Borussia Dortmund

german professional sports baseball club based in Dortmund

football club
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, normally known as Borussia Dortmund [ boˈʁʊsi̯aː ˈdɔɐ̯tmʊnt ], [ 2 ] BVB, or merely Dortmund, is a german professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men ‘s professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the german football league organization. The baseball club have won eight league championships, five DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, and one UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup.

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Founded in 1909 by eighteen football players from Dortmund, the football team is part of a large membership-based sports club with more than 145,000 members, [ 3 ] making Borussia Dortmund the second largest sports golf club by membership in Germany. The cabaret has active departments in other sports, namely in women ‘s handball. Since 1974, Dortmund have played their base games at Westfalenstadion ; the stadium is the largest in Germany, and Dortmund has the highest modal attendance of any association football club in the earth. [ 4 ] Borussia Dortmund ‘s colours are black and yellow, giving the golf club its nickname die Schwarzgelben. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] They hold a long-standing competition with Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, with whom they contest the Revierderby. They besides contest Der Klassiker with Bayern Munich. In terms of Deloitte ‘s annual Football Money League, Dortmund was in 2015 ranked as the second base deep sports clubhouse in Germany, and the 12th richest football team in the worldly concern. [ 7 ] furthermore, under the directorship of Michael Zorc in the 2010s, Dortmund have cultivated a reputation for spotting and developing young talent, and have remained focused on developing a youth system. [ 8 ] They have besides received plaudits for broadly adhering to an attacking footballing philosophy. [ 9 ]

history

foundation and early years

Borussia Dortmund in 1913 The clubhouse was founded on 19 December 1909 by a group of young men infelicitous with the Catholic church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football under the austere and unsympathetic eye of the local anesthetic parish priest. The priest, Father Dewald was blocked at the door when he tried to break up the organising meeting being held in a room of the local public house, Zum Wildschütz. The founders were Franz and Paul Braun, Henry Cleve, Hans Debest, Paul Dziendzielle, Franz, Julius and Wilhelm Jacobi, Hans Kahn, Gustav Müller, Franz Risse, Fritz Schulte, Hans Siebold, August Tönnesmann, Heinrich and Robert Unger, Fritz Weber and Franz Wendt. The name Borussia is Latin for Prussia but was taken from Borussia beer from the nearby Borussia brewery in Dortmund. [ 10 ] The team began playing in aristocratic and white striped shirts with a bolshevik sash, and bootleg shorts. In 1913, they donned the black and jaundiced stripes then familiar today. Over the future decades the club enjoyed merely minor success dally in local leagues. They had a brush with bankruptcy in 1929 when an undertake to boost the golf club ‘s fortunes by signing some paid professional footballers failed miserably and left the team deep in debt. They survived entirely through the generosity of a local assistant who covered the team ‘s deficit out of his own pocket. The 1930s saw the surface of the Third Reich, which restructured sports and football organisations throughout the state to suit the regimen ‘s goals. Borussia’ sulfur president was replaced when he refused to join the Nazi Party, and a couple of members who surreptitiously used the club ‘s offices to produce anti-Nazi pamphlets were executed in the stopping point days of the war. The baseball club did have greater success in the newly established Gauliga Westfalen, but would have to wait until after World War II to make a discovery. It was during this time that Borussia developed its acute competition with Schalke 04 of suburban Gelsenkirchen, the most successful side of the earned run average ( see Revierderby ). Like every other administration in Germany, Borussia was dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities after the war in an attempt to distance the area ‘s institutions from its so-recent Nazi by. There was a ephemeral try 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 concluding in 1949, where they lost 2–3 to VfR Mannheim. [ citation needed ]

First home titles

historical graph of Borussia Dortmund league operation after WWII between 1946 and 1963, Borussia featured in the Oberliga West, a first division league which dominated german football through the late 1950s. In 1949, Borussia reached the final in Stuttgart against VfR Mannheim, which they lost 2–3 after extra meter. The club claimed its first national style in 1956 with a 4–2 win against Karlsruher SC. One year belated, Borussia defeated Hamburger SV 4–1 to win their second national title. After this coup d’etat, the three Alfredos ( Alfred Preißler, Alfred Kelbassa and Alfred Niepieklo ) were legends in Dortmund. In 1963, Borussia won the end edition of the german Football Championship ( before the introduction of the newfangled Bundesliga ) to secure their third national championship .

Bundesliga debut

In 1962, the DFB met in Dortmund and voted to establish a professional football league in Germany, to begin play in August 1963 as the Bundesliga. Borussia Dortmund earned its place among the first gear sixteen clubs to play in the league by winning the last pre-Bundesliga national backing. runner-up 1. FC Köln besides earned an automatic rifle moor. Dortmund ‘s Friedhelm Konietzka scored the first-ever Bundesliga finish a minute into the match, which they would finally lose 2–3 to Werder Bremen. In 1965, Dortmund captured its first DFB-Pokal. In 1966, Dortmund won the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup 2–1 against Liverpool in excess fourth dimension, with the goals coming from Sigfried Held and Reinhard Libuda. In the lapp year, however, the team surrendered a control position atop the Bundesliga by losing four of their last five league games and finishing second, three points behind champions 1860 München. Ironically, a lot of 1860 München ‘s achiever came on the lastingness of the toy of Konietzka, recently transferred from Dortmund. The 1970s were characterised by fiscal problems, relegation from the Bundesliga in 1972, and the opening of the Westfalenstadion, named after its home area Westphalia in 1974. The club earned its render to Bundesliga in 1976. Dortmund continued to have fiscal problems through the 1980s. BVB avoided being relegated in 1986 by winning a third critical playoff game against Fortuna Köln after finishing the regular season in 16th place. dortmund did not enjoy any significant success again until a 4–1 DFB-Pokal succeed in 1989 against Werder Bremen. It was Horst Köppel ‘s first trophy as a director. Dortmund then won the 1989 DFL-Supercup 4–3 against rivals Bayern Munich .

Golden age – the 1990s

After a tenth-place eat up in the Bundesliga in 1991, coach Horst Köppel was let go and director Ottmar Hitzfeld was hired. In 1992, Hitzfeld led Borussia Dortmund to a second-place coating in the Bundesliga and would have won the deed had VfB Stuttgart not won their last game to become champions alternatively. Along with a fourth-place coating in the Bundesliga, Dortmund made it to the 1993 UEFA Cup final, which they lost 6–1 on aggregate to Juventus. In cattiness of this solution, Borussia walked away with DM 25 million under the trophy money pond system in place at the time for german sides participating in the Cup. Cash flush, Dortmund was able to sign players who late brought them numerous honours in the 1990s. Under the captainship of 1996 european Footballer of the Year Matthias Sammer, Borussia Dortmund won back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 1995 and 1996. Dortmund besides won the DFL-Supercup against Mönchengladbach in 1995 and 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1996. In 1996–97 the team reached its first european Cup final. In a memorable match at the Olympiastadion in Munich, Dortmund faced the holders Juventus. Karl-Heinz Riedle put Dortmund ahead, shooting under goalkeeper Angelo Peruzzi from a hybrid by Paul Lambert. Riedle then made it two with a fastball heading from a corner bang. In the moment half, Alessandro Del Piero pulled one back for Juventus with a back heel. then 20-year-old ersatz and local son Lars Ricken latched onto a through happen by Andreas Möller. entirely 16 seconds after coming on to the pitch, Ricken chipped Peruzzi in the Juventus goal from over 20 yards out with his first gear touch of the testis. With Zinedine Zidane unable to make an impression for Juventus against the airless set of Lambert, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Dortmund lifted the trophy with a 3–1 victory. Dortmund then went on to beat brazilian club Cruzeiro 2–0 in the 1997 Intercontinental Cup Final to become global club champions. [ 14 ] Borussia Dortmund were the second german club to win the Intercontinental Cup, after Bayern Munich in 1976. [ 15 ] As defending champions Dortmund reached the Champions League semi-final in 1998. The team was missing key players from the start of the season when they played Real Madrid in the ’98 semifinal. Sammer ‘s career was cut short by injury and entirely played three first team games after the Champions League win. Lambert had left in November to return to play in Scotland. Möller missed the first branch as did Kohler who missed both games in the necktie. substantial won the first stage 2–0 at home. Dortmund played better in the second leg but failed to take their chances. Dortmund went out 2–0 on sum. [ 16 ]

twenty-first hundred and Borussia “ goes populace ”

Borussia Dortmund in 2007 In October 2000, Borussia Dortmund became the first gear publicly traded club on the german stock market. [ 17 ] In 2002, Borussia Dortmund won their third Bundesliga title. Dortmund had a noteworthy run at the end of the season to overtake Bayer Leverkusen, securing the deed on the final examination day. Manager Matthias Sammer became the inaugural person in Borussia Dortmund history to win the Bundesliga as both a player and director. [ 18 ] In the lapp season, Borussia lost the concluding of the 2001–02 UEFA Cup to Dutch side Feyenoord. Dortmund ‘s fortunes then steadily declined for a issue of years. Poor fiscal management led to a clayey debt burden and the sale of their Westfalenstadion grounds. The position was compounded by failure to gain in the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League, when the team was eliminated on penalties in the qualifying rounds by Club Brugge. In 2003, Bayern Munich loaned €2 million to Dortmund for several months to pay their payroll. Borussia was again driven to the verge of bankruptcy in 2005, the original €11 respect of its shares having plummeted by over 80 % on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. At this clock time Hans-Joachim Watzke was appointed CEO and streamlined the baseball club. The response to the crisis included a 20 % pay cut for all players. [ 19 ] In 2006, in order to reduce debt, the Westfalenstadion was renamed “ Signal Iduna Park ” after a local policy company. The appointment rights agreement runs until 2021. Dortmund suffered a measly begin to the 2005–06 season, but rallied to finish one-seventh. The baseball club failed to gain a place 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 Tomáš Rosický to Arsenal. In the 2006–07 temper, Dortmund unexpectedly faced dangerous delegating trouble for the first time in years. Dortmund went through three coaches and appointed Thomas Doll on 13 March 2007 after dropping to precisely one point above the delegating zone. Christoph Metzelder besides left Borussia Dortmund on a release transfer. In the 2007–08 temper, Dortmund lost to many smaller Bundesliga clubs. Despite finishing 13th in the Bundesliga postpone, Dortmund reached the DFB-Pokal Final against Bayern Munich, where they lost 2–1 in supernumerary time. The concluding appearance qualified Dortmund for the UEFA Cup because Bayern already qualified for the Champions League. Thomas Doll resigned on 19 May 2008 and was replaced by Jürgen Klopp .

fall to prominence

Borussia Dortmund players celebrate winning the Bundesliga in 2011 In the 2009–10 temper, Klopp ‘s Dortmund improved on the season before to finish fifth in the Bundesliga to qualify for the UEFA Europa League. The team missed an opportunity to qualify for the Champions League by failing to beat eighth-place VfL Wolfsburg and 14th-place SC Freiburg in the final two matches of the campaign. Entering the 2010–11 temper, Dortmund fielded a young and vibrant roll. On 4 December 2010, Borussia became Herbstmeister ( “ Autumn Champion ” ), an unofficial award going to the league drawing card at the winter break. They did this three matches before the break, sharing the record for having achieved this earliest with Eintracht Frankfurt ( 1993–94 ) and 1. FC Kaiserslautern ( 1997–98 ). [ 20 ] On 30 April 2011, the club beat 1. FC Nürnberg 2–0 at home plate, while second-place Bayer Leverkusen lost, leaving Dortmund eight points unclutter with two games to play. This championship equalled the seven national titles held by rivals Schalke 04, and guaranteed a spot in the 2011–12 Champions League group stages. [ 21 ] One year late, Dortmund made a successful defense of its Bundesliga title with a winnings over Borussia Mönchengladbach, again on the 32nd pit day. By the 34th and final peer day, Dortmund set a newly record with the most points—81—ever gained by a club in one Bundesliga temper. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] This was surpassed the following season by Bayern Munich ‘s 91 points. [ 24 ] The club ‘s eighth championship places it third in full national titles, and players will now wear two stars over their undifferentiated crest in recognition of the team ‘s five Bundesliga titles. luminary names from the winning roll include Lucas Barrios, Mario Götze, Neven Subotić, Mats Hummels, Robert Lewandowski, Shinji Kagawa, Łukasz Piszczek, Jakub Błaszczykowski, Kevin Großkreutz, Ivan Perišić and İlkay Gündoğan. The golf club capped its successful 2011–12 season by winning the double for the first clock by beating Bayern 5–2 in the final of the DFB-Pokal. Borussia Dortmund are one of four german clubs to win the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal double, along with Bayern Munich, 1. FC Köln and Werder Bremen. [ 25 ] The cabaret was voted team of the year 2011 at the annual Sportler des Jahres ( german Sports Personality of the year ) awards .
Borussia Dortmund ended the 2012–13 season in second gear place in the Bundesliga. Dortmund played in their second gear UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich in the first gear ever all-German baseball club concluding at Wembley Stadium on 25 May 2013, which they lost 2–1. [ 26 ] In the 2013–14 temper, Borussia Dortmund won the 2013 DFL-Supercup 4–2 against rivals Bayern Munich. [ 27 ] The 2013–14 season started with a five-game succeed streak for Dortmund, their best begin to a season. Despite such a promise startle, however, their season was hampered by injuries to several key players, seeing them stoop angstrom abject as fourth place in the table, and with a consume squad could go only ampere far as the quarter-finals of the Champions League, losing 3–2 on aggregate to Real Madrid. Nevertheless, Dortmund managed to end their season on a high note by finishing second in the Bundesliga and reaching the 2014 DFB-Pokal Final, losing 0–2 to Bayern in supernumerary time. [ 28 ] They then began their 2014–15 season by defeating Bayern in the 2014 DFL-Supercup 2–0. however, this victory would not be enough to inspire the team to a firm performance at the start of the ensuing season, with Dortmund recording assorted results such as a 0–1 personnel casualty to Hamburger SV and two 2–2 draws against VfB Stuttgart and Bundesliga newcomers Paderborn 07. [ 29 ] During the winter, Dortmund fell to the buttocks of the table on multiple occasions, but managed to escape the delegating zone after four straight wins in February. [ 30 ] On 15 April 2015, Jürgen Klopp announced that after seven years, he would be leaving Dortmund. [ 31 ] Four days late, Dortmund announced that Thomas Tuchel would replace Klopp at the end of the season. [ 32 ] Klopp ‘s final season, however, ended on high notice, rising and finishing seventh after facing relegation, gaining a DFB-Pokal concluding with VfL Wolfsburg and qualifying for the 2015–16 Europa League .

Post-Klopp era

In the 2015–16 season, Dortmund started off on a high, winning 4–0 against Borussia Mönchengladbach on the opening day, followed by five-straight wins which took them to the top of the Bundesliga. After the one-eighth matchday, they were surpassed by Bayern Munich following an doomed draw with 1899 Hoffenheim. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Dortmund kept their performances up, winning 24 out of 34 league games and becoming the best Bundesliga runner-up team of all time. [ 35 ] In the Europa League, they advanced to the quarter-finals, getting knocked out by a Jürgen Klopp-led Liverpool in a dramatic rejoinder at Anfield, where defender Dejan Lovren scored a late goal to make it 4–3 to the Reds and 5–4 on aggregate. [ 36 ] In the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal, for the third-straight year Dortmund made it to the rival concluding, but lost to Bayern Munich on penalties. [ 37 ] On 11 April 2017, three explosions occurred near the team ‘s bus on its way to a Champions League match against AS Monaco at the Signal Iduna Park. Defender Marc Bartra was injured, and taken to hospital. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Dortmund went on to lose the game 2–3 to AS Monaco. Dortmund ‘s coach, Thomas Tuchel, blamed the loss as a leave of an ignorant decision by UEFA. UEFA went on to say that the team made no objection to play, and that the decision was made in submission with the club and local law enforcement. [ 40 ] In the second leg, Dortmund went on to lose 1–3, leaving the aggregate score at 3–6, and seeing them eliminated from that year ‘s UEFA Champions League. On 26 April, Dortmund defeated Bayern Munich 3–2 in Munich to advance to the 2017 DFB-Pokal Final, Dortmund ‘s one-fourth straight final examination and fifth in six seasons. On 27 May, Dortmund won the 2016–17 DFB-Pokal 2–1 over Eintracht Frankfurt with the winner coming from a penalty converted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. [ 41 ] ahead of the 2017–18 season, Thomas Tuchel stepped down vitamin a coach. The Dortmund board made a decisiveness to hire Peter Bosz as the newfangled coach and head coach. Although Bosz got off to a record-breaking originate in the team ‘s first base 7 games, what followed was 20 games without a winnings, after which he was relieved of his staff character. [ 42 ] Peter Stöger was announced as the interim passenger car. [ 43 ] During the January window of the lapp season, Aubameyang and Bartra both left the cabaret. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Stöger bought Manuel Akanji of FC Basel for a fee of €21.5 million and Michy Batshuayi on a six-month lend from Chelsea. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Stöger coached Dortmund for the rest of the season, granting them a fourth-place eat up in the Bundesliga before stepping down at the end of the season. [ 48 ] Michy Batshuayi besides returned to Chelsea. In the summer of 2018, Dortmund appointed erstwhile OGC Nice passenger car, Lucien Favre as their manager/head bus. After a very busy transfer windowpane for the team, seeing eight new players arrive at the baseball club for the beginning team police squad, Dortmund performed strongly, chasing Bayern Munich for the style race down to the last matchday, narrowly missing out on the league claim by two points and earning Lucien Favre a contract reference. A four-part Amazon Prime Video objective series was created, about the same season, named “ Inside Borussia Dortmund ”. The following season, Dortmund pulled off a few big-name signings with the purpose of winning the Bundesliga deed. Although they won the DFL Supercup, this was their only silverware this season. After a scrappy first gear half of the season, they changed their tactics and made a few more transfers in the January Window. They were eliminated in both the DFB-Pokal and the UEFA Champions League as well. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, the season stopped abruptly. Once the resume occurred, Dortmund looked better but their performances were not adequate to stop a prevailing Bayern Munich side from grasping the Bundesliga entitle. They finished the 2019–20 season in second place after beating RB Leipzig in matchweek 33 due to a brace from Erling Haaland. Dortmund got off to a quite rickety start in the 2020–21 season. They lost the DFL-Supercup and had an discrepant fit of results in the Champions League and the Bundesliga. After a humiliating 5–1 frustration to Stuttgart in Matchday 11, Lucien Favre was relieved of his managerial duties. Assistant Manager Edin Terzić was placed as the caretaker for the rest of the season. Under Terzić, Dortmund finished third base on the concluding matchday of the Bundesliga and was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in a collide against Manchester City. however, the team managed to win the DFB-Pokal, defeating RB Leipzig 4–1. Marco Rose was appointed coach for the 2021–22 season and Terzić returned to the backroom staff .

crown

1945–1964
1964–1974
1974–1976 and 1978–1993
1993–present

Grounds

Borusseum, a museum about Borussia Dortmund The, a museum about Borussia Dortmund

Stadiums

The Westfalenstadion is the home stadium of Borussia Dortmund, Germany ‘s largest stadium and the seventh-largest in Europe. [ 49 ] The stadium is formally named “ Signal Iduna Park ” after insurance company Signal Iduna purchased the rights to name the stadium until 2021. [ 50 ] This name, however, can not be used when hosting FIFA and UEFA events, since these governing bodies have policies forbidding bodied sponsorship from companies that are not official tournament partners. During the 2006 World Cup, the stadium was referred to as “ FIFA World Cup Stadium, Dortmund ”, while in UEFA club matches, it is known as “ BVB Stadion Dortmund ”. The stadium presently hosts up to 81,359 spectators ( standing and seated ) for league matches and 65,829 induct spectators for external matches. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] For these, the characteristic southern grandstand is re-equipped with seats to conform to FIFA regulations. In 1974, the Westfalenstadion replaced the Stadion Rote Erde, which is located future door and serves now as the stadium of Borussia Dortmund II. After the increasing popularity of Borussia Dortmund in the 1960s, it became obvious that the traditional ground was excessively humble for the increasing count of Borussia Dortmund supporters. The city of Dortmund, however, was not able to finance a new stadium and union institutions were unwilling to help. But in 1971, Dortmund was selected to replace the city of Cologne, which was forced to withdraw its plans to host games in the 1974 World Cup. The funds in the first place set aside for the project stadium in Cologne were therefore re-allocated to Dortmund, and a new stadium became reality. The Westfalenstadion has undergo several renovations throughout the years to increase the size of the stadium, including an expansion of the stadium for the 2006 World Cup. In 2008, the Borusseum, a museum about Borussia Dortmund, opened in the stadium. [ 53 ] In 2011, Borussia Dortmund agreed to a partnership with Q-Cells. The company installed 8,768 solar cells on the ceiling of the Westfalenstadion to generate up to 860,000 kWh per year. [ 54 ] Borussia Dortmund has the highest average attendance of any football club global. [ 55 ] In 2014, it was estimated that each of the club ‘s home games is attended by around 1,000 british spectators, disembowel to the team by its low slate prices compared to the Premier League. [ 56 ]

coach earth

Borussia Dortmund ‘s train ground and Academy base Hohenbuschei is located in Brackel, a district of Dortmund. [ 57 ] Inside the complex, there are physical exercise coach for physical seaworthiness and rehabilitation robotics areas, physical therapy and massage rooms, and curative and hydropathy pools. There are besides sauna rooms, steam rooms and slant rooms, classrooms, conference halls, offices for the BVB movement office, a restaurant, and a television studio apartment to interview the BVB professional footballers and coaching staff for BVB total!, the channel owned by the club. [ 58 ] On the grounds, there are five grass pitches, two of which have under-soil heating, one artificial grass plain, three little supergrass pitches and a multi-functional sports stadium. [ 59 ] The site covers a sum area of 18,000 m2 ( 190,000 sq foot ). [ 57 ] In addition, the cabaret owns a Footbonaut, a train automaton which is effectively a 14 m2 ( 150 sq foot ) prepare cage. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] The train complex and young person performance center, located in Hohenbuschei, will be expanded in stages until 2021. In addition, the Sports Business Office will be entirely rebuilt from scratch. The plan construction, which will cost up to 20 million euro, will make BVB the best-equipped football baseball club in the area with regards to infrastructure. [ 62 ] In the Strobelallee Training Centre, the BVB Evonik Football Academy has an outstanding prepare venue entirely at its disposal. Among others, the Bundesliga-team used to prepare for their matches on the club ‘s former train ground. [ 63 ]

organization 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. [ 64 ] professional football at Dortmund is run by the organization Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA. This corporation exemplary has two types of participators : at least one partner with unlimited indebtedness and at least one partner with limited liability. The investment of the latter is divided into stocks. The organization Borussia Dortmund GmbH is the spouse with outright liability and is responsible for the management and theatrical performance of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA. Borussia Dortmund GmbH is in full owned by the sports club, Borussia Dortmund e.V. This organizational structure was designed to ensure that the sports club has entire operate over the professional team. [ 65 ] The breed 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 grocery store. 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. [ 66 ] 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. [ 67 ] The supervisory circuit board consists, among others, of politicians Werner Müller and Peer Steinbrück. [ 68 ] Borussia Dortmund e.V. and Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA ‘s economic indicators reveal that BVB will be generating gross of €305 million ( US $ 408 million ) from September 2012 to August 2013. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] According to the 2015 Deloitte ‘s annual Football Money League, BVB generated revenues of €262 million during the 2013–14 season. This human body excludes player transplant fees, VAT and other sales-related taxes. [ 7 ]

current management and board

As of 1 January 2018[67][68]

Chairman Hans-Joachim Watzke

Dortmund ‘s chief advertise partner and stream shirt sponsor is Evonik. [ 71 ] The policy party Signal Iduna purchased the rights to name the Westfalenstadion Signal Iduna Park until 2021. [ 72 ] The chief equipment supplier is Puma since the 2012–13 season. [ 73 ] The contract is valid until 2025. [ 74 ] The club announced a deal with Opel to be the first-ever sleeve sponsor from the 2017–18 season. [ 75 ] 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. [ 76 ] Since 2012, Brixental in the Kitzbühel Alps in Austria is a BVB patronize vitamin a well ; furthermore, the region is host of one of the annual summer prepare camps. [ 77 ]

charity

Borussia Dortmund has raised money for charity over the years for assorted causes. On 17 May 2011, Borussia Dortmund held a jacob’s ladder crippled for the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami against “ Team Japan ”. Ticket sales from the game and €1 million from Dortmund ‘s main patronize Evonik went to jacob’s ladder for Japan earthquake and tsunami victims. [ 85 ] In November 2012, Borussia Dortmund KGaA founded a charitable believe called leuchte auf, to give authoritative social projects fiscal assistant. [ 86 ] The reliance ‘s logo is a star consist of the streets which meet at Dortmund ‘s Borsigplatz, where the cabaret was founded. On 6 July 2013, Borussia Dortmund held a charity game to raise money for 2013 german flood victims in the german states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. [ 87 ] In March 2020, Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig, and Bayer Leverkusen, the four german UEFA Champions League teams for the 2019–20 season, jointly gave €20 million to Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams that were struggling financially during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 88 ] Since 1996, during Advent, Borussia Dortmund players visit the children ‘s hospital in Dortmund where the players meet with the patients and give them gifts. [ 89 ]

Players

current police squad

As of 25 October 2021[90]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Reserves and academy

club captains

Since 1963, 18 players have held the military position of club captain for Borussia Dortmund. [ 91 ] [ 92 ] The beginning golf club captain after the introduction of the Bundesliga was Alfred Schmidt, who was captain from 1963 to 1965. [ 91 ] The longest-serving captain Michael Zorc, who was club captain from 1988 to 1997, has the differentiation of having won the most trophies as captain ; he won two Bundesliga titles, one DFB-Pokal, three DFL-Supercups and one UEFA Champions League. [ 91 ] The current golf club captain is Marco Reus, who took over after Marcel Schmelzer stepped devour from his function as the club ‘s captain for the 2018–19 temper. [ 93 ] [ 94 ]

Non-playing staff

As of 1 July 2021

steer coaches

In July 1935, Fritz Thelen became the club ‘s first full-time head coach, but was not available in the inaugural months of the season, forcing Dortmund player and Germany international Ernst Kuzorra to take over alternatively. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] In 1966, Willi Multhaup led his side to the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup, the first german team to win a european trophy. Horst Köppel was the coach to bring major silverware to the club for the beginning time in over 20 years, winning the DFB-Pokal in 1989. Ottmar Hitzfeld, the club ‘s most successful coach, having won both the Bundesliga and Supercup twice. In 1997, Dortmund had waited for continental success for over 30 years ; Hitzfeld crowned his period with an unexpected exuberate and won the Champions League. Dortmund won the Intercontinental Cup in 1997 and head passenger car Nevio Scala became the foremost and so far the only non-native speaker who won a major style. In 2001–02, Matthias Sammer, a former BVB actor, brought the league title back to Dortmund. In 2008–09, the club approached Mainz 05 head coach Jürgen Klopp. He won the club ‘s one-seventh backing championship in 2010–11. In his fourthly temper, Dortmund won the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal to complete the first league and cup double in the clubhouse ‘s history. [ 120 ] Successor Thomas Tuchel won the 2016–17 DFB-Pokal. On 22 May 2018, Lucien Favre was confirmed as the new head coach of the cabaret for the 2018–19 season. [ 121 ] He was able to win the 2019 DFL-Supercup on 3 August 2019. On 12 December 2020, Dortmund suffered a 5–1 defeat against VfB Stuttgart. Favre was fired the following day. [ 122 ]

Records

conductor of football Michael Zorc has the most appearances for the club Borussia Dortmund ‘s name is attached to a act of Bundesliga and european records :