Bayer Leverkusen DLS Kit URL – Dream League Soccer 2026-2027

A Leverkusen DLS kits URL is a direct link to a 512×512 PNG Bayer 04 Leverkusen shirt that you can import into Dream League Soccer. All four kit slots are listed below, and every image has been loaded into the game before being added to this page.

New Balance has produced five shirts for Leverkusen for the 2026/27 season. One of those designs has a feature that no DLS kit file can fully recreate. The problem isn’t image resolution or texture quality — it’s the way the game uses a single image for every player.

Why Can’t the Away Kit Work Properly in DLS?

Every real away shirt is slightly different, but a DLS kit file can only show one design.

New Balance built Leverkusen’s 2026/27 away kit around Farbenstadt, the club’s nickname meaning “City of Colours.” The name reflects Leverkusen’s connection with Bayer AG and its dye and chemical manufacturing history.

The shirt features a luminous Terrarium base with flowing marbled graphics in Light Surf, Faded Teal and Deep Sea. The colours draw inspiration from Bayer’s laboratories, while the patterns across the shoulders and sleeves represent chemical reactions.

New Balance also introduced an unusual detail: the shoulder pattern varies slightly from one jersey to another, making every shirt unique.

One Kit File Means One Appearance

Dream League Soccer applies a single 512×512 image to all eleven outfield players. It has no built-in feature for giving each player a slightly different version of the same shirt.

That means a design created so that no two jerseys look exactly alike becomes eleven identical copies once imported into the game.

This is different from the usual limitations caused by compression, fine details or poor alignment. The problem is the format itself: one file produces one appearance for the entire team.

What to expect: your team will wear one version of the marbled design. The shirt can still look accurate, but the individual differences that make the real jerseys special will be lost.

The Marbled Pattern Still Looks Good

There is some good news. The away kit’s marbling is well suited to DLS, even if the game cannot reproduce the unique pattern on every shirt.

Marbling uses large, irregular shapes rather than small repeating details. There are no strict lines or fixed gaps that need to line up perfectly, so minor alignment issues are less noticeable. The broad flowing shapes also tend to survive image compression better than fine markings.

The cross motifs inspired by the Bayer Cross are a different story. They are more subtle and woven into the artwork using jacquard, so they may become difficult to see in the game.

Five Kits, but Only Three Outfield Slots

Leverkusen has five designs for the 2026/27 season, which is more than Dream League Soccer can accommodate at once.

Kit

Design

Release date

Home

Black with two thick red stripes

June 2026

Away

Terrarium base with marbled graphics

8 July 2026

Third

White with a woven lion pattern

11 August 2026

European

Black with tonal diagonal bands

August 2026

Special

Dream League Soccer provides home, away and third-kit slots, along with a separate goalkeeper kit.

My recommendation is to use the home kit as your main choice because it represents the club well and translates cleanly into the game. The away kit is the most visually distinctive, even though its unique jersey variations cannot be reproduced. For the third slot, the white third kit is a better choice than the European design because its main colours remain clearer in DLS.

You can change your kits after the first unlock without paying again, so you can swap in the European shirt for continental matches whenever you like.

Home Kit — The Most Reliable Design for DLS

Released in June 2026, Leverkusen’s home shirt takes inspiration from the architecture of the BayArena.

It has a predominantly black base with two thick, striking red stripes running down the front. The sleeves and collar are solid black, matching the black shorts and socks.

This is one of the easiest designs to reproduce accurately in Dream League Soccer. The main elements are bold and uncomplicated:

Simple vertical alignment: the two wide stripes need to sit correctly on the shirt template.

Strong contrast: bright red stands out clearly against black, even after compression.

No complicated tonal effects: the design does not depend on subtle shades to remain recognisable.

As a result, almost any properly prepared 512×512 image should produce a convincing Leverkusen home kit.

Why “WERKSELF” Won’t Be Visible

The back of the collar features the club nickname WERKSELF in red, positioned above bold BAYER 04 lettering.

Unfortunately, this detail sits near the top edge of the shirt panel in the kit template, tucked beneath the collar. It is also one of the least visible areas on the in-game player model, meaning the lettering is unlikely to remain readable at normal match distance.

Other kits have similar problems with text placed inside or behind the collar. Examples include Norway’s “Norge,” the Netherlands’ “Oranje” and Indonesia’s national motto.

Third and European Kits — Why Their Patterns Lose Detail

Both designs rely on subtle visual elements, but they lose detail for different reasons.

Third Kit — The Woven Lion Pattern

Released on 11 August 2026, the third kit is called “Made in Lev.”

Its design combines a clean white base with black and red highlights. A delicate woven pattern inspired by the Leverkusen coat of arms runs across the shirt, featuring subtle lion motifs.

The challenge is that woven patterns are created through the structure of the fabric rather than printed directly onto its surface. On a real shirt, light catches the raised and recessed threads, making the pattern visible. A flat image cannot fully reproduce that effect.

Because the base is white and the lion pattern is deliberately subtle, much of this detail may disappear when the kit is imported into DLS.

What to expect: a mostly white shirt with black and red trim. The highlights will do most of the work, so check their accuracy when choosing a file.

European Kit — Black, Diagonal Bands and Silver Details

Released in late August 2026, the European kit celebrates four decades of continental competition and takes inspiration from classic Bayer 04 shirts worn on European nights.

The design features a sleek black base, tonal diagonal bands across the front and silver accents.

Two issues make this shirt harder to reproduce accurately.

First, tonal patterns on black are difficult to preserve. Black is already at the darkest end of the colour range, leaving little room for subtle variations. The diagonal bands can therefore blend into the base and become difficult to distinguish.

Second, silver details need highlights and shadows to look metallic. When those gradients are compressed into a small image, the silver can lose its reflective appearance and become ordinary grey.

What to expect: a predominantly black shirt with grey accents and less visible diagonal detailing.

Is the Black Shirt with Diagonal Stripes the Third Kit?

No. The black shirt with diagonal bands is the European kit, not the third kit.

The confusion began with an early leak that described Leverkusen’s third shirt as a black design with light grey diagonal stripes. That leaked version was also said to feature a crest showing only the right half of the older TSV Bayer 04 logo, without the Bayer Cross.

The released third kit is actually white. The black shirt with diagonal bands belongs to the European collection.

Some kit files based on the early leak may still be labelled incorrectly. Before importing a shirt, use this simple check:

White shirt: the released third kit.

Black shirt with diagonal bands: the European kit.

What Number Colours Work Best on Leverkusen Kits?

Dream League Soccer controls shirt and shorts number colours through two small colour swatches on the kit template. It does not automatically pick the number colour from the image you import.

Here are the recommended colours for each design:

Home: white numbers against the black shirt. Red numbers could disappear into the red stripes.

Away: dark navy or black numbers against the pale marbled background.

Third: black or red numbers to match the shirt’s highlights. White numbers would be difficult to see on white.

European: white or silver numbers against the black base. White generally provides clearer visibility at the small size used in the game.

Make sure you set the shirt-number and shorts-number swatches separately.

How Visible Are Leverkusen Kits on the Pitch?

The home kit is the easiest to recognise during a match.

Players appear relatively small in Dream League Soccer, so a kit’s visibility depends partly on how strongly its colours contrast with the green pitch.

The home shirt’s black base and two thick red stripes provide strong contrast with the grass. The bold vertical design also makes the team easy to identify at match distance.

The white third kit is clearly separated from the pitch as well, while the black European shirt remains easy to distinguish.

The away kit is the least striking from a distance. Its luminous pale base and teal-blue marbling create a softer overall appearance, and much of the pattern is concentrated around the shoulders and sleeves rather than the main body.

How to Check Whether a Leverkusen Kit File Is Current

Use these four details to identify the 2026/27 designs:

New Balance branding and Barmenia Versicherungen on the chest.

Home kit: a black base with two thick red stripes down the front.

Third kit: a white design, not the black shirt with diagonal bands.

Away kit: marbled graphics across the shoulders and sleeves.

These checks help you distinguish the released kits from older designs and files based on the early leak.

How to Use a Leverkusen DLS Kits URL

Use the copy button on the kit card to get the direct image link. Copying the address from your browser’s address bar may give you the webpage instead of the actual PNG file.

To import a kit:

Open Dream League Soccer.

Go to My Club.

Select Customise.

Open Kit, not Logo. These are separate sections.

Choose the kit slot you want to replace.

Paste the copied URL into the field.

Tap Confirm. On older versions, the button may be labelled Download.

Always select the correct slot before pasting the link. The kit currently selected is the one that will be replaced.

Because Leverkusen has five designs but only three outfield kit slots, decide which shirts you want to use before importing them. The goalkeeper kit has its own slot, so remember to set that too rather than leaving the default design.

The first custom kit requires a one-time gem unlock. Once that is done, changing between your custom kits costs nothing.

Test the Kit URL Before Importing It

Open the link in your browser before using it in the game.

A working direct image URL should display the shirt by itself, filling the browser window. Its address should end in .png.

If the link opens a webpage with buttons, menus or other content around the image, it is probably a viewer page rather than a direct image link. Dream League Soccer needs the image file itself.

If you are checking on a computer, right-click the image and open it in a new tab. You can then inspect the image dimensions reported by your browser.

Why Do Leverkusen Kit URLs Stop Working?

Kit links can fail for several reasons, and not all of them are obvious.

Free image hosts may delete uploads. Some services remove files that have not been accessed for months or years. The original URL may still look correct even though the image is no longer available.

Hotlink protection can block the game. A hosting service may refuse requests that do not originate from its own website. That can explain why a link opens in your browser but fails when you paste it into Dream League Soccer.

The preview and the download link may point to different files. Some websites display a thumbnail hosted on one server while providing a link to an image stored elsewhere. The preview can continue to work even after the actual file becomes unavailable.

For the kit cards on this page, the displayed shirt and the copied link refer to the same image file on the same server.

The Bayer Leverkusen Badge

You can import the club crest during the same session, but choose Logo instead of Kit in the Customise menu.

Leverkusen’s badge features the Bayer Cross in red within the club’s shield, making it one of the most recognisable corporate symbols in football.

Its bold geometric shape works well at the small size used in Dream League Soccer, where fine details can become difficult to distinguish beside the score.

However, DLS crops imported badges into a circle. Choose an image with enough clear space around the complete crest rather than one cropped tightly to the edges. Small lettering around the badge may appear softer in-game because the image is displayed at a reduced size.

The away shirt also contains subtle cross motifs in its artwork. If you use that design as your main kit, the standard Bayer Leverkusen crest is a natural match and reinforces the visual reference.

How to Keep Your Leverkusen Kits Safe

Custom kits are stored on your device rather than directly in your account. Game updates will usually leave them intact, but reinstalling Dream League Soccer or moving to a new phone can mean losing both your kits and your badge.

With five designs to choose from — and some older files potentially mislabelled — it is worth saving every link before importing anything.

Copy all your kit URLs into a notes app, including links for designs you decide not to use immediately. That way, you can restore your preferred home, away, third, European or goalkeeper kit later without having to search for everything again.

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