Buy Werder Bremen tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into a club with four German championships, six cups and a European trophy that finished fifteenth last season on 32 points. Bremen sacked Horst Steffen on 1 February and appointed Daniel Thioune three days later, and the season ended two places above the relegation play-off. This is a big club in a small city having a difficult decade.
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None of that has softened the ticket market. Membership has climbed from 60,000 in March 2025 to roughly 68,000 by that November, the club has stated a target of 100,000 and there are about 18,000 people on the season ticket waiting list against a 42,100-capacity stadium. Season card prices rose 8.8 percent on average for this campaign and the renewal window still closed with the queue intact.
What that leaves is a ground that sells out for most fixtures and a general sale that receives very little. The Weserstadion holds 42,100 for league football, of which roughly 10,600 are standing places on the Ostkurve terrace, and it sits on the north bank of the Weser about a kilometre from the centre of Bremen. There is no European football this season, so the calendar is seventeen home league fixtures plus the DFB-Pokal.
Bremen's sale order runs the same way as most German clubs and produces a tighter result than most. Season card holders renewed by 22 June, the waiting list opened on 16 June and closed on 3 July, members bought in a priority window and general sale followed. With 18,000 people waiting for a card that does not exist yet, the residue reaching the public is small.
That is not a new condition at this club. The Weserstadion has been close to full through relegation, promotion and every position in between, because Bremen is a city of 570,000 with one football club and a support that extends across Lower Saxony and the north-west. Results move the mood here far more than they move the attendance.
Where the secondary market earns its place is in matching a specific date to a specific group. If you want four places together for the Hamburg fixture, or a Saturday rather than a Friday because of a flight into Bremen or Hannover, resale lets you see what several sellers hold in one view rather than refreshing a queue. For a visitor coming from outside Germany that certainty is worth more than the last few pounds on a face value that was never high.
1BoxOffice has been trading live event inventory since 2006, which puts close to two decades of completed transactions behind the listings on this page. The risk in resale is almost never the price. It is whether the barcode in your inbox opens a turnstile on the day, and for a ground that sells out most weeks there is no walk-up alternative if it does not.
Sellers here are verified before their stock goes live, and every confirmed order carries a guarantee that pays out at 150% if something fails. That multiple exists because a failed ticket costs the flight and the hotel as well as the ticket.
Bremen fill a 42,100-capacity stadium from a city of 570,000, which is a higher ratio than almost any comparable club in Germany manages. The catchment reaches across Lower Saxony and into the north-west generally, there is no rival club within an hour and the membership has grown by roughly eight thousand in a single year. The drivers below explain which fixtures tighten further.
The football itself has been poor for two seasons and it has not dented any of this. That is worth stating plainly, because it means the usual assumption that a struggling side is easier to watch does not hold at the Weserstadion.
The practical conclusion is that Bremen is a harder ground to get into than the league table suggests, and that the difficulty comes from structure rather than from form. Plan early, decide whether you want the terrace before you start looking and treat Hamburg, Bayern and Dortmund as a separate category needing months of notice.
Face value at Bremen sits in the middle of the Bundesliga range and rose this summer for the first time in a while. Season cards went up 8.8 percent on average, with the Ostkurve standing card climbing €8 to €230 and seated cards starting at €405, and the club attributed the rise to security and staffing costs rather than to demand. Single-match prices scale from those bands, and a terrace ticket for an ordinary fixture remains one of the more affordable ways into top-flight German football.
Resale ranges here move with three things. Opponent matters most, because the Nordderby and the visits of Bayern and Dortmund price in a different bracket from a Saturday against Augsburg. Position matters second, with the covered seated stands carrying a clear premium over the terrace and the corners. Timing matters third and it works against the buyer, because an 18,000-name waiting list means supply does not loosen as kick-off approaches.
The table gives typical resale ranges in pounds for 2026/27. Treat them as planning figures rather than quotations, because resale is a live market and the number shifts.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga standing (Ostkurve) | £20 – £65 |
| Bundesliga seated (standard fixtures) | £35 – £95 |
| Bundesliga high-demand fixtures | £70 – £200+ |
| DFB-Pokal | £25 – £85 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £190 – £450+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes. Membership at Bremen brings earlier access to sales rather than an exclusive right, and there is no ballot standing between the public and an ordinary fixture. What membership does not bring is a season card, which is why 18,000 people are on a waiting list that opened for eighteen days in June and closed again.
For mid-table opponents on a Saturday afternoon, general sale still delivers. Places reach it and they are buyable, though they clear within days rather than sitting available for weeks. The Ostkurve terrace is the exception and rarely reaches open sale for any fixture, because it is both the least expensive and the most wanted part of the ground.
For the Nordderby, Bayern and Dortmund, resale is the realistic route for anyone outside the membership. Season card holders who cannot attend release their places and those places carry no eligibility condition whatsoever. Joining is worth it if you live in the region and intend to go regularly. For a single trip it will not help you in time, and you do not need it.
Bremen's season card base renews at close to the maximum every year and the waiting list has become a structural feature rather than a temporary condition. The 2026/27 renewal window closed on 22 June, the waiting list ran from 16 June to 3 July and roughly 18,000 people remain on it. The club puts the saving on a season card at up to 25 percent against buying match by match, which is why nobody gives one up voluntarily.
For a buyer the consequence is a resale pool that exists but does not stretch. A 42,100-capacity ground produces more weekly releases than a small one, so there is genuine liquidity, particularly in the seated stands. What there is very little of is terrace stock, and what there is goes quickly.
| Season Card Type | Typical Price (2026/27) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Standing, Ostkurve | €230, about £195 | Blocks 22 to 27 behind the goal, home of the loudest support. Up €8 on last season and still under €14 a match. Effectively unobtainable new. |
| Seated, entry level | From €405, about £345 | The lowest seated band across the corners and the outer sections of the long stands. The most commonly held card. |
| Seated, long sides | Higher bands on application | North and south stand positions with a full-length view. Priced by proximity to the halfway line. |
| Business and box seats | Quoted per season | Eighty boxes holding around 850 places between them, concentrated on the south side, with annual box rentals running well into five figures. |
| Concessions | Reduced across categories | Children, students, apprentices and holders of a severe disability pass qualify for reduced rates. |
Season card figures are the club's published 2026/27 bands with approximate pound conversions and may change between campaigns.
The Weserstadion is a closed bowl of four stands with two curves, all of it under cover, which matters more in Bremen than it would further south. The athletics track came out during the 2008 to 2012 rebuild, the pitch was sunk by 2.1 metres and the ends were rebuilt parallel to the goal lines, so the sightlines are modern despite the ground having been in continuous use since 1947.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ostkurve, blocks 22 to 27 | Atmosphere | Lowest | The standing terrace behind the goal and the source of everything you hear. Roughly 10,600 standing places in the ground, most of them here. Unreserved, and fully covered, which is not a small consideration in a north German winter. |
| Nordtribüne | Sightline and comfort | High | The long side rebuilt with 1,010 premium places in 2024, offering a full-length view of the pitch and the most recent facilities in the ground. |
| Südtribüne | Premium and hospitality | Highest | The opposite touchline, carrying most of the eighty boxes and the corporate provision. Also where the away section now begins, at the corner with the Westkurve. |
| Westkurve | Value and availability | Lower to middle | The end opposite the terrace, seated, sharing that corner of the ground with the visiting supporters. Usually the last area with stock for busy fixtures. |
| Away section | Visiting supporters | Set by the visiting club | Relocated in 2024 to a wedge between the south stand and the west curve, including block 35, across upper and lower tiers. Reducible in three stages depending on the opponent. |
| Accessible positions | Wheelchair users | Reduced | A dedicated accessible level with around 120 places and companion seating. Book through the club's access team well in advance given the demand. |
One structural point in the buyer's favour. Every place in this ground is covered, which is unusual for a stadium of this age and genuinely useful between November and March on the North Sea side of Germany.
Bremen take a substantial following on the road and the away allocation sells consistently, which follows from a membership approaching seventy thousand against a home ground that cannot accommodate them. Geography is the constraint rather than appetite: Bremen sits in the far north-west and most Bundesliga away days are long.
Hamburg is the exception and the one that matters, an hour up the road and the fixture that defines the season for a lot of people. Wolfsburg and Hannover are manageable. Everything south of Dortmund is a full day or an overnight.
| Away Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Typical allocation | German league rules provide visiting clubs with up to 10 percent of capacity, ranging from around 3,000 at the smaller grounds to more than 7,000 at Signal Iduna Park. Bremen routinely take the full quota for the northern trips. |
| Where you will be | A segregated block behind a goal or in a corner, with a standing section at grounds that retain terracing. Bremen supporters will generally take the standing option where one exists. |
| Access requirements | No fan card is needed for standard Bundesliga away fixtures. Some clubs restrict sales for designated high-risk games to their own registered supporters, which is where resale becomes the practical route. |
| Transport | Many German match tickets include regional public transport on the day, though the scheme varies by federal state. From Bremen most southern away fixtures are four hours or more, so check whether an overnight beats a same-day return. |
| Timing on the day | Away sections open earlier and empty later than home stands, and visiting supporters can be held inside for 15 to 30 minutes after high-profile fixtures. The Hamburg trip in particular carries a heavy policing operation. |
In a covered bowl with no running track and no restricted views, the choice is about the kind of afternoon you want rather than about whether you will see the game. The table matches the common priorities to the part of the ground that serves them.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Best atmosphere | Ostkurve, standing | Ten thousand people behind the goal setting the songs for the whole ground, covered, at the lowest prices in the building. Also the hardest area to get into at this club. |
| Best view | Nordtribüne, central | Halfway line on the long side, rebuilt in 2024, with the cleanest line across the pitch and the newest facilities behind it. |
| Family-friendly | Westkurve or the outer long-stand blocks | Seated, covered and away from both the terrace and the away corner, with straightforward concourse access and reduced pricing for children. |
| Premium experience | South stand boxes or business seats | Eighty boxes and around 850 box places, plus lounge provision including a skylounge that holds up to 199 people. Catering, parking and a warm room. |
| Lower-priced option | Westkurve upper or corner blocks | Seated positions at the end furthest from the terrace, which hold their stock longest and cost noticeably less than the long sides. |
The Weserstadion sits at Franz-Böhmert-Straße 1, on the north bank of the Weser, about a kilometre from the centre of Bremen. That location is the single most unusual thing about it. Almost every ground of this size in Germany is out of town on a ring road, and this one is a twenty-minute walk along the Osterdeich embankment from a UNESCO-listed market square. Seats at the Weserstadion are in the city rather than beside it.
Werder have played here since 1947 and the ground has been rebuilt repeatedly around them, most substantially between 2008 and 2012 at a cost of around €76.5 million. That project sank the pitch by 2.1 metres, lengthened the long stands, demolished both ends and rebuilt them parallel to the goal lines, removing the last of the old athletics track and adding roughly eight thousand places. The façade was then wrapped in photovoltaic panels, which makes the exterior look like nothing else in the Bundesliga after dark.
Capacity is 42,100 for league football, of which roughly 31,500 are seats and 10,600 are standing. For matches played under all-seated competition rules the figure falls to 37,441. Every place in the ground is covered, which in Bremen is a feature rather than a detail.
The four sides are the Nordtribüne and Südtribüne along the touchlines and the Ostkurve and Westkurve behind the goals. The Ostkurve is the terrace and the heart of it, blocks 22 to 27, and the Südtribüne carries most of the corporate provision including eighty boxes. Away supporters were moved in 2024 into a wedge-shaped section between the south stand and the west curve, taking in block 35 and part of the west upper tier, an arrangement that can be shrunk in three stages depending on the visiting club.
The name is worth a paragraph of its own. Werder sold naming rights to wohninvest in 2019, the sponsor collapsed and the deal ended in June 2024, after which rather than find a replacement the club arranged for four existing partners to take one floodlight each. That agreement, announced in August 2025, secures the name Weserstadion through to at least 2030. It is the only case in the division of a club turning down naming-rights money specifically so the ground could keep the name supporters use.
Getting there is simple. Trams 10 and 11 run from Bremen Hauptbahnhof to the stadium in about fifteen minutes, the match ticket doubles as a pass on the BSAG network on the day and the walk from the Altstadt along the river takes twenty minutes and is the better option in decent weather. There is almost no parking at the ground itself; the Bürgerweide car park at €5 to €8 with a tram connection is the sensible alternative. If you want to see how the blocks relate to one another before buying, the Weserstadion seating plan maps the four stands and the terrace.
Before the match, the Viertel district east of the centre is where most people end up, and the Osterdeich itself fills with people walking down in both directions. Bremen is a Hanseatic city with a beer tradition of its own and a compact old town, and the ground being inside it rather than outside is why a matchday here works as a weekend in a way that a trip to most modern German stadiums does not.
Hospitality at Bremen is extensive for a club of this size, which reflects both the ground's rebuild and the corporate base of a Hanseatic trading city. There are eighty boxes holding around 850 places between them, a further 1,010 premium seats in the north stand rebuilt in 2024 and a skylounge accommodating up to 199 people.
The practical case for it here is the weather as much as the catering. A February evening on the Weser is cold and wet, and while every place in the ground is covered, covered is not the same as warm. For a Saturday in August the terrace at a fraction of the price is the better purchase and nobody in Bremen would tell you otherwise.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Business seat | Padded long-stand seat with lounge access before and after the match, catering and a dedicated entrance. | £190 – £320 per person |
| Premium north stand seat | One of the 1,010 places in the section rebuilt in 2024, with upgraded facilities and catering behind the stand. | £220 – £360 per person |
| Box place | A seat within one of the eighty boxes on the south side, with in-box service and catering. | £300 – £550 per person |
| Full box hire | Exclusive use of a box for a group across a season or a single fixture, catering arranged to requirements. | Quoted per fixture or season |
| Skylounge place | Access to the lounge holding up to 199 people, with a buffet, bar and a seated match ticket. | £160 – £280 per person |
Hospitality ranges reflect typical package and resale pricing and may change with fixture category and availability.
The sequence below takes a few minutes and removes most of the ways a resale purchase goes wrong. The habit that matters is reading the listing notes in full, because that is where delivery method, timing and any identification requirement are set out.
Step1
Open the exact fixture
Use the home and away lists at the bottom of this page to reach the match you want. Each fixture has its own page with its own listings, so you are seeing supply for that date rather than for the club in general.
Step2
Set up your account first
You can create an account before or during checkout. Having your details stored in advance matters for the Hamburg fixture and the visits of Bayern and Dortmund, where good listings move within hours.
Step3
Decide terrace or seat early
Around 10,600 of the 42,100 places are standing and almost all of them sit in the Ostkurve. If you want the terrace, filter for it at the start rather than discovering later that only seats remain.
Step4
Filter by quantity before price
If you need three or four places together, set that filter first. Sorting by price and then finding the listing holds two is the commonest wasted step, and split seats in a 42,100-capacity bowl can be a long way apart.
Step5
Read the listing notes properly
The notes state the delivery method, the expected timing, whether the ticket carries a name and which part of the ground it admits you to. Two listings at the same price can be very different afternoons depending on whether they are Ostkurve or Westkurve.
Step6
Compare on the checkout total
The final figure includes any service and delivery charges, so judge listings on that rather than the headline. A slightly dearer listing with a faster and more certain delivery route is usually the better purchase.
Step7
Pay and confirm
Enter your payment details on the encrypted checkout page and confirm the order. An order reference and confirmation email arrive immediately, and the 150% guarantee applies from that moment rather than from delivery.
Step8
Follow it through to delivery
Use track order with your reference to see where the ticket is. German clubs commonly release digital tickets in the final week before kick-off, so a quiet stretch after purchase is routine rather than a warning sign.
After that the work is logistical. Note that your match ticket covers the BSAG network on the day, allow twenty minutes if you plan to walk along the Osterdeich and arrive early if you have a terrace place.
Werder Bremen tickets are difficult across a wider range of fixtures than the league position suggests, but some categories go faster than others. The table sets out which and why.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Hamburger SV, the Nordderby | The oldest rivalry in northern German football, restored to the Bundesliga by HSV's promotion. Both sets of supporters treat it as the season's defining fixture and it sells out immediately in every category. |
| Bayern Munich | The guaranteed full house at every ground in Germany, with the added detail that Bremen have taken four championships off the same era of German football and remember doing it. |
| Borussia Dortmund | The largest travelling support in the country taking a full allocation, with home demand rising alongside it. A certain sell-out whatever either side's form. |
| Schalke and the promoted clubs | Schalke return after three seasons away with a following larger than the away section can hold, and Elversberg are in the top flight for the first time. Novelty generates its own demand. |
| Ostkurve standing places | Around 10,600 terrace places at €230 for a full season, almost entirely held by season card holders. These rarely reach general sale for any fixture, which is why resale matters if you want to stand. |
German football has moved almost entirely to digital delivery and Bremen are no exception, though resale listings cover several formats depending on how the original ticket was issued. The listing notes tell you which applies before you commit.
Whichever applies, read the notes before you commit. They set out the method, the expected timing and any identification requirement, and they are the difference between walking straight in and standing outside a sold-out ground.
Gates open two hours before kick-off. If you have a place on the Ostkurve this is not optional advice, because the terrace is unreserved and the ground worth having goes to whoever walks in first. Supporters who want to be near the front are inside well over an hour before the match.
There is a second and more enjoyable reason here than at most grounds. The walk from the Altstadt along the Osterdeich takes twenty minutes beside the river and it is the finest part of the day when the weather cooperates. Trams 10 and 11 do the same trip in fifteen minutes and run at capacity in the final half hour, so the walk is often quicker as well as better.
Standard Bundesliga fixtures do not require photographic identification. The Hamburg fixture and any other match designated high-risk can attract additional conditions, and name-bound tickets exist for certain categories, in which case the listing will state the requirement and you should carry the document named on it.
Mobile entry is the default. Add the pass to your wallet before you leave the city centre rather than at the gate, keep the phone charged and take a screenshot as insurance. If you are arriving as a group for the terrace, travel together rather than agreeing to meet inside, because you cannot hold a spot for anyone.
Bags larger than A4 format are refused and the rule is applied at the outer perimeter rather than at the turnstile, so arriving with a rucksack means walking back toward the city to find somewhere to leave it. The ground's central location helps here more than it does at most stadiums, but storage on a matchday is still limited.
Prohibited items follow the standard German list: bottles, cans, flares, poles, professional camera equipment and anything usable as a projectile. Travel out with nothing bigger than a small shoulder bag and entry takes seconds.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e.V. |
| Founded | 4 February 1899 |
| Nicknames | Die Werderaner, Die Grün-Weißen (The Green-Whites) |
| Stadium | Weserstadion, capacity 42,100 including around 10,600 standing places |
| All-seated capacity | 37,441 for matches played under all-seated competition rules |
| Head coach | Daniel Thioune, appointed 4 February 2026 |
| Captain | Marco Friedl |
| League | Bundesliga |
| Members | Approaching 70,000, up from 60,000 in March 2025 |
Werder Bremen were one of the three or four most successful clubs in German football for thirty years and they have spent the past fifteen falling out of that group. Four championships, six German cups and a European trophy sit alongside a relegation in 2021 and a fifteenth-place finish last season. The history is not decoration here, it is the reason the crowds keep coming.
The founding story is true and it is the kind of thing most clubs would invent: a group of teenagers who won a football in a tug-of-war and needed somewhere to use it. What followed was seven decades of steady growth, a first cup in 1961 and then a Bundesliga title in 1964/65, the second season of the new competition, with a side built on defensive discipline that conceded fewer goals than anyone.
The 1970s were less kind and ended in relegation, which Werder answered with an immediate second-division title in 1980/81. What nobody could have predicted was that the man appointed shortly afterwards would stay for fourteen years and rebuild the club entirely.
Rehhagel arrived in 1981 and stayed fourteen years, which was extraordinary then and is close to unthinkable now. His teams played what he called kontrollierte Offensive, controlled attacking, and they turned a provincial northern club into a permanent title contender: three runners-up finishes, two championships, two cups and the club's only European trophy.
The Cup Winners' Cup final of 6 May 1992 remains the high point. Bremen beat Monaco 2-0 at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon through goals from Klaus Allofs and Wynton Rufer, in front of sixteen thousand people in a stadium built for far more. It is still the only continental trophy in the cabinet and the only European final Werder have won.
Schaaf had played his entire career at the club, took over in 1999 and won the cup within months. Five years later he produced the double, a championship and a cup in the same season, with a side built around Ailton, Johan Micoud and a young Miroslav Klose that scored more than anyone in the division.
The 2009 season was the last great run. Werder reached the UEFA Cup final in Istanbul, lost 2-1 to Shakhtar Donetsk in extra time after Naldo had equalised from a free kick, then won the DFB-Pokal a week later. Diego, Mesut Özil and Claudio Pizarro all played in that side. Between them, Rehhagel and Schaaf managed this club for twenty-eight of the thirty-two years from 1981 to 2013.
The thirteen years since Schaaf have been the hardest in the club's modern history. Bremen survived the 2020 play-off on away goals against Heidenheim, went down the following season for the first time in forty years, came straight back up as second-division runners-up and then spent two seasons stabilising in mid-table under Ole Werner, who left for RB Leipzig in 2025.
Last season undid a lot of that. Horst Steffen was appointed on 29 May 2025 from Elversberg and dismissed on 1 February after declining to extend his contract, with the club fifteenth. Daniel Thioune took over three days later and secured survival on 32 points, two places clear of the relegation play-off. He begins his first full season with the same squad and considerably more room to work with.
Two managers account for twenty-eight of the thirty-two years between 1981 and 2013, along with almost every trophy in the building. The players below are the ones those two built around.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otto Rehhagel | Head coach, 1981 to 1995 | Fourteen years that turned a recently relegated northern club into a permanent title contender, playing what he called controlled attacking football. Delivered two championships, two cups and the only European trophy the club has won, along with three runners-up finishes in four seasons during the mid-1980s. | Bundesliga 1988 and 1993, DFB-Pokal 1991 and 1994, Cup Winners' Cup 1992 |
| Thomas Schaaf | Player 1978 to 1995, head coach 1999 to 2013 | Spent his entire playing career at the club and then matched Rehhagel's fourteen years in the dugout, winning the cup within months of taking over. The 2004 double is the most recent championship Bremen have won and the side that did it scored more goals than anyone in the division. | The 2003/04 double, DFB-Pokal 1999 and 2009, UEFA Cup final 2009 |
| Dieter Burdenski | Goalkeeper, 1972 to 1987 | Fifteen years in goal across the relegation of 1980, the immediate return and the first years of the Rehhagel side, making more appearances than anyone in the club's history. A West Germany international who stayed north when he could have moved. | Club record appearance holder with 581 games |
| Claudio Pizarro | Forward, 1999 to 2001, 2008 to 2012 and 2015 to 2020 | Three separate spells across two decades, scoring more goals for this club than anyone has managed. Left twice for Bayern, came back both times and finished his career here at forty-one as the oldest goalscorer in Bundesliga history. | Club record goalscorer with 143 goals |
| Klaus Allofs | Forward, 1990 to 1993 | Arrived at thirty-three and scored the opening goal in the Cup Winners' Cup final in Lisbon, the most important goal in the club's European history. Later returned as sporting director and rebuilt the squad that reached the 2009 UEFA Cup final. | Scored in the 1992 Cup Winners' Cup final, later sporting director |
| Miroslav Klose | Forward, 2004 to 2007 | Signed from Kaiserslautern immediately after the double and scored the goals that produced two runners-up finishes, becoming Bundesliga top scorer in 2005/06 before leaving for Bayern. Later the leading scorer in World Cup history. | Bundesliga top scorer 2005/06, World Cup record scorer |
| Diego | Midfielder, 2006 to 2009 | Three seasons of the most inventive football this ground has seen since the Rehhagel era, carrying Bremen to the 2009 UEFA Cup final and the cup win that followed it. Sold to Juventus that summer, he was never fully replaced. | UEFA Cup final 2009, DFB-Pokal 2009 |
Werder are among the most decorated clubs in German football, and the count is worth setting out precisely because it is often understated. Four Bundesliga championships, six German cups and a European trophy, plus a long list of near-misses that includes seven league runners-up finishes and four lost cup finals.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga | 4 (1964/65, 1987/88, 1992/93, 2003/04) |
| DFB-Pokal | 6 (1960/61, 1990/91, 1993/94, 1998/99, 2003/04, 2008/09) |
| European Cup Winners' Cup | 1 (1991/92) |
| DFL-Supercup | 3 (1988, 1993, 1994), plus a 2009 edition not counted in the record books |
| DFL-Ligapokal | 1 (2006) |
| 2. Bundesliga | 1 (1980/81) |
| UEFA Cup | 0 (runners-up 2008/09) |
| Bundesliga runners-up | 7 (1967/68, 1982/83, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1994/95, 2005/06, 2007/08) |
The runners-up column is the one that defines this club as much as the wins. Seven second places, four lost cup finals and a European final lost in extra time. Bremen have been very good more often than they have been champions, which is a particular kind of history to carry.
Werder's rivalries are regional and one of them is among the oldest and most bitter in Germany. All three below are live this season, which has not been true for several years.
The Nordderby, and also the fixture that defines the season for both clubs. Bremen and Hamburg are separated by an hour of motorway and by a rivalry that has run since the 1920s, sharpened by the two clubs spending the 1980s competing for the same championships. It fell out of the Bundesliga when Hamburg were relegated in 2018 and returned with their promotion, which means a whole generation of supporters at both clubs has now seen it in the league for the first time. It is the hardest ticket Bremen sell and neither set of supporters treats it as an ordinary fixture.
The other northern derby, currently played only when the cup draw allows it because Hannover have spent recent years in the second division. The two cities are a hundred and twenty kilometres apart and the rivalry is regional rather than historic, but it carries genuine hostility and both clubs' supporter groups have long memories. A cup meeting between them requires a policing operation out of proportion to the fixture's league significance.
Not a rivalry between equals now, but it was for two decades. Bremen's championships of 1988, 1993 and 2004 were all won at Bayern's expense in seasons when the Munich club expected to win, and the two met in three domestic cup finals across the same period. The 2004 double in particular was a direct rebuke to an assumption about where German titles are won. Both sets of supporters remember it, which is why an ordinary visit from the champions carries more weight here than the recent scorelines justify.
The 1992 Cup Winners' Cup final in Lisbon is the only European trophy Werder have won and the only European final they have won. Klaus Allofs opened the scoring and Wynton Rufer added the second in a 2-0 victory at the Estádio da Luz on 6 May, watched by only sixteen thousand people in a stadium built for eight times that. The sparse crowd has become part of the story rather than a footnote to it, and the trophy is the one thing in the cabinet nobody else in this part of Germany can match.
The 2009 UEFA Cup final in Istanbul was the closest Bremen have come to a second European trophy. Luiz Adriano put Shakhtar ahead, Naldo equalised from a free kick and Jádson settled it in extra time for a 2-1 defeat on 20 May. It was the last final of the UEFA Cup before it became the Europa League, and it remains the most recent European final of any kind that this club has reached.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Second in the 2. Bundesliga and immediate promotion under Ole Werner, who took over in November with the club drifting and lost only twice in the second half of the campaign. A single season out of the top flight after the first relegation in forty years, achieved with a squad that had barely changed from the one that went down. |
| 2022/23 | Thirteenth on 36 points in the season back up, which was the target rather than a disappointment. Niclas Füllkrug scored sixteen in the league and finished joint top scorer in the Bundesliga, which for a promoted side was the outcome nobody had forecast. Survival was secured with several weeks to spare. |
| 2023/24 | Ninth on 42 points, the club's best finish since returning and a season of genuine consolidation. Werner had the side organised and difficult to beat at home, and the Weserstadion sold out repeatedly for fixtures that carried nothing at stake. The DFB-Pokal produced nothing of note. |
| 2024/25 | Eighth on 51 points, the highest total since 2018 and the closest Bremen have come to European qualification since the relegation. Werner left for RB Leipzig at the end of the campaign after four years, which turned out to matter more than the points total suggested at the time. |
| 2025/26 | Fifteenth on 32 points from eight wins, eight draws and eighteen defeats, two places above the relegation play-off. Horst Steffen arrived from Elversberg on 29 May and was dismissed on 1 February after declining to extend his contract, with Daniel Thioune appointed on 4 February. The DFB-Pokal ended in the first round on 15 August against Eintracht Frankfurt. |
Thioune starts his first full season with a squad that needs more from itself than last season produced and with Niclas Füllkrug back at the club on loan from West Ham. Marco Friedl captains from the back, Mitchell Weiser and Amos Pieper anchor a defence that conceded 54 last season while Karl Hein continues in goal on loan from Arsenal. Values below are approximate market valuations converted to pounds and shift with form, age and contract length.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karl Hein (on loan) | Goalkeeper | 4.0m |
| 2 | Olivier Deman | Defender | 3.5m |
| 4 | Niklas Stark | Defender | 1.5m |
| 5 | Amos Pieper | Defender | 5.0m |
| 6 | Jens Stage | Midfielder | 4.5m |
| 7 | Samuel Mbangula | Midfielder | 11.0m |
| 8 | Mitchell Weiser | Defender | 4.0m |
| 9 | Keke Topp | Forward | 7.0m |
| 10 | Niclas Füllkrug (on loan) | Forward | 7.5m |
| 11 | Justin Njinmah | Forward | 6.5m |
| 14 | Senne Lynen | Midfielder | 7.0m |
| 15 | Ludovit Reis | Midfielder | 5.0m |
| 17 | Marco Grüll | Forward | 4.0m |
| 18 | Eren Dinkçi (on loan) | Midfielder | 5.5m |
| 20 | Chuki | Midfielder | 3.0m |
| 21 | Dawid Kownacki | Forward | 2.5m |
| 22 | Julián Malatini | Defender | 4.0m |
| 24 | Patrice Čović | Midfielder | 2.0m |
| 26 | Cedric Itten | Forward | 3.0m |
| 27 | Felix Agu | Defender | 2.5m |
| 28 | Skelly Alvero | Midfielder | 6.0m |
| 30 | Alexander Schlager | Goalkeeper | 2.0m |
| 32 | Marco Friedl (captain) | Defender | 7.0m |
Market values are approximate, drawn from public valuation data and rounded. They indicate squad structure rather than transfer fees paid or received.
Demand at Bremen has never tracked results. Membership rose from 60,000 in March 2025 to around 68,000 that November, and roughly 18,000 people sit on a season ticket waiting list against a 42,100-capacity ground. Form moves the mood here, not the attendance.
Around 10,600 of the 42,100 places are terracing, almost all of it in the Ostkurve behind one goal in blocks 22 to 27. Those places are unreserved, so arrival time decides where you end up, and note that the whole ground is covered.
The away section was relocated in 2024 to a wedge-shaped area between the south stand and the west curve, taking in block 35 and part of the west upper tier. It can be reduced in three stages depending on how many the visiting club needs.
Trams 10 and 11 run from the main station to the stadium in about fifteen minutes, and your match ticket doubles as a pass on the BSAG network that day. The walk along the Osterdeich from the old town takes twenty minutes and is often quicker on a busy matchday.
No, and that is deliberate. After the previous naming deal ended in June 2024, four existing partners each took one of the four floodlights instead, an arrangement announced in August 2025 that keeps the name Weserstadion in place through to at least 2030.
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Sources: SV Werder Bremen official club website for season ticket pricing, membership figures, coaching appointments and stadium information, the Bremer Weser-Stadion operator for capacity, stand layout and hospitality data, the Deutsche Fußball Liga and Bundesliga.
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