Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach or Gladbach (truncated as Borussia MG), is a proficient football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that plays in the Bundesliga, the best flight of German football. The club has won five League titles, three DFB-Pokals, and two UEFA Europa League titles
History
Borussia Mönchengladbach were founded in 1900, with its name derived from a Latinized form of Prussia, which was a popular name for German clubs in the former Kingdom of Prussia. The team joined the Bundesliga in 1965 and saw the majority of its success in the 1970s, where, under the guidance of Hennes Weisweiler, they captured five league championships with Die Fohlen team; a term coined as the squad was young with a fast, aggressive playing style. Mönchengladbach also won two UEFA Cup titles during this period.
Since 2004, Borussia Mönchengladbach has played at Borussia-Park, having previously played at the Bökelbergstadion since 1919. Based on membership, Borussia Mönchengladbach is the fifth largest club in Germany, with over 75,000 members. The club’s main rivals are FC Köln and Bayer Leverkusen.
The herald of the club Borussia Mönchengladbach was a bunch of players who, after clearing out the sports club Germania, established the unused club on 17 November 1899 within the eatery “Anton Schmitz” on the Alsstraße in Eicken area of Mönchengladbach, which got to be a sports club with the name FC Borussia in 1900. The title “Borussia” infers from the Latinized frame of Prussia, the kingdom in which the city of Mönchengladbach was arranged from 1815. By 1912, Die Borussen found itself within the Verbandsliga, at the time the most noteworthy division the club seem to play in.
In Walk 1914, the club obtained De Kull, the ground on which the Bökelbergstadion would be built. The Primary World War ended the advance of both the stadium and FC Borussia, but by late 1917 the group had started to play recreations once more. In 1919, FC Borussia consolidated with another nearby club, Turnverein Germania 1889, getting to be 1899 VfTuR M.Gladbach. The club accomplished it, to begin with, a major victory in 1920, vanquishing Kölner BC 3–1 to win the Westdeutsche Meisterschaft final.
The union between Germania and Borussia lasted only for two years and the club was later known as Borussia VfL 1900 e.V. M.Gladbach.
Ownership
Coaching Staff
| Role | Name |
| Head coach | Marco Rose |
| Assistant coach | Dirk Bremser |
| Assistant coach | Frank Geideck |
| Goalkeeping coach | Uwe Kamps |
Management
| Role | Name |
| Team doctor | Dr. Heribert Ditzel |
| Team doctor and orthopedic surgeon | Dr. Stefan Hertl |
| Team doctor and orthopedic surgeon | Dr. Stefan Porten |
| Athletic trainer | Alexander Mouhcine |
| Physiotherapist | Andreas Bluhm |
| Physiotherapist | Dirk Müller |
| Physiotherapist | Adam Szordykowski |
Squad
| Number | Position | Name |
| 1 | GK | Yann Sommer (vice-captain) |
| 4 | DF | Mamadou Doucouré |
| 5 | MF | Tobias Strobl |
| 6 | MF | Christoph Kramer |
| 7 | MF | Patrick Herrmann |
| 8 | MF | Denis Zakaria |
| 10 | FW | Marcus Thuram |
| 11 | FW | Raffael |
| 13 | FW | Lars Stindl (captain) |
| 14 | FW | Alassane Pléa |
| 16 | MF | Ibrahima Traoré |
| 17 | DF | Oscar Wendt |
| 18 | DF | Stefan Lainer |
| 19 | MF | Fabian Johnson |
| 21 | GK | Tobias Sippel |
| 22 | MF | László Bénes |
| 23 | MF | Jonas Hofmann |
| 24 | DF | Tony Jantschke |
| 25 | DF | Ramy Bensebaini |
| 26 | FW | Torben Müsel |
| 28 | DF | Matthias Ginter |
| 30 | DF | Nico Elvedi |
| 31 | GK | Max Grün |
| 32 | MF | Florian Neuhaus |
| 36 | FW | Breel Embolo |
| 37 | MF | Keanan Bennetts |
Honors
Domestic
Bundesliga:
- Winners: 1969–70, 1970–71, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77
- Runners-up: 1973–74, 1977–78
- Bundesliga:
- Winners: 2007–08
DFB-Pokal:
- Winners: 1959–60, 1972–73, 1994–95
- Runners-up: 1983–84, 1991–92
German Supercup:
- (Unofficial winners):1977
European
European Cup:
- Runners-up: 1976–77
UEFA Cup:
- Winners: 1974–75, 1978–79
- Runners-up: 1972–73, 1979–80
International
Intercontinental Cup:
- Runners-up: 1977
Youth
German Under 17 Champions:
- Winners: 1981
Under 17 Bundesliga West
- Winners: 2009
Double
- 1974–75: League and UEFA Cup
