Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund or by its initialism BVB, 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, five DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, and one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
Borussia Dortmund in 1913
Borussia Dortmund in 2007
Borussia Dortmund players celebrate winning the Bundesliga in 2011.
Borussia Dortmund fans at Wembley Stadium during the 2013 Champions League final
Dortmund is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 612,065 inhabitants, it is the largest city of the Ruhr as well as the largest city of Westphalia. It lies on the Emscher and Ruhr rivers in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, and is considered the administrative, commercial, and cultural centre of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area, after Hamburg.
Image: Zeche Zollern Dortmund Bövinghausen
Image: Alte Markt Dortmund
Image: Platz der Deutschen Einheit
Historical view of Dortmund by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg (between 1572 and 1618)
