Kringe loaned out to Hertha Berlin

Today one of the last remaining members of the team that played the "best second season in history" was granted permission to leave the club. Florian Kringe, 27, then decided it was Hertha of Berlin and not FC Koeln.According to Ruhrnachrichten he has be loaned out to the capitalsiders until the end of this season. Hertha will assume responsibility for the salary and also pay a rumoured low six digit transfer fee for the versatile midfieler.

Good luck Florian and come home soon!

BVB make loss of 5.9 mio Euro

BVB today published the balance sheet for the 2008/09 season which ended on June, 30th. As CEO Watzke told the press the club made a loss of 5.9 mio Euro compared to a win of 0.3 mio Euro the season before. Especially the world finance crisis and missing success on the pitch like a too short DFB cup run added to this result. He is optimistic that this season will see a better financial situation for the club.

jonam, 21.08.2009

Borussia loses 4-1 in Hamburg - real bitter defeat

In the first away match this season Borussia loses 4-1 in Hamburg.

More on this match in our matchreport, which will follow soon.

kha, 15.08.2009

First match - first victory

In this seasons first match Borussiea defeated Cologne 1:0 and missed lots of more chances.

A lot more on our match report which will follow soon.

kha, 08.08.2009

3-1 - Borussia reaches next stage

With a 3-1 victory over Weiden (from germanys 4th division) Borussia reaches the next stage of this seasons Cup.

More on this match in our matchreport which will follow soon.

kha, 01.08.2009

Video: First Barrios training session

Today new signing Lucas "Panther" Barrios joined his new team-mates for a first training session. He looked very good indeed sporting his new outfit.

Barrios, taking Ricken's legendary #18, was ever present in his first training match, scoring a few and working hard. Jürgen Klopp greeted the arrival of the 24-year old Argentinian striker and aftwards had a couple of nice words for him. Barrios returned the kind words and promised nothing but to work, work, work.

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Lucas Barrios joins Borussia

Only a few days after the departure of Alex Frei our new striker was announced.

And it is no one less then this years worldsbest scorer Lucas Barrios from the chilean Club CSD Colo-Colo from Santiago de Chile who scored 37 goals in only 28 matches.

Some more information on the deal and who this Lucas Barrios is you will find shortly on our nice page.

Bienvenido a Dortmund, Lucas Barrios!

kha, 25.07.2009

Alexander Frei leaves Dortmund!

In a sudden shock move Borussia's top striker of the last season, Alexander Frei, leaves Dortmund and joins FC Basel of Switzerland. The 30 years old Swiss national player and skipper had only one year left on his contract with the Westphalian club. Dortmund's officials hesitated to offer him a new contract and wanted to wait how the new season starts. Nonetheless Frei seemed willing to rejoin the club where he started his career. FC Basel will pay 4.25 million Euro and offer Frei a 3 or 4 year contract. We wish him all the best in Switzerland!

jonam, 17.07.2009

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Bundesliga schedule - Koeln first

A few minutes ago the new Bundesliga schedule was revealed. Season kicks off with a home game against FC Koeln Podolski on either August 8th or 9th. The Black'n'Yellows then travel to Hamburg (August 14th - 16th). Other highlights include Bayern (September 11th - 13th) at home, followed by the Derby vs Blue Scum a fortnight later (Sep 25th - 27th). On our 100th anniversary on December 19th we await newly promoted SC Freiburg at home. All matches will be scheduled four weeks in advance.

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Sahin and Subotic extend contracts!

Nuri Sahin signs until 2013 while Neven Subotic added another year to his contract and is now bound to Borussia Dortmund till 2014.

jonam, 28.06.2009

Opponent Round 1

Today the first round of the German cup has been drawn. And Borussia has to start in Weiden this year.

Weiden is located in Bavaria, almost 50 km from the cCzech border. Its team promoted to the fourth league this year.

The match will be played at the weekend of July, 31th to August, 3rd.

kha, 27.06.2009

No more tears

Oh boy! Like in 91/92 it was until the very last minutes of the season Borussia was up for something good! And then it hit us. A deserved 1-1 draw in Gladbach did not last until the very end, when Trochowski scored late in the game to make 3-2 for Hamburg against lousy Frankfurt, who I wish nothing but relegation next year.

A strange season comes to an end! But Borussia is on it's way. Thank you boys!

steph, 23.05.2009

 

3-0 loss in Wolfsburg - EuropaLeague in danger

After seven victories in a row our glorious black and yellow heroes lost in Wolfsburg today.

Everything more on the match and around it follows in our matchreport which will follow soon.

kha, 12.05.2009

"Wir wollen den Trainer sehen! (Klopp come out!)"

It took fiveteen minutes for our fans to chant Jürgen Klopp back on the pitch after the victory against Hamburg.

Goals were scored by Kehl and Alexander Frei (via penalty).

More on that on our Matchreport, which will follow shortly.

kha, 26.04.2009

We win again

After the victories against Bremen, in Berlin, against Cologne our glorius team today won with 2-0 goals in Bochum and gets closer and closer towards position five, which would lead to the direct qualification for the new UEFA Europa League (former UEFA Cup).

More in our matchreport which will follow soon.

kha, 18.04.2009

Dortmund 1 Bremen 0

Borussia 1 Bremen 0. It has been a very long time. A second half Frei penalty made way for the first win in 2009. Match report to follow. For now: CELEBRATE!

steph, 21.03.09

Borussia and Klopp agree on new contract

"We don't buy stars, we form them", said Aki Watzke speaking to the press today. High aims! And for those high aims you need a good and powerful coach. Thus what everybody had been expecting over the past couple of weeks was announced today. Borussia and Jürgen Klopp extended their partnership for two more years. The 41year old, who is on a record breaking draw-streak this season, today signed a contract up until 2012.

steph, 19.03.09

Feulner joins Borussia Dortmund

According to Borussia Dortmund Markus Feulner from the former Klopp team Mainz 05 will join Borussia Dortmund from July 1st, 2009 to June 30th, 2012.

Feulner is 27 years old and started his career in Munich, than moved over to Cologne. From there he went to Mainz and now to Dortmund.

kha, 18.03.2009

Boateng out for four weeks

With Dede and Kuba both getting back into the squad last weekend, Borussia was about to close the sick bay. KP Boateng, on loan from Tottenham until the end of this season, however decided he could use some help. A nuclear spin yesterday rest assured him. The Berlin-born Under21-international will be out for a minium of four weeks with an injured right knee. Get well soon, big boy!

steph, 10.03.2009

Two points more then in die first leg - another draw

Another draw, but no one should be disappointed on it. It was a real "nice to watch" match with everything a good match needs. only one thing was missing - the goals.

More on it on our Match report, which will follow soon.

kha, 28.02.2009

Lucky BVB reaches point "over there"

In todays clash against neighbour Gelsenkirchen Borussia reaches a lucky 1-1 (no news really).

More on the match and disgusting news on the stolen "yellow wall" banner shortly on our matchreport.

kha, 20.02.2009

Great Choreo at Westfalenstadium

This year not only Borussia turns 100 years of age but also we have the chance to celebrate Westfalenstadion's 35th jubilee. The Unity started the celebration with an amazing choreo before the not so great match against Cottbus yesterday.

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Some impressions from todays match

Some impressions from todays match against Cottbus:

Nice choreo from "The Unity" saying: "

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Useless draw - again

Only one point - nothing more reached Borussia in todays Match against Cottbus.

More in our matchreport which will come up soon.

kha, 15.02.2009

Two goals in the last minutes break the neck

After a 1-0 lead after two minutes (scored by Nelson Valdez) two goals of Bayern Munich broke the neck of our squad.

More of the match in Munich in our match report, which will follow soon.

kha, 08.02.2009

BVB strike Hummels deal

Just before Sunday's clash between Borussia Dortmnd and Bayern München both sides finally agreed terms of a permanent move of Mats Hummels. The talented central defender had joined BVB last winter on a loan deal which would have expired this summer. As the 20 years old didn't see any chance to be a regular starter in Bayern's star-packed team his wish was to stay in Dortmund. Michael Zorc and Bayern's manager Uli Hoeneß agreed on a transfer fee of slightly above 4 million Euros. At the same time Hummels signed a deal with Borussia Dortmund worth until 2013.

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Buckley joins FSV Mainz

When Mainz manager Heidel mentionend an upcoming transfer after yesterday's 1-1 draw away to Kaiserslautern, the transfer window was just closing. But within the final 90 minutes Mainz got their fingers on Delron Buckley. The South-African international (72 caps) caps had been benched for most of this season, making only three appearances as a sub. After a summer trial with Hull City and an nearly done deal with Arminia Bielefeld during the winter break, it seemed that the 31year old would spend a few more months on the bench. But as of yesterday night the contract was terminated five months before the end.

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Rukavina a lion for four months

And Michael Zorc's little flea market opens for the last time this winter. After third goalie Kruse left for Augsburg yesterday, Borussia Dortmund today announced the departure of 25year old right back Antonio Rukavina to 1860 Munich. Rukavina will be back in the summer as there is no buy option for the Lions.  "Loaning Rukavina out to 1860 Munich makes perfect sense for both sides. Rukavina will gain some match praxis", said manager Michael Zorc in a press-statement.

steph, 02.02.09

Some pictures from todays clash against Leverkusen

 

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1-1 Draw Nr. 7 against Leverkusen

Ten games at home into the season and tonight we are looking into draw number seven. With three wins in  mind we are still withouth a lost game. Tonight Borussia got the lead after 36 and conceeded the goal after 63. Leverkusen, a CL-candidate, never was superior to our lads. Full match report to follow;

 

Borussia:

Weidenfeller - Owomoyela, Felipe Santana, Subotic, Y.-P. Lee - Tinga - K.-P. Boateng, Kringe - N. Sahin (70. Ötzekin) - Zidan (70.Valdez), Frei

Bayer Leverkusen:

R. Adler - Castro, Sinkiewicz, M.

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Pictures from Borussias Cup defeat

A celebration half an hour before the kick off for Borussias celebration.

A priest gave over the blessed new flag to president Dr.

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Robert Kovac leaves for Zagreb

The rumour first came up on Monday. Dinamo Zagreb had put in an offer for Borussia defender Robert Kovac. On Monday already manager Michael Zorc confirmed those rumours during a press-conference. And just three days later the Berlin-born Croatian international signs with Dinamo Zagreb. The 34year old was on his last season in Dortmund and only fourth defender after young guns Subotic, Santana and Hummels. Zagreb pay a speculated fee of 450.000€ fee for Kovac, who'd been a free agent after this season. He will be replaced by 23year-old Uwe Hünnemeier.

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Kappa to join BVB

Italian sports equipment giant Kappa will become Borussia Dortmund's new jersey sponsor from next season on. The Italian sports equipment company and the Westphalian Bundesliga club signed a contract running till 2012. Rumours are that Kappa will pay a sum between three and four million Euro a year, thus following current jersey sponsor Nike, who were believed to pay 7 million Euro a year. Nonetheless it will strengthen Borussia's financial power as the Nike money was paid at once back in 2004.

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Borussia wins penultimate test match

With the cup-tie against Werder Bremen just over a week away, the Blacknyellows yesterday won their third pre-season match against the wrong Borussia from Moenchengladbach. After a 2-1 loss to SC Freiburg and an easy 3-0 win over VFL Osnabrueck in Marbella (a full report on the training camp will follow later this week) Dortmund cruised past the bottom of the league club. The 4-2 (2-0) saw Alex Frei, Momo Zidan, Tamas Hajnal and Nuri Sahin put their name down on the score sheet. One of the lasting impressions of this match. New kid in town Kevin Prince Boateng again layed one up  - this time for Alex Frei.

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Impressions from Marbella (Winter practicing camp) UPDATE

Some impressions from the practicing camp in Marbella (Spain):

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Kevin Boateng on loan from Tottenham

That was really a late shock transfer. The newswire brought the news around noon and really no one had any clue that Michael Zorc was working on this deal. The hyper-talented versatile midfielder joins us until June 2009. We then have a buy-out option with an undisclosed transfer fee. At all this move makes sense. We lost Kruska and Federico in midfield and we still don't know how long Kehl's injury will take. Kevin Boateng may be the man to fill this gap. The ultra-talented midfielder grew up in Berlin in rough surroundings but made his way through Hertha BSC's youth team.

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Kruska signs with Bruegge

After ten years and 98 games for our first team Marc-Andre Kruska says goodbye to Westfalenstadion and Borussia. The 21 year old Kruska, a local player who cruised through to Borussia's youth teams, today signed a contract with Club Bruegge FC. The Belgium top club (thirteen championships) pays a speculated fee of 750.000€ for the German Under 21-skipper. This season Kruska only apperead as a substitute two times. His last league match for Borussia being the match against VFB Stuttgart. He was only the third holding midfielder after injury-troubled skipper Sebastian Kehl and the Brazilian warrior Tinga.

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Hummels injured again - Kruska wants to leave

Shock after Sundays Indoor Tournament. Mats Hummels got an injury on his inner and outer collateral ligaments. After Dr. Braun examined him, he recievend a cast and will be off for the next six weeks.

But there are also good news on Hummels. As he said, he prefers to stay in Dortmund and wants that matter cleard in the next month. As he also said, after Bayern Munich signing another contract with Demichelis, it would be clear that he would not much next year if he returned to munich.

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"I like it here in Dortmund." – Smalltalk with Mats Hummels

Even after practicing in a real cold and annoying weatherconditions defender Mats Hummels is in good mood and took some time to talk to schwatzgelb.com. He talked about the new strengh in the defense and said something about the coming talks between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. And he let us know that a decision is about to come shortly.
schwatzgelb.com: You had some trouble with injuries. How are you doing now?
Hummels: As you know I returned three weeks ago, I am not really in the rythm, but enough to play.

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Emma kidnapped, travels the world

As Spiegel Online reported yesterday:

Kidnapped by two dutch pilots. September 27th, a small pub in Südlohn, a tiny town close to the dutch border. Mascot Emma goes missing. "It's driving me crazy", says landlord Rob Steverink and adds "We state: Emma, come back now! Otherwise a streak of bad luck will hit our team". Steverink had only just read the bad news in "De Telegraaf". "Of course - we had ruhr-rivals Schalke in mind, two blues had been in our pub that very night when Emma disappeared", explains the somehow relieved landlord.

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Goalless draw against Wolfsburg

A gloomy first advent, a mediocre game, a goalless draw. Yesterday's match against VW-towners VFL Wolfsburg left Borussia without a goal for the first time this season. As Wolfsburg could not get the ball past Weidenfeller it ended 0-0. Borussia stay on sixth spot , two points behind Hamburg (5th) and two in front of struggling Schalke (9th). More to follow in our match report

steph, 01.12.2008

Match Day 18 to 20

For those of you planning a trip to Germany to watch the Black'n'Yellows (hopefully) storm towards Europe, the first three matches 2009 have today been scheduled. It looks like this:

 

Saturday, January 31st Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayer Leverkusen

Sunday, February 8th Bayern Munich vs. Borussia Dortmund

Sunday, February 15th Borussia Dortmund vs. Energie Cottbus

steph, 27.11.2008

 

 

Hajnal honored

Big honor for our playmaker from Hungary. For the second time already the 27y old was voted by sports journalist Hungarian player of the year. Hajnal himself stated that it is a big honor for him and not only his appearances for the national team but also his matches for BVB earned him this title. The prize will be awarded in the week just before christmas.

It's Udinese Calcio

Yesterday's UEFA Cup draw gave Borussia Dortmund a tough task. They have to play the second leg of the first round on October 2nd in the Italian city of Udine, a 100.000 citizen city in a region called Friuli in the northeast of Italy. The first leg will be played on September 18th in Dortmund. Udinese Calcio finished on spot 8 in last year's Serie A.

News from the sick bay

Roman Weidenfeller will miss the next match against east-enders Energie Cottbus. His self-inflicted laceration just above the knee opened again or as bvb.de states "there have been some minor complications". Marc Ziegler will replace him yet again. Roman hopes to be back for the Derby on September 13th. Patience is also the key-word for Tinga, Buckley and Alex Frei who will all not make it into the squad this weekend. Alex Frei plans to make his comeback as a skipper for Switzerland against Luxemburg. The WC-qualification match will be played on September 10th.

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You gotta beat Berlin to go to Berlin

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Draw against Munich

In todays first home match this season, Borussia reached a remarkable draw against record champion Bayern Munich. More in the Matchreport, which will follow soon

Amedick leaves Dortmund

Martin Amedick, 25y old central defender of BVB, was today transferred to second division side 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The  Rhineland-Palatinate based club paid a rumoured transfer fee of 500.000 million Euro and offered Amedick a 3y contract.

News from the first press conference

Some news from today's season opening press conference

Signal Iduna extended the contract for the name rights on Westfalenstadion for six more years up until 2016. Chairman Aki Watzke: "Our partnership has proven to be very special.

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Bayern, Schalke, Stuttgart

German Football League presents new fixture list

Only two days after Torres put a well deserved end to "La Mannschaft's" hope to win Euro 2008 it's finally back to business. New coach Jürgen Klopp and his team will face strong opponents early on next season. Here is how the fixture list for Borussia Dortmund looks like

 

Matchday 1: Leverkusen - BVB (16./17. August)

Matchday 2: BVB - Bayern (22. - 24. August)

Matchday 3: Cottbus - BVB (29. - 31. August)

Matchday 4: BVB - Schlacke (12. - 14.

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