Borussia Dortmund

The club the Ruhr built. Founded above a pub on 19 December 1909 by young men who broke away from a church team, Borussia Dortmund became the first German side to win a European trophy, went bankrupt in all but name twice, and turned a standing terrace into the loudest twenty-five thousand seats in football. Told through the surviving newsreels of the 1956 and 1963 championships, the full film of the 1966 Cup Winners' Cup final at Hampden Park, Riedle and Ricken in Munich in 1997, the Klopp years, the Yellow Wall in full voice, the Revierderby, and the days the club would rather forget.

A chronological documentary of 722 moments spanning 1949–2026 on Loreline.

Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-20

Eras

Club & Roots, Borussia Dortmund began on 19 December 1909 in the Zum Wildschütz pub, named for the brewery across the road, playing on a field called the Weiße Wiese. This is the deep past, the earliest surviving film, the first German championships of 1956, 1957 and 1963, and the move to the Westfalenstadion in 1974.
Das Revierderby, Dortmund against Schalke 04, thirty kilometres and a century of coal apart. The oldest surviving derby film from 1951, the 4-4 in 2017 when a four-goal lead evaporated, and the ghost derby played to an empty stadium in May 2020.
Titles, Eight German championships across seventy years, from the pre-Bundesliga finals of the 1950s to the Klopp doubles. The clinchers, the trophy lifts, the Hohensyburg parties, and the last day in 2023 when the title was there to be taken and was not.
European Nights, Hampden Park in 1966, when Dortmund became the first German club to win a European trophy. Munich in 1997. Wembley in 2013 and again in 2024. The Real Madrid semi-final, Anfield, and the nights the Westfalenstadion sounded like nowhere else.
Relegation & the Bus Attack, Relegation in 1972. The near-insolvency of 2005, when the club came within days of ceasing to exist. The team bus attacked on 11 April 2017 and the match played the following night. And 27 May 2023, when a whole city had already started celebrating.
Yellow Wall, Die Südtribüne, twenty-five thousand standing, the largest terrace in European football. The choreographies, the pyrotechnics, "You'll Never Walk Alone" before kickoff, and the ground itself from the Stadion Rote Erde to the Signal Iduna Park.
Cups, The DFB-Pokal runs and the finals in Berlin, the Supercups, and the 1997 Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo that made Dortmund champions of the world.
Legends, The players and managers who defined the club in black and yellow: Sammer, Kohler, Riedle, Ricken, Chapuisat, Möller, Zorc, Weidenfeller, Hummels, Kagawa, Reus, and the touchlines of Hitzfeld, Klopp, Tuchel, Favre and Terzić.
Academy, The talent factory. Dortmund buys young, plays them, and sells high, Sancho, Haaland, Bellingham, Pulisic, Dembélé, Moukoko, Brandt, Adeyemi. Their Dortmund years only: what they did in yellow, before the move.

1949-06-26 - 1949 German championship final vs VfR Mannheim - BVB's first national final. Oldest genuine BVB match film found, the club's first German championship final. Silent black-and-white newsreel match film; archive clip series that posts raw period reels with no presenter or narration Via BVBounty: “Die schwarz gelbe Nacht // Deutsche Meisterschaft 1949 // VFR Mannheim - Borussia Dortmund”.
1955 - Oberliga West 1955/56 at Schalke 04 (3-1) - the championship season. Derby win from the season that ended in BVB's first German title. Original black-and-white Oberliga newsreel. Matchday date approximate within the season. Via Königsblaues Archiv: “Oberliga West 55/56 - FC Schalke 04 vs. Borussia Dortmund 1:3”.
1956-06-24 - German championship final 1956 vs Karlsruher SC. Archival newsreel footage of BVB's first-ever German championship win, 4-2 over Karlsruhe in Berlin. Via BVBounty: “Die schwarz gelbe Nacht // Deutsche Meisterschaft 1956 // Borussia Dortmund - Karlsruher SC”.
1956-06-24 - German championship final 1956 vs Karlsruher SC. Black-and-white match footage of the actual 1956 final, dated to the day. Via All world football in one place: “24.06.1956 Germany Championship Final Borussia Dortmund - Karlsruher 4-2”.
1957-06-23 - German championship final 1957 vs Hamburger SV. Newsreel clip of the 4-1 win over HSV in Hannover that made BVB the first club to defend the German title in the post-war era. Via BVBounty: “Die schwarz gelbe Nacht // Deutsche Meisterschaft 1957 // Borussia Dortmund - Hamburger SV”.
1963-06-29 - German championship final 1963 - TV post-match review. SWR Retro archive broadcast: the original Abendschau post-match review of the championship final. Exact day unconfirmed. Via Frisenius Sternau: “SWR Retro, Abendschau: Fussball - Nachlese Endspiel Deutsche Meisterschaft: Borussia Dortmund -...”.
1963-06-29 - 1963 German championship final vs 1. FC Köln - full match - second half. The complete 1963 final as it was televised. 90-minute full-length black-and-white broadcast recording; the length itself rules out a modern edit Via Judge Dread: “Deutsche Meisterschaft 1963 Finale Borussia Dortmund v 1. FC Köln”. Chapter 2 of 3, deep-linked into the full 91-minute recording from 30:00.
1963-06-29 - German championship final 1963 vs 1. FC Köln. Contemporary newsreel of the 1963 Dortmund-Köln final; silent-era archive print. Exact day unconfirmed. Via Ron Wallasey: “Dortmund v Köln (1963)”.
1963-06-29 - German championship final 1963 vs 1. FC Köln. Longest clean archival cut of the last pre-Bundesliga German championship final, BVB 3-1 Köln in Stuttgart. Via BVBounty: “Die schwarz gelbe Nacht // Deutsche Meisterschaft 1963 // Borussia Dortmund - 1. FC Köln”.
1963-12-04 - European Cup: BVB 5-0 Benfica at the Rote Erde. BVB thrashing Eusebio's Benfica 5-0, one of the great early European nights. Contemporaneous black-and-white European Cup newsreel highlights, dated to the exact match day Via sp1873: “1963 December 4 Borussia Dortmund West Germany 5 Benfica Portugal 0 Champions Cup”.
1963-12-18 - European Cup R16 2nd leg vs Benfica (5-0). Second archival print of the Benfica demolition, from a German archive uploader. Via portoaffe2: “1963/1964 European Champions Cup 1/8 2nd leg Borussia Dortmund vs Benfica Lissabon”.
1965-02-06 - Bundesliga 1964/65 at 1860 München. BVB in the Bundesliga's second season, on genuine broadcast film. Original black-and-white German TV match recording; archive channel indexes by season and matchday. Date approximate within the season. Via portoaffe2: “1964/1965 20. Spieltag 1860 München - Borussia Dortmund”.
1965 - DFB-Pokal 1963 vs Alemannia Aachen. Period cup football from the year the Bundesliga was founded. Short black-and-white cup-tie reel from the archive clip series. Exact tie date not stated; year is certain. Via BVBounty: “Die schwarz gelbe Nacht // DFB Pokal 1963 // Borussia Dortmund - Alemannia Aachen”.
1966 - The 1965/66 Borussia Dortmund side. The team that would win Europe, filmed in its own season. Short black-and-white reel of the 1965/66 squad from a vintage-football archive channel; no modern narration apparent from the title Via StorieDiCalcio: “1965-66 Borussia Dortmund”.
1966-04-27 - Cup Winners' Cup semi-final 2nd leg vs West Ham United. Archival match footage of the semi-final that put BVB into the 1966 Hampden Park final. Via J.: “1965-66 Borussia Dortmund - West Ham Utd Cup Winners Cup Semi Final 2nd leg”.
1966-05-05 - Cup Winners' Cup final 1966 vs Liverpool (Hampden Park) (4 of 4). Long-form highlights of the 2-1 after extra time, including Libuda's winner off the post. Via FG Highlights: “Liverpool - B. Dortmund ✦ UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final 1965/1966 (Highlights)”.
1966-05-05 - Cup Winners' Cup final 1966 vs Liverpool (Hampden Park) (1 of 4). Ten minutes of original broadcast footage from the final in which BVB became the first German club to win a European trophy. Via gr8footy: “04/05/1966 Cup Winners Cup Final BORUSSIA DORTMUND v LIVERPOOL”.
1966-05-05 - Cup Winners' Cup final vs Liverpool - full match with extra time - second half. The complete Hampden Park final as British viewers saw it in 1966. Full-length original 1966 TV transmission (2h20m); the channel exists to archive period British television broadcasts Via English Football on TV: “(5th May 1966) European Cup Winners Cup Final - Liverpool v Borussia Dortmund”. Chapter 2 of 3, deep-linked into the full 141-minute recording from 46:00.
1966-05-05 - Cup Winners' Cup final 1966 vs Liverpool (Hampden Park) (3 of 4). British Pathé's original 1966 cinema newsreel of the Hampden Park final - the primary-source artifact. Via British Pathé: “Marathon Cup Battle (1966)”.
1966-05-05 - Cup Winners' Cup final vs Liverpool - newsreel cut with Libuda's winner. Short period cut of the 1966 final, including the famous lob that won it. Contemporaneous newsreel highlights of the final; same archive channel as the 1963 Benfica reel Via sp1873: “1966 (May 5) Borussia Dortmund (West Germany) 2-Liverpool (England) 1 (Cup Winners Cup)”.
1966-05-05 - Cup Winners' Cup final 1966 vs Liverpool (Hampden Park) (2 of 4). Spanish-language newsreel cut of the same final; different archive print of the goals. Via A. Cosín: “Final Recopa 1966 Dortmund vs Liverpool 2-1”.
1969-06-07 - Bundesliga 1968/69 final matchday vs Kickers Offenbach. BVB in the late-1960s Bundesliga, on genuine broadcast film. Original German TV match recording from the season/matchday archive channel. Date approximate (final matchday of the season). Via portoaffe2: “1968/1969 34. Spieltag Borussia Dortmund - Kickers Offenbach”.
1969-09-06 - Bundesliga 1969/70 Revierderby vs Schalke 04. The derby at the Rote Erde at the turn of the 1970s. Period German TV match recording; archive channel indexes by season and matchday. Date approximate within the season. Via portoaffe2: “1969/1970 04. Spieltag Borussia Dortmund - FC Schalke 04”.
1969-10-17 - Voorlopig Nederlands elftal tegen Borussia Dortmund te Enschede. Wedstrijd werd. 1969-10-17 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Joost Evers / Anefo. CC0.
1969-10-17 - Voorlopig Nederlands elftal tegen Borussia Dortmund te Enschede. Wedstrijd werd. 1969-10-17 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Joost Evers / Anefo. CC0.
1972-03-11 - BVB v Hertha BSC, matchday 25 of the 1971/72 relegation season. Rare match film from the season BVB were relegated out of the Bundesliga; exact matchday date not stated. Dated from the season stated by the archive (1971/72 matchday 25); the upload date is decades later. Dated to the upload; the clip itself carries no match date. Via portoaffe2: “1971/1972 25. Spieltag Borussia Dortmund - Hertha BSC”.
1974-04-02 - Westfalenstadion opening 1974 newsreel. Short original clip of the 1974 stadium opening, complements the longer reels. Via Tom Lorenz: “1974 Eröffnung Westfalenstadion”.
1974-04-02 - BVB v Schalke 04, the match that opened the Westfalenstadion. Original footage of the derby chosen to inaugurate the new stadium. Via Königsblaues Archiv: “Borussia Dortmund - FC Schalke 04 am 02.04.1974”.
1974-04-02 - Westfalenstadion opening match 2.4.1974. Period footage of the inaugural game in the new stadium, terraces already packed. Via JDW w Fluss GHz Klo Zyklon: “BVB Stadion Eröffnungsspiel 2.4.1974”.
1974-04-02 - Westfalenstadion opening day, first match BVB v Schalke 04. Archive film of the actual 1974 opening of the Westfalenstadion, the ground the Südtribüne was later built into. Via MrHansHempel: “BVB - Westfalenstadion-Eröffnung 1974”.
1974 - The new Westfalenstadion at the 1974 World Cup - amateur Super 8 film. The brand-new stadium filmed by a fan weeks after it opened, for the World Cup it was built for. Explicitly Super 8, amateur cine film shot at the ground during the 1974 World Cup; the format itself dates the footage Via B1toDO: “Dortmund Westfalenstadion WM 74 - Super 8”.
1977-08-01 - Ajax tegen Borussia Dortmund vechtpartijen op tribune. 1977-08-01 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Hans Peters for Anefo. CC0.
1977-08-01 - Ajax tegen Borussia Dortmund politie grijpt in bij vechtpartijen. 1977-08-01 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Hans Peters for Anefo. CC0.
1977-08-01 - Ajax tegen Borussia Dortmund Geels scoort 1-0. 1977-08-01 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Hans Peters for Anefo. CC0.
1977-08-01 - Ajax tegen Borussia Dortmund spelmomenten. 1977-08-01 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Hans Peters for Anefo. CC0.
1980-07-26 - Fußballspiel Holstein Kiel gegen Borussia Dortmund, 1-2 (Kiel 69.837). ). Wikimedia Commons, dated 1980-07-26 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Magnussen, Friedrich (1914-1987). CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
1980-07-26 - Fußballspiel Holstein Kiel gegen Borussia Dortmund, 1-2 (Kiel 69.836). ). Wikimedia Commons, dated 1980-07-26 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Magnussen, Friedrich (1914-1987). CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
1980-07-26 - Fußballspiel Holstein Kiel gegen Borussia Dortmund, 1-2 (Kiel 69.835). ). Wikimedia Commons, dated 1980-07-26 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Magnussen, Friedrich (1914-1987). CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
1985-05-18 - Dortmund Westfalenstadion, 18 Mai 1985, RVR Arcchiv (1304-85). ). Wikimedia Commons, dated 1985-05-18 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Unknown authorUnknown author. dl-de/by-2-0.
1989 - Möller promises the Südtribüne he will not leave BVB. Infamous raw moment from his first stint, later broken 1989/90, Möller in front of the Dortmund South Stand during his first BVB spell Date approximate, anchored within the subject's Dortmund spell. Via portoaffe2: “1989/1990 Andy Möller verspricht vor der Süd NICHT nach der Saison den BVB zu verlassen.....”.
1989-06-24 - DFB-Pokal final 1989. Compact archival cut of the 1989 final dated to the day. Via flemmingx: “Mythos, Legende, Wundertag: Pokalfinale 24.06.1989 - BVB - Bremen 4:1”.
1989-06-24 - DFB-Pokal final 1989 vs Werder Bremen. Broadcast highlights of the 4-1 in Berlin - Norbert Dickel's two goals and BVB's first trophy in 23 years. Via DFBpokalsieger2012: “Borussia Dortmund - Werder Bremen 4:1 (1989 DFB-Pokal-Finale)”.
1989-06-24 - DFB-Pokal final 1989 - Olympiastadion recording. 22-minute period recording of the final and the ceremony in the Olympiastadion. Via encorra2: “DFB Pokalfinale 1989: BVB 09 Borussia Dortmund - Werder Bremen in Berlin Olympiastadion (SIW)”.
1989-06-24 - DFB-Pokal final 1989 - full WDR programme. Complete WDR programme on the 1989 cup win - the definitive TV document of the 'Wundertag'. Via BVBounty: “Die schwarz gelbe Nacht // Der Pokalsieg WDR 1989 // Borussia Dortmund - Werder Bremen”.
1995-06-17 - Bundesliga title 1994-95 - final day. Broadcast highlights of the moment BVB clinched their first Bundesliga title under Hitzfeld. Via Bundesliga Oldies: “Borussia Dortmund ist deutscher Meister 1995, BL 1994/95 Highlights”.
1995-06-17 - Bundesliga title 1994-95 - final day conference. Full original matchday-34 TV conference feed as the title was decided live - unedited period broadcast, not a recap. Via dennis82do: “BVB Deutscher Meister 1995 - 34. Spieltag Konferenz”.
1995-06-17 - Bundesliga title 1994-95 - title race decider. Period TV coverage of the Bremen-vs-Dortmund title race on the deciding day. Via 90er TV: “Finale um den Meister 1995: Werder oder BVB?”.
1995-06-18 - Bundesliga title 1994-95 - championship celebration. Real footage of the 1995 title celebration and trophy lift. Via 90er TV: “Meisterfeier Borussia Dortmund 1995”.
1995-11-09 - Deutscher Fußballmeister 1995-Borussia Dortmund. 1995-11-09 from the file's own EXIF capture time. Photograph: Deutsche Post AG. Public domain.
1996-05-18 - Bundesliga title 1995-96 - final day. Broadcast clip of the exact moment the 1996 title was sealed. Via Bundesliga Oldies: “Borussia Dortmund ist deutscher Meister 1996, BL 1995/96 34.Spieltag”.

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