The new coat-of-arms of the town Leverkusen is a heraldic combination of parts from the old Leverkusen coat-of-arms, which depicted the lion and a Fährschalde and the coat-of-arms from the former town of Opladen. It shows in silver (white) a two-tailed, red lion. The lion's talons, tongue and crown are blue and covered by an alternating crenellation beam.

The lion goes back to the coat-of-arms of the earls and dukes of Berg. It is also on the coat-of-arms of the former town Wiesdorf, which received it in 1923 and was taken over unchanged by the town of Leverkusen, which was founded in 1930.

The alternating crenellation bream stem from the brothers Gerhard and Giso von Upladin, who were squires in Opladen in the early 13th-century and carried as castle guards the earl of Berg's older coat-of-arms.

The new coat-of-arms of the town Leverkusen was approved by Cologne's district president on the 19th of August 1976. On the 15th of November 1976 the city council decided to change the main statutes accordingly. The new version became legal on the 1st of January 1977.