2007–08 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2007–08 Michael Skibbe BayArena Bundesliga 7th DFB-Pokal First round UEFA Cup Quarter-finals Theofanis Gekas (11) Stefan Kießling (16) _bayer0607h _bayer0607h _bayer0607h _bayer0607h _3_stripes_black FF0000 000000 FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 _bayer0708a _bayer0709a _bayer0708a _bayer0708a _3_stripes_red FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF _bayer0708t _bayer0708t _bayer0708t _bayer0708t _3_stripes_white 0000FF 000000 000000 000000 000000 2006–07 2008–09 During the 2007–08 German football season, Bayer 04 Leverkusen competed in the Bundesliga. Season summary Despite recording an identical league record to the previous season, Leverkusen dropped to 7th, the first time they had failed to qualify for Europe in five seasons. Michael Skibbe was sacked as a result, and was replaced by Greuther Fürth manager Bruno Labbadia. First-team squad Squad at end of seasonhttp://www.footballsquads.co.uk/ger/2007-2008/bundes/bayerlev.htm FootballSquads - Bayer Leverkusen - 2007/08 1 GER GK René Adler 2 TUN DF Karim Haggui 5 GER DF Manuel Friedrich 6 GER MF Simon Rolfes 7 SUI MF Tranquillo Barnetta 8 GER MF Paul FreierFreier was born in Bytom, Poland, but was raised in Germany from the age of 11 and represented Germany at U-21 level before making his international debut for Germany in May 2002. 10 GRE FW Theofanis Gekas 11 GER FW Stefan Kießling 13 RUS FW Dmitri Bulykin 14 GER MF Sascha Dum 15 GHA DF Hans Sarpei 16 SUI MF Pirmin Schwegler 17 SVK DF Vratislav Greško 19 GER MF Marcel Risse 20 GER DF Lukas SinkiewiczSinkiewicz was born in Tychy, Poland, but also qualified to represent Germany internationally and represented Germany at U-19 and U-21 level before making his international debut for Germany in September 2005. 22 GER GK Benedikt Fernandez 23 CHI MF Arturo Vidal 25 GER MF Bernd Schneider 27 GER MF Gonzalo CastroCastro was born in Wuppertal, West Germany)(now Germany), and represented Germany at U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Spain internationally through his parents and represented Spain at U-19 level before making his international debut for Germany in March 2007. 28 GER DF Carsten Ramelow 29 GER DF Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker 33 GER MF Stefan Reinartz 34 GER GK Erik Domaschke 35 GER DF Kim Falkenberg 36 BIH FW Sergej Barbarez 45 GER MF Jens Hegeler 53 GER GK Fabian Giefer Left club during season 4 FRA MF Ricardo FatyFaty was born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France, and represented them at U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Cape Verde and Senegal internationally through his mother and father respectively and made his international debut for Senegal in 2012. on loan from Roma 24 TOG DF Assimiou TouréTouré was born in Sokodé, Togo, but also qualified to represent Germany internationally and represented Germany at U-18 level before making his international debut for Togo in 2006. on loan to VfL Osnabrück 26 CZE FW Michal Papadopulos on loan to Energie Cottbus 30 GER FW Dennis Schmidt to Wehen Wiesbaden References 2 Notes notes 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Category:Bayer 04 Leverkusen seasons