""It's an honour to be entrusted with a team like this. After outstanding successes in the past, I am now very motivated to help shape the future of Bayer 04 Leverkusen with both established and exciting new players.""
""We are delighted to have brought in Kasper Hjulmand, whose work we have followed closely over a long period of time. His assistant coach with Denmark, Ismael Camenforte, also worked for us for several years. Kasper even recommended Ismael to us at the time. As a result, his training methods are well known to us at the club, and Kasper also knows our club very well from the last few years. He will now work with our team to re-establish a clear and proactive style of play. Kasper is the right man to develop our new Werkself side into a top team that will strive to achieve the most ambitious national and international goals.""
Kasper Hjulmand has been appointed head coach of Bayer Leverkusen at age 53, succeeding Erik ten Hag after the Dutchman was sacked following two Bundesliga games. Hjulmand led Denmark from 2020 to 2024, guided the national team to the Euro 2020 semi-finals (losing 2-1 after extra time to England), and resigned after Denmark's round-of-16 exit to Germany at Euro 2024. Hjulmand has prior Bundesliga experience, taking over as Mainz head coach for the 2014-15 season from Thomas Tuchel. Hjulmand expressed honour and motivation to shape Leverkusen's future with established and new players. Sporting director Simon Rolfes highlighted Hjulmand's familiar training methods and aims to re-establish a clear, proactive style of play. Leverkusen made 16 summer signings.
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