Match facts ahead of #BMGB04

Everything to know before our home game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen on Saturday (18:30 CEST).

Tickets

• Gladbach’s first home game of the season is almost sold-out.

Head-to-head record

• It’ll be the 83rd time that the Foals match up against Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. The overall record favours the latter, who have won 33 of the 82 previous encounters. Gladbach have emerged victorious on 22 occasions, with 27 matches ending in draws.
• The Foals have beaten Leverkusen 12 times when playing at home. Leverkusen have won 11 games in Mönchengladbach and the other 18 games have all been draws.
• The Werkself have won the last four times they’ve played at the BORUSSIA-PARK, their longest ever-winning streak at the ground.
• This fixture normally isn’t short of goals. On average, there are 3.38 goals per game when Gladbach and Bayer 04 play one another in the Bundesliga. Overall, 277 goals have been scores in the 82 clashes between the teams, with Gladbach scoring 120 and Leverkusen bagging 157.

Statistics

• Head coach Gerardo Seoane’s first home game as Gladbach manager will come against Leverkusen, his old club. Head coach Gerardo Seoane’s first home game as Gladbach manager will come against Leverkusen, his old club. In the 2021/22 season, he led Bayer to third place in the league, but was dismissed after eight games last season.
• Tomas Čvančara bagged a brace on his Bundeliga debut, becoming the first Foal to score more than one debut goal since Peter Mayer in 1967.
• Jonas Hofmann, who made the switch to Leverkusen after seven and a half years at Gladbach, will get a formal send-off from the club before kick-off. In the 3-2 win over RB Leipzig on the first matchday, Hofmann assisted a goal from a corner, just like his successor at Gladbach, Franck Honorat, did in Augsburg. 

Officials

• Christian Dingert will referee the game. The linesmen are Benedikt Kempkes and Nikolai Kimmeyer. Tom Bauer is fourth official, with Felix Zwayer and Thorsten Schiffner on VAR duty.

Social media

• For updates, follow Borussia’s English-language social media channels on Twitter and Facebook and use the hashtag #BMGB04.