Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund BVB, or essentially Dortmund, is a German proficient sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men’s professional football group, which plays within the Bundesliga, the top level of the German football association framework. The club has won eight league championships, four DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions League, one Interconversion Cup, and one UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup.
Established in 1909 by eighteen football players from Dortmund, the football group is the portion of an expansive membership-based sports club with more than 145,000 individuals, making Borussia Dortmund the moment’s biggest sports club by participation in Germany. Since 1974, Dortmund has played its domestic diversions at Westfalenstadion; the stadium is the biggest in Germany, and Dortmund has the most noteworthy average attendance of any association football club within the world. Borussia Dortmund’s colours are dark and yellow, giving the club its epithet pass on Schwarzgelben.[The club has dynamic divisions in other sports, specifically in women’s handball, and holds a long-standing contention with Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, known as the Revierderby. They too compete in Der Klassiker with the individual German club, Bayern Munich.
In terms of Deloitte’s yearly Football Cash Alliance, Dortmund was positioned as the second wealthiest sports club in Germany, and the 12th wealthiest football team in the world. Additionally, under the directorship of Michael Zorc in the 2010s, Dortmund has developed a reputation for spotting and creating youthful ability, and have remained centred on creating a youth system. They have moreover gotten acclamations forby and large following to an attacking footballing philosophy
History
The club was established on 19 December 1909 by a bunch of youthful men unhappy with the Catholic church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football beneath the strict and unsympathetic eye of the nearby ward priest. The priest, Father Dewald was blocked at the entryway when he attempted to break up the sorting out assembly being held in a room of the neighbourhood bar, 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, Eminent Tönnesmann, Heinrich and Robert Unger, Fritz Weber and Franz Wendt. The title Borussia is Latin for Prussia but was taken from Borussia beer from the nearby Borussia brewery in Dortmund. The group started playing in blue and white striped shirts with a ruddy scarf, and dark shorts. In 1913, they wore dark and yellow stripes so commonplace nowadays.
Ownership
| 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 the organization, 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 the 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 A major shareholder of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA |
| 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 |
Coaching Staff
| Name | Position |
| Coaching staff | |
| Lucien Favre | Head coach |
| Otto Addo | Assistant coach |
| Manfred Stefes | Assistant coach |
| Edin Terzić | Assistant coach |
| Matthias Kleinsteiber | Goalkeeping coach |
Management
| Athletic department | |
| Andreas Beck | Athletic coach |
| Anke Steffen | Athletic coach |
| Florian Wangler | Athletic coach |
| Medical department | |
| Dr. Markus Braun | First team doctor |
| Swantje Thomßen | Rehabilitation coach |
| Thorben Voeste | Rehabilitation coach |
| Olaf Wehmer | Rehabilitation coach |
| Thomas Zetzmann | Rehabilitation coach |
| Scouting & recruitment | |
| Kai-Norman Schulz | Coordinator sports technology |
| Serdar Ayar | Video analyst |
| Markus Pilawa | Chief scout |
| Benjamin Frank | Scout |
| Sebastian Frank | Scout |
| Jan Heidermann | Scout |
| Artur Płatek | Scout |
| Waldemar Wrobel | Scout |
| Organisation & management | |
| Michael Zorc | Director of football |
| Sebastian Kehl | Head of first-team football |
| Ingo Preuß | Head of reserve-team football |
| Wolfgang Springer | Head of youth department |
| Lars Ricken | Youth coordinator |
| Mike Tullberg | Head coach Borussia Dortmund II |
| Michael Skibbe | Under 19s coach |
| 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 |
Squad
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Honors
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
- Bundesliga North
Runners-up: 1975–76
DFB-Pokal
Winners: 1964–65, 1988–89, 2011–12, 2016–17
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
DFB-Ligapokal
Runners-up: 2003
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
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
UEFA club coefficient ranking
International
Intercontinental Cup
Winners: 1997
