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Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, commonly called Borussia Dortmund (German pronunciation:"[bo'RUsia] 'doatmUnt]), BVB (pronounced [be:faU'be:[be:faU'be] (listen)) also known as Dortmund (pronounced"'doRtmUnt") is an German professional soccer club located within Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club is most famous for its professional men's soccer team, which is on the Bundesliga which is the highest tier in the German football league system. The club has been awarded eight league championships, five DFB-Pokals and the UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, and one the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

In 1909, by 18 footballers from Dortmund The football club makes up a member-based club with more than 145,000 members which makes Borussia Dortmund the second-largest sports club by membership size in Germany. There are active departments in various other sports, specifically in the women's handball. In 1974 and since then, Dortmund have played their home matches at the Westfalenstadion which is the stadium is the biggest in Germany and Dortmund is home to the largest number of fans in every association soccer team around the globe.

Borussia Dortmund's colors are yellow and black which gives the club its nickname Die Schwarzgelben. They have a long-running battle against Ruhr neighbors Schalke 04 which they play in their own version of the Revierderby. They also play Der Klassiker with Bayern Munich.

In the context of the Deloitte's Annual Football Money League, Dortmund was in 2015 ranked the second-highest-income soccer club of Germany and the 12th most wealthy football club around the globe. Additionally, under the leadership under the direction of Michael Zorc in the decade of 2010, Dortmund have cultivated a reputation for discovering emerging talent and they have been focussed on developing an effective youth program. The club has also been praised for their general adhering to an offensive footballing approach.

1. History

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1.1. Foundation and early years

The club was established on the 19th of December 1909 by the group of men who were unhappy in their experience at the Catholic Church-sponsored Trinity Youth, which was a football club under the harsh and uncaring scrutiny of the local parish priest. Father Dewald, the priest at that time, Father Dewald was blocked by the door when he attempted to disperse the meeting that was being held in the local pub Zum Wildschutz. nearby pub Zum Wildschutz. The founding members of the group were Franz as well as Paul Braun, Henry Cleve, Hans Debest, Paul Dziendzielle, Franz, Julius and Wilhelm Jacobi, Hans Kahn, Gustav Muller, Franz Risse, Fritz Schulte, Hans Siebold, August Tonnesmann, Heinrich and Robert Unger, Fritz Weber and Franz Wendt. Borussia is the name of their team. Borussia can be described as Latin meaning Prussia however it was derived from Borussia beer that was produced by close by Borussia brewery located in Dortmund. The team first began playing in white and blue stripes, paired along with red shash as well as black shorts. In 1913, they wore the stripes of yellow and black that we are familiar with in the present.

In the following decades, the club had only moderate results in local leagues. The club faced bankruptcy in 1929 after attempts to improve the fortunes of the club by signing professional footballers fell short and left the club in debt. They were able to survive thanks to the generosity of a local fan who paid for the team's deficit by putting money into his savings.

The 1930s witnessed the advent of the Third Reich, which changed the structure of football and sports organizations across the country in accordance with the objectives of the regime. Borussia's president was removed after he was not a member of in the Nazi Party, and several members who secretly used the office of the club to create anti-Nazi propaganda were executed in the closing days of war. The club was able to achieve greater success in the newly formed Gauliga the Westfalen but had for a while after World War II for an impact. This was the time that Borussia was able to establish a fierce competition between itself and Schalke 04 from nearby Gelsenkirchen and was considered to be the most successful team during the time (see Revierderby). As with all other clubs within Germany, Borussia was dissolved by Allied occupation authorities following the war, in an effort to separate the nation's institutions from its Nazi history. There was a short-lived attempt to merge the club with two others - Werksportgemeinschaft Hoesch and Freier Sportverein 98 - as Sportgemeinschaft Borussia von 1898, but it was as Ballspiel-Verein Borussia (BVB) that they made their first appearance in the national league final in 1949, where they lost 2-3 to VfR Mannheim.

1.2. First national titles

Between 1946 until between 1946 and Borussia played in between 1946 and 1963, Borussia played in the Oberliga West, an upper division league that had a dominant influence on German football until the end of the 1950s. It was in the year 1949, Borussia reached the final in Stuttgart against VfR Mannheim in which they lost 3-1 after extra time. The team won their first national championship during 1956 with a win of 4-2 over Karlsruher SC. A year later, Borussia defeated Hamburger the SV 4-1 to take their second title at the national level. After that win trio of Alfredos ( Alfred Preissler, Alfred Kelbassa and Alfred Niepieklo) were legends in Dortmund. They were also legends in Dortmund. 1963, Borussia won the final season of the German Football Championship (before the advent to the modern Bundesliga) in order to win their third national championship.

1.3. Bundesliga debut

In 1962 in 1962, in 1962, the DFB meeting was held in Dortmund and decided to create an official football league in Germany and begin playing in August 1963, dubbed known as the Bundesliga. Borussia Dortmund earned its place in the top 16 clubs that played in the league when it won the previous pre-Bundesliga champions championship. Runners-up 1. FC Koln also earned an automatic entry into the. Dortmund's Friedhelm Konietzka scored his first Bundesliga goal just a minute into the game and they would be beaten by a score of 2-2 against Werder Bremen.

The year the year 1965, Dortmund captured its first DFB-Pokal. In 1966, Dortmund won the European Cup Winners' Cup 2-1 against Liverpool during extra time with goals scored by Sigfried Held, and Reinhard Libuda. In the same season however, the team lost a dominant position in the Bundesliga by losing four of their five league matches and finishing third, three points ahead of Champions 1859 Munchen. In the end, a lot of Munchen's successes were due to the merits of the playing of Konietzka who was recently transferred from Dortmund.

The 1970s were marked by financial issues, dropping out of the Bundesliga in 1972 as well as the launch of the Westfalenstadion which was named for the region it is home to Westphalia in 1974. The club made its return to the Bundesliga in the year 1976.

Dortmund continued to be plagued by financial issues throughout the 1980s. BVB was able to avoid being dropped in 1986 by winning a crucial match in the playoffs in the playoffs against Fortuna Koln after having finished the regular season 16th. Dortmund did not experience notable success until the 4-1 DFB-Pokal victory during 1989 against Werder Bremen. The win it was Horst Koppel's first trophy as manager. Dortmund was then crowned in the 1989 Supercup of the DFL 4-3 in a match against the rivals Bayern Munich.

1.4. Golden age – the 1990s

Following a tenth place finish during the Bundesliga in 1991 the director Horst Koppel was fired while the manager Ottmar Hitzfeld was appointed.

The year the year 1992, Hitzfeld led Borussia Dortmund to second place on the Bundesliga and would have also won this title were the VfB Stuttgart had not won their final game to be champions instead.

Along with a fourth-place finish in the Bundesliga, Dortmund made it to the 1993 UEFA Cup final, which they lost 6-1 on aggregate to Juventus. In spite of this performance, Borussia walked away with DM25 million as part of the scheme of award money pools which was in that time for German teams competing at the Cup. Cash flowing, Dortmund was able to select players who later earned them many honours during the 90s.

In the era of the leadership of captain of 1995 European Footballer of the Year Matthias Sammer, Borussia Dortmund had back-to-back Bundesliga championships in 1995 and 1996. Dortmund also took home The DFL Supercup with Monchengladbach during the year 1995 as well as 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1996.

In 1996-97, Dortmund made it to its debut European Cup final. In a thrilling game in the Olympiastadion in Munich, Dortmund took on holders Juventus. Karl-Heinz Riedle put Dortmund ahead after he shot over goalkeeper Angelo Peruzzi from a cross from Paul Lambert. Riedle also added two goals with a header that was a bullet from the corner kick. The second period was a different story. the Italian Alessandro de Piero scored a second goal for Juventus by kicking an angled back heel. Then , a 20-year-old replacement and local player Lars Ricken latched to a cross-field pass made by Andreas Moller. Within 16 seconds of arriving on the playing field Ricken struck Peruzzi into the Juventus goal from more than 20 yards by his first touch to the ball. In spite of Zinedine Zidane not able to make an impact to Juventus against the tight mark that was Lambert, Dortmund lifted the trophy with a convincing 3-1 win.

Dortmund followed up with a win Brazilian team Cruzeiro 2 to 1 at the 1997 Intercontinental Cup Final to be crowned world champions of club football. Borussia Dortmund were the second German club to be the winners of the Intercontinental Cup, after Bayern Munich in 1976..

As champions in the defending round, Dortmund made it to their Champions League semi-final in 1998. The team was lacking important players at the beginning of the season as they faced Real Madrid in the semi-final of 1998. Sammer's playing career was cut short due to injury and he only played three first-team games following his Champions League win. Lambert was forced to leave in November to for a second stint in Scotland. Moller did not play in the first leg and Kohler who was absent for both games of the match. Real took the lead in the first leg with a 2-0 win at home. Dortmund performed much better during the following half but were unable to take advantage of their chances. Dortmund lost with a 2-0 an aggregate.

1.5. 21st century and Borussia "goes public"

Then, in October of 2000 Borussia Dortmund became the first club to be publicly traded in the German stock exchange.

The year 2002, Borussia Dortmund won their third Bundesliga title. Dortmund experienced a spectacular performance at the conclusion of the season, when they beat Bayer Leverkusen winning the title on the last day. The manager Matthias Sammer became the first person in Borussia Dortmund history to win the Bundesliga as as a manager and player. The same time, Borussia lost the final of the 2001-02 UEFA Cup to Dutch team Feyenoord.

The fortunes of Dortmund then slowly decreased over the course of several years. Insufficient financial management resulted in an enormous debt burden and the demise of their Westfalenstadion stadium. The problem was further exacerbated by the team's failure to progress in the 2003-04 UEFA Champions League, which saw the team eliminated on penalties during their qualifying round in the qualifying rounds by Club Brugge. The year 2003 was the time that Bayern Munich loaned EUR2 million to Dortmund for a number of months to cover their salaries. Borussia was once more pushed into bankruptcy in 2005, with the originally EUR11 worth of its shares soaring by more than 80 percent in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

At the time, Hans-Joachim Witzke was appointed as the CEO and the club was streamlined. The response to the financial crisis included cuts of 20% to pay to all members. In 2006, as a way to cut down on debt the Westfalenstadion was changed to "Signal Iduna Park" in honor of an insurance company in the local area. The naming rights agreement is valid through 2021.

Dortmund was a mess from the beginning towards their 2005-06 season, but then rallied to finish in seventh place. The club did not earn the right to participate in the UEFA Cup via the Fair Play draw. The club's management recently indicated that the club again showed a profit; this was largely related to the sale of David Odonkor to Real Betis and Tomas Rosicky to Arsenal.

The 2007-2006 year, Dortmund unexpectedly faced serious reduction problems in the very first time since the beginning of the season. Dortmund had three coaches before appointing Thomas Doll on 13 March 2007 following a drop to just one point over the zone of relegation. Christoph Metzelder also left Borussia Dortmund on a free transfer.

The year 2007-08, the campaign, Dortmund lost to many smaller Bundesliga clubs. Despite finishing 13th on the Bundesliga table, Dortmund reached the DFB-Pokal Final against Bayern Munich, where they lost 2-1 after extra time. The final game was enough to qualify Dortmund to play in their participation in the UEFA Cup because Bayern already had qualified as a team for this year's Champions League. Thomas Doll resigned on 19 May 2008 and was replaced by Jurgen Klopp.

1.6. Return to prominence

In the 2009-2010 season Klopp's Dortmund improved from the season, but finished 5th in Bundesliga to be eligible for UEFA Europa League. The team was unable to make it into the Champions League by not beating eighth-placed VfL Wolfsburg as well as 14th-placed SC Freiburg in the final two games of the season.

As we entered in the season of 2010-11 campaign, Dortmund fielded a young and lively squad. On December 4, 2010 Borussia was crowned the Herbstmeister ("Autumn Champion") which is an official award that was given to the league's leader prior to the end of winter break. The team won three games before the break, and share the record for being able to achieve this first together with Eintracht Frankfurt (1993-94) and 1. FC Kaiserslautern (1997-98). The 30th April 2011 was the day that the club defeated 1. FC Nurnberg 2-0 at home in the second place match, while Bayer Leverkusen lost, leaving Dortmund eight points ahead of Bayer Leverkusen with just two games left. The championship was equal to all seven titles won by their rivals Schalke 04, and guaranteed an appearance for the 2011-12 Champions League group stages.

A year later, Dortmund made a successful defense of the Bundesliga title by winning against Borussia Monchengladbach and again on the 32nd day of match. On the 34th and last game day Dortmund established a record with the most points ever achieved by a team in the course of a single Bundesliga season. This was followed with 91 points from Bayern Munich. Dortmund's eighth victory places them third in all national championships as well as players will wear the two star over their uniforms to commemorate the club's five Bundesliga championships. Some notable names from the winning team comprise Lucas Barrios, Mario Gotze, Neven Subotic, Mats Hummels, Robert Lewandowski, Shinji Kagawa, Lukasz Piszczek, Jakub Blaszczykowski Kevin Grosskreutz, Ivan Perisic and Ilkay Gundogan. The club concluded its impressive season in 2011-12 by securing the double for the first time, beating Bayern 5-1 at the final of the DFB-Pokal. Borussia Dortmund are one of four German clubs to have won both the Bundesliga along with the DFB-Pokal double alongside Bayern Munich, 1. FC Koln and Werder Bremen. The club was awarded the Team of the Year in 2011 in the annual Sportler der Jahres (German Sport Personality of the Year) awards.) awards.

Borussia Dortmund finished their 2013-13 campaign with a second place finish on Borussia Dortmund finished second in the Bundesliga. Dortmund participated the second UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich in the first ever all-German club final held at Wembley Stadium on 25 May 2013. they lost by a score of 2-1.

For the 2013, 2014 season, Borussia Dortmund won the 2013 DFL-Supercup 4-2 in a battle against the opponents Bayern Munich. The 2013-14 season began with a winning streak of five games for Dortmund which was their best start to an entire season. Despite such a promising start, however, their season was hampered by injuries to several key players, seeing them stoop as low as fourth place in the table, and with a depleted squad could go only as far as the quarter-finals of the Champions League, losing 3-2 on aggregate to Real Madrid. However, Dortmund managed to end their season on a positive note , being second overall in the Bundesliga and making it to the 2014 DFB-Pokal Final which they lost 2-0 to Bayern in the extra-time phase. They began their season in 2014-15 with a 2-0 win over Bayern at the 2014 DFL-Supercup with a score of 2-0. However, this win may have been insufficient to propel the team to put in a strong performance to begin the following season, with Dortmund getting various results like a 0-1 defeat in the match against Hamburger SV and two draws of 2-2 in the match against VfB Stuttgart and Bundesliga newcomers Paderborn 07. In the winter months, Dortmund fell to the bottom of the table numerous occasions, but was able to avoid relegation following four consecutive victories in February. On April 15, 2015 Jurgen Klopp made the announcement that after 7 seasons of service, he would leave Dortmund. The following day, Dortmund announced that Thomas Tuchel would replace Klopp at the conclusion of this season. Klopp's final season concluded with a high note with a rise and finishing seventh after being in danger of relegation winning an appearance in the DFB-Pokal final match against VfL Wolfsburg and qualifying for the 2015-16 Europa League.

1.7. Post-Klopp era

The the 2015-16 campaign, Dortmund started off in a positive manner with a 4-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach on the first day. Then, they won five straight wins that saw them rise up to the summit of the Bundesliga. In the 8th gameday, they were overtaken by Bayern Munich following an unlucky draw against the 1899 season at Hoffenheim. Dortmund maintained their winning streak and won 24 of 34 league matches and becoming the most successful Bundesliga runners-up team ever. In the Europa League, they advanced to the quarter-finals, getting knocked out by a Jurgen Klopp-led Liverpool with a stunning comeback victory at Anfield where defensive defender Dejan Lovren scored a last-minute goal to win the game 4-3 for the Reds and 5-4 in aggregate. For the year 2015-16 DFB-Pokal this year, for the third consecutive year, Dortmund reached the final however, they the team lost to Bayern Munich on penalties.

On April 11, 2017 three explosions were reported close to the bus of the team in the route to an Champions League match against AS Monaco at the Signal Iduna Park. The team's defender Marc Bartra was injured and was taken to the hospital. Dortmund lost the game by a score of 2-3 in the final to AS Monaco. Manager of Dortmund, Thomas Tuchel blamed the loss on due to an inexperienced decision made by UEFA. UEFA said that the team had no opposition to playing and the decision was taken in accordance with the club's rules and the local police. In the second game, Dortmund went on to defeat 1-3, leaving the overall score at 3-6, being eliminated from the UEFA Champions League. The 26th of April saw Dortmund lost to Bayern Munich 3-2 in Munich to qualify for the 2017 DFB-Pokal Final which was Dortmund's fourth consecutive final, and fifth in the past six seasons. On May 27, Dortmund won the DFB-Pokal of 2016-17 by a 2-1 margin against Eintracht Frankfurt with the winning goal resulted from a penalty, which was which was scored by Pierre-Emerick aubameyang..

Prior to the start of the 2017-18 season Thomas Tuchel stepped down as manager. The Dortmund board took the decision to appoint Peter Bosz as the new head coach and manager. While Bosz started off with an impressive start in the team's initial 7 games, the next seven were 20 games with no wins and Bosz was let go of the position of staff. Peter Stoger was appointed interim coach. The January period of the same season Aubameyang as well as Bartra both quit the club. Stoger bought Manuel Akanji of FC Basel for a fee of EUR21.5 million and Michy Batshuayi on a six-month loan from Chelsea. Stoger was the manager of Dortmund throughout the remainder of the season, giving them a fourth-place finish the Bundesliga before quitting at the close this season. Michy Batshuayi also returned to Chelsea.

This summer Dortmund was appointed by the former OGC Nice coach, Lucien Favre as their head coach and manager. After a very hectic transfer period for the team which saw eight new players join in the club's first team, Dortmund performed strongly, in pursuit of Bayern Munich for the title right up to the final day of the game which narrowly missed the title by just two points, and also granting Lucien Favre an extension to his contract. Four-part Amazon Prime Video documentary series was made in the same year that was titled "Inside Borussia Dortmund".

The following season Dortmund did a couple of big name signings with the intention to win their first Bundesliga title. Even though they won their first DFL Supercup, this was the only trophy they won this season. After a rocky start in the campaign, they switched their approach and made a couple of transfers during the January Window. They were eliminated both the DFB-Pokal as well as the UEFA Champions League as well. Because of the COVID-19 virus that was sweeping Germany the season was cut short abruptly. When the season reopened, Dortmund looked better but their performance was not enough to keep the dominant Bayern Munich side from grasping the Bundesliga title. They ended the 2019-20 season in second place , after defeating RB Leipzig in matchweek 33 thanks to a brace scored by Erling Haaland.

Dortmund began off with an uncertain start in the season 2020-21. They were eliminated from the DFL-Supercup, and suffered a mixed series of results for the Champions League and the Bundesliga. After a humiliating 5-1 loss to Stuttgart on Matchday 11 Lucien Favre was relieved of his manager tasks. Manager assistant Edin Terzic was named the caretaker for the remainder of the campaign. With Terzic, Dortmund finished third on the final day in the Bundesliga and were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Champions League in a clash against Manchester City. Dortmund then went on to take home the DFB-Pokal, defeating RB Leipzig 4-1 in the final. Marco Rose was appointed manager for the 2021-22 campaign, with Terzic being appointed the club's new technical director.

2. Crest

To be advice

3. Grounds

As below mentioned.

3.1. Stadiums

The Westfalenstadion is the home for Borussia Dortmund in Germany. It is the biggest stadium, and seventh largest in Europe. The stadium's official name is "Signal Iduna Park" after the insurance firm Signal Iduna bought right to designate the name of the stadium from 2021. However, this name is not allowed to be used in it hosts FIFA or UEFA games as these governing bodies have regulations that prohibit corporate sponsorship from businesses which aren't official tournament sponsors. In 2006's the 2006 World Cup, the stadium was known as "FIFA World Cup Stadium, Dortmund" and during UEFA club games, it's referred to in UEFA club matches as "BVB Stadion Dortmund". The stadium can accommodate up to 81,359 fans (standing and sitting) during league games and 65,829 people seated at international games. The distinctive southern grandstand has been upgraded with seating to comply with FIFA rules.

In 1974 in 1974, the Westfalenstadion was built to replace it with the Stadion Rote Erde situated right next to it and functions as the stadium for Borussia Dortmund II. With the growing popularity of Borussia Dortmund in the 1960s the realization was that the stadium of the past was not large enough to accommodate the growing numbers of Borussia Dortmund supporters. It was the case that Dortmund's city Dortmund however, was in no position to fund the construction of a new stadium, and federal institutions refused to assist. In the year 1971 Dortmund got the chance to take over that city Cologne and was forced to cancel its plans to host matches during the 1974 World Cup. The funds originally allocated for the proposed venue in Cologne were subsequently transferred to Dortmund and a brand new stadium was built.

The Westfalenstadion has undergone numerous renovations over the years to improve the capacity of the stadium, including an expansion of stadium to accommodate the 2006 World Cup. In 2008 The Borusseum is an exhibit on Borussia Dortmund was inaugurated inside the stadium. In the year 2011, Borussia Dortmund agreed to join forces together with Q-Cells. The company has installed the 8,768 solar panels in the top of Westfalenstadion that can generate as much as 860,000 kWh each year.

Borussia Dortmund has the most standard of attendance for any football team around the world. In 2014 the club was estimated to have every one of Borussia Dortmund's home matches are attended by more than 1,000 British supporters, attracted to the club because of its affordable cost of tickets in comparison with that of the Premier League.

3.2. Training ground

Borussia Dortmund's training facility and academy Base Hohenbuschei Hohenbuschei is situated in Brackel the district that is part of Dortmund. In the complex is a physical fitness training area for rehabilitation and physical fitness robotics areas, physiotherapy , massage rooms, as well as rehabilitation swimming pools and hydrotherapy. The complex also has sauna rooms steam rooms, gyms, classrooms and conference rooms as well as office spaces of staff at the BVB Front Office, restaurant and a TV studio that can discuss the BVB professional footballers and coaches for BVB total which is the channel run by BVB. There five grass pitches, two of them with under-soil heating and the artificial field is one, and there are three smaller grass pitches, and a multi-purpose sports facility. The park covers an area of 18,000m 2. (190,000 sq feet). The club also has an Footbonaut which is a learning robot which functions as an 14-meter 2. (150 sq feet) exercise cage.

The training facility and the youth performance center, situated in Hohenbuschei will be expanded by stages up to 2021. Furthermore to this, the Sports Business Office will be completely rebuilt from scratch. The construction plan of the building, which is expected to cost up to 20 million euros will ensure that BVB the most well-equipped football team within the United States in terms of infrastructure.

The Strobelallee in the Strobelallee Training Centre The BVB Evonik Football Academy has an excellent training facility only available. The Bundesliga-team, for instance, was able to prepare for matches at the club's old training facility.

4. Organisation and finance

Borussia Dortmund e.V. is represented by its management board and a board of directors consisting of president Dr. Reinhard Rauball, his proxy and vice-president Gerd Pieper, and treasurer Dr. Reinhold Lunow.

Professional football at Dortmund is run by the organisation Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA. This corporation model has two types of participators: at least one partner with unlimited liability and at least one partner with limited liability. The investment of the latter is divided into stocks. The organisation Borussia Dortmund GmbH is the partner with unlimited liability and is responsible for the management and representation of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA. Borussia Dortmund GmbH is fully owned by the sports club, Borussia Dortmund e.V. This organizational structure was designed to ensure that the sports club has full control over the professional squad.

The stock of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA was floated on the stock market in October 2000 and is listed in the General Standard of Deutsche Börse AG. Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA became the first and so far the only publicly traded sports club on the German stock market. 5.53% of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA is owned by the sports club, Borussia Dortmund e.V.; 9.33% by Bernd Geske; and 59.93% widely spread shareholdings. Hans-Joachim Watzke is the CEO and Thomas Treß is the CFO of the GmbH & Co. KGaA. Michael Zorc as sporting director is responsible for the first team, the coaching staff, the youth and junior section, and scouting. The supervisory board consists, among others, of politicians Werner Müller and Peer Steinbrück.

Borussia Dortmund e.V. and Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA's economic indicators reveal that BVB will be generating revenue of €305 million (US$408 million) from September 2012 to August 2013.

According to the 2015 Deloitte's annual Football Money League, BVB generated revenues of €262 million during the 2013–14 season. This figure excludes player transfer fees, VAT and other sales-related taxes.

4.1. Current management and board

Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA
Member Position
Hans-Joachim Watzke Chairman of the management
managing director for sport, communications and human resources
Thomas Treß Managing director for organisation, finance and facilities
Carsten Cramer Managing director for sales, marketing and digitalization
Michael Zorc Segment director for sport
Sascha Fligge Segment director for communications
Reinhard Beck Segment director for human resources
Dr. Christian Hockenjos Segment director for organisation
Marcus Knipping Segment director for finance and facilities
Supervisory board
Member Note
Gerd Pieper Chairman of the supervisory board
Managing shareholder of Stadt-Parfümerie Pieper GmbH Parfümerie International, Herne
Bernd Geske Managing partner of Bernd Geske Lean Communication, Meerbusch
Major shareholder of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA[68]
Bjørn Gulden Chief executive officer of PUMA SE, Herzogenaurach
Christian Kullmann Chairman of the executive board of Evonik Industries, Essen
Ulrich Leitermann Member and chairman of the managing boards of group parent companies of the Signal Iduna Group
Dr. Reinhold Lunow Internist, medical director and partner of Internistische Naturheilkundliche Gemeinschaftspraxis, Bornheim
treasurer of Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund since 20 November 2005
Silke Seidel Chief executive officer of Dortmunder Stadtwerke Aktiengesellschaft
Peer Steinbrück Senior adviser of the board directors of ING-DiBa AG, Frankfurt am Main
Federal Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2009, member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2016
 

5. Kits and sponsorship

Dortmund's main advertising partner and current shirt sponsor is Evonik. The insurance company Signal Iduna purchased the rights to name the Westfalenstadion Signal Iduna Park until 2021. The main equipment supplier is Puma since the 2012–13 season. The contract is currently valid. The club announced a deal with Opel to be the first-ever sleeve sponsor from the 2017–18 season.

In addition, there are three different levels of partners: BVBChampionPartner includes among others Opel, bwin, Brinkhoff's, Wilo, Hankook and EA Sports; BVBPartner includes among others MAN, Eurowings, Coca-Cola, Ruhr Nachrichten, REWE and Aral; and BVBProduktPartner includes among others ofo, Westfalenhallen and TEDi.

Since 2012, Brixental in the Kitzbühel Alps in Austria is a BVB sponsor as well; furthermore, the region is host of one of the annual summer training camps.

5.1. Sponsors

Manufacturer
Period Brand  
1974–1990 Adidas  
1990–2000 Nike  
2000–2004 Goool.de  
2004–2009 Nike  
2009–2012 Kappa  
2012–present Puma  
Shirt Sponsor
Period Sponsor  
1974–1976 City of Dortmund  
1976–1978 Samson  
1978–1980 Prestolith  
1980–1983 UHU  
1983–1986 Arctic  
1986–1997 Continentale  
1997–2000 s.Oliver  
2000–2006 E.ON  
2006–2007 !  
2007–2020 Evonik  
2020–present 1&1 Ionos (Bundesliga matches only)
Evonik (DFB Pokal and UEFA competitions only)
 
Sleeve Sponsor
Period Sponsor  
2017–present Opel  

6. Charity

Borussia Dortmund has raised money to benefit charities throughout time to support different causes. On the 17th of May, 2011 Borussia Dortmund held a charity match to commemorate the victims of the Japan earthquake in 2011. Japan Earthquake and Tsunami with "Team Japan". Tickets sold of the game as well as EUR1 million donated by Dortmund's major patron Evonik contributed to charities for Japan tsunami and earthquake victims. The year was November 2012. Borussia Dortmund KGaA founded an organization called leuchte on leuchte on, which will provide important social initiatives financial support. The logo of the trust features one of the stars that are found on the streets that meet at Dortmund's Borsigplatz which is which is where the club was first established. On the 6th of July, the 6th of July, 2013, Borussia Dortmund held a fundraiser game to raise funds to help the 2013 German flooding victims from the German states of Saxony and the Saxony-Anhalt region..

In March 2020 Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig, and Bayer Leverkusen, the four German UEFA Champions League teams for the 2019-20 season collectively contributed EUR20 millions to Bundesliga and two. Bundesliga teams struggling financially in the COVID-19 epidemic..

Since 1996, in Advent, Borussia Dortmund players go to the hospital for children in Dortmund where they meet with patients and present them presents.

7. Players

Detail as below.

7.1. Current squad

As of 6 July 2022

 
No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   SUI Gregor Kobel
2 DF  ESP Mateu Morey
4 DF  GER Nico Schlotterbeck
6 MF  TUR Salih Özcan
7 MF  USA Giovanni Reyna
8 MF  GER Mahmoud Dahoud
9 FW  CIV Sébastien Haller
10 MF  BEL Thorgan Hazard
11 FW  GER Marco Reus (captain)
13 DF  POR Raphaël Guerreiro
14 DF  GER Nico Schulz
15 DF  GER Mats Hummels
16 DF   SUI Manuel Akanji
17 MF  GER Marius Wolf
18 FW  GER Youssoufa Moukoko
19 MF  GER Julian Brandt
 
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 FW  NED Donyell Malen
22 MF  ENG Jude Bellingham
23 MF  GER Emre Can
24 MF  BEL Thomas Meunier
25 DF  GER Niklas Süle
27 FW  GER Karim Adeyemi
30 MF  GER Felix Passlack
32 MF  GUI Abdoulaye Kamara
33 GK  GER Alexander Meyer
35 GK  POL Marcel Lotka
36 MF  GER Tom Rothe
38 GK  GER Luca Unbehaun
42 MF  GER Göktan Gürpüz
43 FW  ENG Jamie Bynoe-Gittens
44 DF  FRA Soumaila Coulibaly

7.2. Out On Loan

 
No. Pos. Nation Player
36 MF  GER Ansgar Knauff (at Eintracht Frankfurt)
 

7.3. Reserves and academy

 
No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  GER Jan-Pascal Reckert
2 DF  TOG Haymenn Bah-Traoré
3 DF  ESP Guille Bueno
4 DF  USA Lennard Maloney
6 DF  FRA Soumaïla Coulibaly
7 MF  CRO Marco Pašalić
8 MF  GER Marco Hober
9 FW  GER Ted Tattermusch
10 FW  GER Berkan Taz
11 MF  GER Richmond Tachie
13 MF  FRA Kamal Bafounta
17 FW  GER Timo Bornemann
18 MF  GER Antonios Papadopoulos
 
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 MF  GER Ole Pohlmann
20 DF  ISL Kolbeinn Finnsson
21 MF  GER Christian Viet (on loan from FC St. Pauli)
22 FW  GER Justin Njinmah (on loan from Werder Bremen)
23 MF  GER Franz Pfanne (captain)
25 GK  GER Luca Unbehaun
28 MF  NED Immanuel Pherai
32 MF  GUI Abdoulaye Kamara
40 GK  GER Stefan Drljača
41 MF  GER Göktan Gürpüz
42 FW   SUI Bradley Fink
43 MF  GER Dennis Lütke-Frie

7.4. Club captains

Since 1963 the year 1963, 18 players have been named club captains at Borussia Dortmund. The first club captain following the advent to the Bundesliga was Alfred Schmidt, who served as captain from 1963 until 1965. The captain with the longest tenure Michael Zorc, who was captain of the club from 1988 until 1997, is the one who has the distinction of winning the most awards as captain. He won two Bundesliga titles and one DFB-Pokal and three DFL-Supercups as well as an UEFA Champions League. The captain of the club Marco Reus is the captain of club Marco Reus, who was appointed captain after Marcel Schmelzer stepped out of his position as captain of the club during this season.

Dates Name Notes
1963–1965  Alfred Schmidt First club captain in the Bundesliga era
1965–1968  Wolfgang Paul  
1968–1971  Sigfried Held  
1971–1974  Dieter Kurrat  
1974–1977  Klaus Ackermann  
1977–1979  Lothar Huber  
1979–1983  Manfred Burgsmüller  
1983–1985  Rolf Rüssmann  
1985–1987  Dirk Hupe  
1987–1988  Frank Mill  
1988–1998  Michael Zorc Longest-serving captain in Borussia Dortmund's history
1998–2003  Stefan Reuter  
2003–2004  Christoph Metzelder  
2004–2008  Christian Wörns  
2008–2014  Sebastian Kehl  
2014–2016  Mats Hummels  
2016–2018  Marcel Schmelzer  
2018–  Marco Reus
 

8. Non-playing staff

As of 2 July 2022
Name Position Source
Coaching staff
 Edin Terzić Head coach  
 Sebastian Geppert Assistant coach  
 Peter Hermann Assistant coach  
 Matthias Kleinsteiber Goalkeeping coach  
Athletic department
 Shad Forsythe Head of department  
 Mathias Kolodziej Athletic coach  
 Dennis Morschel Athletic coach  
 Florian Wangler Athletic coach  
 Johannes Wieber Athletic coach  
Medical department
 Dr. Markus Braun First team doctor  
 Thorben Voeste Rehabilitation coach  
 Olaf Wehmer Rehabilitation coach  
 Dr. Philipp Laux Sport psychologist  
Scouting & recruitment
 Kai-Norman Schulz Coordinator sports technology  
 Serdar Ayar Video analyst  
 Markus Pilawa Chief scout  
 Laurent Busser Scout  
 Benjamin Frank Scout  
 Sebastian Frank Scout  
 Jan Heidermann Scout  
 Artur PÅ‚atek Scout  
 Waldemar Wrobel Scout  
Organisation & management
 Sebastian Kehl Director of football  
 Ingo Preuß Head of reserve-team football  
 Wolfgang Springer Head of youth department  
 Lars Ricken Youth coordinator  
 Matthias Sammer External advisor  
 Suresh Letchmanan Head of BVB Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.  
 Benjamin Wahl Head of BVB China  
 Patrick Owomoyela International ambassador  
 Karl-Heinz Riedle International ambassador  
 Roman Weidenfeller International ambassador  
 Norbert Dickel Stadium announcer  
 Teddy de Beer Fan relations manager  
 Sigfried Held Fan relations manager  
 Frank Gräfen Kit manager
 

8.1. Head coaches

In July of 1935, Fritz Thelen became the club's first permanent head coach however, he was unavailable during the initial months of the campaign, requiring Dortmund players also Germany national Ernst Kuzorra to take over instead. In the year 1966 Willi Multhaup lead his team to win victory in the European Cup Winners' Cup, which was the first German team to take home an European trophy. Horst Koppel was the coach who helped bring significant gold to his team for the very first time more than 20 years when he won the DFB-Pokal in 1989.

Ottmar Hitzfeld is the club's most successful coach, winning both the Bundesliga and the Supercup two times. It was 1997, Dortmund had waited for continental success for more than 30 years. Hitzfeld was crowned with a surprise victory and was crowned the Champions League. Dortmund was awarded it the Intercontinental Cup in 1997 and the head of the team Nevio Scala was the first and until now the sole non-native speaker to have was awarded a major trophy. It was in the years 2001 and 2002, Matthias Sammer who was a former BVB player, won the trophy again to Dortmund. In the 2008-09 season the club made contact with Mainz 05 head coach Jurgen Klopp. He was the team's seventh championship during the 2010-2011 season. In the fourth season of his career, Dortmund won the Bundesliga as well as The DFB-Pokal in the process of completing the first double league and cup within the clubs history. Thomas Tuchel was his successor. Thomas Tuchel won the 2016-17 DFB-Pokal.

On May 22, 2018, Lucien Favre was appointed the new coach for The club's 2018-19 season. Favre was capable of winning the DFL-Supercup in the 2019 season on the 3rd of August, 2019.

On the 12th of December, 2020 Dortmund was beaten 5-1 loss against VfB Stuttgart. Favre was dismissed the following day.

No. Nationality Head coach from until Notes
1   Ernst Kuzorra* July 1935 Aug 1935 Caretaker
2   Fritz Thelen Sept 1935 June 1936  
3   Ferdinand Swatosch July 1936 May 1939  
4   Willi Sevcik June 1939 unknown  
5   Fritz Thelen 10 January 1946 31 July 1946  
6   Ferdinand Fabra 1 August 1946 31 July 1948 1 Oberliga West
7   Eduard Havlicek 1 August 1948 31 July 1950 2 Oberliga West
8   Hans-Josef Kretschmann 1 August 1950 31 July 1951  
9   Hans Schmidt 1 August 1951 31 July 1955 1 Oberliga West
10   Helmut Schneider 1 August 1955 31 July 1957 2 Oberliga West, 2 Championships
11   Hans Tauchert 1 August 1957 24 June 1958  
12   Max Merkel 14 July 1958 31 July 1961  
13   Hermann Eppenhoff 1 August 1961 30 June 1965 1 Championship, 1 Cup
14   Willi Multhaup 1 July 1965 30 June 1966 1 European Cup Winners' Cup
15   Heinz Murach 1 July 1966 10 April 1968  
16   Oswald Pfau 18 April 1968 16 December 1968  
17   Helmut Schneider 17 December 1968 17 March 1969  
18   Hermann Lindemann 21 March 1969 30 June 1970  
19   Horst Witzler 1 July 1970 21 December 1971  
20   Herbert Burdenski 3 January 1972 30 June 1972  
21   Detlev Brüggemann 1 July 1972 31 October 1972  
22   Max Michallek 1 November 1972 1 March 1973  
23   Dieter Kurrat 1 March 1973 30 June 1973  
24   János Bédl 1 July 1973 14 February 1974  
25   Dieter Kurrat 14 February 1974 30 June 1974  
26   Otto Knefler 1 July 1974 1 February 1976  
27   Horst Buhtz 1 February 1976 30 June 1976  
28   Otto Rehhagel 1 July 1976 30 April 1978  
29   Carl-Heinz Rühl 1 July 1978 29 April 1979  
30   Uli Maslo 30 April 1979 30 June 1979  
31   Udo Lattek 1 July 1979 10 May 1981  
32   Rolf Bock* 11 May 1981 30 June 1981 Caretaker
33   Branko Zebec 1 July 1981 30 June 1982  
34   Karl-Heinz Feldkamp 1 July 1982 5 April 1983  
35   Helmut Witte* 6 April 1983 30 June 1983 Caretaker
36   Uli Maslo 1 July 1983 23 October 1983  
37   Helmut Witte* 23 October 1983 31 October 1983 Caretaker
38   Heinz-Dieter Tippenhauer 31 October 1983 15 November 1983  
39   Horst Franz 16 November 1983 30 June 1984  
40   Timo Konietzka 1 July 1984 24 October 1984  
41   Reinhard Saftig* 25 October 1984 27 October 1984 Caretaker
42   Erich Ribbeck 28 October 1984 30 June 1985  
43   Pál Csernai 1 July 1985 20 April 1986  
44   Reinhard Saftig 21 April 1986 30 June 1988  
45   Horst Köppel 1 July 1988 30 June 1991 1 Cup, 1 Supercup
46   Ottmar Hitzfeld 1 July 1991 30 June 1997 2 Championships, 2 Supercups, 1 Champions League
47   Nevio Scala 1 July 1997 30 June 1998 1 Intercontinental Cup
48   Michael Skibbe 1 July 1998 4 February 2000  
49   Bernd Krauss 6 February 2000 13 April 2000  
50   Udo Lattek* 14 April 2000 30 June 2000 Caretaker
51   Matthias Sammer 1 July 2000 30 June 2004 1 Championship
52   Bert van Marwijk 1 July 2004 18 December 2006  
53   Jürgen Röber 19 December 2006 12 March 2007  
54   Thomas Doll 13 March 2007 19 May 2008  
55   Jürgen Klopp 1 July 2008 30 June 2015 2 Championships, 1 Cup, 2 Supercups
56   Thomas Tuchel 1 July 2015 30 May 2017 1 Cup
57   Peter Bosz 1 July 2017 10 December 2017  
58   Peter Stöger 10 December 2017 30 June 2018  
59   Lucien Favre 1 July 2018 13 December 2020 1 Supercup
60   Edin Terzić 13 December 2020 30 June 2021 1 Cup
61   Marco Rose 1 July 2021 20 May 2022  
62   Edin Terzić 23 May 2022  

9. Records

Borussia Dortmund's name has been linked to many Bundesliga or European records:

  • The Borussia Dortmund player who has made highest number of appearances has Michael Zorc who has 572 appearances across all games.
  • The Borussia Dortmund player with the highest number of scores has to be Alfred Pricesler who has 168 goals in all games.
  • The highest number of goals in an UEFA Champions League match (12) took place in the match when Dortmund defeated Legia Warsaw 8-4 during the 2016-17 season.
  • Youssoufa Moukoko was the youngest athlete of Bundesliga in history (aged 16 years and one day) when he played for Borussia Dortmund in a match against Hertha BSC on 21 November 2020.
  • Moukoko was also the youngest footballer ever to be a player in UEFA Champions League history (aged 16 years and 18 days) after he was brought on by Dortmund in the match against Zenit Saint Petersburg on December 8, 2020.
  • Moukoko was the youngest goal scorer in Bundesliga history as well as the youngest to score in the history of Dortmund (aged just 16 and 28 days) after scoring in the match against Union Berlin on 18 December 2020.
  • Dortmund was at the sidelines of the most devastating loss in the history of a Bundesliga game when they suffered an 12-0 loss in a match against Borussia Monchengladbach on April 29, 1978.
  • BVB in addition to Bayern Munich were awarded a record number of occasions (3 for Dortmund 12 times for Munich) during a game held on the 7th of April, 2001.
  • The highest number of penalties awarded in the course of a Bundesliga match is five during a game against Borussia Monchengladbach and Dortmund on the 9th of November, 1965.
  • The first goal recorded during Bundesliga play was scored by Dortmund's Friedhelm Konietzka against Werder Bremen; however, Werder Bremen won 3-2.
  • The former Borussia Dortmund player Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is among only three players, with the other including Klaus Allofs and Robert Lewandowski who score at least once in the ten consecutive Bundesliga matchdays. He was also the only player to score at least one goal during all eight gamedays in the beginning of the Bundesliga season. He also had the distinction of having the the most Bundesliga goals scored in a single season for a foreign player (31 in the 2016-17 season).).

10. Honours

Please see detail as below.

10.1. 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

10.2. European

  • UEFA Champions League
  • Winners: 1996–97
    Runners-up: 2012–13
    • European Cup Winners' Cup
    Winners: 1965–66
    • UEFA Cup
    Runners-up: 1992–93, 2001–02
    Runners-up: 1997

10.3. International

  • Intercontinental Cup
  • Winners: 1997

10.4. UEFA club coefficient ranking

As of 18 September 2020
Rank Nation Team Points
12  FRA Lyon 76.000
13  ENG Tottenham Hotspur 74.500
14  GER Borussia Dortmund 72.000
15  UKR Shakhtar Donetsk 69.000
 ENG Chelsea
 ITA Roma
 

10.5. 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

11. Affiliated clubs

The following clubs are currently affiliated with Borussia Dortmund:

  •  Hyderabad FC
  •  Buriram United
  •  Marconi Stallions FC
  •  Iwate Grulla Morioka
  •  Hoa Binh

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