2001–02 Bayer 04 Leverkusen season
| 2001–02 season | ||||
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| Manager | Klaus Toppmöller | |||
| Bundesliga | 2nd | |||
| DFB-Pokal | Runners-up | |||
| DFL-Ligapokal | Preliminary round | |||
| Champions League | Runners-up | |||
| Top goalscorer | League: Michael Ballack (17) All: Michael Ballack (23) | |||
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The 2001–02 season saw Bayer Leverkusen become the second club to finish runners-up in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and the Champions League in the same season after Barcelona in 1986, with a potential treble unravelling in the final couple of weeks of the season, resulting in no trophies won at all, plus the defections of stars Michael Ballack and Zé Roberto to Bayern Munich. Leverkusen dominated the second half of the Champions League final against Real Madrid, but lost 2–1 due to a volley from Zinedine Zidane in the latter stages of the first interval.