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BV Borussia Dortmund is a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia and is best known as one of the most successful clubs in German football. In addition to six German football championships and two German Cup victories, Dortmund won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1966 (becoming the first German team to win a European title) and the Champions League in 1997.
Early years
The club was founded 19 December 1909 by a group of young men unhappy with church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football under the stern and unsympathetic eye of the local parish priest. Father Dewald was blocked at the door when he tried to break up the organizing meeting being held in a room of the local pub, Zum Wildschütz. The name Borussia is Latin for Prussia and was taken from the nearby Borussia brewery. The team began play in blue and white striped shirts with a red sash, and black shorts. In 1913, they donned the black and yellow strip so familiar today.
Over the next decades the club enjoyed only modest success playing in local leagues. They had a brush with bankruptcy in 1929 when an attempt to boost the club's fortunes by signing some paid professional footballers failed miserably and left the team deep in debt. They survived only through the generosity of a local supporter who covered the team's shortfall out of his own pocket.
Entry to the Bundesliga
In 1962, the DFB met in Dortmund and voted to finally establish a professional football league in Germany to begin play in August 1963 as the Bundesliga. Borussia earned its place among the first sixteen sides to play in the new league by winning the last pre-Bundesliga championship. Losing club Köln also earned an automatic berth. It was Dortmund's Friedhelm Konietzka who scored the first-ever Bundesliga goal barely a minute into a match which they would eventually lose 2–3 to Werder Bremen.
In 1965, Dortmund captured its first German Cup. They had a mixed result the next year when they won the European Cup Winners Cup, but surrendered a commanding position atop the Bundesliga by losing four of their last five league games and finishing second, three points behind champions 1860 Munich. Ironically, much of 1860's success came on the strength of the play of Konietzka, recently transferred there from Dortmund. The 70s were characterized by financial problems and relegation from the Bundesliga in 1972 and the opening of the Westfalenstadion, named after its home Land, Westphalia in 1974. The club earned its return to Bundesliga in 1976, but continued to suffer from financial problems through the 80s. BVB narrowly avoided being relegated again in 1986 by winning a third decisive play-off-game against Fortuna Köln after finishing the regular season in 16th place.
The club did not enjoy any significant success again until a German Cup win in 1989.
The 90s
Fortune smiled on them in 1993 with a run to the UEFA Cup final, which they lost 1–6 on aggregate to Juventus. In spite of this result, Borussia walked away with DM25 million under the prize money pool system in place at the time for German sides participating in the Cup. Cash flush, Dortmund was able to sign players who later brought them a string of honours through the rest of the 1990s. They won Bundesliga championships in 1995 and 1996 — with Matthias Sammer from the '96 side being named European Footballer of the Year.
In a memorable 1997 UEFA Champions League Final in Munich, Dortmund faced a Juventus team featuring Zinedine Zidane. Karl-Heinz Riedle put Dortmund ahead finishing from Paul Lambert's cross. Riedle then made it 2 with a bullet header from a corner kick. In the second half, Alessandro Del Piero pulled one back for Juve. Then 20-year old substitute and local boy Lars Ricken latched on to a through pass by Andreas Möller. Only sixteen seconds after coming on to the pitch, Ricken chipped Angelo Peruzzi in the Juventus goal from over 20 yards with his first touch of the ball. With Zidane unable to make an impression against Lambert's marking Borussia lifted the trophy 3–1.
Borussia then went on to beat Brazilian club Cruzeiro 2–0 in the 1997 Intercontinental Cup Final.
21st century and Borussia "goes public"
At the turn of the millennium, Borussia Dortmund became the first — and so far the only — publicly traded club on the German stock market. Two years later they won their third Bundesliga title. The club had a remarkable run at the end of the season to overtake Bayer Leverkusen, securing the title on the final day. In the same season, Borussia lost the final of the 2002 UEFA Cup to Dutch side Feyenoord.
Dortmund's fortunes have steadily declined since then. Poor financial management led to a heavy debt load and the sale of their Westfalenstadion ground. The situation was compounded by failure to advance in the 2003 Champions League when the team was eliminated on penalties in the qualifying rounds by Club Brugge. Borussia was again driven to the brink of bankruptcy in 2005, the original €11 value of its shares having plummeted by over 80% on the Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Frankfurt Stock Exchange). The response to the crisis included a 20% pay cut to all players. The team still plays at the leased Westfalenstadion, named after its home region of Westphalia. To raise capital, the stadium was renamed Signal Iduna Park, after a local insurance company, in 2006 under a sponsorship agreement that runs until 2011. The stadium is currently the largest football stadium in Germany with a capacity of 81,264 spectators, and hosted several matches in the 2006 World Cup, including a semi-final. Borussia Dortmund enjoys the highest average attendance of any football club in Europe, at 77,510 per match (2007–08).
Current notables on the team roster include Lucas Barrios, Sebastian Kehl, Roman Weidenfeller, Dedê, Nuri Şahin. The team suffered a miserable start to the 2005–06 season, but rallied to finish seventh. The club failed to gain a place in the UEFA Cup via the Fair Play draw. The club's management recently indicated that the club again showed a profit, however, this was largely related to the sale of David Odonkor to Real Betis and Tomáš Rosický to Arsenal.
In the 2006–07 season, the club unexpectedly faced serious relegation trouble for the first time in years. The team went through three coaches and appointed Thomas Doll on 13 March 2007 after dropping to just one point above the relegation zone. Christoph Metzelder also left Borussia Dortmund on a free transfer.
In the 2007–08 season, the club has lost to many of the smaller clubs in the Bundesliga. This season was one of the worst in 20 years. Nevertheless, they reached the German Cup Final against Bayern Munich where they lost 2–1 in extra time. The final appearance qualified Dortmund for the UEFA Cup because Bayern already qualified for the Champions League.
Recent seasons
Year Division Position 1999–2000 Bundesliga (I) 11th 2000–01 Bundesliga (I) 3rd 2001–02 Bundesliga (I) 1st 2002–03 Bundesliga (I) 3rd 2003–04 Bundesliga (I) 6th 2004–05 Bundesliga (I) 7th 2005–06 Bundesliga (I) 7th 2006–07 Bundesliga (I) 9th 2007–08 Bundesliga (I) 13th 2008–09 Bundesliga (I) 6thNational titles
1989, 1995, 1996 European titles
1997
1966 International titles
1997 Youth
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
1984, 1993, 1996, 1998
2009
2008
Now it`s 2009 , and i , Mike Nolan , i`m taking charge of this great football club , with the only goal to to win Bundesliga in max 3 years , if not i will resign as manager.
It`s going to be difficult in my first year , because i don`t have money for transfers, so i have to sell players i don`t need in order to have money to spend.
Transfer center :
IN : - Ebi Smolarek - free
- George Ogararu - Ajax - 325 K
- Abou Diaby - Arsenal - 2.9 M Total : 4.2 M
- dos Santos - Barcelona - 1M
OUT:
- Yasin Oztekin - Gladbach - 1.3 M
- Jakub Blaszczykowski - Real Madrid - 7 M Total : 8.3 M
Pre Season Friendlys G: 11----- W: 9----- D: 0----- L: 2
First 11 :
GK: Roman Weidenfeller
DR : George Ogararu
DL : Dede
CD : Felipe Santana
CD : Neven Subotic
DMC : Sebastian Kehl
MC : Nuri Sahin
MC : Tamas Hajnal
AMC : Mohamed Zidan
ST : Ebi Smolarek
ST : Dimitar Rangelov
The season starts for me with away game in German Cup 1st Round:
1.08.2009 - German Cup 1st Round :
VfR Wormatia Worms - Borussia Dortmund 0 - 8 (Zidan - 2 ; Rangelov - 2 ; Diaby - 1 ; Santana - 1 ; Sahin - 1 ; Barrios - 1)
7.08.2009 - Bundesliga :
Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Borussia Dortmund 0 - 1 (Santana (69); red card Santana (78))
Stay tuned -- > more to come as the season just started .
Early years
The club was founded 19 December 1909 by a group of young men unhappy with church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football under the stern and unsympathetic eye of the local parish priest. Father Dewald was blocked at the door when he tried to break up the organizing meeting being held in a room of the local pub, Zum Wildschütz. The name Borussia is Latin for Prussia and was taken from the nearby Borussia brewery. The team began play in blue and white striped shirts with a red sash, and black shorts. In 1913, they donned the black and yellow strip so familiar today.
Over the next decades the club enjoyed only modest success playing in local leagues. They had a brush with bankruptcy in 1929 when an attempt to boost the club's fortunes by signing some paid professional footballers failed miserably and left the team deep in debt. They survived only through the generosity of a local supporter who covered the team's shortfall out of his own pocket.
Entry to the Bundesliga
In 1962, the DFB met in Dortmund and voted to finally establish a professional football league in Germany to begin play in August 1963 as the Bundesliga. Borussia earned its place among the first sixteen sides to play in the new league by winning the last pre-Bundesliga championship. Losing club Köln also earned an automatic berth. It was Dortmund's Friedhelm Konietzka who scored the first-ever Bundesliga goal barely a minute into a match which they would eventually lose 2–3 to Werder Bremen.
In 1965, Dortmund captured its first German Cup. They had a mixed result the next year when they won the European Cup Winners Cup, but surrendered a commanding position atop the Bundesliga by losing four of their last five league games and finishing second, three points behind champions 1860 Munich. Ironically, much of 1860's success came on the strength of the play of Konietzka, recently transferred there from Dortmund. The 70s were characterized by financial problems and relegation from the Bundesliga in 1972 and the opening of the Westfalenstadion, named after its home Land, Westphalia in 1974. The club earned its return to Bundesliga in 1976, but continued to suffer from financial problems through the 80s. BVB narrowly avoided being relegated again in 1986 by winning a third decisive play-off-game against Fortuna Köln after finishing the regular season in 16th place.
The club did not enjoy any significant success again until a German Cup win in 1989.
The 90s
Fortune smiled on them in 1993 with a run to the UEFA Cup final, which they lost 1–6 on aggregate to Juventus. In spite of this result, Borussia walked away with DM25 million under the prize money pool system in place at the time for German sides participating in the Cup. Cash flush, Dortmund was able to sign players who later brought them a string of honours through the rest of the 1990s. They won Bundesliga championships in 1995 and 1996 — with Matthias Sammer from the '96 side being named European Footballer of the Year.
In a memorable 1997 UEFA Champions League Final in Munich, Dortmund faced a Juventus team featuring Zinedine Zidane. Karl-Heinz Riedle put Dortmund ahead finishing from Paul Lambert's cross. Riedle then made it 2 with a bullet header from a corner kick. In the second half, Alessandro Del Piero pulled one back for Juve. Then 20-year old substitute and local boy Lars Ricken latched on to a through pass by Andreas Möller. Only sixteen seconds after coming on to the pitch, Ricken chipped Angelo Peruzzi in the Juventus goal from over 20 yards with his first touch of the ball. With Zidane unable to make an impression against Lambert's marking Borussia lifted the trophy 3–1.
Borussia then went on to beat Brazilian club Cruzeiro 2–0 in the 1997 Intercontinental Cup Final.
21st century and Borussia "goes public"
At the turn of the millennium, Borussia Dortmund became the first — and so far the only — publicly traded club on the German stock market. Two years later they won their third Bundesliga title. The club had a remarkable run at the end of the season to overtake Bayer Leverkusen, securing the title on the final day. In the same season, Borussia lost the final of the 2002 UEFA Cup to Dutch side Feyenoord.
Dortmund's fortunes have steadily declined since then. Poor financial management led to a heavy debt load and the sale of their Westfalenstadion ground. The situation was compounded by failure to advance in the 2003 Champions League when the team was eliminated on penalties in the qualifying rounds by Club Brugge. Borussia was again driven to the brink of bankruptcy in 2005, the original €11 value of its shares having plummeted by over 80% on the Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Frankfurt Stock Exchange). The response to the crisis included a 20% pay cut to all players. The team still plays at the leased Westfalenstadion, named after its home region of Westphalia. To raise capital, the stadium was renamed Signal Iduna Park, after a local insurance company, in 2006 under a sponsorship agreement that runs until 2011. The stadium is currently the largest football stadium in Germany with a capacity of 81,264 spectators, and hosted several matches in the 2006 World Cup, including a semi-final. Borussia Dortmund enjoys the highest average attendance of any football club in Europe, at 77,510 per match (2007–08).
Current notables on the team roster include Lucas Barrios, Sebastian Kehl, Roman Weidenfeller, Dedê, Nuri Şahin. The team suffered a miserable start to the 2005–06 season, but rallied to finish seventh. The club failed to gain a place in the UEFA Cup via the Fair Play draw. The club's management recently indicated that the club again showed a profit, however, this was largely related to the sale of David Odonkor to Real Betis and Tomáš Rosický to Arsenal.
In the 2006–07 season, the club unexpectedly faced serious relegation trouble for the first time in years. The team went through three coaches and appointed Thomas Doll on 13 March 2007 after dropping to just one point above the relegation zone. Christoph Metzelder also left Borussia Dortmund on a free transfer.
In the 2007–08 season, the club has lost to many of the smaller clubs in the Bundesliga. This season was one of the worst in 20 years. Nevertheless, they reached the German Cup Final against Bayern Munich where they lost 2–1 in extra time. The final appearance qualified Dortmund for the UEFA Cup because Bayern already qualified for the Champions League.
Recent seasons
Year Division Position 1999–2000 Bundesliga (I) 11th 2000–01 Bundesliga (I) 3rd 2001–02 Bundesliga (I) 1st 2002–03 Bundesliga (I) 3rd 2003–04 Bundesliga (I) 6th 2004–05 Bundesliga (I) 7th 2005–06 Bundesliga (I) 7th 2006–07 Bundesliga (I) 9th 2007–08 Bundesliga (I) 13th 2008–09 Bundesliga (I) 6thNational titles
- Bundesliga: 6
- German Cup: 2
1989, 1995, 1996 European titles
1997
1966 International titles
1997 Youth
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
1984, 1993, 1996, 1998
2009
2008
Now it`s 2009 , and i , Mike Nolan , i`m taking charge of this great football club , with the only goal to to win Bundesliga in max 3 years , if not i will resign as manager.
It`s going to be difficult in my first year , because i don`t have money for transfers, so i have to sell players i don`t need in order to have money to spend.
Transfer center :
IN : - Ebi Smolarek - free
- George Ogararu - Ajax - 325 K
- Abou Diaby - Arsenal - 2.9 M Total : 4.2 M
- dos Santos - Barcelona - 1M
OUT:
- Yasin Oztekin - Gladbach - 1.3 M
- Jakub Blaszczykowski - Real Madrid - 7 M Total : 8.3 M
Pre Season Friendlys G: 11----- W: 9----- D: 0----- L: 2
First 11 :
GK: Roman Weidenfeller
DR : George Ogararu
DL : Dede
CD : Felipe Santana
CD : Neven Subotic
DMC : Sebastian Kehl
MC : Nuri Sahin
MC : Tamas Hajnal
AMC : Mohamed Zidan
ST : Ebi Smolarek
ST : Dimitar Rangelov
The season starts for me with away game in German Cup 1st Round:
1.08.2009 - German Cup 1st Round :
VfR Wormatia Worms - Borussia Dortmund 0 - 8 (Zidan - 2 ; Rangelov - 2 ; Diaby - 1 ; Santana - 1 ; Sahin - 1 ; Barrios - 1)
7.08.2009 - Bundesliga :
Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Borussia Dortmund 0 - 1 (Santana (69); red card Santana (78))
Stay tuned -- > more to come as the season just started .
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but good luck
Should be interesting.