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 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 pub, Zum Wildschütz. The club was founded on 19 December 1909 by a group of young men unhappy with the Catholic church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football under the stern and unsympathetic eye of the local parish priest. History Foundation and early years Borussia Dortmund in 1913 They have also received plaudits for generally adhering to an attacking footballing philosophy. Moreover, 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. In terms of Deloitte's annual Football Money League, Dortmund was in 2021 ranked as the second richest sports club in Germany, and the 12th richest football team in the world. They also contest Der Klassiker with Bayern Munich. They hold a long-standing rivalry with Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, with whom they contest the Revierderby. īorussia Dortmund's colours are black and yellow, giving the club its nickname die Schwarzgelben. Since 1974, Dortmund have played their home games at Westfalenstadion the stadium is the largest in Germany, and Dortmund has the highest average attendance of any association football club in the world.

The club has active departments in other sports, namely in women's handball. The club have won eight league championships, five DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, and one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.įounded 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, making Borussia Dortmund the second largest sports club by membership in Germany. 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. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund ( German pronunciation: ( listen)), BVB ( pronounced ( listen)), or simply Dortmund ( pronounced ( listen)), is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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