Like every other organisation in Germany, Borussia was dissolved by the Allied occupation authorities after the war in an attempt to distance the country's institutions from its recent Nazi past. It was during this time that Borussia developed its intense rivalry with Schalke 04 of suburban Gelsenkirchen, the most successful side of the era (see Revierderby). The club did have greater success in the newly established Gauliga Westfalen, but would have to wait until after the Second World War to make a breakthrough. Borussia's president was replaced when he refused to join the Nazi Party, and a couple of members who surreptitiously used the club's offices to produce anti-Nazi pamphlets were executed in the last days of the war. The 1930s saw the rise of the Third Reich, which restructured sports and football organisations throughout the nation to suit the regime's goals. They survived only through the generosity of a local supporter who covered the team's shortfall out of his own pocket. 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. Over the next decades the club had only modest success playing in local leagues. In 1913, they donned the black and yellow stripes for the first time. The team began playing in blue and white striped shirts with a red sash, and black shorts. The name Borussia is Latin for Prussia but was taken from Borussia beer from the nearby Borussia brewery in Dortmund. 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.
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They hold a long-standing rivalry with Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, with whom they contest the Revierderby.
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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 189,000 members in 2023, making Borussia Dortmund the fifth largest sports club by membership in the world. 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: ⓘ), BVB ( pronounced ⓘ), or simply Dortmund ( pronounced ⓘ), is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia.