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Team
Overview
Stadium:
Westfalenstadion
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Honours:
European Cup: 1997
European CWC: 1966
League
Winners:
1956,
1957, 1963, 1995, 1996
German Cup:
1965,
1989
German
Super Cup:
1989,
1995, 1996
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Eighty-five
years after they were founded by a man named Franz
Jacobi in a Dortmund pub called Zum Wildscheutz,
Borussia celebrated the completion of the redevelopment
of their home at the Westfalenstadion in 1995.
It proved to be a watershed as although they had
enjoyed some successes the highlights had been
frustratingly few and far between.
Dortmund dominated in the 1950s and early 1960s
when they won the German championship in successive
years in 1956 and 1957, adding a third title in
1963, a German Cup in 1965 and a UEFA Cup Winners'
Cup the next year, when they beat Liverpool 2-1
after extra time in the final. However, the best
that the next 30 years had to offer was a second
German Cup triumph in 1989.
But that was about to change - and spectacularly
so. In the next seven years Dortmund not only
won three 1.Bundesliga titles but they also claimed
Europe's most coveted prize when they won the
1997 UEFA Champions League final. After beating
the likes of Manchester United FC and AJ Auxerre
en route to the final in Munich's Olympic Stadium
a defeat of FC Juventus 3-1 with two goals by
Karl-Heinz Riedle and another by Lars Ricken secured
European football's prized trophy.
The following season Dortmund again took Europe
by storm and they looked on course to repeat their
success in the UEFA Champions League until Real
Madrid prevailed in the semi-finals. However,
they have failed to match those performances in
recent years and in subsequent campaigns in the
UEFA Champions League in 1999/2000 and 2001/02
have been unable to get past the first group phase.
Nevertheless, the 2001/02 season ended in triumph
as they outlasted Bayer 04 Leverkusen to win their
sixth German league championship. The team also
had a chance to win the UEFA Cup after an early
exit from Champions League. Seizing the opportunity
they stormed all the way to the final where they
took on FC Feyenoord in Rotterdam, but lost 3-2
despite goals by Marcio Amoroso and Jan Koller,
who also marked his swansong by being sent off.
Legends such as Lothar Emmerich (1963-69), Manni
Burgsmüller (1976-83), Stéphane Chapuisat
(1991-99), Andreas Möller (1994-2000) and
Matthias Sammer (1992-98), who is now the team's
coach, have also graced the the Westfalenstadion.
QUICK
FACT
Midfielder
Lars Ricken holds the record for being the
youngest ever goal scorer in the Bundesliga. |
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