First-team news

The first friendly match of Werder’s training camp in Zillertal has been confirmed. The Green-Whites will take on English second-tier side Sheffield Wednesday on Friday, 26th July. The game against the four-time English champions will kick off at 14:00 CEST at the Parkstadion in Zell am Ziller.

This week, a class of Vietnamese students visited the Weserstadion and the WUSEUM. The students thoroughly enjoyed their time in Bremen, showing enthusiasm for Werder throughout. “The pupils love football and would love to come back,” says teacher Van Do.

The Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) announced the fixtures for the 2024/25 Bundesliga season on Thursday afternoon. SV Werder Bremen will open the season away at FC Augsburg on the weekend of 23rd to 25th August. The Green-Whites will play their first home game against Borussia Dortmund on the weekend of 30th August to 1st September.

Austria, featuring Werder duo Romano Schmid and Marco Grüll, have been eliminated from this summer’s European Championship. After sweeping aside a strong Netherlands team in their final game of the group stage, the Austrians were unable to repeat that performance in Leipzig on Tuesday evening, falling to a 2-1 loss against Türkiye. The result means that the remainder of the tournament will see no…

Werder’s Milos Veljkovic gave his all for Serbia until the very end of their European Championships journey, yet narrowly missed out on reaching the round of 16 in his first time competing at the tournament. “Unfortunately, we weren't able to pick up any points against Denmark and couldn’t get the ball over the line,” admitted the 28-year-old after the goalless draw. Nevertheless, Veljkovic was a…

The wohninvest WESERSTADION’s name will revert to simply the Weserstadion at the end of this month. Following the financial insolvency of the real estate group Wohninvest, all sponsorship agreements with the company are to be terminated on 30th June 2024.

Peter Niemeyer is now ten days into his new role as Werder Bremen’s head of professional football. Before the 40-year-old was presented to the media on Wednesday morning, he sat down with WERDER.DE to talk about all things Werder, the reasons for his move and his goals for the future.

Romano Schmid and Marco Grüll are through to the second round at EURO 2024 after a 3-2 win for Austria over the Netherlands, which saw the former score his first international goal. Group favourites France could only manage a draw against Poland in Dortmund, leaving Ralf Rangnick’s side as group winners. Elsewhere, Milos Veljkovic and Serbia were unable to progress in Group C.

Two of our globetrotting Green-Whites have been able to celebrate their first points of EURO 2024 in the last couple of days. Milos Veljkovic’s Serbia scored a last-gasp equaliser to rescue a draw against Slovenia, while Romano Schmid made a cameo appearance in Austria’s 3-1 victory over Poland.

Young talent Keke Topp is back in Bremen after spending three years at second-division side Schalke 04, where the 20-year-old forward got his first taste of senior football and gained valuable experience in the process. SVW’s new signing spoke to WERDER.DE about his development over the past few years and what made him decide to return to his former club.

SV Werder Bremen have made another addition to their squad for the upcoming season. After spending three years gaining valuable experience at second-division side Schalke 04, Keke Topp has put pen to paper on a deal with his former club ahead of the 2024/25 campaign. Werder’s managing director for sport Clemens Fritz announced the decision to sign the forward on Tuesday afternoon.

After finishing the 2023/24 Bundesliga campaign in ninth place, SV Werder Bremen narrowly missed out on a spot in Europe. In a season packed with soaring highs and crushing lows, there was no shortage of emotional moments for the Green-Whites and their supporters. With the campaign now firmly behind us, the fourth and final part of our season review takes a look back at some of 23/24's most…

Despite putting in strong performances to kick off this year’s tournament, both Milos Veljkovic’s Serbia and the Austrian side with Romano Schmid and summer signing Marco Grüll fell to narrow defeats in their opening matches of the European Championships. Serbia were beaten 1-0 by a strong England XI on Sunday evening, with the Austrians also losing by the same deficit against Didier Deschamps’…

On Monday, 17th June 2024, Peter Niemeyer took over as SV Werder Bremen’s new head of professional football. The 40-year-old, who has succeeded SVW's new managing director for sport Clemens Fritz in the role, most recently secured promotion to the second division as managing director for sport at Preußen Münster, but is now ready for his next chapter with the Green-Whites.

Werder defender Milos Veljkovic gets his European Championship campaign underway on Sunday, when his Serbia side face EURO 2020 runners-up England in Gelsenkirchen at 21:00 CEST. On Monday, a similarly tough task awaits Romano Schmid, SVW new boy Marco Grüll and the rest of the Austria team as they take on France (also 21:00 CEST).

After finishing the 2023/24 Bundesliga campaign in ninth place, SV Werder Bremen narrowly missed out on a spot in Europe. However, now that the summer break has begun, the Green-Whites can focus on the positives and take a look back at everything they achieved in the season just gone. After the first part of our review of the season looked at our headers and crossing and the second part at players…

The European Championship is just around the corner, and that’s not the only reason for Werder fans to be cheerful this week – forward Justin Njinmah has agreed an early extension to his contract with the Green-Whites. Clemens Fritz, SVW’s head of professional football, announced the news on Thursday.

The new season isn’t far away and preparations are in full swing. While most of the Werder players are enjoying a well-deserved holiday, Justin Njinmah has used the time off to think about his future, putting pen to paper on a new deal with the Green-Whites. Despite the summer break, he was still happy to sit down with WERDER.DE to discuss the extension, his new role in the team, excitement for…

The German Football Association (DFB) has confirmed the dates and times for the first round of the DFB-Pokal, which will see SV Werder Bremen tackle FC Energie Cottbus in their opening fixture of the 2024/25 season. The clash is set to be held on Monday, 19th August 2024 (18:00 CEST) at the LEAG Energie Stadion.

After finishing the 2023/24 Bundesliga campaign in ninth place, SV Werder Bremen narrowly missed out on a spot in Europe. However, now that the summer break has begun, the Green-Whites can focus on the positives and take a look back at everything they achieved in the season just gone. In the second part of our review of the campaign, we look at the players who scored their first SVW goals in…