Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund
Full nameBallspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund
Nickname(s)Die Borussen (The Prussians)[1]
Die Schwarzgelben (The Black and Yellow)[2]
Der BVB (The BVB)[citation needed]
Short nameBVB
Founded19 December 1909; 114 years ago (1909-12-19)
GroundSignal Iduna Park
Capacity81,365[contradictory][3]
PresidentReinhold Lunow[4]
CEOLars Ricken
Head coachNuri Şahin
LeagueBundesliga
2023–24Bundesliga, 5th of 18
Websitebvb.de
Current season
Active teams of Borussia Dortmund
Football Football II
U17/U19 Football (Canada)
Handball
(women)

Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund (German pronunciation: [boˈʁʊsi̯a ˈdɔɐ̯tmʊnt] ⓘ)[5] or by its initialism BVB (pronounced [beːfaʊ̯ˈbeː] ⓘ), 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 system. The club have won eight league championships, five DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, and one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

Founded in 1909 by eighteen football players from Dortmund, the football team is part of a large membership-based sports club with more than 189,000 members in 2023,[6] making Borussia Dortmund the fifth largest sports club by membership in the world. The club also has a women's handball team. Since 1974, Dortmund have played their home games at the Westfalenstadion; the stadium is the largest in Germany, and Dortmund has the highest average attendance of any association football club in the world.[7]

Borussia Dortmund's colours are black and yellow, giving the club its nickname die Schwarzgelben.[8][9] They hold a long-standing rivalry with Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, against whom they contest the Revierderby. They also contest Der Klassiker with Bayern Munich.

Under the directorship of Michael Zorc in the 2010s, Dortmund cultivated a reputation for spotting and developing young talent, and have remained focused on developing a youth system.[10] As of 2024, Dortmund had the second most revenue across football clubs in Germany, and the 12th most revenue across all football teams in the world, per Deloitte's Football Money League.[11]

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  2. ^ "#207 – Borussia Dortmund : Schwarz-Gelben" (in French). Footnickname. 20 August 2020. Archived from the original on 19 February 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Borussia Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park expansion: Germany's biggest stadium set to get bigger!". Bundesliga. Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Dr. Reinhold Lunow". Boriussia Dortmund. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  5. ^ Mangold, Max (2005), Das Aussprachewörterbuch, Duden, pp. 212 and 282, ISBN 978-3-411-04066-7
  6. ^ Hintermüller, Marco (27 November 2023). "Borussia Dortmund bemerkt besorgniserregende Entwicklung – "Finde ich bedenklich"". DerWesten.de (in German). Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  7. ^ "The top 50 average attendances in football over the last five years". 12 April 2019. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  8. ^ "Borussia Dortmund – Puma SE". puma.com. Puma SE. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  9. ^ "Borussia Dortmund". UEFA. Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  10. ^ "Why Borussia Dortmund's not-so-secret recipe for success is so hard to copy". Standard. 6 April 2019. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Deloitte Football Money League 2024 (rankings for the 2022–23 season)". www.deloitte.com. Retrieved 2 June 2024.