Leverkusen Football Club was founded by the global pharmaceutical giant Bayer, hence the nickname "Pharmaceutical Factory".

The reason why Leverkusen is called a pharmaceutical factory is because its investment company Bayer is a global pharmaceutical giant. Bayer, Leverkusen's investor, was founded in Germany in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer.

Bayer's registered trademark of aspirin is the most widely used and well-known pharmaceutical brand in the world. It is known as the "drug of the century" and has brought unimaginable huge profits to Bayer. This is how Leverkusen got its nickname.

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In 1904, Bayer, a famous German pharmaceutical company, established a gymnastics club. In 1903, the football department declared independence and established Bayer 04 Leverkusen Football Club. However, football The team is at best the level of a corporate team. When the German Football Association implemented the professional football system in 1963, Bayer Leverkusen could only be regarded as a mid-level team in the third division.

The team was promoted to the second division in 1975, and then jumped to the first division after 1979. Although it has never been relegated, it has never achieved an impressive record. Although the national team star Voller appeared in the team, Leverkusen only ranked 14th in the total standings of 18 first-division teams.

In order to make Leverkusen make substantial progress, in 1995, Voller, who had retired and served as the sports department manager, earnestly persuaded the former Stuttgart head coach Daum to return to Turkey to coach and resume coaching. Leverkusen's broken mountains and rivers.