Borussia Monchengladbach

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Borussia Monchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach club emblem
society
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Surname Borussia Association for Physical Exercise 1900 e. V.
Seat Mönchengladbach , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding August 1, 1900
(as FK Borussia 1900)
Colours Black-white-green
Members 93,150 (July 17, 2020)
president Rolf Königs
Football company
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Surname Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH
Shareholder Borussia Association for Physical Exercise 1900 e. V.
Managing directors Rolf Königs
Siegfried Söllner
Stephan AC Schippers
Max Eberl
Website borussia.de
First team
Head coach Marco Rose
Venue Borussia Park
Places 54,022 (max.capacity: 59,724)
league Bundesliga
2019/20 4th Place
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Borussia Mönchengladbach (club name according to the statutes: Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 eV ) is a sports club based in Mönchengladbach on the Lower Rhine .

The club with the club colors black, white and green has over 93,000 members (as of July 2020) and is the seventh largest sports club in Germany and ranked 19th worldwide. The club has 1,000 fan clubs nationwide (as of July 8, 2015) most popular football clubs in Germany. In addition to the men's soccer department, which is divided into a professional and amateur squad and several youth teams, VfL also has a women's soccer team , a handball department and a table tennis department . The first football team rose to the Bundesliga in 1965 and to date has won a total of five national championship titles , three DFB Cup wins and two UEFA Cup wins . The club is in sixth place in the Bundesliga all-time table (as of July 2020). The fast-paced and offensive style of play with which the team dominated the Bundesliga with mainly young players in the 1970s earned the team the nickname "Foal Elf".

The club's professional football department is operated by the Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH corporation , which is wholly owned by the club. The top of the club consists of the president Rolf Königs , the two vice-presidents Siegfried Söllner and Rainer Bonhof , Hans Meyer as another member of the executive committee as well as the managing director Stephan Schippers and the sports director Max Eberl .

History of the club

Founding years and early history of the club until 1933

1900–1933 seasons
season space Points Gates
1900–1904 no participation
3rd class II. District 1904/05 1 - 03: 01
1905/06 - no participation
2nd class II. District 1906/07 1 25: 08 16: 00
2nd class II. District group: B 1907/08 3 19:13 11: 09
B. Class Group South II. District 1908/09 1 09: 03 10: 07
A class II / III district 1909/10 4th 12:12 28:29
A. Class II. / V. District Group West 1910/11 5 21:15 48:31
A. Class Rheinischer Südkreis Group North 1911/12 1 25: 03 53:10
Association league Niederrhein 1912/13 6th 18:18 31:33
District league Rheinischer Nordkreis 1913/14 3 15:13 17:20
District league M.-Gladbach 1914 to 1915, season ended after the outbreak of the First World War
Rheinischer Nordkreis M.-Gladbach 1915/16 2 14: 06 31:23
1916 to 1918, season ended due to the First World War
District league M.-Gladbach 1918/19 - -
District league Rheinischer Westkreis 1919/20 2 31:13 57:32
District league Rheinischer Westkreis 1920/21 2 24:12 63:33
Rheingauliga 1921/22 3 24:12 53:30
Rheingauliga Group West 1922/23 3 13: 07 23:12
Rheingauliga Group West 1923/24 2 14: 06 38:15
Rheingauliga Group West 1924/25 5 11: 09 33:14
Rheingauliga Group West 1925/26 2 16: 04 43:18
Rheinbezirksliga Group 1 1926/27 2 21:27 54:27
Rhine district class group 2 1927/28 2 25: 03 61:22
Rhine district class group 1 1928/29 1 37: 07 76:23
Rheinbezirksliga 1929/30 4th 30:18 68:50
Rheinbezirksliga group 2 1930/31 8th 16:24 31:51
Rheinbezirksliga Group 1 1931/32 5 18:18 45:45
Rheinbezirksliga Group 2 1932/33 8th 22:22 45:36
highlighted in green: promotion to the next higher division
FC Borussia player in 1900
Coat of arms of FC Borussia between 1904 and 1919

The predecessor of the Borussia Mönchengladbach club is a group of players who, after leaving the Germania sports club on November 17, 1899 , founded a syndicate called FC Borussia in the restaurant "Anton Schmitz" on Alsstrasse in Mönchengladbach's Eicken district . Borussia is the Latin name of Prussia to which Mönchengladbach belonged from 1815.

At the beginning of 1900, this syndicate joined the Catholic Marian Youth Congregation in the Eicken district, which already had a soccer field. On August 1, 1900, the syndicate founded the Borussia 1900 football club . After the first sporting successes against neighboring clubs, the club applied for membership in the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Spielverband, founded in 1898 . This led to internal disagreements and in May 1903 the association decided to take the step into independence and to leave the congregation . On March 23, 1910, the Mönchengladbach District Court, which was officially called Munich Gladbach or M.gladbach for short, registered Borussia as number 30 in the register of associations under the name Borussia 1900 M.gladbach .

The West German Game Association , as the Rheinisch-Westfälische Spielverband was called after it was renamed in 1907, assigned Borussia to the third class of the second association district. The team with Hermann Ditgens, the father of the future Borussia player Heinz Ditgens , achieved promotion to the A-class in 1909, which was the top division at the time. Since the West German game association introduced the association league as the top class this year , Borussia remained in the A class and thus second class. In the 1911/12 season, Borussia won the championship in the A-class (Rheinischer Südkreis, Gruppe Nord), rose to the association league and thus to the top class for the first time in its history. With a win against the Essen SpV99 in the district championship, the team made it into the finals of the West German championship . The team lost the final against the Bundesliga champions Cologne BC 01 , from which 1. FC Köln later emerged. Participation in the finals increased the club's profile.

In March 1914, the club acquired the De Kull sports complex , a developed gravel pit, on the site of which the later Bökelberg Stadium was built. Since the association's own funds were not sufficient, the association financed the purchase by issuing share certificates . The First World War began during the stadium expansion phase . Despite adverse circumstances, the club continued to play until 1916. At this point in time, many club members were already convened. As early as the end of 1917, the club resumed gaming. After the war, the club continued to expand the stadium. With the help of the club members, a modern stadium with fencing, ticket booths and drainage was created . The club opened the venue on September 20, 1919 under the name West German Stadium .

In the same year, the club briefly merged with the gymnastics club Germania 1889 to form VfTuR 1889 M. Gladbach in 1919 . With the West German championship in 1920 , the merged club experienced its first major success. Again Borussia and Cologne BC were in the final, this time Borussia won 3-1 in extra time with a penalty goal from center forward Paul Pohl .

By winning the West German championship , VfTuR took part in the final round of the German championship in 1920 . With a 7-0 defeat against SpVgg Fürth , the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals.

Borussia celebrated the next sporting success in 1929 with a 1-0 victory over the reigning West German champions SVg Köln-Sülz 07. In the West German championship, however, the team lost to FC Schalke 04 around the then star Ernst Kuzorra .

1933 to 1945 - Gau and district league

Seasons 1933–1945
season space Points Gates
Gauliga X. Lower Rhine 5 24:20 42:46
Gauliga X. Niederrhein 1934/35 3 22:18 32:24
Gauliga X. Niederrhein 1935/36 9 12:24 24:42
District class group 1 1936/37 2 29:11 58:22
District class group 1 1937/38 3 24:12 55:28
District class group 1 1938/39 1 35: 05 66: 08
District class group 4 1939/40 1 45: 07 98:31
1st class Niederrhein Group 3 1940/41 1 41: 07 92:30
1st class Niederrhein Group 3 1941/42 3 28:16 70:56
1st class Niederrhein Group 3 1942/43 2 27: 09 56:37
District class group 5 1943/44 1 28: 08 75:26
1944/45, season failure due to the Second World War
The first place in the table entitled to finals, none of which the team could win.
Map of the Sportgaue in the Third Reich

After the takeover, the appointed Nazis the SA -member Hans von Tschammer and East 1933 Reich Commissioner for Physical Education and Sport , and shortly thereafter the Reich Sports Leader. In the course of the Gleichschaltung, this dissolved the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise in May 1933 and set up 15 specialist departments, including a specialist football department . At the same time, all associations issued a uniform statute, introduced the leader principle and excluded Jewish members. The new rulers changed the league system in German football and introduced 16 Gauligen , which represented the highest German division. Borussia forced them to merge with the Sport-Club 1894 e. V., the later 1. FC Mönchengladbach . The German Reichsbund classified the forced-amalgamated club in the Lower Rhine Gauliga (see map no. 10 ). The club hired the first coaches that year. The merger was reversed the next year and Borussia rose after three seasons - 1933/34 to 1935/36 - in the district league. The Reich coach Otto Nerz nominated Borussia defender Heinz Ditgens for the German national soccer team despite relegation at the Olympic Games in Berlin . Ditgens became the first national player for Borussia Mönchengladbach. Borussia won in the following seasons in 1939 and 1940 in the district league, but failed in the promotion rounds in these years. After the outbreak of the Second World War, the club tried to maintain the game operation, but stopped it for the 1944/45 season.

Post-war period until 1959

1945–1959 seasons
season space Points Gates Average audience
Short season in the Munich-Gladbach area in 1946 01 15: 05 34: 016 k. A.
District league group 2 1946/47 01 24: 08 39: 027 k. A.
Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 1947/48 06th 18:18 40: 035 k. A.
Landesliga Niederrhein Group 3 1948/49 04th 25:19 47: 024 k. A.
Second League West 1949/50 02 40:20 80: 055 k. A.
Oberliga West 1950/51 14th 25:35 47: 072 15,133
Second League West 1951/52 01 42:14 69: 035 10.133
Oberliga West 1952/53 14th 21:39 31: 080 12,533
Oberliga West 1953/54 12 27:33 56: 073 13,533
Oberliga West 1954/55 14th 26:34 48: 065 13,066
Oberliga West 1955/56 11 26:34 60: 070 13,333
Oberliga West 1956/57 16 10:50 39: 112 07,000
Second League West 1957/58 02 43:17 75: 037 08,467
Oberliga West 1958/59 13 25:35 39: 058 13,733
highlighted in green: promotion to the next higher division

After the Second World War , the club, with the help of the British occupation troops, restored the Bökelberg Stadium, which had meanwhile been converted into a tank workshop, for play operations. The team played their first game after the war in 1946 against Rheydter SV . After two rounds - in 1947/48 and 1948/49 in the Landesliga Niederrhein - Edmund Pulheim took over the club's chairmanship. Under Hans Krätschmer, the team became district league champions in 1947 and rose to the state league. The club signed Paul Pohl and Heinz Ditgens in 1949/50, two former players to the first round of the 2nd League West as coaches. By joining the club in the newly created community of contract players' clubs on July 24, 1949, the players received the status of paid contract players . Borussia rose despite defeats in direct comparison against the competitor and later amateur champion Hombrucher FV 09 as runner-up in the 2nd League West on May 14, 1950 in the then top division, the Oberliga West . At the same time, the local competitor Rheydter SV, who managed the league promotion in Group 1, succeeded. The first season in 1950/51 ended the Borussia in the 16 clubs counting Oberliga West on the under regular conditions class-retaining 14th place. According to the rules in force at the time, the West German Football Association did not recognize a win against Borussia Dortmund won at the green table . The team was relegated to the 2nd League West after a lost playoff against Alemannia Aachen .

Due to the sporting regression, many players left the club. For the new beginning and the return to the league, which succeeded straight away - Borussia won the championship in the 2nd division west in 1951/52 - Borussia hired Fritz Pliska as a playing coach. The league season 1952/53 was similar to the first. Borussia reached 14th place, which this time was enough to stay in the league. For the following season, the new board around the entrepreneur Theo Grams made extensive new purchases. The storm was particularly successful with Heinz Janssen (12 goals), Ewald Nienhaus (15 goals) and Heinz Reh (15 goals) in the 1953/54 season. The team came in twelfth place in the final table. In 1954, the club sold the Bökelberg Stadium due to debts to the city of Munich-Gladbach and from then on rented the stadium. Until the 1955/56 season, the team remained in the lower midfield of the league. On January 30, 1955 there was a 6: 6 against Borussia Dortmund, the highest draw in the club's history.

For the 1956/57 season, Borussia signed Toni Turek as a goalkeeper, one of the 1954 world champions , who made four appearances. In the 1955/56 season, the club signed Albert Brülls , a young player who was to lead the club to win the DFB Cup in 1960. Despite these players, Borussia ended the season in 1957 with 112 goals conceded in last place in the table and was relegated again. The coach used a total of 27 different players. The fans doubted a clear sporting line and the number of viewers declined. The season opening game of the 1956/57 season was attended by 25,000 spectators, while the last game of the following season was only attended by 1,000. As before, Borussia rose again after one season as second in the 2nd League West. In the following years, Borussia consolidated their position in the lower middle of the table. Albert Brülls made his debut in October 1959 under national coach Sepp Herberger in the national team. With Friedhelm Frontzeck, Borussia signed the father of the future player and coach Michael Frontzeck for the 1959/60 season . At home games, Borussia recorded a new record with an average of 15,125 spectators per game.

1960 to 1965 - DFB Cup winner and promotion to the Bundesliga

Seasons 1959/60 - 1964/65
season space Points Gates Average audience
Oberliga West 1959/60 14th 27:33 38:52 16,134
Oberliga West 1960/61 06th 31:29 58:58 22,400
Oberliga West 1961/62 13 21:39 42:57 13,543
Oberliga West 1962/63 11 24:36 44:60 11,200
Regionalliga West 1963/64 08th 41:35 71:47 12,000
Regionalliga West 1964/65 01 52:16 92:39 22,334
Highlighted in yellow: As a relay champion, eligible for promotion to the Bundesliga

In 1960, the club played in the midfield of the Oberliga West and had until then had no noteworthy results in the main round of the DFB Cup. In the first rounds of the cup competition in 1960 at the level of the West German Football Association, Borussia scored successes against FC Geistenbeck (amateurs) and SC Viktoria Köln , the team reached the semi-finals of the WFV Cup by drawing lots. Due to several repetitions, the cup round lasted longer than the season and several players and the coach left the club after the quarter-finals. Borussia went to the semi-finals under the new coach Bernd Oles and with a newly formed team against Borussia Dortmund. After beating Dortmund, Borussia finally celebrated their final victory in the WFV Cup in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion against 1. FC Köln . This victory also meant qualifying for the semi-finals of the DFB Cup, in which the team defeated the reigning German champions Hamburger SV with well-known players such as Uwe Seeler , Klaus Stürmer and Gert Dörfel 2-0. In the cup final , which again took place in the Rheinstadion, Borussia beat Karlsruher SC 3-2 on October 5, 1960 , winning the DFB Cup for the first time.

Following the decision of the North Rhine-Westphalian state government on 11 October in 1960, the city of Munich-Gladbach in Mönchengladbach rename the club is officially since Borussia Monchengladbach .

As the first German soccer team (in addition to the representative of the DFV of the GDR ASK Vorwärts Berlin ), Borussia was able to take part in the European Cup Winners' Cup. Against the later finalists, Glasgow Rangers , the team lost the home game 3-0 and the away game at Ibrox Park 8-0 in the quarterfinals .

The 1961/62 season in the league ended again on 13th place in the table. In the 1962/63 Oberliga season, the club hoped in vain to belong to the group of clubs established by the DFB that would start in the newly founded Bundesliga next year. Helmut Beyer , who remained in office for 30 years, took over the responsibility as president this season and Helmut Grashoff took over the office as second chairman. In July 1962, Borussia signed Fritz Langner as a new coach, who had won the West German championship with Westfalia Herne in 1959 . To the chagrin of the new coach, the new management initially sold the player Albert Brülls to FC Modena in Italy for a record sum of DM 250,000 and thus financially restructured the club. Helmut Grashoff, who took the sum in Italian lira in cash in a suitcase, later said that after the money had been handed over, he was afraid of being “mistaken for a bank robber” . Langner used the proceeds from the transfer to rebuild the squad by signing players like Heinz Lowin , Heinz Crawatzo and Siegfried Burkhardt. This year the A-youth won the West German championship with the later professional players Jupp Heynckes and Herbert L ... The season ended Borussia after a weak first half of the season due to the merits of goalkeeper Manfred Orzessek in eleventh place in the table.

In the 1963/64 season , the DFB restructured the soccer league system. The DFB introduced the Bundesliga and grouped Borussia Mönchengladbach into the newly created Regionalliga West . Langner left Borussia in April 1964 to coach Schalke 04, a founding member of the Bundesliga . As a new addition, the club signed Günter Netzer, a player whose name is still associated with Borussia's sporting successes to this day. As a replacement for Langner, Sepp Herberger recommended his assistant for the 1954/55 season, Hennes Weisweiler . At the time of the engagement, Weisweiler had already trained 1. FC Cologne, Viktoria Cologne and Rheydter SV . With the Rheydter SV he rose to the Oberliga West, and the year after that he was back in the 2nd division. In the Oberliga season 1962/63 Weisweiler came eighth with Viktoria and scored the most goals in the league with his team with 81 goals, but could not show any major sporting successes at the time of the commitment. Weisweiler took over the team towards the end of the first regional league season 1963/64, which took a more successful course than previous seasons in the league with an eighth place in the table.

Promotion game at Holstein Kiel , June 19, 1965

In the next season of 1964/65 , the club, with Jupp Heynckes and Bernd Rupp, again signed up young players, some of whom were appointed to the professional squad from the youth team. The average age of 21.5 years was the lowest of all regional league teams. The nickname "Foal Elf" arose on the one hand from the low average age of the team and from the carefree and successful style of play. The reporting of the reporter Wilhelm August Hurtmann coined the term through articles in the Rheinische Post . He was impressed by the way Borussia played and wrote that they would play like young foals. As early as April 1965, the team was established as the season winner in the Regionalliga West and thus secured participation in the Bundesliga promotion round in Group 1. This carried the team against the competitors of Wormatia Worms (second in the Regionalliga Südwest), SSV Reutlingen (Second in the Regionalliga Süd) and Holstein Kiel (champion in the Regionalliga Nord) in home and away games. Borussia won three of the six games (5-1 in Worms, 1-0 against Kiel and 7-0 against Reutlingen) and only suffered a 2-4 defeat in the away game in Kiel. The achievement of the first place put the promotion to the Bundesliga safe. Together with Borussia, FC Bayern Munich rose through victory in Group 2.

1965 to 1969 - The first years in the Bundesliga

Seasons 1965/66 - 1968/69
season space Gates Points Average audience
1965/66 13. 57:68 29:39 23,941
1966/67 08th. 70:49 34:34 24,235
1967/68 03. 77:45 42:26 20,842
1968/69 03. 61:46 37:31 20,500
Hennes Weisweiler, 1970

Weisweiler's commitment as a coach paved the way for the club's sporting success in the Bundesliga. The economic situation of the club did not allow it to finance a team of stars. Weisweiler met the needs of the association with his attitude to promote the training and development of young talents. He did not press players into a fixed game system, but promoted individualism and gave them extensive freedom on the field. This resulted in a carefree and offensive style of play, the trademark of the foal elf .

With Berti Vogts and Heinz Wittmann , the club signed players whose names should be closely linked to Borussia's sporting successes. The first Bundesliga game in the 1965/66 season took place against Borussia Neunkirchen and ended with a 1-1 draw, the first Bundesliga goalie was Gerhard Elfert . Borussia won their first home game against Tasmania Berlin 5-0. Weisweiler knew how to give the team tactical freedom and to encourage the players to enjoy playing individually. The as yet immature team paid for these freedoms in the first Bundesliga season with a series of sometimes high defeats. With a 7-0 win against Werder Bremen , the team suffered their highest home defeat to date. In the away game against Tasmania Berlin on January 15, 1966, a negative audience record in the Bundesliga that is still valid today was set up with 827 spectators. Borussia finished their first season in the Bundesliga in 13th place in the table.

In the following season 1966/67 the goal danger of the Mönchengladbacher team showed, which together scored 70 goals. The strikers Herbert L Bäumen scored 18, Bernd Rupp 16 and Jupp Heynckes 14 goals. Due to the good goal difference, the team was able to finish the season in eighth place in the table. With an 11-0 home win over FC Schalke 04 on matchday 18, the team celebrated the highest victory in Bundesliga history to date.

The successes had the side effect that the salaries of the players skyrocketed and thus good players could not be kept. Jupp Heynckes moved to Hannover 96 for the record fee of DM 275,000 , Bernd Rupp moved to Werder Bremen, Eintracht Braunschweig recruited Gerhard Elfert. The club signed Peter Meyer and Peter Dietrich and thus compensated for the departure of experienced players. With a 10-0 win on the twelfth matchday of the 1967/68 season over Borussia Neunkirchen, the team again showed how dangerous they were. The team reached third place in the table this and the next season. In the 1968/69 season, the club signed the later coach Horst Köppel , who had already had some experience in the national team, and, as a hitherto unknown amateur from VfL Schwerte, the long-time goalkeeper Wolfgang Kleff and Hartwig Bleidick , Gerd Zimmermann and Winfried Schäfer , who played ten seasons at Borussia.

1970 to 1980 - Dominance in the league and successes in Europe

Seasons 1969/70 - 1979/80
season space Gates Points Average audience
1969/70 01. 71:29 51:17 25,645
1970/71 01. 77:35 50:18 21,706
1971/72 03. 82:40 43:25 16,294
1972/73 05. 82:61 39:29 14,912
1973/74 02. 93:52 48:20 22,265
1974/75 01. 86:40 50:18 22,150
1975/76 01. 66:37 45:23 23,647
1976/77 01. 58:34 44:24 25,135
1977/78 02. 86:44 48:20 26,059
1978/79 10. 50:53 32:26 20,129
1979/80 07th 61:60 36:32 17,655
highlighted in green: winning the German championship
Club coat of arms between 1970 and 1999

The 1970s went down as the most successful in the club's history. Borussia won the championship five times, more often than any other team during this time. At the same time, a duel developed with FC Bayern Munich, with whom Borussia was promoted to the Bundesliga in 1965. After the club took third place in the table twice in previous years, coach Hennes Weisweiler particularly stabilized the defense in the 1969/70 season. Deviating from the “foal” concept, Borussia bought experienced defense players such as Luggi Müller and Klaus-Dieter Sieloff for the first time . With Ulrik le Fevre , the club signed the first Danish player, who was later followed by others such as Henning Jensen and Allan Simonsen . The first Bundesliga victory over FC Bayern was this season. After a 5-1 win over Alemannia Aachen, Borussia took the lead in the Bundesliga for the first time on October 31, 1969. Today (as of October 2019), Borussia is in third place in the list of league leaders in the Bundesliga, with 134 leaders behind Bayern and Dortmund.

On the initiative of the Israeli national coach Emanuel Schaffer , who had completed his training at the Sports University in Cologne with Hennes Weisweiler, the Israeli football association Borussia was the first German team to host friendly games in Israel in February 1970. In Bloomfield Stadium Borussia won with 6: 0 against the Israeli national team , leading to discussions in the Israeli Parliament led.

With a 4: 3 home win against Hamburger SV on April 30, 1970, the 33rd match day of the season , Borussia was prematurely confirmed as champions.

On September 16, 1970, in a 6-0 win against EPA Larnaka , Herbert Lrecken scored the first goal for Borussia in a game of European club football in the sixth minute . The first half of the following season 1970/71 closed the club with only one defeat. Unique in the history of the Bundesliga is an incident in the home game of the 27th matchday against Werder Bremen , known as the broken post from Bökelberg . During the game on April 3, 1971, after a penalty area scene in the 88th minute of the game , the left goal post fell to the left goal post after a header action together with the Bremen goalkeeper Günter Bernard . After unsuccessful repair attempts and since no substitute goal could be set up, the referee stopped the game when the score was 1: 1. The DFB sports court in Frankfurt rated the game as a 2-0 victory for Bremen. As a consequence, the DFB obliged the clubs to keep a replacement for both goals ready. The championship was only decided on the last match day as a head-to-head race with Bayern Munich. Nine weeks after the broken post game, on June 5, 1971, Borussia became the first team in the history of the Bundesliga to successfully defend their championship title with a win at Eintracht Frankfurt .

On October 20, 1971, the game against Inter Milan , which went down in football history as a rifle throwing game, took place in the European Cup . Borussia won the game at Bökelbergstadion 7-1, but UEFA canceled the game after Italian striker Roberto Boninsegna was hit by an empty can and sought medical treatment. Legendary coach Matt Busby described the foals' game :

Nobody in the world would have won against this team today. That was football at its finest. "

After a 4: 2 away defeat in Milan and a 0: 0 in the replay in Berlin's Olympic Stadium , Borussia were eliminated from the national champions' cup .

In the 1972/73 season , Borussia won the DFB Cup for the second time on June 23, 1973. Borussia won the Rhenish Derby against 1. FC Köln with a goal by Günter Netzer, who substituted himself in this game without consulting coach Weisweiler after regular time.

For Netzer, this was the last game for Borussia; he left the club and moved to Real Madrid . Apart from the game-winning scene in the 93rd minute through Netzer's goal, there were numerous other highlights in the 30th cup final in history, which went down in the annals as one of the best, playfully well worth seeing and most exciting in the history of this competition and of that you could only rave about in the highest tones ( kicker ). In the 1972/73 season, the club signed the Israeli Schmuel Rosenthal for the first time a player of Jewish faith with a Bundesliga club. The commitment and friendly matches against Israeli clubs resulted in a friendship with the Israeli Football Association that lasted for decades .

Berti Vogts with the UEFA Cup, 1975
Monument to the legendary trio of foals - Herbert Wimmer, Berti Vogts and Günter Netzer (from left to right), erected in the pedestrian zone of Mönchengladbach-Eicken
Game scene from the 1975 UEFA Cup final
Berti Vogts in a running duel with Johan Cruyff in the 1974 World Cup final

The first international participation took place on May 9, 1973. The Liverpool won the first leg of the UEFA Cup with 3: 0 in the second attempt after the game was canceled the day before due to rain. The second leg on May 23, 1973 won Borussia Mönchengladbach 2: 0, the trophy went through the victory in the first leg to Liverpool.

The following seasons were marked by the departure of well-known players; the goal danger of the Mönchengladbach striker remained high. Jupp Heynckes won the title as the first top scorer in the Bundesliga for Borussia Mönchengladbach with 30 goals in the 1973/74 season . In the first year after the departure of Günter Netzer, Borussia succeeded in winning the runner-up championship one point behind champions Bayern Munich. With a total of 93 goals scored, Borussia set a new club record. Borussia completed the championship in third and fifth place and as runner-up in the years 1972 to 1974.

In the 1974/75 season, Borussia laid the foundation for a series of successes previously unknown in the Bundesliga. On the 17th matchday the “foals” conquered the top of the league table and did not give up the lead until they won the championship on June 14, 1975. Then coach Hennes Weisweiler moved to FC Barcelona after eleven years with Borussia . The next international final with Mönchengladbach participation took place on May 7, 1975. The first leg of the UEFA Cup in Düsseldorf between Borussia and Twente Enschede ended goalless. The return leg on 21 May 1975 was won by VfL with 5: 1.

Borussia won their first international title with the highest away win in a UEFA Cup final to date (as of August 2012) .

Udo Lattek , who came from rival Bayern Munich, although he had already signed with Rot-Weiss Essen , took over the club in the 1975/76 season . In contrast to Weisweiler, Lattek was more of a security philosophy. The team took the lead on matchday 12 of the season with a win over Werder Bremen from Eintracht Braunschweig and remained the leaders until the end of the season. On June 12, 1976 Mönchengladbach won the fourth championship title. On March 3rd, 1976, Ash Wednesday , Borussia made the next sensational international appearance. In the European Champions Cup, Borussia Mönchengladbach played against Real Madrid, where Günter Netzer and Paul Breitner were now under contract, 2-2. In the second leg (March 17, 1976), which ended 1: 1, the referee Leonardus van der Kroft did not recognize two Mönchengladbach goals, a goal by Henning Jensen in the 68th minute and by Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp in the 83rd minute . Once a foul was said to have preceded the goal, and once the referee ruled offside, although the linesman had not indicated it. The draw was enough for Real Madrid to advance.

In the 1976/77 season Lattek started with an almost unchanged team. Since Wolfgang Kleff was injured, the club signed a new goalkeeper. With Wolfgang Kneib , who came from SV Wiesbaden , Lattek found a reliable substitute. On the last day of the match, Borussia needed one point to defend their title again. The game was played away against FC Bayern Munich, who was sixth in the table at the time, and ended with the necessary point gain, despite an own goal to make it 2-2 in the 90th minute from Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp . Borussia made the title hat-trick perfect and on May 21, 1977 won the German championship title for the third time in a row and for the fifth time overall. After this season, the Dane Allan Simonsen received the award for European Footballer of the Year with the Ballon d'Or . The final in the European Cup in Rome (May 25, 1977) against Liverpool was lost 1: 3.

The team narrowly missed the fourth championship title in a row in the following season 1977/78 . Level on points with 1. FC Köln Mönchengladbach only had to admit defeat due to the worse goal difference . Borussia won 12-0 on the last match day against Borussia Dortmund , the highest victory in the history of the Bundesliga to date. Since FC Köln won the last game at FC St. Pauli 5-0, a goal difference three goals better saved the championship. For the first time in the Bundesliga, first and second were tied on points after the end of the season. Borussia could have won the championship in their favor a few weeks earlier in a direct comparison against 1. FC Köln. The game ended in a draw; Cologne player Heinz Flohe equalized in the 83rd minute.

By renouncing Liverpool FC, Borussia took part in the World Cup, which at that time was still called the Intercontinental Cup. On March 21, 1978, the first leg against the Boca Juniors took place in the La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires , which ended in a draw. Borussia lost the second leg on August 1, 1978 in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium; the world cup went to Argentina. In the Kirin Cup , which was held for the first time, Borussia played 1-1 in the final against SE Palmeras from Brazil on May 28, 1978 , whereupon both teams were declared winners.

In the 1978/79 season Udo Lattek coached Borussia for the last time. Many regular players such as the later Vice President Rainer Bonhof left the club or announced the end of their careers, such as Jupp Heynckes and Berti Vogts. Lattek was unable to compensate for these departures with suitable new signings. On matchday 30, the team was in 15th place with a goal balance of 38:47 goals, improved to tenth place in the table with three wins from the last four games. It was the first season in a long time that the club ended with a negative goal record. Borussia signed Jupp Heynckes as Lattek's assistant coach this season. The second international title was on May 9, 1979. The first leg of the UEFA Cup against Red Star Belgrade ended in a draw. In the second leg on May 23, 1979 , Borussia achieved a 1-0 win at home to win the UEFA Cup for the second time.

After Lattek left in the 1979/80 season , the club appointed Jupp Heynckes as head coach. The season was marked by two newcomers. The association signed Harald Nickel from Eintracht Braunschweig. With a transfer fee of 1.15 million DM, this was the most expensive new purchase to date. Lothar Matthäus came from Herzogenaurach . Borussia ended the season in seventh place in the table, with a slightly positive goal difference. On May 7, 1980 Borussia Mönchengladbach was again in a final for the UEFA Cup. At home, the team won 3-2 against Eintracht Frankfurt . In the second leg on May 21, 1980 , Eintracht Frankfurt won 1-0 against Borussia Mönchengladbach and secured the cup due to the larger number of away goals scored .

1980 to 1996 - top team, relegation battle and DFB Cup victory

Seasons 1980/81 - 1995/96
season space Gates Points Average audience
1980/81 06th 68:64 37:31 18,411
1981/82 07th 61:51 40:28 20,582
1982/83 12. 64:63 28:40 16,720
1983/84 03. 81:48 48:20 20,353
1984/85 04th 77:53 39:29 18,739
1985/86 04th 65:51 42:26 16,294
1986/87 03. 74:44 43:25 17,441
1987/88 07th 55:53 33:35 14,294
1988/89 06th 44:43 38:30 13,294
1989/90 15th 37:45 30:38 19,660
1990/91 09. 49:54 35:33 19,291
1991/92 13. 37:49 34:42 21,679
1992/93 09. 59:59 35:33 23,661
1993/94 10. 65:59 35:33 26,959
1994/95 05. 66:41 43:25 31,404
1995/96 04th 52:51 53 31,232
Uwe Kamps

In the 1980s, Borussia could no longer match the series of titles of the past decade and lost touch with their former rivals from Munich. Due to the lack of audience income from the small Bökelberg stadium, the club had to sell high performers again and again. Nevertheless, it was often possible to establish himself in the top third of the Bundesliga table and play in the championship fight. In the 1980/81 season , many long-time players and top performers left the club, including Karl Del'Haye, who is considered the first player to be signed by Bayern Munich with hostile intent. Borussia signed only one striking player, Wolfram Wuttke . Uli Sude replaced Wolfgang Kleff in goal . The team reached sixth place in the table this season. The sporting record did not improve in the following two seasons. With a seventh place in 1982, Borussia missed participation in international competitions. In the following year Uwe Kamps guarded the goal for the first time, who remained a regular goalkeeper for a long time.

In the 1983/84 season Borussia played for the title for a long time. With Bernd Krauss , Michael Frontzeck and Uli Borowka , Borussia signed players who played successfully for the club for a long time. In the end she ended up tied in third place behind VfB Stuttgart and Hamburger SV. It was the first time in the history of the Bundesliga that three clubs topped the table with equal points on the last match day. Borussia reached the DFB Cup final this season. In the game against Bayern Munich there was a penalty shoot-out , which Bayern Munich won.

One of the penalties missed Lothar Matthäus, who played from the following season for a new record transfer fee of 2.25 million DM at Bayern Munich. The disappointed Mönchengladbach fans suspected that Matthäus deliberately missed the penalty. Several years later, Borussia's supporters insulted Matthew with "Judas" shouts when Bayern were guests.

In the 1984/85 season , Borussia achieved their last double-digit victory in Bundesliga history with a 10-0 win on matchday eight over Eintracht Braunschweig. In the semi-finals of the DFB Cup, VfL met FC Bayern Munich again. After no goals were scored in the Munich Olympic Stadium in the regular season , Søren Lerby converted a penalty kick against Borussia's goalkeeper Ulrich Sude in the 101st minute. This remained the only goal of the evening, so that Borussia missed the entry into the final.

The 1985/86 season did not bring any sporting highlights in the Bundesliga. Borussia Mönchengladbach gave away a 5-1 win against Real Madrid on November 27, 1985 in Düsseldorf in the second leg (December 11, 1985) when the club lost 4-0 in Madrid and were eliminated from the UEFA Cup.

In the 1986/87 season there was another coach change. Jupp Heynckes announced his move to Bayern Munich. The club nominated Wolf Werner as the new coach. At the end of the season, Borussia was third in the table for the last time in this decade on a UEFA Cup place. The Association of German Sports Journalists voted Uwe Rahn Player of the Year. Borussia again reached the semi-finals of the DFB Cup. But this time too, Borussia was eliminated from the eventual DFB Cup winner Hamburger SV. On April 22, 1987 Borussia was eliminated from the Scottish representative Dundee United by a defeat at the local Bökelberg in the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. It was also the first defeat in a European Cup game on the Bökelberg. After Jupp Heynckes' departure, the era of long-term head coaches ended. In the first 23 years from 1964 to 1987 Borussia only had three trainers; Since Heynckes left, Borussia signed 16 new coaches up to and including 2008, with the exception of interim solutions. Werner's release on November 21, 1989 was the first early release of a coach at Borussia. Only three later coaches managed to be successful in Mönchengladbach for more than three years, Bernd Krauss (1992 to 1996), Hans Meyer (1999 to 2003) and Lucien Favre (2011 to 2015).

In the next season , Borussia signed Stefan Effenberg, a player who had worked for the club for a long time and successfully. Borussia ended the season in seventh place and missed out on participation in international competitions. A clear downward trend followed in the early 1990s. As a result of the sporting decline, the number of spectators on the Bökelberg fell for the first time. Already in the 1989/90 season the club played against relegation. In the following years, Borussia placed in the midfield of the league. In the 1991/92 season Borussia played a good cup season again. In the cup semi-finals, goalkeeper Uwe Kamps saved all four penalties for Bayer 04 Leverkusen players on penalties . Borussia thus reached the final. The final on May 23, 1992 , the Mönchengladbach lost against the then second division Hannover 96 with 3: 4 on penalties.

In 1993 the club signed the players Heiko Herrlich and Patrik Andersson ; In 1994, Stefan Effenberg returned, who had already played for Borussia Mönchengladbach from 1987 to 1990. Under coach Bernd Krauss, he was able to return to the top of the Bundesliga. In the 1994/95 season , Borussia won their first title since 1979. On June 24, 1995, Mönchengladbach won the DFB Cup for the third time with a 3-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg . The German champions Borussia Dortmund won the game for the Supercup in Düsseldorf's Rheinstadion on August 5, 1995 with 1-0.

1996 to 2004 - decline, relegation, resurgence

1996/97 - 2003/04 seasons
season space Gates Points Average audience
1996/97 11. 46:48 43 30,152
1997/98 15th 54:59 38 27,435
1998/99 18th 41:79 21st 26,082
1999/00 05. 60:43 54 22,676
2000/01 02. 62:31 62 19,888
2001/02 12. 41:53 39 30,231
2002/03 12. 43:45 42 28,921
2003/04 11. 40:49 39 32,276
highlighted in red: relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga,
highlighted in yellow: promotion to the Bundesliga

After the first half of the 1996/97 season , Borussia finished 17th in the table. The club dismissed coach Krauss due to the sporting failure. At the end of the season, the Mönchengladbachers were in 11th place. None of the other four coaches after Krauss stayed in office for more than a year. On the international stage, the season was disappointing despite two wins in the first round of the UEFA Cup against Arsenal . Borussia lost the first leg with 2: 4 against AS Monaco in the second round , Borussia achieved their last victory with a 1: 0 in Monaco, but were eliminated from the competition.

Under Friedel Rausch , Borussia was able to hold onto the class after a dramatic 1998 season finale. Before the last match day, Borussia were three points behind on a relegation zone. A 2-0 away win at VfL Wolfsburg was achieved on the last day of the season; the Karlsruher SC lost at Hansa Rostock and rose due to the poor goal difference.

The north curve in the Bökelberg Stadium

In the 1998/99 season , Borussia won 3-0 against FC Schalke 04 on matchday one, making them the top of the table for a week for the last 13 years. As a result, the team lost six games and won two draws, so that they were at the bottom of the table on matchday nine. On the tenth and eleventh day of the match, they suffered two major defeats in a row with a 2: 8 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen and a 1: 7 at Vfl Wolfsburg. The team stayed in 18th place until the end of the season. After a total of 21 lost games, the consequence was relegation from the Bundesliga for the first time. As a result of relegation, several top performers left the club, including goalkeeper Robert Enke , defender Patrik Andersson and midfielders Karlheinz Pflipsen and Sebastian Deisler .

Board at Borussia Park with all the players of the eleven of the century

The first season in the 2nd Bundesliga began similarly to how the previous one ended. In the DFB Cup, the team retired early after a lost penalty shoot-out against the regional division SC Verl . The second division season 1999/2000 ended Borussia in fifth place in the table despite the poor first half of the season . There were four points missing to get back up. On August 1st, 2000 Borussia Mönchengladbach celebrated the 100th anniversary of the club. As part of the celebrations, in addition to coach Hennes Weisweiler, the following players from Borussia supporters were elected to the so-called eleven of the century : Wolfgang Kleff as goalkeeper , Berti Vogts in defense , Hans-Günter Bruns , Wilfried Hannes and Patrik Andersson , Rainer Bonhof in midfield , Stefan Effenberg , Herbert Wimmer and Günter Netzer as well as Jupp Heynckes and Allan Simonsen in the attack . Later, large-format posters with pictures of the players were attached to the steel outer structure of the stadium in Borussia-Park on the north and east sides.

In the 2000/01 season , the team was able to celebrate their promotion back to the Bundesliga as the runner-up in the 2nd Bundesliga and reached the semi-finals of the DFB Cup, but, as in the previous year, was eliminated from a regional league ( 1. FC Union Berlin ) on penalties . As the first place in the national fair play ranking , Borussia was drawn in 2002 for a place in the UEFA Cup, but the lot was not drawn. Borussia also missed participation in the UEFA Cup in the 2003/04 season . On March 17, 2004 Borussia was eliminated by a 1-0 defeat against the then second division Alemannia Aachen in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup. A win against Alemannia would have been enough, as the final opponent Werder Bremen was already qualified for the Champions League due to their position in the table. The season was under the motto Bye Bye Bökelberg , because on May 22nd, 2004 the last Bundesliga game took place in the Bökelberg Stadium. Borussia defeated TSV 1860 Munich 3-1; the last goal on the Bökelberg was headed by Arie van Lent . Uwe Kamps came on in the 82nd minute and made his 457th game in the Bundesliga.

2004 to 2010 - up and down with a new stadium

Seasons 2004/05 - 2009/10
season space Gates Points Average audience
Relocation to the new stadium in Borussia Park
2004/05 15th 35:51 36 49.168
2005/06 10. 42:50 42 47,732
2006/07 18th 23:44 26th 47,485
2007/08 01. 71:38 66 40.264
2008/09 15th 39:62 31 47,367
2009/10 12. 43:60 39 46,410
highlighted in red: relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga,
highlighted in yellow: promotion to the Bundesliga
Dick Advocaat

Five weeks later, on July 30, 2004, Borussia officially opened the new Borussia Park with a small tournament against FC Bayern Munich and AS Monaco . The newly built stadium, with a capacity of 54,067 spectators, complies with category 4 of the UEFA guidelines for international matches. Due to the move, the number of viewers at the league games developed positively. In the Bökelbergstadion , the average attendance in the 1990s was between 26,000 and 32,000. In the first season in the new stadium, the average attendance skyrocketed to 49,168 and in 2004 it was the fourth highest in the Bundesliga.

On October 27, 2004, the club dismissed Holger Fach due to sporting failure after a little over a year as head coach . He was followed by the Dutchman Dick Advocaat . Borussia wanted to underline its international ambitions with the new stadium and the renowned coach, but expectations were not fulfilled. On April 18, 2005, Dick Advocaat resigned as head coach. Shortly afterwards, sporting director Christian Hochstätter the 23 years as a player and official was active in the association, released from his duties. Peter Pander , who previously worked for VfL Wolfsburg , took over the position and signed a three-year contract. One month after Advocaat's dismissal, the previous U-23 coach Horst Köppel signed a contract as head coach. Under his direction, Borussia managed to stay early in the 2004/05 season .

In the following 2005/06 season , the club missed a single-digit place in the table. On May 14, 2006, the club separated from Horst Köppel due to the bad back-round record. Borussia presented Jupp Heynckes as their successor , who had already trained the team from 1979 to 1987.

In the 2006/07 season , Borussia was eliminated in the second round of the DFB Cup at regional division VfL Osnabrück . After a disappointing first half of the season, the team found themselves in a relegation zone with only 15 points. Heynckes resigned on January 31, 2007 because of athletic failure and death threats. His successor was the previous assistant coach Jos Luhukay . With only two wins and four draws from the remaining 15 games, Borussia was relegated from bottom of the table.

Previously, on March 8, 2007, after almost two years in office, the club had separated from sports director Peter Pander , who had been accused of a poor personnel policy. As his successor, ex-professional footballer Christian Ziege signed a contract until the summer of 2009. In the summer of 2007, the club changed the squad fundamentally. Thirteen players left the club, including Marcell Jansen, the crowd favorite and World Cup participant. In return, Borussia signed eleven new, mainly offensive players. After a moderate start in the second division , Borussia started a winning streak and took first place in the table on matchday nine, from which they were not displaced until the last matchday. With a total of 33 goals by the storm duo Oliver Neuville and Rob Friend , Borussia was able to secure an early return to the Bundesliga on May 7, 2008 with a 3-0 win against SV Wehen Wiesbaden on the 32nd matchday of 2007/08 .

Borussia Park , north curve

The club designed the new jersey for the 2008/09 season in the style of the successful 1970s, but Borussia initially failed a successful comeback. One day after the lost Rheinische Derby against 1. FC Köln on the seventh match day, the club dismissed Jos Luhukay. Hans Meyer succeeded him. For Meyer it was already the second engagement in Mönchengladbach. For Christian Ziege, who acted briefly as an assistant trainer, Max Eberl took over the post of sports director. With eleven points, Borussia finished last in the table after the first half of the season. During the winter break, the club only signed players for the defense. Borussia collected 20 points in the second half of the season and was able to reach 15th place in the table at the end of the season and thus prevent relegation. The 31 points represented a record, because it was the lowest number of points with which a club has not been relegated since the introduction of the three-point rule. Coach Hans Meyer resigned at the end of the season for personal reasons.

The club signed Michael Frontzeck as the new coach for the 2009/10 season . With the Venezuelan Juan Arango and the Argentine Raúl Bobadilla , two players were signed to give Borussia new impetus to the offensive game. For Marko Marin , who had moved to Werder Bremen, Marco Reus , who had played for Rot Weiss Ahlen in the 2nd Bundesliga until then , was signed. The match against 1. FC Köln on matchday 10 was a novelty in Bundesliga history. After attacks by rival fan groups in the run-up to the game in the preseason, in addition to a massive police presence, a ban on alcohol and serving provided security. After the 17th matchday, Borussia was in eleventh place with 21 points. There was a curiosity in the game against Hannover 96; At 5-3 at Borussia-Park, the guests scored three own goals, a record in a Bundesliga game. In the DFB Cup, Borussia failed for the fifth year in a row in the second main round . In the Bundesliga, Borussia was able to improve compared to the previous season and finally took twelfth place in the table.

2010 to 2017 - From the bottom of the table to new club records

Seasons 2010/11 - 2016/17
season space Gates Points Average audience BL squad
2010/11 16 48:65 36 45.188
2011/12 04th 49:24 60 51,819
2012/13 08th 45:49 47 49,534
2013/14 06th 59:43 55 52,233
2014/15 03 53:26 66 50,659 BL squad
2015/16 04th 67:50 55 51,603 BL squad
2016/17 09 45:49 45 51,494 BL squad
highlighted in light yellow: participation in the relegation to remain in the Bundesliga
Coach Lucien Favre saved the team from relegation in 2011 and brought them back to the international stage in 2012
Season 2011/12: Scene from April 21, 2012 in the away game against the eventual German champions Borussia Dortmund

To mark the 110th anniversary, the association released a DVD on which the association's history is told in a 110-minute film. On July 28, 2010, it premiered in a Mönchengladbach cinema.

In the 2010/11 DFB-Pokal , the round of 16 was reached for the first time in five years. In the Bundesliga, the first win against Bayer 04 Leverkusen after 16 years was achieved, but at the end of the preliminary round the club ended up in last place.

Due to the poor sporting performance across all seasons, an association of executives from the local economy founded the Borussia initiative , which accused the club's management of mismanagement. In the opinion of the initiative, the old, encrusted structures should be dissolved in order to give Borussia a future. The money raised should be invested in sport rather than in the planned museum complex with an attached hotel. At the Annual General Meeting in 2011, only 335 of the 4,769 members present voted for the goals of the initiative.

In the Bundesliga home game against 1. FSV Mainz 05, Marco Reus scored the 2500th Bundesliga goal in the 1445th game. Other anniversary scorers were Jupp Heynckes (500), Carsten Nielsen (1000), Uwe Rahn (1500) and Martin Dahlin (2000).

The first new signing for the winter break was the free striker Mike Hanke from Hannover 96 . In defense, Håvard Nordtveit and Martin Stranzl strengthened the team. On February 13, 2011 Michael Frontzeck was dismissed as a coach due to continued unsuccessfulness. Decisive were defeats against the direct relegation competitors VfB Stuttgart and FC St. Pauli. Lucien Favre was signed as the new head coach. After the team had been in last place in the table up to the 30th matchday, they reached 16th place with three wins in a row at the end of the season, which entitled them to participate in two relegation games against VfL Bochum . Borussia prevented relegation with a 1-0 win in the first leg and a 1-1 draw in Bochum .

The bad season was reflected in the number of visitors to Borussia-Park. An average of 45,188 spectators came to the 17 home games, which corresponded to a utilization of the stadium of 83.6% and was the worst figure of all top division clubs in this regard.

In the 2011/12 season the Borussia started with a 3: 1 win at SSV Jahn Regensburg in the first round of the German Cup and in the league with a prestigious 1: 0 away win at Bayern Munich . On the third day of play, Borussia were leaders again for the first time since the first day of the 1998/99 season after a 4-1 home win against VfL Wolfsburg . After five match days, the club was in third place in the table; With 10 points from three wins, one draw and one defeat, VfL already had as many points in their books as after the entire first half of the previous season . The team finished the best first half of the season in 35 years with 33 points from ten wins, three draws and four defeats in fourth place. Only eleven goals conceded in the 17 games of the first half of the season also meant a new club record. As the first Borussia player after Marko Marin in 2008, Marco Reus made his debut on October 7th in a 3-1 win against Turkey in the national team . The team ended the year 2011 on December 21st with a 3-1 victory against defending champions FC Schalke 04 in the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup .

In the preparatory phase for the second half of the season, Marco Reus and Roman Neustädter announced that they would leave the club at the end of the season. At the start of the second half of the season on January 20, 2012, a 3-1 home win against FC Bayern Munich was achieved. After the matches in the 1995/96 season, this was only the second time that Borussia had won a home and return game against Munich in the Bundesliga. A third win in a row against Bayern was denied: In the semi-finals of the DFB Cup, the team in Borussia-Park was eliminated after a goalless 120 minutes on penalties with a 2-4 defeat. The best league season in 17 years (with the fewest goals conceded in the entire league membership) finished the team in fourth place, which the club qualified for the play-offs of the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League . The opponent Dynamo Kiev was assigned on August 10, 2012 at the draw in Nyon . A new club record was set for the audience in the 17 home games with an average of 51,819 visitors. With defender Dante , after Reus and Neustädter, another top performer left the club at the end of the season. Lucien Favre evaluated the loss of three graduates so, "as if the FC Barcelona at once Messi , Xavi and Piqué lose." Fielder Marco Reus, goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen and coach Lucien Favre was in a survey by Kicker sports magazine that of Bundesliga professionals voted as the best players of the past season. In addition, Reus won as the successor to Manuel Neuer and 25 years after Uwe Rahn as the fourth Mönchengladbach Borusse to be voted Footballer of the Year . In the election for coach of the year , Favre took second place behind Jürgen Klopp .

For the 2012/13 season , Luuk de Jong from Twente Enschede and Granit Xhaka from FC Basel were the most expensive transfers in the club's history at the time .

In the DFB Cup , Borussia was eliminated in the second round of the cup with a 0: 1 after extra time at Fortuna Düsseldorf . In the Bundesliga, the team ended a league semi-series with 25 points after a 1-1 away game against autumn champions Bayern Munich in eighth place in the table. The club closed the 2012 financial year with a record turnover of 122 million euros, which significantly increased the previous record of 72 million euros from 2011.

In the second half of the season, the team again lacked the necessary consistency to follow up on the previous season's performance and qualify for an international competition. At the end of the season, Borussia lost 3: 4 in their own stadium against the new German champions Bayern Munich and ended the season in eighth place in the table. Despite the defeat, Mönchengladbach was the first team in Bundesliga history to score three goals within the first ten minutes of the game against Munich.

In qualifying for the 2012/13 Champions League , VfL missed out on the group stage after a 3-1 home defeat and a 2-1 away win against Dynamo Kiev . Instead, the team qualified for participation in the Europa League . There the Mönchengladbachers AEL Limassol , Fenerbahçe Istanbul and Olympique Marseille were drawn as opponents in. On September 20, 2012, Borussia played for the first time since they were eliminated from AS Monaco 16 years ago in the UEFA Cup in a European Cup; the Europa League group game at AEL Limassol ended with a 0-0. The team recorded their first win in the third group game in a 2-0 home win against Olympique Marseille. On November 22, 2012, the Mönchengladbach qualified after a 2-0 home win against AEL Limassol as second in the table behind Fenerbahçe Istanbul prematurely for the sixteenth finals, in which the opponent was Lazio Rome . In the first leg on February 14, 2013, Borussia did not get past a 3-3 draw in the home stadium and was eliminated from the competition the following week after a 2-0 defeat in the second leg in Rome.

Christoph Kramer , sixth world champion from the ranks of Borussia

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season , the team failed in the DFB Cup on August 4, 2013 after a poor performance for the first time since 2004 in the first round after a goalless 120 minutes with a 4-5 on penalties at third division club SV Darmstadt 98 . In September 2013 the association passed the mark of 60,000 members, which means that the number of members has increased tenfold since 2000. On the 14th matchday, Borussia set a new club record after a 1-0 win against SC Freiburg as fourth in the Bundesliga with seven home wins in a row since the start of the season, which they expanded to eight home wins with a 2-1 on matchday 15 against Schalke 04 . Borussia ended the first half of the season after a 2-2 draw in their last home game in 2013 with ten wins, three draws and four defeats in third place, which was the best league placement in 19 years. However, the team slipped to eighth place in the table on the 24th matchday without a win and after only three points gained in the worst second round start in the club's history. VfL recorded their first three-point win in the second half of the season after nine consecutive games without a win on March 15, 2014 in a 2-1 away win against Borussia Dortmund, the first Mönchengladbach win at the Westfalenstadion since the 1997/98 season . An even longer dry spell ended for Borussia on matchday 32 with the 1-0 away win against Schalke 04, the first success in Gelsenkirchen for more than 22 years. The team achieved a new fair play record in the Bundesliga with just one foul during the 90 minutes of play . Mönchengladbach finished the season in sixth place and reached the play-off round of the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League . With an average of 52,233 spectators in the 17 home games, the club exceeded the previous record from the 2011/12 season.

At the start of the 2014/15 season , VfL prevailed 3-1 in the first round of the DFB Cup against regional division FC 08 Homburg and scored 1-1 in the Bundesliga at home against VfB Stuttgart . The equalizer against Borussia's rumored "fearful opponent" was achieved by Christoph Kramer , who won the title at the World Cup in Brazil with the German national team in July 2014 , making it the sixth 40 years after Rainer Bonhof , Berti Vogts , Jupp Heynckes , Herbert Wimmer and Wolfgang Kleff World Champion of the club was advanced. It was also Kramer who caused the first defeat of the season with his own goal to make it 0-1 in the away game against Borussia Dortmund on the 11th league match day. At the end of the Bundesliga round, VfL suffered their fourth defeat of the season with a 2-1 defeat at FC Augsburg on December 20, 2014 and finished the semi-series with 27 points in fourth place in the table. The foal elf was able to avoid a weak start to the second half of the season as in the two previous seasons. On matchday 26, Borussia scored their 13th three-point win with a 2-0 away win at FC Bayern Munich and, after going 0-0 in the first leg, were the only Bundesliga team to have a positive season record against the reigning champions and leaders without conceding a goal. On the following match day, Borussia beat TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 4-1 for the first time in an away game. In the DFB Cup, VfL failed on April 8, 2015 quarter-finals at third division Arminia Bielefeld with 4: 5 i. E. On April 26, 2015, the foal eleven won 1-0 against second-placed VfL Wolfsburg on the 30th day of the league game with a goal by Max Kruse, thereby helping Bayern Munich to advance to the 25th German championship. After the 2-1 away win over Hertha BSC , the team secured a preliminary decision in their favor in the battle for third place in the table with a 3-0 home win against Bayer 04 Leverkusen two game days before the end of the season. It was also Borussia's first home win against the “Factory club” for 26 years. With the 2-0 away win on the penultimate matchday at Werder Bremen , the first win at the Hanseatic League in 28 years, the best second half of the season equalized its own second half of the 1973/74 season and secured itself 37 years after being eliminated in the semi-finals of the European Cup the national champions 1977/78 participation in the UEFA Champions League for the first time . On the last day of the match, VfL lost 3-1 at home to FC Augsburg and ended the season with 66 points from 19 wins, nine draws and six defeats in third place in the table, which was their best position since the 1983/84 season .

The team of the 2014/15 season before the home game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen on May 9, 2015
v. ltr: Kruse , Wendt , Johnson , Xhaka , Raffael , Korb , Herrmann , Kramer , Browers , Sommer , Jantschke

With a 3-2 away win and a 7-0 home win against FK Sarajevo in the play-off games, VfL made it into the group stage of the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League . The latter was Borussia's highest win at European level since the 9-1 win against ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar in the first round of the 1973/74 European Cup Winners' Cup . Only the 10-0 win against EPA Larnaka in the first round of the 1970/71 European Cup was even higher than these two results . Borussia scored their first three-point win in the group stage after two draws against FC Villarreal and FC Zurich on matchday three in a 5-0 home game against Apollon Limassol on October 23, 2014. With a 2-0 win in the second leg on November 6, 2014 VfL set a new club record with 18 competitive games in a row without defeat since the start of the season, surpassing the previous record from the championship season 1970/71 . After a 3-0 home win against FC Zurich on December 11, 2014, the group stage ended with three wins and three draws as group winners. In the sixteenth-finals on December 15, 2014, Borussia was drawn to the reigning title holder FC Sevilla , to which the team lost in February 2015 both in the first leg in Seville (0: 1) and in the second leg in Mönchengladbach (2: 3) and thus eliminated. The association closed the 2014 financial year with another record turnover of around 130 million euros with a profit after tax of 12.75 million euros.

For the 2015/16 season , two top performers left the club with Christoph Kramer and Max Kruse . On July 3, 2015 VfL welcomed its 70,000. Club member and was measured by the number of members behind Bayern Munich, Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund, Hamburger SV and 1. FC Cologne the sixth largest football club in Germany. In the first competitive game of the season, Borussia prevailed 4-1 at FC St. Pauli in the last game of the first main round of the DFB Cup . In the league, Borussia lost the first five games, which was the worst start to the season in the club's history. One day after the 0-1 defeat at Rhenish arch rivals 1. FC Köln on September 19, 2015, coach Lucien Favre announced his resignation. His successor initially took over U-23 coach André Schubert . Under Schubert's leadership, the team landed their first win of the season in the league on the 6th matchday in the home game against FC Augsburg 4-2. With the following wins against VfB Stuttgart (3: 1) and Eintracht Frankfurt (5: 1) as well as at home against VfL Wolfsburg (2: 0) Schubert became the first coach in the club's history with four league wins after taking office. He expanded the series to six games with successes over FC Schalke 04 (3: 1) and Hertha BSC (4: 1). Benefiting from this positive development, Schubert received a contract as head coach dated until June 2017 in November 2015. The first defeat in the league under Schubert's leadership was the biggest defeat of the entire season with 0-5 goals on matchday 16 at Bayer 04 Leverkusen . In the previous week, the team had league leaders Bayern Munich with 3: 1 the first defeat of the season. VfL retired from the DFB Cup after a 3: 4 defeat in the home game against Werder Bremen in the round of 16 on December 15, 2015. Borussia ended the league half-series after a 3-2 home win against SV Darmstadt 98 on December 20, 2015 with nine wins, two draws and six defeats in fourth place in the table. In the second half of the season VfL revealed a glaring weakness away from home, but was able to compensate for this with a winning streak at home games. After the 2-0 win at SV Darmstadt 98 on matchday 34, the only away win in the second half of the season, Borussia finished in the table with 55 points from 17 wins, four draws and 13 defeats behind champions Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4 and qualified for the 2016/17 Champions League play-off games .

For the group stage of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League , Borussia were drawn from the Italian champions Juventus Turin , England's runner-up champions Manchester City and the Spanish Europa League winners from the previous two years, Sevilla FC . VfL lost to the latter at the start on September 15, 2015 away with 0: 3. With the 4-2 success in the second leg on the penultimate group match day, Borussia's 150th European Cup match, the club achieved their first victory in the “European premier class” since the 2-1 success against Liverpool FC in the semifinal first leg of the 1977 European Cup / 78 . After the 2: 4 away defeat in the last group game against Manchester City, VfL missed a possible qualification for the UEFA Europa League and were bottom of the table with five points from a win, two draws and three defeats from the European competitions.

For the 2016/17 season , the team captain of the preseason Granit Xhaka left the club and switched to the English Premier League for Arsenal . With an unofficial transfer fee of 45 million euros, it was the most expensive sales transfer in the history of Borussia until then. In return, VfL unofficially paid 15 million euros plus bonus payments for the return of Christoph Kramer to Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the most expensive purchase transfer in the club's history . The commitment of Jannik Vestergaard from Werder Bremen also exceeded the previous record purchase of Luuk de Jong , who left the club for PSV Eindhoven in 2014 , four years earlier , with EUR 12 million plus bonus payments . In the first main round of the DFB Cup , the foal eleven prevailed 1-0 in the away game at the regional division SV Drochtersen / Assel with a goal from Julian Korb . With a 3-1 away win and a 6-1 home win against Swiss runners-up BSC Young Boys , Borussia qualified for the group stage of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League on August 24, 2016 , with FC Barcelona , Manchester City and Celtic Glasgow were drawn. In their first game in the Bundesliga, the foal eleven had the upper hand at home against Bayer 04 Leverkusen with a 2-1 victory and were thus victorious at the start of each of the three competitions of the season in which the team was represented. The league half-series until the winter break ended disappointingly with only four wins, four draws and eight defeats in 14th place, which is why the club split from coach André Schubert on December 21, 2016. In the group stage of the Champions League, Borussia did not get past third place behind FC Barcelona and Manchester City, but made it to the round of 32 of the Europa League , in which they were drawn against AC Florence . In financial terms, the association posted new record figures in the 2016 financial year: sales amounted to 196.87 million euros with a profit of 26.8 million euros after taxes. At the beginning of 2017, the team under the new coach Dieter Hecking had to settle for fourth and thus last place at the Telecom Cup after defeats against 1. FSV Mainz 05 and Fortuna Düsseldorf. In the competitive games, Borussia found their way back to their old strength under Hecking. At the beginning of March 2017, the best second half team of the current season had the best club record in 44 years, made it to the semi-finals in the DFB Cup and prevailed in the UEFA Europa League against Fiorentina after a 1-0 defeat in the first leg and an intermittent one 0: 2 deficit in the “Miracle of Florence” with a 4: 2 victory. The club was unable to make it into the quarter-finals of the European competition in the German duel against FC Schalke 04 after a 1-1 draw in Gelsenkirchen and a 2-2 draw in Borussiapark, despite a 2-0 half-time lead. The hope of returning to the DFB Cup final 22 years after winning the last title was not fulfilled either. In the semifinals, Borussia lost at home to Eintracht Frankfurt after the result was 1: 1 after 90 and 120 minutes, a total of 7: 8 after penalties. In the league, the club with table position 9 missed the goal of qualifying for one of the European competitions next season. In economic terms, VfL could claim to have been the most profitable club in the Bundesliga in the past season.

Since 2017

Seasons since 2017/18
season space Gates Points Average audience BL squad
2017/18 9 47:52 47 50,718 BL squad
2018/19 5 55:42 55 49,573 BL squad
2019/20 4th 66:40 65 50,615 * BL squad
* from 10 home games with audience participation

VfL made another record transfer for the 2017/18 season . The club transferred 17 million euros plus bonus payments to Borussia Dortmund for the German national player and world champion Matthias Ginter . In the ninth edition of the Telekom Cup , Borussia had to be content with fourth and last place again after defeats on penalties against Werder Bremen and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, as in January of the same year. Borussia was able to make the first round of the DFB Cup 2017/18 victorious. VfL won the West duel against Rot-Weiss Essen 2-1. In the league opener, the foal eleven retained the upper hand with a 1-0 goal by Nico Elvedi in the Rhenish derby against 1. FC Köln and “overwintered” after a final 3-1 home win against Hamburger SV in the half-series as sixth in the table with 28 points eight wins, four draws and five losses. In the DFB Cup, Borussia was eliminated in the last competitive game of the year on December 20, 2017 after a 1-0 defeat in the round of 16 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in Borussiapark, after the “Werkself” had already been in the same place on the 9th Bundesliga matchday the better end with a 5: 1 victory. The start of the second half failed; the decisive goal for the 1: 2 defeat at 1. FC Köln came in the fifth minute of stoppage time. In contrast, the financial data in the 2017 financial year was more positive. Despite not taking part in international competitions, the club posted the second-best result in its history after the record year 2016 with sales of 179.3 million euros and a profit after tax of 6.56 million euros. The 2017/18 season ended for Borussia after a 2-1 defeat at Hamburger SV in ninth place in the table and, as in the previous year, missed qualification for the European competitions. The game was also the last for Hamburg in the top German division after around 55 years of uninterrupted membership.

In July 2018, the French striker Alassane Pléa moved from OGC Nice to the Lower Rhine for the record sum of 23 million euros. In the first main round of the 2018/19 DFB Cup , Mönchengladbach defeated BSC Hastedt 11: 1. Borussia thus exceeded the previous record that the club had set in the 8-0 win in the away game at 1. FC Viersen in the first main round of the DFB Cup in 1977/78 . However, as in the previous year, Borussia failed in the second main round of this competition in a home game at Bayer 04 Leverkusen and experienced a significant defeat with the 0: 5 on October 31, 2018. The subsequent sporting development in the 2018/19 Bundesliga season was initially positive, which is why VfL prematurely extended the contract with coach Dieter Hecking in November 2018 for another year until June 2020. The foals took third place in the table after the first half of the season. A total of 33 points came from ten wins, three draws and four defeats. All league home games could be won, with which the club set a new club record. In preparation for the second half of the season, the team at the Telekom Cup on January 13, 2019 after a 1-0 victory in the semifinals against Hertha BSC had to give Bayern Munich a 2-4 defeat on penalties in the final. With the 2-0 win against FC Augsburg on January 26, 2019, VfL won their twelfth home game in a row across all seasons, setting the previous record from the 1983/84 season . Oscar Wendt , the 1-0 scorer, played his 184th Bundesliga game for Borussia, surpassing Filip Daems as the record holder for the club's foreign players. As in the previous season, VfL did not succeed in confirming the first half of the season, which was satisfactory from a sporting point of view. On the penultimate matchday, Borussia was in fourth place after a 4-0 away win at 1. FC Nürnberg , but slipped to 5th place due to the 0-2 home defeat against Borussia Dortmund in the season finale. As a result, the team missed qualifying for the Champions League , but qualified directly for the group stage of the Euro League . After two years of abstinence, they returned to the international gaming business.

Marco Rose , head coach since June 2019

For the 2019/20 season , Marco Rose took over Dieter Hecking's team, whose departure was announced in the last third of the preseason. The team successfully played their first competitive game under the new coach and won 1-0 in the first round of the DFB Cup in the away game against second division club SV Sandhausen on August 9, 2019 with a header from new signing Marcus Thuram . The competition ended for the foal eleven in the second round after a 1: 2 away defeat at Borussia Dortmund . In the league opener, VfL did not get past a 0-0 draw in the home game against FC Schalke 04 . On the second matchday 1. FSV Mainz 05 scored 3-1 with goals from Stefan Lainer , Alassane Pléa and Breel Embolo, the first victory in the league, the first defeat followed on the third matchday 3-1 in the home game against RB Leipzig . For the group stage of the Euro League, AS Roma , Istanbul Başakşehir FK and Wolfsberger AC were drawn on August 30, 2019 . VfL lost their first group game against Wolfsberg 4-0 in front of their own audience. It was the highest defeat of Mönchengladbach in a home game at European level. The first victory after two 1-1 draws came on November 7, 2019, when VfL beat AS Roma 2-1 at home. Before the last group game on December 12, 2019, VfL was at the top of the table, but then lost the home game against Başakşehir 2-1 and was eliminated from the European competition as third. In the league, Borussia took over the top of the table for the first time since the third matchday of the 2011/12 season after a 5-1 home win against FC Augsburg on matchday 7 . This was defended on the 8th matchday despite a 0-1 defeat at Borussia Dortmund and on the 9th matchday with a 4-2 home win against Eintracht Frankfurt . Borussia Mönchengladbach thus occupied first place in the table on three consecutive match days for the first time since the last championship season in 1976/77 and also won a game as leaders for the first time since then. The team consolidated the table lead with wins at Bayer Leverkusen (2: 1) and at home against Werder Bremen (3: 1) and was four points ahead of second RB Leipzig on matchday 11. The foal eleven lost the top spot to the Leipzig team after a 2-1 defeat at VfL Wolfsburg on matchday 15. Borussia finished second in the table with 35 points from 11 wins, two draws and four defeats and two points behind the autumn champions from Leipzig. Together with VfL Wolfsburg, the foal eleven recorded the lowest number of goals with 18 goals. In a survey by the sports magazine Kicker among 239 Bundesliga players , Yann Sommer was chosen as the best goalkeeper, Marco Rose as the best coach and Marcus Thuram as the best newcomer for the first half of the current season . On March 11, 2020, VfL won 2-1 in a catch-up match on the 21st matchday in the home game against 1. FC Köln. As a result of the measures taken against the rampant COVID-19 pandemic, it was the first ghost game in the history of the Bundesliga. The pandemic caused the DFL to suspend league operations after the 25th match day. Borussia was the first professional club in Germany where the players agreed to forego part of their salary due to the associated financial impairments for the club. April 30, 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of VfL winning the first German soccer championship from the 1969/70 season . In the continuation of the current season in the form of ghost games, VfL prevailed 3-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt on May 16, 2020. In the 4-1 home win against 1. FC Union Berlin on matchday 29, Mamadou Doucouré , who was previously injured for a long time, made his first professional appearance, accompanied by a standing ovation from his teammates, when he came on for Florian Neuhaus in the 90th minute of the game . Neuhaus' goal to lead 1-0 after 17 minutes of play was the 3,000th goal for Borussia in their Bundesliga history. Marcus Thuram showed after his goal to make it 2-0 through a knee - fall that was widely covered in the media, his connection to the African American George Floyd, who was killed by police violence on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis . The control committee of the DFB refrained from initiating investigative proceedings against these and other actions prohibited by Thuram's and Bundesliga players from other clubs in connection with Floyd's death. By the deadline on June 5, 2020, around 21,000 fans took advantage of the opportunity to be represented in the stadium as a “doppelganger” during VfL's home games without a public. After a 2-1 home win against Hertha BSC, Borussia closed the season with 65 points from 20 wins, 5 draws and 9 defeats behind Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig in 4th place and thus qualified for participation of the UEFA Champions League . The season finale was also the farewell game for Raffael , who left the club after seven years with Fabian Johnson and Tobias Strobl .

In the first main round of the DFB-Pokal 2020/21 on July 26, 2020, VfL was drawn as opponent of the cup winner of the Bremen Football Association , who at that time had not yet been determined due to the delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the fifth division and promoted to the regional league FC Oberneuland prevailed on August 22, 2020 after penalty shoot-out against the league rivals Blumenthaler SV .

Achievements and Statistics

Championships

DFB Cup

International cup games

Structure and organization

Overview of the club structure

Committee structure of the association

The highest decision-making body of the association is the general assembly. It includes all regular, adult members of the association. Once a year in the second calendar quarter, an ordinary general assembly is to be called by the presidium; further, extraordinary general assemblies must be called upon request. The general assembly elects the members of the supervisory board on the proposal of the honorary council. The supervisory board consists of seven people who must be members of the association. Currently these are Prof. Dr. Reiner Körfer (Chairman), Norbert Bocks (Deputy Chairman), Dr. Ewald Hansen, Michael Hollmann, Jürgen Kämper, Stefan Krebs and Dr. Dirk W. Rosenbaum. The task of the supervisory board is to elect, advise and control the executive committee. The presidium consists of the president (currently Rolf Königs), the vice-president (currently Siegfried Söllner) and a maximum of two other members (currently Rainer Bonhof and Hans Meyer) and manages the day-to-day business of the association. In addition to the right to propose candidates for the Supervisory Board, the Honorary Council also has the task of an election committee and is the arbitration and complaint body for the members. It consists of nine to eleven members, including the department heads, a representative of the fan project and at least three members elected by the general assembly. The current members are Andreas Heinen (speaker), Herbert L Bäumen, Thomas Ludwig, Rolf Göttel, Stefan Krebs, Matthias Neumann, Roland Virkus, Ulrich Robens, Volker Klüttermann and Gerald Ruch.

History of the club's management

The office of president has been occupied since 1948. Former player Edmund Pulheim became its first president , under whose leadership the club joined the community of contract players' clubs in 1949 . The most successful president was Helmut Beyer , who led the association for 30 years from 1962. From 1992 until his death in January 2011 he was honorary president of the association. Together with managers Helmut Grashoff and Alfred Gerhards, the trio steered the fate of the club for many years. During this time, Borussia was able to win five championship titles, among other things. In 1990 Rolf Rüssmann succeeded Grashoff as manager, in 1992 the former fitness trainer Karl-Heinz Drygalsky took over the presidency. It was during these years that the plans to build a new stadium emerged, but they did not materialize until after the turn of the millennium. Drygalsky resigned in 1997 after several arguments with Rüssmann. Rüssmann himself resigned on November 10, 1998 after the increasing number of sporting failures.

The next president was Wilfried Jacobs , who stayed in office for two years. His successor Adalbert Jordan finally got the new stadium project off the ground. However, he died before the stadium was completed on March 27, 2004 after a serious illness at the age of 66. Jordan held the office of President at Borussia from September 1999. Together with his successor Rolf Königs and the then sports director Christian Hochstätter, he was largely responsible for the financial restructuring of the club. Königs has been president of the association since 2004, the two vice-presidents are Siegfried Söllner and since 2009 Rainer Bonhof . Bonhof was active as a player for Borussia Mönchengladbach for a long time, as was Max Eberl , who has been the sporting director since October 19, 2008 as the successor to Christian Ziege .

On June 15, 2011, the association announced that Hans Meyer was elected by the supervisory board as the fourth member of the executive committee of Borussia Mönchengladbach. Meyer should support the sporting component at Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Development of membership numbers

Development of membership numbers from 1999 to 2020

Until the end of the 20th century, Borussia Mönchengladbach did not pay much attention to increasing the number of members. This changed with the reorientation of the club under a new presidium in 1999. Since then, Borussia sees itself as a family club and specific measures have been taken to attract more members to the club. These measures quickly took effect, so that the number of members doubled to around 10,000 within two and a half years. Membership development continued unabated in the following years, so that in October 2019 the 90,000 member mark was exceeded, placing Borussia Mönchengladbach in seventh place in the list of the sports clubs with the largest number of members in Germany and 19th place worldwide. The aim of the association is to exceed the limit of 100,000 members in the near future. In 2019, Borussia was named the most family-friendly Bundesliga club for the seventh time in a row.

Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH

Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH was founded on January 1, 2003 and has been responsible for men's senior football since then. The registered association is the sole shareholder and thus continues to have sole control over its professional team. This control is implemented at committee level in that the supervisory board of the association is also the supervisory board of the company and controls the management of the company. This management consists of the president and the vice-president of the association as honorary members, as well as two full-time members, currently these are the sports director Max Eberl and the finance director Stephan Schippers. The management is supported by seven other directors.

  • Guido Uhle, Authorized Officer, Director Sponsoring, Catering & Events
  • Markus Aretz, Director of Media & Communication and Marketing
  • Michael Plum, Director of Administration & Controlling, Member Support and Ticketing
  • Bernhard Nießen, Director of Stadium Operations & Stadium Construction
  • Roland Virkus, Director Youth & Amateurs
  • Steffen Korell , Director Scouting
  • Andreas Cüppers, Director of Digital Transformation and Innovation

Borussia Mönchengladbach has a 25% stake in Medical Park Borussia Mönchengladbach GmbH , Mönchengladbach (formerly: medicoreha Borussia Mönchengladbach-Sportrehabilitation GmbH , Mönchengladbach), and 39.4% in PPG-Nordpark GmbH , Mönchengladbach. It also holds 100% of Borussia Mönchengladbach (Shanghai) Sport Development Co. Ltd. , Shanghai in China.

Economic indicators

The economic key figures of Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH result from the annual financial statements published in the Federal Gazette or by the DFL.

(As of June 29, 2020)

Parameter 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 unit
Total assets 241.5 214.9 202.6 199.5 170.1 135.0 123.8 129.7 million Euro
Capital assets 202.5 183.8 173.3 150.2 124.9 103.6 109.9 112.2 million Euro
- of which land and buildings 99.0 78.3 70.2 64.6 66.5 67.4 68.1 million Euro
- including rights and player values 80.5 92.8 77.9 53.5 31.2 35.8 36.4 million Euro
- of which investments 2.4 2.2 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 million Euro
liabilities 118.4 102.5 83.9 76.3 77.5 73.8 79.9 82.4 million Euro
Sales 200.4 172.1 178.0 194.1 154.8 122.1 87.3 118.6 million Euro
- of which gaming operations 17.5 25.2 million Euro
- of which advertising 30.4 36.9 million Euro
- of which rights utilization 71.8 65.9 million Euro
- of which transfers 28.8 17.5 million Euro
- of which trade 16.6 28.4 million Euro
Wages and salaries 98.6 78.1 74.4 73.7 66.6 51.7 42.3 40.5 million Euro
Depreciation 41.4 38.4 41.4 30.4 19.9 18.4 17.1 13.7 million Euro
Profit of common business operation 12.2 −3.6 6.6 26.8 33.7 21.3 1.1 23.5 million Euro
Workers 318 288 266 243 226 225 211 people
- of which licensed players 38 40 41 40 34 25th 32 people
- of which employees 280 248 225 203 192 200 179 people

Player and coach

Current squad 2020/21

(As of August 20, 2020)

Yann Sommer (regular goalkeeper)
Lars Stindl (team captain)
Tony Jantschke, Borussia's longest-serving professional
No. Nat. Surname birthday in the team since Contract until
goalkeeper
01 SwissSwiss Yann summer Dec 17, 1988 2014 2023
21st GermanGerman Tobias Sippel March 22, 1988 2015 2021
31 GermanGerman Max Green Apr 5, 1987 2019 2021
41 GermanGerman Jan Olschowsky II Nov 18, 2001 2009 2023
Defense
03 SwissSwiss Michael Lang Feb 8, 1991 2018 2022
04th FrenchmanFrenchman Mamadou Doucouré May 21, 1998 2016 2021
15th GermanGerman Jordan Beyer May 19, 2000 2015 2022
17th SwedeSwede Oscar Wendt Oct 24, 1985 2011 2021
18th AustrianAustrian Stefan Lainer Aug 27, 1992 2019 2024
24 GermanGerman Tony Jantschke Apr 7, 1990 2006 2021
25th AlgerianAlgerian Ramy Bensebaini Apr 16, 1995 2019 2023
28 GermanGerman Matthias Ginter Jan. 19, 1994 2017 2021
30th SwissSwiss Nico Elvedi Sep 30 1996 2015 2021
33 GermanGerman Kaan Kurt II Dec 21, 2001 2014 2022
40 DaneDane Andreas Poulsen Oct 13, 1999 2018 2023
midfield
06th GermanGerman Christoph Kramer Feb 19, 1991 2016 2023
08th SwissSwiss Denis Zakaria Nov 20, 1996 2017 2022
11 AustrianAustrian Hannes Wolf Apr 16, 1999 2020 2021
13 GermanGerman Lars Stindl (C)Captain of the crew Aug 26, 1988 2015 2021
19th AustrianAustrian Valentino Lazaro March 24, 1996 2020 2021
22nd SlovakSlovak László Bénes Sep 9 1997 2016 2024
23 GermanGerman Jonas Hofmann July 14, 1992 2016 2023
26th GermanGerman Torben Müsel July 25, 1999 2018 2021
27 PortuguesePortuguese Famana Quizera U19 Apr 25, 2002 2018
32 GermanGerman Florian Neuhaus March 16, 1997 2018 2024
Storm
07th GermanGerman Patrick Herrmann Feb 12, 1991 2008 2022
10 FrenchmanFrenchman Marcus Thuram Aug 6, 1997 2019 2023
14th FrenchmanFrenchman Alassane Pléa March 10, 1993 2018 2023
16 GuineansGuineans Ibrahima Traoré Apr 21, 1988 2014 2021
20th ParaguayansParaguayans Julio Villalba 17 Sep 1998 2017 2021
36 SwissSwiss Breel Embolo Feb 14, 1997 2019 2023
37 English peopleEnglish people Keanan Bennetts March 9, 1999 2018 2022
II also in the squad of the second team
U19 also in the A-youth squad

Squad changes in the 2020/21 season

Accesses
time player Transferring club
Summer break Jordan Beyer Hamburger SV (loanee)
Michael Lang Werder Bremen (Lender)
Valentino Lazaro Inter Milan (Loan)
Andreas Poulsen FK Austria Wien (Lender)
Julio Villalba SCR Altach (loanee)
Hannes Wolf RB Leipzig (loan)
Winter break Joe Scally New York City FC
Departures
time player Receiving club
Summer break Fabian Johnson End of contract; destination unknown
Moritz Nicolas VfL Osnabrück (loan)
Raffael End of contract; destination unknown
Tobias Strobl End of contract; FC Augsburg
*Due to the postponement of the end of the 2019/20 season and the start of the 2020/21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DFB, together with the DFL and in consultation with FIFA, adjusted the summer transfer period (generally July 1 to August 31). The transfer window is open on July 1st (changeover period I.1) and from July 15 to October 5, 2020 (changeover period I.2). The first, one-day phase is intended in particular for the registration of contracts that have already been concluded starting on July 1st.

Coaching and support staff for the 2020/21 season

Coaching staff Medical department
Marco Rose Head coach
Frank Geideck Assistant coach
René Maric Assistant coach
Alexander Zickler Assistant coach
Oliver Neuville Assistant coach
Uwe Kamps Goalkeeping coach
Steffen Krebs Goalkeeping coach
Eugene Polanski Trainer transition area
Patrick Eibenberger Athletic trainer
Jonas Rath Athletic trainer
Alexander Mouhcine Athletic trainer
Markus Müller Athletic trainer
Martin Meichelbeck Head of Medicine and Prevention
Heribert Ditzel Team doctor
Ralf Doyscher Team doctor
Stephan Hertl Team doctor
Hendrik Schreiber Senior Physiotherapist
Benedict beans Physiotherapist
Dirk Mueller Physiotherapist
Holger Wagner Physiotherapist
Ron Rohloff Physiotherapist
Adam Szordykowski masseur

Borussia Mönchengladbach II (U23)

Borussia Mönchengladbach II
Surname Borussia Mönchengladbach II
Venue Grenzlandstadion
Places 10,000
Head coach Heiko Vogel
league Regionalliga West
2019/20 8th place

The U23 team serves to train young players who can later be appointed to the professional squad and, to a certain extent, as a platform for the reintegration of Bundesliga professionals who are behind in training. The U23 train four days a week in Borussia Park. The home games are played in the Grenzlandstadion .

history

Seasons U23 1980/81 - 2019/200
season league space Gates Points
1980/81 Association league Niederrhein 03. 78:42 39:21
1981/82 Association league Niederrhein 12. 59:69 25:35
1982/83 Association league Niederrhein 10. 44:48 29:31
1983/84 Association league Niederrhein 09. 48:54 27:33
1984/85 Association league Niederrhein 03. 70:45 41:23
1985/86 Association league Niederrhein 09. 70:67 32:36
1986/87 Association league Niederrhein 13. 42:57 25:35
1987/88 Association league Niederrhein 03. 54:35 33:23
1988/89 Association league Niederrhein 04th 48:36 37:23
1989/90 Association league Niederrhein 03. 67:46 44:24
1990/91 Association league Niederrhein 03. 70:63 37:27
1991/92 Association league Niederrhein 06th 74:49 34:26
1992/93 Association league Niederrhein 12. 45:54 25:35
1993/94 Association league Niederrhein 06th 59:38 36:28
1994/95 Association league Niederrhein 03. 79:29 45:15
1995/96 Association league Niederrhein 04th 92:37 64
1996/97 Association league Niederrhein 01. 75:29 65
1997/98 Oberliga Nordrhein 04th 40:23 53
1998/99 Oberliga Nordrhein 07th 49:35 46
1999/2000 Oberliga Nordrhein 03. 56:31 53
2000/01 Oberliga Nordrhein 08th. 54:44 48
2001/02 Oberliga Nordrhein 06th 61:43 54
2002/03 Oberliga Nordrhein 02. 65:22 63
2003/04 Oberliga Nordrhein 03. 72:44 62
2004/05 Oberliga Nordrhein 02. 76:25 65
2005/06 Oberliga Nordrhein 01. 82:38 68
2006/07 Regionalliga North 16. 45:62 35
2007/08 Oberliga Nordrhein 01. 86:47 68
2008/09 Regionalliga West 06th 50:49 51
2009/10 Regionalliga West 16. 37:53 40
2010/11 Regionalliga West 05. 53:41 59
2011/12 Regionalliga West 03. 67:45 69
2012/13 Regionalliga West 07th 56:50 57
2013/14 Regionalliga West 07th 55:42 55
2014/15 Regionalliga West 01. 77:43 69
2015/16 Regionalliga West 02. 80:46 68
2016/17 Regionalliga West 03. 71:42 62
2017/18 Regionalliga West 12. 49:49 43
2018/19 Regionalliga West 04th 47:38 57
2019/20 Regionalliga West 08th. 47:46 33
highlighted in green: ascent
highlighted in red: descent
highlighted in light yellow: participation in the relegation, but highlighted

After promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965, Gerd Schommen took on the role of head coach for the entire amateur department. He held this job until 1978 and led the amateurs continuously from the 1st district class to higher classes. Since 1980 the team played in the Association League Niederrhein . In 1997 she became champion and thus rose to the Oberliga Nordrhein . This year she qualified for the main round of the DFB Cup for the only time so far. She lost in the first round of the 1997/98 season in the Bökelbergstadion against VfB Stuttgart 0-1.

After two second and one third place in the previous seasons, the U23 succeeded on May 27, 2006 promotion to the regional soccer league . A year later, despite a good second half of the season, the direct relegation to the league followed. In April 2008, the rise as champions of the Oberliga Nordrhein succeeded again, which is why the youth team played again in the newly established Regionalliga West in the 2008/09 season. In the following season, the U23 was in sixth place after the first half of the season, but slipped in the second half of the season to 16th, which means that the team was relegated to the fifth-class NRW league . Since Rot-Weiss Essen , Waldhof Mannheim and Bonner SC did not receive a regional league license for the 2010/11 season , the U23s remained in the Regional League West. The team reached a single-digit place in the table with 5th place and was able to improve again with 3rd place in the 2011/12 season .

Since 2006, the U23s have been taking part regularly in the international youth round, in which Belgian, French and German youth teams and the U21 national team of Luxembourg meet. The team won the trophy in 2006, the league round in 2007 and both competitions in 2008.

On May 17, 2015, the team was prematurely champions of the Regionalliga West with a 4-0 home win against KFC Uerdingen 05 on the penultimate matchday of the 2014/15 season . VfL missed promotion to the 3rd football league after a 0-0 first leg and a 2-0 defeat after extra time at Borussia-Park, the last game under coach Sven Demandt , against Werder Bremen II . Demand's successor for the 2015/16 season was André Schubert, who had previously worked for the DFB as U15 national coach . After Lucien Favre's resignation on September 20, 2015, he was temporarily promoted to coach of the Bundesliga team, the previous U19 coach Arie van Lent took over as coach of the U23. Van Lent's contract was not extended beyond the 2019/20 season and Heiko Vogel took over his position for the 2020/21 season .

Current squad 2020/21

(As of July 28, 2020)

goal Defense midfield attack
01 Jan Olschowsky I GermanyGermany
29 Jonas Kersken GermanyGermany
30th Felix Thienel GermanyGermany
02 Lukas Müller GermanyGermany
03 Kaan Kurt I. GermanyGermany
04th Florian Mayer GermanyGermany
05 Markus Pazurek GermanyGermany
15th Noah Holtschoppen GermanyGermany
23 Michel songs GermanyGermany
24 Jordi Bongard GermanyGermany
27 Noah Eyawo AustriaAustria
06th Marcel Benger GermanyGermany
08th Per Lockl GermanyGermany
10 Conor Noss IrelandIreland
14th Jonas Palatinate GermanyGermany
16 Julian Niehues GermanyGermany
17th Sander Christiansen NorwayNorway
07th Jacob Italiano AustraliaAustralia
09 Justin Steinkötter GermanyGermany
11 Christian Theoharous AustraliaAustralia
19th Nils Friebe GermanyGermany
20th Alper Arslan GermanyGermany
21st Thomas Kraus GermanyGermany
22nd Ryan Adigo GermanyGermany
25th Jan-Niklas Pia GermanyGermany
I. also in the first team squad

Juniors

Borussia Mönchengladbach's junior division includes teams from U9 to U14 in the basic division and teams from U15 to U19 in the performance division. The DFL certified the youth performance center with three stars, the highest seal of approval awarded by the German Football League. In particular, the youth boarding school, which is located directly in Borussia-Park , is a success for the club in its efforts to attract talented young players to Borussia. So it is possible to bring players from all over Germany and abroad to Mönchengladbach. The boarding school has a total of twelve single rooms. In addition to the training units, the boarding school residents in Mönchengladbach go to school.

Borussia also agreed a joint youth work with the clubs SC Kapellen, FC Germania Dürwiß, FC Wegberg-Beeck , SuS 09 Dinslaken and SC Union Nettetal. Borussia supports the clubs and trains the coaches. This gives young players the chance for optimal training in their home club without having to change clubs.

U19

The team plays in the Bundesliga West, the highest league in this age group, and has been coached by Thomas Flath since 2015. In 2008 she reached the final of the DFB Cup. In recent years the team played in the middle ranks of the league. The U19s play their home games in the Grenzlandstadion in the Mönchengladbach district of Rheydt . In 2009 the team reached third place in the A-Jugend Bundesliga-West. In 1962 the A-Jugend became West German champions.

U17

The U17s play in the highest league in their age group, the Bundesliga West . In the 2006/07 season the team won the West German Cup, the following year the runner-up and the Lower Rhine Cup. In the 2008/09 season, the U17 won the title of West German champions three game days before the end of the season. In the subsequent semi-finals of the German U17 championship, the team was defeated by the eventual champions VfB Stuttgart. The youngsters have been trained by Alexander Ende since 2015.

Venues

Entry ticket from the last DFB Cup game on the Bökelberg on February 3, 2004
Borussia Park

Without its own venue

In the early days there were various playgrounds in Mönchengladbach. The Marian Youth Congregation owned a soccer field in the Alsbroich district. After leaving the congregation, Borussia played on a square on Quirinstrasse, on Wimmerschen Wiese and on Krallschen Wiesen at Volksgarten. The club gave up rented premises on Reyerhütter Strasse after a short time. From 1907 the club used the grounds of the TV 1848 gymnastics club on Bökelstraße.

The Bökelberg Stadium

In 1914 the club bought a gravel pit on the Eickener Höhe, where the Bökelberg Stadium, popularly known as dä Kull (Kuhle), was built. The construction of the stadium was delayed by the outbreak of the First World War . Only after the end of the war did the club develop the gravel pit into a stadium. It was inaugurated under the name West German Stadium with the first game on September 21, 1919 against FC Eintracht Mönchengladbach in the Rhineland regional league.

As a result of the reconstruction of the stadium after the Second World War , the club's debts with the city of Mönchengladbach increased, so that it had to transfer its ownership to the city of Mönchengladbach in 1956 and from then on was only the tenant of the stadium.

Until the 1960s, the stadium had no paved spectator stands. It was not until 1962 that the club expanded the stadium with paved standing room. With a game against the Glasgow Rangers , Borussia inaugurated the converted venue , now known as the Bökelberg Stadium , in July 1962. However, the stadium already proved to be too small in the successful period of the 1970s. Borussia played many European home games not at Bökelberg, but in the much larger neighboring stadiums in Düsseldorf ( Rheinstadion ) and Cologne ( Müngersdorfer Stadion ). On May 22, 2004, the last Bundesliga match took place in the Bökelberg Stadium against TSV 1860 Munich . In a 3-1 home win, Arie van Lent scored the last Bundesliga goal in his last game for Borussia.

The Borussia Park

After the turn of the millennium, the starting shot was given for the new construction of a club's own stadium in the Nordpark , an area formerly used by the Rhine Army near Rheindahlen , in the west of Mönchengladbach. On July 30, 2004, Borussia inaugurated the stadium in Borussia Park with a short tournament against FC Bayern Munich and AS Monaco . Since then, the stadium has been the Borussia stadium and is located in an area of ​​around 264,000 m², which is owned by the club and which also houses the training grounds, the youth performance center, a hotel and numerous parking spaces. In addition to the Borussia games, the Nato Music Festival has been held in the stadiums every two years since 1962, the last time on May 24, 2014. The stadium is also used in a variety of ways for other events outside of sport. A high point was Herbert Grönemeyer's concert in June 2008.

Stadium announcer

The names Günter Reiners and Hans-Joachim Leusch as stadium announcers have been handed down from the early days of the club. Rolf Göttel was then honorary stadium speaker in the Bökelberg Stadium for 30 years from 1962 to 1992 . Even today in Borussia-Park, after every goal the home team has scored, its characteristic announcement “Goal for Borussia” runs off the tape as a jingle. In 1992 Göttel was replaced by Wolfgang F. Greven, who was succeeded by Carsten Cramer. In 1999 Torsten Knippertz took over for two years, whom André Fossen inherited for 2002 and 2003. Matthias Opdenhövel then took over the office until 2006, so that he led through the first games in Borussia-Park. Torsten Knippertz has been the stadium announcer for Borussia Mönchengladbach again since 2006.

Fan culture

In addition to celebrity fans such as Theo Zwanziger , Wolfgang Thierse , Sven Ottke , Kai Ebel , Mickie Krause , Matthias Opdenhövel , Peer Steinbrück , Dunja Hayali and Hannelore Kraft, there are fan clubs in many countries, including California , South Africa and New Zealand . Well-known fans of the club were “Steinweg Mamm”, who supported the team with her drum as early as the 1960s, and Ethem Özenrenler, known by his nickname “Manolo” , who had been beating the drum in the north curve of the Bökelberg Stadium for almost 25 years since 1977.

Friendships and rivalries

After the DFB Cup match against 1. FSV Mainz 05 on October 25, 1994, which was very high in goals with 6: 4 for Mönchengladbach, a friendship between Mainz and Borussia developed that is now only cultivated by a few fans.

On the other hand, the long friendship with Liverpool , which dates back to common times when the two teams met regularly in international games, continues to exist. Borussia fans travel to Liverpool at regular intervals to watch the Reds' games on site. Conversely, fans from Liverpool still use a visit to Mönchengladbach today to symbolize the mutual friendship between both clubs. The fans of Mönchengladbach were the only fan initiative to collect a total of DM 21,000 for the survivors of the 96 dead in the stadium disaster in Sheffield (1989) and presented them to the officials of Liverpool FC in Mönchengladbach in 1991. For the 110th anniversary of Borussia Mönchengladbach's club, Liverpool FC traveled to a friendly on August 1, 2010. Mönchengladbach won the game in front of 51,515 spectators in Borussia-Park 1-0.

On the other hand, there is a strong sporting rivalry between Mönchengladbach and the Rhenish rival 1. FC Köln . The “ Rhenish Derby ” between the “foals” and the “billy goats” is a classic in the Bundesliga. In July 2020 there was a curiosity in the ARD quiz show asked - hunted . The quiz candidate and Gladbach fan Claus Blümel had steadfastly refused to pronounce the name of the big rival 1. FC Köln and waived a profit of 500 euros for it. Moderator Alexander Bommes asked the candidate: “Which club was second division champions in the 2018/2019 season?” Instead of answering correctly, Blümel said: “No, I won't say that!” The program was broadcast on July 13, 2020 been. His heart club and a sponsor of the club then kept a promise and rewarded the fan for his steadfast healthy rivalry with a foal jersey and a voucher worth 500 euros.

Fan project

In 1983, various Borussia Mönchengladbach fan clubs joined forces to form an interest group. The project developed various activities, such as a "German championship of Borussia Mönchengladbach fan clubs" and, since 1986, the issue of the Nordkurve fanzine . The fan project organized the fan move from Bökelberg to Borussia Park in 2004. In 2006 the project opened the fan house near the new stadium. The Mönchengladbach fan project has been a registered association since 1997 and is recognized as non-profit in the sense of youth welfare and youth care. The number of member clubs increased from 105 clubs in 1984 to 348 clubs in 1999, and the number of members increased from 75 to over 2,700.

Songs

The official anthem of the club is the song Die Elf vom Niederrhein , which is sung before every home game. The song was recorded by the group BO , the group of the fan project. In addition, the songs We are Borussia and The soul burns a firm place in the fan chants. The original Liverpool anthem by Gerry & the Pacemakers , You'll Never Walk Alone , is vocalized frequently.

The goal anthem that rings out after every Borussia home game goal is the refrain of the song Maria (I Like It Loud) by the group Scooter . It is accompanied by the sonorous announcement "Goal for Borussia", which comes from Rolf Göttel , who worked for decades as a volunteer stadium announcer for Borussia in the Bökelberg Stadium.

mascot

Oliver Neuville and mascot Jünter

A first mascot was created by manager Helmut Grasshoff and was called Bumsi . The head consisted of a ball leaning against the Telstar with eyes and black, frizzy hair. The official mascot of the club has been the foal Jünter since the season opened in 1998 , whose name is based on the long-time Borussia player Günter Netzer from Mönchengladbach. The mascot wears the club's jersey with the number 10 from 1973. In the same jersey, Günter Netzer shot Borussia in his last game for the club to win the cup against 1. FC Köln. In the stadium newspaper FohlenEcho , which has been published for every home game since 1965 , originally published by Günter Netzer, Jünter has his own column in which he humorously comments on current issues relating to the club. In addition, Jünters Welt appears twice a year - the magazine , which is sent to all club members under the age of eleven. In child-friendly photo stories, Jünter meets players from Borussia and reports on their everyday life. The magazine offers insights into the association and contains handicraft instructions and coloring templates. There is also a Jünter day , to which younger members are invited to a home game at Borussia-Park in summer. On this day, the association organizes hands-on activities for children and players and members of the association's board of directors introduce themselves. Finally, the mascot leads the children to a home game.

Sponsors and suppliers

Flags of Borussia and the former sponsor Kyocera

In the 1976/77 season, the energy supplier Ruhrgas became the club's first sponsor. The lettering Erdgas appeared on the players' shirts for four seasons up to 1980 and an amount of one million DM per season. Datsun joined the company in 1980/81 and remained a sponsor for three years. After that, Ruhrgas got back on board and remained the main sponsor until 1990. With Tuborg then became the first brewery sponsor for two years. A representative of the textile industry followed with Trigema . In 1994 another brewery, Diebels, sponsored the association. From 1997, two representatives of the computer industry followed, Belinea and Maxdata , followed by another brewery with Jever . From 2005 to 2009, Kyocera , a manufacturer of printers, copiers, and multifunction devices, was the main sponsor. The company paid around 5 million euros per season. On June 10, 2009, the association's management announced Postbank as the main sponsor for the next two years. Postbank's commitment was extended several times and ended with the 2019/20 season. From the 2020/21 Bundesliga season onwards, the online broker Flatex will once again be a company from the financial sector as the club's main sponsor. The commitment of the company, which is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main , will run until June 30, 2023.

In addition to the main sponsors, Borussia has been working with permanent suppliers since 1976. The first long-term contractual partner was Puma until 1992 . Asics followed for three years , then Reebok for eight years and Lotto between 2003 and 2013 . From the 2013/14 season to the 2017/18 season , the Italian sporting goods manufacturer Kappa was Borussia's official supplier. From the 2018/19 season , this was again taken over by the sporting goods manufacturer Puma. The contract with the company from Herzogenaurach runs for at least six years and applies down to the junior teams.

Foal TV

Since July 1st, 2008, Borussia Mönchengladbach has been running its own television station called Fohlen.TV, which can only be received via the Internet. Parts of the program are broadcast by the Mönchengladbach TV station City Vision, which can be received in the analog and digital cable network. The program includes the latest news from the club and the world of football, introductions to newcomers, friendly matches, reports and portraits of the players. The contributions are partly produced by the club's own press department and by an external production company. The Bundesliga team's games are broadcast in full one hour after the end of the game. Parts of the Fohlen.TV program are broadcast on the Mönchengladbach city television station CityVision .

Other departments of the association

In addition to the men's soccer department, the club also operates a women's soccer department , the first team of which is also located in the top German leagues. There is also a handball and table tennis department , the activities of which are part of popular sports . In 2019, the association has with FIFA 19 -Mannschaft a commitment to e-sports started.

Women's and Girls' Football Department

The women's soccer department was founded in 1995 with the support of the manager Rolf Rüssmann . In the 1995/96 season, the club reported for the first time a U16 7-man and a women's soccer team for the start in the district class. The team was promoted to the Niederrheinliga in 1999 and was promoted to the Association League in the 1999/00 season. In the 2008/09 season, the team rose as the first of the association league with a goal difference of 132: 14 in the regional league. Two years later she was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga as a regional league champion, from which she was relegated a year later. In the seasons 2014/15 and 2015/16, the march from the Regionalliga to the 1st Bundesliga was successful. In the following years, descent and ascent alternated. They have been playing in the 2nd Bundesliga again since the 2019/20 season. The games of the first women's team are played in the Grenzlandstadion in Rheydt , the other teams in the department mostly play in the Am Haus Lütz sports facility in the Bettrath district of Mönchengladbach .

Handball department

The handball department was founded in 1924, a re-establishment took place in 1944. The games are played in the Jahnhalle in Mönchengladbach's Hardterbroich-Pesch district . In 2019, four men's and two women's teams as well as some youth teams in different age groups are registered. The 1st men's team plays in the Oberliga Niederrhein.

Table tennis department

The table tennis department was founded on July 10, 1956 through a takeover of the TTC Rot-Weiß Mönchengladbach and was incorporated into the West German table tennis association. After many sporting setbacks, the department merged with the table tennis department of Post SV Mönchengladbach. The first team rose to the district class in 1973 and won the district cup and the district cup winners' cup . In 1995 the department merged with the team at Post SV Mönchengladbach. The department has been organizing the table tennis city championships in Mönchengladbach since 1999. On July 6, 2006, the department celebrated its 50th anniversary. In the 2018/19 season, a total of 15 teams were registered in different divisions. The department consists of men's and women's teams as well as youth and student teams who are entitled to play in different relays.

E-sports

In January 2019, Borussia published activities in the area of ​​e-sports and presented its own team for the game FIFA 19, which consists of the four players Michael Phenomeno Gherman, Stefan Topik Beer, Yannick Jeff95 Reiners and Georgios Georgios7 Papatolis. The team took part in the Club Championship of the Virtual Bundesliga from January to March 2019 and finished third of 22 places at the end of the season. The club will also provide a team for this competition in the 2019/20 season.

Further information

Borussia Mönchengladbach - names and numbers

literature

  • Markus Aretz: Magical Nights: Borussia Mönchengladbach in the European Cup . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89533-898-4 .
  • Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: 100 years of Borussia Mönchengladbach - The Borussia Chronicle . Rheinsport networking publishing house, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-934702-00-7 .
  • Markus Aretz, Stephan Giebeler, Elmar Kreuels: VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach: The Chronicle . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2 .
  • Markus Aretz, Michael Lessenich, Stephan Giebeler, Christoph Baumeister, Andreas Cüppers, Matthias Rech: Borussia Mönchengladbach: The Chronicle . Supplementary volume 2010 - 2015. Ed .: Markus Aretz. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7307-0213-0 .
  • Markus Aretz, Ingo Rütten: Ascent files: Borussia's diary of the 2007/08 season . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 3-89533-626-2 .
  • Helmut Grashoff, Susanne Grashoff: My moody diva: 30 years with Borussia Mönchengladbach . Radtke & Bahr GbR, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-00-016918-0 .
  • Holger Jenrich: The Borussia Mönchengladbach Lexicon . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-89533-585-1 .
  • Holger Jenrich, Markus Aretz: The Elf from the Lower Rhine. 40 years of Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-503-7 .
  • Frank Lemke: Football myths in the media and literature using the example of Borussia Mönchengladbach . ( Full text in Google Book Search).

Web links

Commons : Borussia Mönchengladbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Borussia  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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