooked, small German city dominated by the pharmaceuticals industry is making an unlikely case to be considered ...

Wirtz was an essential piece to Leverkusen’s shock triumph in the Bundesliga last season. With the playmaker pulling the strings, the club went undefeated for the entire 2023/24 campaign to ...

LEVERKUSEN – Manchester, Barcelona, Milan, Leverkusen? An often-overlooked, small German city dominated by the pharmaceuticals industry is making an unlikely case to be considered one of Europe ...

The main chemical plant of German Bayer AG is pictured on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2019 in Leverkusen, Germany. A low-rise city of 167,000 that grew up around the factories of the pharmaceuticals giant ...

An otherwise-overlooked small German city dominated by a pharmaceuticals plant is making its case to be considered one of Europe’s soccer capitals as Bayer Leverkusen plays a historic unbeaten ...

Excluding the 30,000-capacity BayArena, Leverkusen is probably best known for a 51-meter-tall (56 yards) illuminated Bayer logo which shines over the city at night.