Germany · Dortmund · Signal Iduna ParkYou'll Never Walk Alone
Yes, the same song as Liverpool. Dortmund sing it too, and both sets of supporters are entirely comfortable with that.
Congratulations, that is your club
Welcome to Borussia Dortmund. You are Schwarzgelben now, if you want to be.
Nothing is binding here and nobody is checking. Plenty of people follow more than one club, and plenty change their mind in the first season. Everything below is what to know as you start.
Home of the Yellow Wall, the largest standing terrace in European football, and a club known for developing young players, including several Americans, before selling them on.
Club facts
- League
- Bundesliga
- Position
- 2nd, 73 points
- Founded
- 1909
- Stadium
- Signal Iduna Park
- Colours
- Black / Yellow
- Nickname
- BVB
Last season
Dortmund finished 2nd in the Bundesliga with 73 points from 34 matches: 22 won, 7 drawn, 5 lost. That is inside the places that qualify for the Champions League, which is the competition every club in Europe is trying to reach. That is the 2025-26 season; 2026-27 has only just kicked off.
See the full tableWhen they next play
The first question most new supporters have. Kickoff times are shown as dates here; exact times shift for television.
- Sat, Aug 29Home against HSV
- Sat, Sep 5Away against Hoffenheim
- Sat, Sep 12Home against SC Paderborn
- Sat, Sep 19Away against Stuttgart
- Fri, Oct 9Home against Bremen
Fixture list retrieved 2026-08-04. Matches move.
What to know before you follow them
Dortmund are the perennial second-best club in Germany and sell their best players regularly, often to Bayern. The atmosphere is the reason people stay.
The colours and the crowd
Supporters are known as Schwarzgelben.
- Yellow
#fde100 - Black
#000000
What people sing
Heja BVB
The club anthem, sung before kickoff. Short, repetitive, and designed for 80,000 people to manage at once.
Who the rivals are
- Schalke 04
- The Revierderby, between two clubs a few miles apart in the old coal and steel region. Among the most hostile fixtures in Europe.
- Bayern Munich
- Less a derby than a grievance: Bayern have repeatedly signed Dortmund's best players.
Following them from America
Grew substantially while Christian Pulisic and Giovanni Reyna were at the club, and a good deal of it stayed after they left.
Strongest in
The squad
29 players. 11 played at the 2026 World Cup.
Goalkeeper
Defender
Midfielder
Forward
What next
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