- Thomas Doll
Thomas Doll (born 9 April 1966 in Malchin, Germany) is a former footballer and coach. He played as an attacking midfielder. Doll began his career with local side BSG Lokomotiv Malchin, before joining East German first-division DDR-Oberliga side Hansa Rostock. In 1986 he was moved to BFC Dynamo, the country's dominant, Stasi-supported club, where he won two titles, in 1987 in 1988.
- Ottmar Hitzfeld
Ottmar Hitzfeld is a German former football player and manager, now serving in his second stint with FC Bayern Munich. With a total of sixteen major titles, mostly accumulated in his tenures with Grasshopper Club Zürich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, the trained mathematics teacher is not only the most successful German coach, but also one of the most outstanding in the history of the game. Twice he was elected "World Coach of the Year".
- Michael Zorc
Michael Zorc (born August 25, 1962) is a German former footballer who spent his entire career with Borussia Dortmund. A central midfielder, he played 463 games (a club record) between 1981 and 1998, where "Susi" (so named because of his long hair at the begin of his career) was for many years team captain and was hugely popular with the supporters. He is also the club's second top goalscorer of all-time, thanks in part to his excellent penalty-taking ability.
- Sebastian Kehl
Sebastian Kehl (born February 13, 1980) is a German Football defender/midfielder who currently plays for Borussia Dortmund. Born at Fulda (Hesse), Kehl joined Borussia Dortmund in 2001 and has made 127 appearances. He made his international debut against Slovakia in 2001 and has made a total of 31 appearances for Germany (as of July 8 2006). Kehl won the runner-up in 2002 World Cup and the 3rd place in 2006 World Cup.
- Philipp Degen
Philipp Degen (born 15 February 1983) is a Swiss national currently playing football for the German Borussia Dortmund team.
- Alexander Frei
Alexander Frei (born July 15, 1979 in Basel) is a Swiss footballer. He signed a 4-year contract with Borussia Dortmund on June, 29th. Dortmund paid a transfer fee of approximately 5 million euros for him. He played for Switzerland at Euro 2004 and at the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. Until now he has been capped 54 times for his country (as of September 2006). Frei is only 3 goals short from being Switzerland's all time top scorer.
- Christoph Metzelder
Christoph Metzelder (born November 5, 1980 in Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a football defender for Real Madrid. Metzelder is also a part of the Germany national football team, with whom he has amassed a total of 32 caps. In the summer of 2000, Metzelder signed for Borussia, and he was an instant success. He not only won the German championships with BVB in 2002 as a regular first team player, he also reached the 2002 FIFA World Cup final with Germany.
- Christian Wörns
Christian Wörns is a professional German footballer, currently playing for Borussia Dortmund.
- Mark van Bommel
Mark Peter Gertuda Andreas van Bommel aka Mark van Bommel (born April 22, 1977 in Maasbracht, Netherlands) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for FC Bayern Munich. He is also the son in law of Feyenoord Rotterdam and former Borussia Dortmund coach Bert van Marwijk.
- Roman Weidenfeller
Roman Weidenfeller is a professional Footballer (Soccer Player) who plays for the German Football/Soccer team Borussia Dortmund. Roman made his BVB debut against his former club 1.FC Kaiserslautern on 17 December, 2003. The game was marked by a disastrous mix-up between Weidenfeller and one of his own defenders, which resulted in Kaiserslautern’s Lincoln being gifted a goal.
- Florian Kringe
Florian Kringe is a German soccer player for Borussia Dortmund. The midfielder started his career with "TSV Weißtal" and "Sportfreunde Siegen". From 1994 to 2002 he already played for Borussia Dortmund but joined 1. FC Köln for two years. In 2004, he rejoined the club. As of August 1, 2006 he played 89 times in the German Bundesliga and scored 7 goals.
- Delron Buckley
Delron Buckley (born December 7, 1977 in Durban) is a South African football (soccer) player. He also has a German passport. His soccer career began with his local team "Butcherfille Rovers Durban", but when he was 8 years old he was signed for German club VfL Bochum, but he left VfL Bochum in 2004 for Arminia Bielefeld. However, after only one season there, he moved to Borussia Dortmund on July 1, 2005.
- Bert van Marwijk
Lambertus ("Bert") van Marwijk (born 19 May, 1952 in Deventer, Overijssel) is a former football (soccer) player from the Netherlands, and nowadays a coach. He is the father-in-law of Bayern Munich midfielder Mark van Bommel. As a forward and a midfielder he played 390 matches in the Dutch highest division (Eredivisie). He has one cap for the Netherlands national football team.
- Lars Ricken
Lars Ricken (born July 10, 1976 in Dortmund) is a professional German football (soccer) player. He has been playing for Borussia Dortmund for his entire professional career. Lars Ricken started his career in Borussia Dortmund, playing regularly during mid-1990s. Through a series of exciting performances, he became a local star in Dortmund and a teen idol throughout Germany. Ricken scored a memorable long distance goal in the Champions League final against Juventus Turin, …
- Michael Skibbe
Michael Skibbe is a former German football (soccer) player and the current manager of the German club Bayer Leverkusen. He was assistant manager of the German national team under Rudi Völler until 2004. In his youth, Skibbe played for SG Wattenscheid 09. Then he switched to the professional team of FC Schalke 04. From 1984 to 1986, he appeared in 14 Bundesliga-games, but then he tore his cruciate ligament three times, which forced him to end his playing career.
- Diego Klimowicz
Diego Klimowicz is a Argentinian football striker of Polish descent. He was born on July 6 1974, in the city of Quilmes in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Borussia Dortmund of the Fußball-Bundesliga in Germany. Klimowicz started his career at Intstituto de Córdoba in the Argentine 2nd division in 1993.
- Martin Amedick
Martin Amedick (born September 6, 1982 in Paderborn, Germany) is a football player and plays since 2006/07 for Borussia Dortmund. In summer 2006 he came as a defender from Eintracht Braunschweig. Amedick weighs 85 kg and his height is 194 cm. Before he came to Borussia Dortmund he played for Eintracht Braunschweig and was loaned at Arminia Bielefeld and SC Paderborn.
- Stefan Reuter
Stefan Reuter is a German football coach and former player. The midfielder and defender started his career with "TSV 1860 Dinkelsbühl". 1982 he played for 1. FC Nürnberg, first in the Zweite Bundesliga and since 1985 in the German Bundesliga. In exactly 100 games he scored 10 goals. 1988 he was transferred to Bayern München. For this team he played 95 games in the Bundesliga and sored 4 goals. In 1989 and 1990 he won the German Championship with Bayern München.
- Steven Pienaar
Steven Pienaar (born March 17, 1982, Johannesburg) is a South African football midfielder currently with Borussia Dortmund. He previously played for Ajax Amsterdam in the Eredivisie after joining the Dutch squad from its South African satellite club Ajax Cape Town. One of the more famous Borussia Dortmund players, Pienaar is a regular with the South Africa national football team and was a part of the squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He also has 20 caps to his name.
- Markus Brzenska
Markus Brzenska in Lünen, Germany is a German soccer player for Borussia Dortmund. Without any top level match experience, he was surprisingly included in the starting line-up by coach Matthias Sammer in the match against the Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich on November 9th, 2003. His debut, ended in a send-off during first half, however. A TV reporter predicted he didn't have future in professional football, …
- Giovanni Federico
Giovanni Federico (born October 4, 1980 in Hagen, Germany) is an Italian/German football player who currently plays for Karlsruher SC. Federico agreed to join Borussia Dortmund in July 2007 on a Bosman transfer on March 7 2007, after an highly successful season, individually (top goalscorer with 19 goals) and collectively (his team achieved promotion with the first place in 2.Bundesliga).
- Euzebiusz Smolarek
Euzebiusz "Ebi" Smolarek is a Polish footballer who currently plays for the Polish national football team and Borussia Dortmund. He grew up in the Netherlands, where his father Włodzimierz Smolarek played in the Eredivisie and later worked as a coach. Ebi Smolarek went through the Feyenoord youth system and made it all the way to the first team. He is a striker or a midfielder for both Borussia Dortmund and the national team.
- Jakub Błaszczykowski
Jakub Błaszczykowski, (born December 14, 1985 in Częstochowa) is a Polish football midfielder who plays for Wisła Kraków. In February 2007 he signed a four-year contract with Borussia Dortmund. He joined the Bundesliga side in July 2007. On July 12, 2007 he scored his first goal for Borussia in a friendly versus Anderlecht.
- Jürgen Röber
Jürgen Röber is a German football player and manager. In 1956 his family moved from the then GDR to Bertlich in Northrhine-Westphalia. There he grew up and started his football career at SuS Bertlich. His Bundesliga career lasted 12 years with one year interruption, when he played in Canada and England. His greatest success as a player was the win of the national German championship with Bayern Munich in 1981.
- Guy Demel
Guy Roland Demel is a French-born Ivorian football midfielder. Demel started his professional career in the French Ligue 2 with Olympique Nîmes. He was discovered and bought by the big English team Arsenal, and spent a year there before being transferred to Borussia Dortmund. He left Arsenal claiming he was homesick and therefore observers were baffled at his move to Borussia Dortmund.
- David Rozehnal
David Rozehnal is a Czech football player who plays for the FA Premier League club Newcastle United. Rozehnal played for the Czech Republic at the Euro 2004 and all three of their games at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. At club level, he has represented Sigma Olomouc and Club Brugge. He won the title with Brugge in 2005. Rozehnal impressed at Paris Saint Germain in the 2006-07 season and was named as the club's Player of the Year.
- Andreas Möller
Andreas Möller is a former German football (soccer) midfielder. With the German national team, Möller won the 1990 World Cup and Euro 96. At club level, Möller played for Eintracht Frankfurt (1985-87, 1990-92, 2003-04), Borussia Dortmund (1988-90, 1994-2000), Juventus (1992-94), and Schalke 04 (2000-03). He won the UEFA Cup with Juventus in 1993 and the Champions League with Dortmund in 1997. For Germany, Möller was capped 85 times, scoring 29 goals.
- Rudi Assauer
Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer (born April 30, 1944 in Altenwald) is a former German football manager and former player. Due to his habit of smoking a great number of cigars, he has been given the nickname "Stumpen-Rudi", or Cheroot Rudi. Born in Saarland, Assauer played in 307 matches for Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen between 1964 and 1976. Assauer won won the European Cup winners' Cup in 1966 with Dortmund. From 1976 to 1981 he was manager of Werder Bremen, …
- Patrik Berger
Patrik Berger (born 10 November, 1973 in Prague) is a Czech football player. He is currently a midfielder for English Premiership team Aston Villa, having signed from Portsmouth on a free transfer on 1 June 2005. Patrik Berger began his career as junior with Sparta Prague in 1989 then he moved to the city rival Slavia Prague in 1991/92, and moved to Borussia Dortmund in 1995/96, with whom he won the Bundesliga title that year.
- Karl-Heinz Riedle
Karl-Heinz Riedle was a German professional footballer, who won the FIFA World Cup with West Germany in 1990 and the UEFA Champions League in 1997 with Borussia Dortmund. Riedle ended his international career with 42 caps and 16 goals. Riedle's youth clubs are TSV Ellhofen and SV Weiler. He started his senior career at FC Augsburg. He then moved to Blau-Weiss 90 Berlin in 1986, who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga. However, the club finished last in that season, …
- David Degen
David Degen is a Swiss footballer currently playing for Borussia Mönchengladbach. He was selected for the Swiss 2006 World Cup squad. However, he only played in the warmup games Degen recently finished a trial with SPL champions Celtic FC and has expressed a desire to sign for the club. His twin brother Philipp Degenis married and currently plays for Borussia Dortmund. Degen was invited to Bolton Wanderers' pre-season training camp in Austria, …
- Marc-André Kruska
Marc-André Kruska is a German footballer currently playing for Borussia Dortmund.
- Udo Lattek
Udo Lattek is a former German football (soccer) player and coach, and is now a now television sportscaster. With 14 major titles, Lattek is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game, and the most successful coach with German teams and Bayern Munich. He further won important trophies with Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Barcelona. Further to that he coached Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04 and 1. FC Köln.
- Matthew Amoah
Mathew Amoah (born October 24, 1980 in Tema, Ghana) is a Ghanaian International Striker who plays for Dutch Eredivisie side NAC Breda in The Netherlands after they reached a deal to sign him from German Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund. He formerly played for SBV Vitesse, where he has spent almost his entire career. He is currently the in-form striker for Ghana, a stark contrast to his club form, where he was recently booed by his own fans.
- Heiko Herrlich
Heiko Herrlich is a former German soccer player. As a player, Heiko Herrlich played 258 matches (1989-2004) in the German Bundesliga and scored 76 goals for Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Borussia Dortmund. Herrlich was part of one of biggest scandals in German football history when he tried to terminate his existing contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach.
- Stefan Klos
Stefan Klos (born August 16, 1971 in Dortmund) is a retired German goalkeeper who last played for Rangers. He played for Borussia Dortmund from 1991, until he moved to Glasgow on Christmas Eve 1998. Klos won the UEFA Champions League with Dortmund in 1997, but was never capped at full international level for Germany. He was made Rangers' new captain in July 2004.
- Eike Immel
Eike Immel (born November 27, 1960 in Stadtallendorf) is a former German football player and manager. A leading youth international goalkeeper for West Germany in 1978, Eike Immel was still seventeen years of age when he succeeded Horst Bertram as Borussia Dortmund's first-choice. He remained Dortmund's top choice until his 2 million Deutsche Mark transfer to VfB Stuttgart in 1986, the biggest fee ever paid for a goalkeeper in the history German football at that time.
- Nuri Şahin
Nuri Kazim Şahin is a Turkish football (soccer) player at the position of midfielder. He currently plays for Borussia Dortmund, but is on loan to Dutch giants Feyenoord. On August 6 2005, at the age of 16 years and 335 days, Sahin set a record by becoming the youngest player to have played in the Bundesliga. He also became the youngest player to score in the Bundesliga on November 26, scoring against Nürnberg.
- Nelson Haedo Valdez
Nelson Antonio Haedo Valdez is a Paraguayan football player. An attacker, he has played 6 matches for the Paraguay national football team. He currently plays for Borussia Dortmund, a club he joined in December 2001 from Atletico Tembetary in Paraguay. He spent the first two seasons in the Regionalliga with the reserve team, but became more regular. In the 2003/04 season he helped Werder Bremen become German league and cup champion.
- Thomas Helmer
Thomas Helmer (born April 21 1965 in Herford, West Germany) is a former German football player, playing as a Centre-Back. He began his career with Arminia Bielefeld in 1986 until he played for Borussia Dortmund 1989. His other German clubs were Bayern Munich, and Hertha BSC Berlin. He also played in England for Sunderland A.F.C.. He won three German league titles in 1994, 1997 and 1999. He won two German cup titles in 1989 and 1998.