| Ground Info |  Westfalenstadion is a football stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which is the home of Borussia Dortmund. Officially called Signal Iduna Park for sponsorship reasons, the name derives from the former Prussian province of Westphalia. The stadium is one of the most famous football stadiums in Europe and is renowned for its atmosphere. It has a league capacity of 81,365 (standing and seated) and an international capacity of 65,829 (seated only). It is Germany's largest stadium, the seventh-largest in Europe, and the second-largest home to a top-flight European club after Camp Nou and before the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. It holds the European record for average fan attendance, set in the 2011–2012 season with almost 1.37 million spectators over 17 games at an average of 80,588 per game. Sales of annual season tickets amounted to 55,000 in 2015. The 24,454 capacity Südtribüne (South Bank) is the largest terrace for standing spectators in European football. Famous for the intense atmosphere it breeds, the south terrace has been nicknamed Die Gelbe Wand, meaning "The Yellow Wall". The Borusseum, the museum of Borussia Dortmund, is located in the north-east part of the stadium. The stadium hosted matches in the 1974 and 2006 FIFA World Cups. It also hosted the 2001 UEFA Cup Final. Various national friendlies and qualification matches for World and European tournaments have been played there as well as matches in European club competitions. |
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| Honours | Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund BVB, or simply Dortmund, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. 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. The club have won eight league championships, four DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, and one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
Founded 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. The club has active departments in other sports, namely in women's handball. 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.
Borussia Dortmund's colours are black and yellow, giving the club its nickname die Schwarzgelben. They hold a long-standing rivalry with Ruhr neighbours Schalke 04, with whom they contest the Revierderby. They also contest Der Klassiker with Bayern Munich.
In terms of Deloitte's annual Football Money League, Dortmund was in 2015 ranked as the second richest sports club in Germany, and the 12th richest football team in the world. 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. They have also received plaudits for generally adhering to an attacking footballing philosophy.
Honours:
Domestic
German Championship/Bundesliga
Winners: 1956, 1957, 1963, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2001–02, 2010–11, 2011–12
Runners-up: 1949, 1961, 1965–66, 1991–92, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2019–20
2. Bundesliga North
Runners-up: 1975–76
DFB-Pokal
Winners: 1964–65, 1988–89, 2011–12, 2016–17
Runners-up: 1962–63, 2007–08, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
DFB/DFL-Supercup
Winners: 1989, 1995, 1996, 2013, 2014, 2019
Runners-up: 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2020
DFB-Ligapokal
Runners-up: 2003
DFB-Hallenpokal
Winners: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1999 (record)
All-time Bundesliga table.
Second all time
European
Borussia Dortmund Bundesliga and UEFA Continental Trophies
Borussia Dortmund's Domestic German and UEFA
Continental Trophies showcased at the Borusseum
UEFA Champions League
Winners: 1996–97
Runners-up: 2012–13
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Winners: 1965–66
UEFA Cup
Runners-up: 1992–93, 2001–02
UEFA Super Cup
Runners-up: 1997
International
Intercontinental Cup
Winners: 1997 |
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