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Borussia Dortmund

Value$2.91BHeartbreak#8016.7Top TeamRhine-Ruhr

Dortmund, Rhine-Ruhr · Germany · Bundesliga

League titles
8
last 2012
Major cups
16
last 2021
Top-2 finishes
20
Top-4 finishes
35

Power-ranking history

Rank (1 = best)1439Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.069/7079/8089/9099/0009/1019/20

Against expectation

Every German top-flight match this club has played in the Bundesliga, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 58 seasons from 1963-64 to 2024-25 it has beaten them by +30.0 match points.

1963-64 to 2024-25one bar per season · height in match points

Best season against expectation
2011-12 +15.6 league pts
81 points on 65.4 expected as Borussia Dortmund
Worst season against expectation
2014-15 −14.3 league pts
46 points on 60.3 expected as Borussia Dortmund

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1995-96 and three from it; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.

1991-92 table not final: source truncated on 1992-04-25, last 4 matchdays absent, 340 of 380.

Rhine-Ruhr against expectation →How this is measured →

Title chances

This side's chance in each title race we forecast, frozen and scored like every forecast here.

Season simulation · 30 Oct 2026

Who will win the Champions League?

2%Borussia Dortmund's chance

From 10,000 simulated seasons, updated daily. The frozen, scored forecast names the leading sides only.

Full odds tableTrack record

Full odds: Bundesliga · Champions League · every title race

What the squad was worth

Total market value of the squad, EUR millions, by month; the player count beside it is the size of the priced squad.

How this is measured

Drawn as a step, not a curve: Transfermarkt reprices every squad in December and June (marked with a small tick on the axis) and revalues continuously between, so the line only moves when a real valuation changed, never by interpolation.

A month renders no value at all once the priced squad falls below 15 players, so a thin squad is never shown as a cheap one. The series is floored at July 2012 on purpose: earlier Transfermarkt totals reflect which players happened to be priced yet rather than the squad’s real worth, and are excluded rather than shown misleadingly low.

Upstream (dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets) has been paused since July 2026, so the series ends where the source ends rather than where the season does.

Player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

What the squad was worth€476m
037675212-1314-1516-1718-1920-2122-2324-25

Peak
€696m in Mar 2020 · 27 players valued
Most recent
€476m in Jun 2026 · 25 players valued

Rhine-Ruhr on the rankings →

Who controls the club

The entity that holds control today, one per franchise; co-controllers and minority holders are listed, never summed.

How this is measured

Exactly one control entity is recorded per franchise, so a portfolio can never count a club twice. Co-controllers and minority holders are shown as published and carry no weight in any total.

The chip names the evidence. Sourced: a primary source is linked (league, club, filing or tier-one outlet). Cross-checked: matched against the ownership-change sweep. Contested: disputed or mid-sale. Rows are reviewed weekly.

Stakes are as published, often only “majority”, and are not pro-rated. A record of control is not a claim about anyone’s intent or conduct.

Who controls the clubBallspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, via the general partner
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, via the general partnerlisted company· e.V. holds 5.45% of shares but controls the general partner
Sourcedas of 30 Jun 2025

Minority holders: Bernd Geske (8.30%), Evonik (8.20%), Signal Iduna (5.98%), Puma (5.32%), Dommermuth (5.03%), free float 61.72%

Do not read the 5.45% as an absence of control. The KGaA structure gives the e.V.-owned general partner management control, which is exactly how BVB complies with 50+1 while being publicly traded on XETRA.

Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, via the general partner on the owners board →

The money ledger

Fees paid and received each season, and what the squad was worth once the trading is netted out.

How this is measured

Spent is the fees paid for players arriving, received the fees for players leaving, both in EUR millions by the July-to-June season of the move. A move with no fee on record (a free, a loan, an undisclosed sum) is counted, never priced: the small figure beside each total is the moves with a fee, plus those without (so 4+3 is four priced arrivals and three unpriced), and a quiet window is not mistaken for a cheap one. Wages are not here: they are estimates nobody licenses, and fees are documented.

Appreciation is the season’s change in squad value with the net spend taken out: buy 100m of players and finish 100m higher is zero; finish 120m higher and the club made 20m of players better, or the market repriced them. It needs a priced squad at both ends of the season (the same 15-player floor as the value chart), so it is blank rather than guessed for a season that lacks one.

The source has been paused since 6 July 2026, so the final row holds only the opening days of its window.

Transfer fees and player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

The money ledger+€119m
Spent
€994m
61 arrivals with a fee
Received
€1.11b
51 departures with a fee
Net
+€119m
154 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€308m
14 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading −€20m and appreciation —. Over the last 5 seasons (2022-23–2026-27), trading −€15m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 56 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 84% EV-positive. €366m deployed for a 1.2× multiplier.

2026-27 spent €20m received —to 6 July 2026
in: Joane Gadou €20m
—
unpriced
2025-26 spent €69m received €75m
in: Fábio Silva €23m
+€33m
squad gain
2024-25 spent €112m received €59m
in: Jobe Bellingham €31m
−€67m
squad gain
2023-24 spent €66m received €136m
in: Felix Nmecha €30m
−€27m
squad gain
2022-23 spent €100m received €82m
in: Sébastien Haller €31m
+€7m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €45m received €109m
in: Donyell Malen €30m
−€25m
squad gain
2020-21 spent €55m received €5m
in: Jude Bellingham €30m
−€16m
squad gain
2019-20 spent €101m received €71m
in: Mats Hummels €31m
−€57m
squad gain

Money against football

Every priced club-season in the six leagues: points against expectation across, squad value gained beyond the net spend up. This club’s seasons are joined.

● the frontier: no other club-season beat it on both axes · ● this club, season by season, the largest dot the latest

Every club’s return on the transfer window →

Greatest games

Borussia Dortmund's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play. H, A and N mark home, away and a neutral venue; a ★ is a curated all-time classic (tap it for the model's own score).All-time board.

1
2013-05-25 · Champions League · German Derby · Final
85.3
game score
2
2017-04-26 · DFB-Pokal · German Derby · Semifinals
80.8
game score
3
2013-04-30 · Champions League · Semifinals · 2nd leg, agg 4-3
79.3
game score
4
2017-04-12 · Champions League · Quarterfinals · 1st leg
78.9
game score
5
1966-05-05 · Cup Winners' Cup · Final
77.9
game score
6
1997-04-09 · Champions League · Semifinals · 1st leg
77.1
game score
7
2014-04-08 · Champions League · Quarterfinals · 2nd leg, agg 2-3
76.8
game score
8
2002-05-08 · UEFA Cup · Final
76.2
game score
9
2014-05-17 · DFB-Pokal · German Derby · Final
75.3
game score
10
2024-04-30 · Champions League · Semi Finals · 1st leg
74.8
game score

Footprint

Tiers played
L1
Top-flight (L1) seasons
60
Pre-Bundesliga national playoff appearances
8
First season
1949
Most recent season
2026

The Heartbreak Index16.7 · #80

The Tortured · European Cup, 1997

16.7
Heartbreak
#80
of 1,138 clubs
#33
in Football
16.7
agony
The clocks
  • Champions-league since 19971.8
  • League title since 20120.3
  • Major trophy since 20210.3
Heaviest wounds

lost the European Cup final, 2024 · lost the European Cup final, 2013 · league runner-up, 2014 · league runner-up, 2013

One formula, every club the site covers. See the whole board →

YouTube

+2,621,373
views gained since 23 Oct 2026
+10,000
subscribers gained since 23 Oct 2026

Open the official channel on YouTube

Calculated by Citizen of Nowhere from YouTube channel statistics, as of 1 Nov 2026. Not part of the Fan Attention Index. Not ranked.

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Bundesliga only. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2027
Bundesliga (1) · P2● live
8 P · 5-3-0 · 14:6 · +8
18
pts
2026
Bundesliga (1) · P2
34 P · 22-7-5 · 70:34 · +36
73
pts
CLCL
2025
Bundesliga (1) · P4
34 P · 17-6-11 · 71:51 · +20
57
pts
CLCL
2024
Bundesliga (1) · P5
34 P · 18-9-7 · 68:43 · +25
63
pts
CLCL
2023
Bundesliga (1) · P2
34 P · 22-5-7 · 83:44 · +39
71
pts
CLCL
2022
Bundesliga (1) · P2
34 P · 22-3-9 · 85:52 · +33
69
pts
CLELCL
2021
Bundesliga (1) · P3
34 P · 20-4-10 · 75:46 · +29
64
pts
PokalCLCL
2020
Bundesliga (1) · P2
34 P · 21-6-7 · 84:41 · +43
69
pts
CLCL
2019
Bundesliga (1) · P2
34 P · 23-7-4 · 81:44 · +37
76
pts
CLCL
2018
Bundesliga (1) · P4
34 P · 15-10-9 · 64:47 · +17
55
pts
CLELCL
2017
Bundesliga (1) · P3
34 P · 18-10-6 · 72:40 · +32
64
pts
PokalCLCL
2016
Bundesliga (1) · P2
34 P · 24-6-4 · 82:34 · +48
78
pts
PokalELCL
Domestic Cup Finals

Most recent first. Every domestic cup final the club has played, including losses. Scheduled finals (date not yet passed) are flagged.

2021
DFB-Pokal
Won
2021
DFL-Supercup
Runner-up
2020
DFL-Supercup
Runner-up
2019
DFL-Supercup
Won
2017
DFB-Pokal
Won
2017
DFL-Supercup
Runner-up
2016
DFB-Pokal
Runner-up
2016
DFL-Supercup
Runner-up
2015
DFB-Pokal
Runner-up
2014
DFB-Pokal
Runner-up
2014
DFL-Supercup
Won
2013
DFL-Supercup
Won
European competition appearances

Most recent first. One row per entry showing the deepest round reached. A Cup Winner badge marks tournaments the club won: gold for the European Cup / Champions League, silver for every other UEFA or Intercontinental trophy.

2025-26
Champions League(CL)
Group stage
2024-25
Champions League(CL)
Quarter-final
2024-25
FIFA Club World Cup(FCWC)
Quarter-final
2023-24
Champions League(CL)
Final
2022-23
Champions League(CL)
Round of 16
2021-22
Champions League(CL)
Group stage
2021-22
Europa League(EL)
Group stage
2020-21
Champions League(CL)
Quarter-final
2019-20
Champions League(CL)
Round of 16
2018-19
Champions League(CL)
Round of 16
2017-18
Champions League(CL)
Group stage
2017-18
Europa League(EL)
Round of 16