Borussia Dortmund

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Borussia Dortmund
Full name	Ballspiel-Verein Borussia 1909 e. V. Dortmund
Nickname(s)	Die Borussen (The Borussians) Die Schwarzgelben (The Black Yellows)
Short name	BVB
Founded	19 December 1909
Ground	Westfalenstadion (Capacity: 81,365)
Chairman	Reinhold Lunow
Head Coach	Edin Terzić
Current League	Bundesliga
2022–23	Bundesliga, 2nd
Website	Club home page
Current season

Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund boˈʁʊsi̯aː ˈdɔʁtmʊnt, BVB, or simply Dortmund, is a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia (Borussia is the Latin equivalent of Prussia). The football team is part of a large membership-based sports club with more than 145,000 members, making BVB the second largest sports club by membership in Germany. Dortmund plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system. Dortmund is one of the most successful clubs in German football history.

Borussia Dortmund was founded in 1909 by eighteen football players from Dortmund. Borussia Dortmund have won eight German championships, four DFB-Pokals, five DFL-Supercups, one UEFA Champions League, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and one Intercontinental Cup. Their Cup Winners' Cup win in 1966 made them the first German club to win a European title.

Since 1974, Dortmund have played their home games at Westfalenstadion, named after its home region of Westphalia. The stadium is the largest in Germany and Dortmund has the highest average attendance of any association football club in the world. Borussia Dortmund's colours are black and yellow, giving the club its nickname die Schwarzgelben. Dortmund holds a long-standing rivalry with Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, known as the Revierderby. In terms of Deloitte's annual Football Money League, Dortmund is the second biggest sports club in Germany and the 11th biggest football team in the world.

Players

Current squad

As of 3 September 2023

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Gregor Kobel (vice-captain) 2 DF Mateu Morey 4 DF Nico Schlotterbeck 5 DF Ramy Bensebaini 6 MF Salih Özcan 7 MF Giovanni Reyna 8 MF Felix Nmecha 9 FW Sébastien Haller 10 MF Thorgan Hazard 11 MF Marco Reus 14 FW Niclas Füllkrug 15 DF Mats Hummels 16 FW Julien Duranville 17 DF Marius Wolf 18 FW Youssoufa Moukoko

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF Julian Brandt 20 MF Marcel Sabitzer 21 FW Donyell Malen 23 MF Emre Can (captain) 24 DF Thomas Meunier 25 DF Niklas Süle (3rd captain) 26 DF Julian Ryerson 27 FW Karim Adeyemi 30 MF Ole Pohlmann 31 GK Silas Ostrzinski 32 MF Abdoulaye Kamara 33 GK Alexander Meyer 35 GK Marcel Lotka 43 FW Jamie Bynoe-Gittens 47 DF Antonios Papadopoulos

Out on loan

No. Pos. Nation Player 36 MF Tom Rothe (at Holstein Kiel until 30 June 2024) 44 DF Soumaïla Coulibaly (at Royal Antwerp until 30 June 2024)

Club alumni

Former players

Main article: Borussia Dortmund players

Managers

Main article: Borussia Dortmund managers

Honours

Domestic

• German Championship/Bundesliga

Winners: 1956, 1957, 1963, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2001–02, 2010–11, 2011–12

Runners-up: 1949, 1961, 1965–66, 1991–92, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22

• 2. Bundesliga North

Runners-up: 1975–76

• DFB-Pokal

Winners: 1964–65, 1988–89, 2011–12, 2016–17, 2020–21

Runners-up: 1962–63, 2007–08, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

• DFB/DFL-Supercup

Winners: 1989, 1995, 1996, 2013, 2014, 2019

Runners-up: 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021

• DFB-Ligapokal

Runners-up: 2003

European

• UEFA Champions League

Winners: 1996–97

Runners-up: 2012–13

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Winners: 1965–66

• UEFA Cup

Runners-up: 1992–93, 2001–02

• UEFA Super Cup

Runners-up: 1997

International

• Intercontinental Cup

Winners: 1997

Regional

• Oberliga West/West German Championship

Winners: 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1952–53, 1955–56, 1956–57 (record)

Runners-up: 1960–61, 1962–63

• Westphalia Cup

Winners: 1947

External links

• Official website
• Borussia Dortmund on Bundeliga official website
• Borussia Dortmund on UEFA official website