Why Werder Bremen's season really starts this weekend

For every club in the Bundesliga, the 2025/26 season started about a month ago. This past weekend was the league’s fifth matchday, and the standings are filling out quite nicely. You can already tell the quality of some sides.

However, for Werder Bremen, their campaign hasn’t really kicked off quite yet. That will finally happen this Saturday.

Die Werderaner were handed an absolutely brutal opening schedule.

Their first game was away to Eintracht Frankfurt, who ended last season in 3rd. They’re simply further ahead in their development as a team, and it showed as they ran out 4-1 winners. Bremen were then given an opponent one better, with runners-up Bayer Leverkusen coming to the Weserstadion. That game was a strange one, and the hosts managed to steal a point at the death.

Werder were given some respite when they got to travel to a struggling Borussia Mönchengladbach outfit. They made the most of the opportunity, blowing the opposition out 4-0. However, they were back to facing giants soon after.

Freiburg made a visit, and even though the final scoreline was quite harsh on the Green-Whites, they fell 0-3 to a team that’s more experienced at the moment. What horrors awaited the club next? Only a trip to the Allianz Arena to take on a Bayern Munich side that’s flying high. That match ended 4-0.

So, from the opening five games, Bremen played three sides in the Champions League and another team that’s in the Europa League. That’s a tough draw to say the very least, and most clubs would definitely struggle out the gate. While some of the performances should have been better, you can’t blame them too much for only securing four points.