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Dikeni Salifou will leave SV Werder Bremen to join Austrian Bundesliga side SK Austria Klagenfurt on loan until the end of the season, as confirmed on Monday by the head of professional football, Peter Niemeyer.

It had been almost five months since Justin Njinmah last featured in the Bundesliga. After Matchday 26 of the 2023/24 season, the 23-year-old was firstly sidelined with hip and ankle problems, before missing the remainder of the campaign with illness. On Saturday, the striker marked his return to the side in the best possible manner against FC Augsburg.

SV Werder Bremen opened the 2024/25 Bundesliga season with a 2-2 draw at FC Augsburg. After first taking the lead, the Green-Whites were then pegged back and trailed at the break, before netting a deserved equaliser in the second half. WERDER.DE spoke to head coach Ole Werner and several players about the result.

SV Werder Bremen were able to take home a point from their first Bundesliga game of the season against FC Augsburg on Saturday afternoon. Felix Agu (12’) opened the scoring for the Green-Whites, but they were then pegged back just minutes later by Elvis Rexhbecaj’s equaliser (16’). The hosts were then able to take the lead before the break, as Samuel Essende headed in to make it 2-1 (35’).…

“We’re excited to be starting again,” said Ole Werner at the press conference ahead of SVW’s first Bundesliga game of the new season. After successfully beginning the campaign with a 3-1 win over Energie Cottbus in the DFB-Pokal, the Green-Whites are excited for league action to begin. Werder’s matchday 1 clash is away against FC Augsburg on Saturday, 24th August at 15:30 CEST. “Competitive…

Members of the Werder and footballing community, along with relatives and friends, gathered at the Bremen Cathedral on Friday to remember Wilfried 'Willi' Lemke. Amongst those in attendance were those that knew Lemke from his many years as the sporting director and chairman of the supervisory board at SV Werder Bremen, as well as politicians and public figures from the city of Bremen and from…

After getting the 2024/25 season off to a winning start against Energie Cottbus in the DFB-Pokal, SV Werder Bremen are now hoping to also start their Bundesliga campaign off on the right foot. Head coach Ole Werner faced the media ahead of his side's opening Bundesliga fixture away at FC Augsburg on Saturday, 24th August (15:30 CEST). 

Dawid Kownacki will leave SV Werder Bremen to join second-division side Fortuna Düsseldorf until the end of the season. He signed for Werder from Düsseldorf in summer 2023. This was announced today by Peter Niemeyer, head of professional football.

SV Werder won their first competitive game of 2024/25, advancing to the next round of the DFB-Pokal after a 3-1 win at FC Energie Cottbus. WERDER.DE have collected all the post-match reaction from head coach Ole Werner and his players.

SV Werder Bremen are through to the second round of the DFB-Pokal after a 3-1 win at FC Energie Cottbus. A hat-trick from Keke Topp (32', 37', 55') sealed the Green-White's progression in front of 20,524 fans at the LEAG Energie Stadion. Former Werder player Henry Rorig was able to get one back for the hosts (70').

After 93 days of pre-season, SV Werder Bremen are back. While the start of the Bundesliga gradually approaches, the Green-Whites’ first competitive fixture of the season will be a first-round DFB-Pokal clash against FC Energie Cottbus on Monday, 19th August at 18:00 CEST. It’s the second time in three years that SVW will play the Brandenburg side, who kicked off their 3. Liga campaign two weeks…

The press conference ahead of the DFB-Pokal clash at FC Energie Cottbus signalled the start of business as usual for head coach Ole Werner. Before the Green-Whites travel to Lausitz on Monday, 19.08.2024, the 36-year-old responded to questions from journalists, ahead of the competitive season.

After a great run of performances in the second half of the Bundesliga campaign earned him the Werder Player of the Season award, followed by a European Championship in which he made his mark, Romano Schmid finds himself in undoubtedly the best form of his young career. With weeks of hard work in pre-season under his belt, the Austrian is raring to go for the competitive campaign. It all starts in…

The supervisory board of the SV Werder Bremen GmbH & Co KG aA has made key decisions in order to ensure continuity amongst the executive team, agreeing long-term contract extensions with both Klaus Filbry and Anne-Kathrin Laufmann. Talks on an extension will also begin soon with Tarek Brauer, while the newest member of the four-person team, Clemens Fritz, has already been given a long-term…

New season, new number, new mission. For the first time in his time at SV Werder Bremen, Michael Zetterer is going into a new season as the club’s number 1. It’s a role that entails a certain amount of responsibility in the eyes of the Green-Whites’ goalkeeper. “I want to be a leader in the dressing room and also a point of contact for the boys when things aren’t going to plan,” explained the…

Werder Bremen have announced the club’s team council for the 2024/25 season. Michael Zetterer, Milos Veljkovic, Jens Stage, Niklas Stark and Leonardo Bittencourt will form a leadership team around club captain Marco Friedl over the course of the upcoming campaign.

After their first match of the afternoon ended in a 1-1 draw against Stade Rennais, SV Werder Bremen sent out a different side for their second clash with the French first-division side. After a hard-fought opening half, the hosts were able to take the lead through Benjamin Bourigeaud (48'). 

SV Werder Bremen drew 1-1 in the first of their two friendlies against French first-division side Stade Rennais on Saturday afternoon. Julian Malatini (13') opened the scoring for the Green-Whites, before Alan do Marcolino levelled it up for the hosts (35').

Mitchell Weiser signed a contract extension at Werder Bremen just before the final home match of last season. The full-back was in the mixed zone today as he looked ahead to the new season and reviewed how pre-season has gone so far, giving his thoughts on the Green-Whites' current status. 

Naby Keïta will not return to team training with the first-team squad, and will undertake an individual training programme instead. This decision followed a conversation between Naby, his agent, and the SV Werder Bremen sporting management team.