List of Borussia Dortmund players

Borussia Dortmund is a German football club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the Bundesliga – the highest tier in the German football league system. The club was founded in 1909.

Michael Zorc made 572 first team appearances for Borussia Dortmund

The following is a list of the players with the most first team appearances and goals for the club. This consists of appearances and goals in the Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga North, Regionalliga West, DFB-Pokal, DFL-Ligapokal, DFL-Supercup, European Cup / UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Intercontinental Cup, Oberliga West and the finals of the German football championship.

Players

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As of 9 November 2024

Bold signifies current Borussia Dortmund players.

  Spent their entire professional career with Borussia Dortmund.

List of Borussia Dortmund players with 20 or more appearances
Player Nationality Position Dortmund career Appearances Goals
August Lenz   Germany FW 1930–1949 49 32
Herbert Erdmann   Germany FW 1939–1940
1947–1950
59 33
Pat Koschmieder   Germany DF 1939–1955 179 1
Heinrich Ruhmhofer   Germany DF 1943–1951 74 0
Alfred Preißler   Germany FW 1945–1950
1952–1959
274 177
Friedel Ibel   Germany FW 1946–1952 58 6
Werner Erdmann   Germany FW 1947–1952 86 37
Erwin Halfen   Germany DF 1947–1953 106 1
Wilhelm Kronsbein   Germany GK 1947–1950 47 0
Max Michallek   Germany DF 1947–1960 326 20
Herbert Sandmann   Germany DF 1947–1949
1951–1960
210 40
Erich Schanko   Germany MF 1947–1957 223 11
Edmond Kasperski   Germany FW 1948–1953 136 66
Günter Rau   Germany GK 1948–1959 74 0
Herbert Hammer   Germany DF 1949–1950 26 0
Rudi Schulz   Germany MF 1949–1950 31 10
Hans Flügel   Germany FW 1950–1957 129 49
Josef Linneweber   Germany FW 1950–1953 37 20
Alfred Mikuda   Germany DF 1950–1953 83 0
Kurt Sahm   Germany FW 1950–1951
1952–1953
45 5
Friedrich Vogt   Germany GK 1950–1953 26 0
Erich Wieding   Germany DF 1950–1953 41 0
Ewald Wieschner   Germany FW 1950–1957 99 2
Alfred Niepieklo   Germany MF 1951–1960 201 125
Elwin Schlebrowski   Germany MF 1951–1960 206 16
Wilhelm Burgsmüller   Germany DF 1952–1964 289 1
Franz Farke   Germany FW 1952–1953 23 18
Heinz Kwiatkowski   Germany GK 1952–1965 340 0
Günther Falke   Germany DF 1953–1955 55 0
Helmut Kapitulski   Germany MF 1953–1957 94 21
Adolf Luckenbach   Germany MF 1953–1955 39 2
Alfred Kelbassa   Germany FW 1954–1963 218 124
Wolfgang Peters   Germany FW 1954–1963 236 26
Willi Schumacher   Germany MF 1954–1958 28 3
Theo Berning   Germany MF 1955–1960 49 13
Helmut Bracht   Germany MF 1955–1964 248 9
Aki Schmidt   Germany MF 1956–1968 331 91
Hans-Georg Dulz   Germany MF 1957–1959 39 13
Friedhelm Meyer   Germany DF 1957–1959 23 0
Hans Michel   Germany DF 1957–1960 36 1
Hans Cieslarczyk   Germany FW 1958–1962 39 7
Friedhelm Konietzka   Germany FW 1958–1965 196 155
Gerhard Cyliax   Germany DF 1959–1968 246 36
Lothar Geisler   Germany DF 1959–1967 144 1
Jürgen Schütz   Germany FW 1959–1963 214 143
Rolf Thiemann   Germany DF 1959–1962 45 1
Lothar Emmerich   Germany FW 1960–1969 249 148
Dieter Kurrat   Germany MF 1960–1974 382 21
Horst Steinkuhl   Germany MF 1960–1962 28 0
Wolfgang Paul   Germany DF 1961–1971 239 9
Wilhelm Sturm   Germany MF 1961–1971 286 23
Bernhard Wessel   Germany GK 1961–1969 134 0
Theodor Redder   Germany DF 1962–1969 143 2
Hans Tilkowski   Germany GK 1962–1967 99 0
Reinhold Wosab   Germany FW 1962–1971 275 94
Franz Brungs   Germany FW 1963–1965 70 31
Rudi Assauer   Germany DF 1964–1970 135 8
Friedhelm Groppe   Germany MF 1964–1969 44 0
Hermann Straschitz   Germany MF 1964–1966 30 5
Sigfried Held   Germany FW 1965–1971
1977–1979
259 53
Stan Libuda   Germany FW 1965–1968 85 10
Jürgen Weber   Germany MF 1965–1968 20 4
Willi Neuberger   Germany DF 1966–1971 164 33
Gerd Peehs   Germany DF 1966–1973 205 7
Horst Trimhold   Germany MF 1966–1971 109 16
Klaus Brakelmann   Germany DF 1967–1971 50 0
Dietmar Erler   Germany FW 1968–1970 31 2
Klaus Günther   Germany GK 1968–1971 39 0
Werner Weist   Germany FW 1968–1971 79 37
Theo Bücker   Germany MF 1969–1973 129 40
Ferdinand Heidkamp   Germany DF 1969–1971 57 2
Alfred Kohlhäufl   Germany DF 1969–1970 23 1
Branko Rasovic   Montenegro DF 1969–1974 125 0
Theodor Rieländer   Germany MF 1969–1972 49 7
Jürgen Rynio   Germany GK 1969–1974 106 0
Hans-Joachim Andree   Germany DF 1970–1973 83 2
Manfred Ritschel   Germany FW 1970–1972 65 9
Dieter Weinkauff   Germany FW 1970–1972 55 16
Horst Bertram   Germany GK 1971–1983 258 0
Walter Hohnhausen   Germany FW 1971–1972 27 3
Siegfried Köstler   Germany FW 1971–1973 66 10
Werner Lorant   Germany MF 1971–1973 50 0
Reinhold Mathes   Germany DF 1971–1972 24 0
Dieter Mietz   Germany DF 1971–1972 35 0
Alfons Sikora   Germany FW 1971–1972 21 0
Jürgen Wilhelm   Germany FW 1971–1973 38 13
Horst Bertl   Germany FW 1972–1974 66 26
Karl-Heinz Brücken   Germany FW 1972–1974 30 11
Peter Czernotzky   Germany DF 1972–1974 68 4
Helmut Nerlinger   Germany DF 1972–1978 169 17
Klaus Ondera   Germany FW 1972–1973 30 6
Helmut Schmidt   Germany MF 1972–1974 57 3
Friedhelm Schwarze   Germany DF 1972–1977 98 3
Egwin Wolf   Germany MF 1972–1979 183 27
Wolfgang Berg   Germany DF 1973–1975 38 3
Hans-Werner Hartl   Germany FW 1973–1977 130 41
Willi Mumme   Germany FW 1973–1974 34 4
Burkhard Segler   Germany MF 1973–1979 200 54
Klaus Ackermann   Germany FW 1974–1979 118 11
Dieter Goldbach   Germany MF 1974–1975 28 4
Lothar Huber   Germany DF 1974–1986 372 50
Ernst Savkovic   Germany DF 1974–1976 58 0
Hans-Gerd Schildt   Germany FW 1974–1977 87 16
Zoltán Varga   Hungary FW 1974–1976 61 11
Mirko Votava   Germany MF 1974–1982 297 32
Hans-Joachim Wagner   Germany DF 1974–1983 244 13
Peter Geyer   Germany FW 1975–1981 216 48
Gerd Kasperski   Germany FW 1975–1977 37 17
Wolfgang Vöge   Germany FW 1975–1980 127 32
Manfred Burgsmüller   Germany FW 1976–1983 252 158
Erwin Kostedde   Germany FW 1976–1977 54 26
Willi Lippens   Netherlands FW 1976–1979 74 16
Herbert Meyer   Germany DF 1976–1980 90 2
Wolfgang Frank   Germany FW 1977–1980 39 14
Werner Schneider   Germany DF 1977–1981 139 7
Amand Theis   Germany DF 1977–1980 94 7
Herbert Hein   Germany DF 1978–1984 114 2
Eike Immel   Germany GK 1978–1986 280 0
Norbert Runge   Germany FW 1978–1980 24 5
Norbert Dörmann   Germany DF 1979–1981 38 1
Paul Holz   Germany MF 1979–1981 25 0
Meinolf Koch   Germany MF 1979–1986 157 12
Theo Schneider   Germany FW 1979–1982 54 8
Rüdiger Abramczik   Germany FW 1980–1983 102 34
Siegfried Bönighausen   Germany DF 1980–1983 50 2
Atli Eðvaldsson   Iceland FW 1980–1981 33 11
Erdal Keser   Turkey FW 1980–1984
1986–1987
116 30
Rolf Rüssmann   Germany DF 1980–1985 161 18
Heinz-Werner Eggeling   Germany FW 1981–1984 32 3
Bernd Klotz   Germany FW 1981–1984 118 31
Ralf Loose   Germany DF 1981–1986 136 13
Franz-Josef Tenhagen   Germany MF 1981–1984 98 1
Michael Zorc   Germany MF 1981–1998 572 159
Michael Lusch   Germany MF 1982–1993 242 13
Marcel Răducanu   Romania MF 1982–1986 186 35
Ulrich Bittcher   Germany MF 1983–1987 92 4
Werner Dreßel   Germany FW 1983–1986 56 5
Bernd Storck   Germany DF 1983–1989 168 10
Ingo Anderbrügge   Germany MF 1984–1988 85 11
André Egli    Switzerland DF 1984–1985 33 6
Günter Kutowski   Germany DF 1984–1996 345 5
Frank Pagelsdorf   Germany MF 1984–1988 126 11
Wolfgang Schüler   Germany FW 1984–1988 65 16
Daniel Simmes   Germany FW 1984–1988 125 15
Jürgen Wegmann   Germany FW 1984–1986
1989–1992
138 46
Horst Hrubesch   Germany FW 1985–1986 21 4
Dirk Hupe   Germany DF 1985–1989 110 10
Wolfgang de Beer   Germany GK 1986–2001 217 0
Norbert Dickel   Germany FW 1986–1990 108 50
Thomas Helmer   Germany DF 1986–1992 223 22
Frank Mill   Germany FW 1986–1994 227 66
Gerhard Kleppinger   Germany DF 1987–1988 43 1
Murdo MacLeod   Scotland MF 1987–1990 129 5
Günter Breitzke   Germany MF 1988–1992 101 21
Thomas Kroth   Germany MF 1988–1990 65 0
Andreas Möller   Germany MF 1988–1990
1994–2000
301 88
Robert Nikolic   Germany DF 1988–1991 57 0
Michael Rummenigge   Germany MF 1988–1993 193 45
Martin Driller   Germany FW 1989–1991 49 6
Sergei Gorlukovich   Russia DF 1989–1992 53 2
Uwe Grauer   Germany DF 1989–1994 25 1
Michael Schulz   Germany DF 1989–1994 166 7
Stefan Sterath   Germany MF 1989–1991 21 1
Thomas Franck   Germany MF 1990–1996 125 4
Steffen Karl   Germany MF 1990–1993 87 5
Stefan Klos   Germany GK 1990–1998 339 0
Gerhard Poschner   Germany MF 1990–1994 136 14
Flemming Povlsen   Denmark FW 1990–1995 146 23
Peter Quallo   Germany DF 1990–1992 28 0
Stéphane Chapuisat    Switzerland FW 1991–1999 284 123
Knut Reinhardt   Germany MF 1991–1998 225 8
Bodo Schmidt   Germany DF 1991–1996 155 3
Stefan Reuter   Germany MF 1992–2004 421 15
Lothar Sippel   Germany MF 1992–1994 51 7
René Tretschok   Germany MF 1992–1997 85 11
Ned Zelic   Australia MF 1992–1995 56 1
Steffen Freund   Germany MF 1993–1998 161 6
Lars Ricken   Germany MF 1993–2008 407 69
Karl-Heinz Riedle   Germany FW 1993–1997 112 36
Matthias Sammer   Germany DF 1993–1998 153 23
Vladimir But   Russia MF 1994–2000 100 10
Júlio César   Brazil DF 1994–1998 116 10
Martin Kree   Germany DF 1994–1999 114 3
Patrik Berger   Czech Republic MF 1995–1996 36 4
Heiko Herrlich   Germany FW 1995–2004 183 56
Jürgen Kohler   Germany FW 1995–2002 250 18
Rubén Sosa   Uruguay FW 1995–1996 27 3
Ibrahim Tanko   Ghana FW 1995–2001 71 3
Wolfgang Feiersinger   Austria DF 1996–2000 83 0
Jörg Heinrich   Germany DF 1996–1998
2000–2003
195 24
Jovan Kirovski   United States FW 1996–2000 29 2
Paul Lambert   Scotland MF 1996–1997 64 2
Paulo Sousa   Portugal MF 1996–1997 40 2
Christian Timm   Germany FW 1996–1999 20 0
Sergej Barbarez   Bosnia and Herzegovina FW 1998–2000 49 7
Karsten Baumann   Germany DF 1998–2000 46 0
Dedé   Brazil DF 1998–2011 398 13
Christian Nerlinger   Germany MF 1998–2001 73 4
Alfred Nijhuis   Netherlands DF 1998–2001 75 6
Bachirou Salou   Togo FW 1998–1999 29 6
Otto Addo   Ghana MF 1999–2005 98 16
Fredi Bobic   Germany FW 1999–2002 80 23
Evanílson   Brazil DF 1999–2005 170 4
Victor Ikpeba   Nigeria FW 1999–2002 37 4
Jens Lehmann   Germany GK 1999–2003 179 0
Giuseppe Reina   Germany FW 1999–2003 114 19
Miroslav Stević   Serbia MF 1999–2002 121 8
Christian Wörns   Germany DF 1999–2008 303 15
Christoph Metzelder   Germany DF 2000–2007 158 2
Sunday Oliseh   Nigeria MF 2000–2005 72 3
Márcio Amoroso   Brazil FW 2001–2004 89 43
Guy Demel   Ivory Coast DF 2001–2005 42 0
Ewerthon   Brazil FW 2001–2005 154 54
Jan Koller   Czech Republic FW 2001–2006 184 79
Florian Kringe   Germany MF 2001–2012 171 19
Ahmed Madouni   Algeria DF 2001–2005 82 3
Tomáš Rosický   Czech Republic MF 2001–2006 189 24
Jan-Derek Sørensen   Norway FW 2001–2002 34 1
Juan Fernández   Argentina DF 2002–2005 22 0
Torsten Frings   Germany MF 2002–2004 63 12
Sebastian Kehl   Germany MF 2002–2015 362 22
David Odonkor   Germany FW 2002–2006 90 3
Roman Weidenfeller   Germany GK 2002–2018 453 0
André Bergdölmo   Norway DF 2003–2005 37 0
Niclas Jensen   Denmark DF 2003–2005 53 2
Sahr Senesie   Germany FW 2003–2006 30 1
Guillaume Warmuz   France GK 2003–2005 29 0
Markus Brzenska   Germany DF 2004–2009 89 7
Salvatore Gambino   Germany FW 2004–2006 52 5
Marc-André Kruska   Germany MF 2004–2009 107 2
Delron Buckley   South Africa FW 2005–2009 70 1
Philipp Degen    Switzerland DF 2005–2008 75 1
Nuri Şahin   Turkey MF 2005–2011
2013–2018
274 26
Ebi Smolarek   Poland FW 2005–2007 87 26
Martin Amedick   Germany DF 2006–2008 38 2
Alexander Frei    Switzerland FW 2006–2009 83 37
Steven Pienaar   South Africa MF 2006–2008 27 0
Tinga   Brazil MF 2006–2010 113 12
Nelson Valdez   Paraguay FW 2006–2010 126 18
Jakub Blaszczykowski   Poland FW 2007–2016 253 32
Giovanni Federico   Italy MF 2007–2009 36 6
Diego Klimowicz   Argentina FW 2007–2008 45 11
Robert Kovač   Croatia DF 2007–2009 34 0
Mladen Petrić   Croatia FW 2007–2008 36 18
Marc Ziegler   Germany GK 2007–2010 29 0
Tamás Hajnal   Hungary MF 2008–2011 58 8
Mats Hummels   Germany DF 2008–2016
2019–2024
508 38
Lee Young-pyo   South Korea DF 2008–2009 22 0
Patrick Owomoyela   Germany DF 2008–2013 84 3
Antonio Rukavina   Serbia DF 2008–2009 25 0
Felipe Santana   Brazil DF 2008–2013 113 8
Marcel Schmelzer   Germany DF 2008–2022 367 7
Neven Subotić   Serbia DF 2008–2018 263 18
Mohamed Zidan   Egypt FW 2008–2012 73 15
Lucas Barrios   Paraguay FW 2009–2012 102 49
Sven Bender   Germany MF 2009–2017 224 4
Markus Feulner   Germany MF 2009–2011 20 0
Kevin Großkreutz   Germany DF 2009–2015 236 27
Antônio da Silva   Brazil MF 2010–2012 33 1
Mario Götze   Germany MF 2010–2013
2016–2020
219 45
Shinji Kagawa   Japan MF 2010–2012
2014–2019
216 60
Mitchell Langerak   Australia GK 2010–2015 35 0
Robert Lewandowski   Poland FW 2010–2014 187 103
Łukasz Piszczek   Poland DF 2010–2021 382 19
İlkay Gündoğan   Germany MF 2011–2016 157 15
Moritz Leitner   Germany MF 2011–2016 67 0
Ivan Perišić   Croatia MF 2011–2013 64 12
Oliver Kirch   Germany MF 2012–2015 30 1
Marco Reus   Germany MF 2012–2024 429 170
Julian Schieber   Germany FW 2012–2014 57 6
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang   Gabon FW 2013–2018 213 141
Erik Durm   Germany DF 2013–2018 97 2
Jonas Hofmann   Germany MF 2013–2015 59 5
Henrikh Mkhitaryan   Armenia MF 2013–2016 140 41
Sokratis Papastathopoulos   Greece DF 2013–2018 198 10
Matthias Ginter   Germany DF 2014–2017 102 4
Ciro Immobile   Italy FW 2014–2016 34 10
Miloš Jojić   Serbia MF 2014–2015 29 4
Adrián Ramos   Colombia FW 2014–2017 79 19
Roman Bürki    Switzerland GK 2015–2022 233 0
Gonzalo Castro   Germany MF 2015–2018 111 12
Julian Weigl   Germany MF 2015–2019 171 4
Marc Bartra   Spain DF 2016–2018 51 5
Ousmane Dembélé   France FW 2016–2017 50 10
Raphaël Guerreiro   Portugal DF 2016–2023 224 40
Felix Passlack   Germany DF 2016–2023 55 3
Christian Pulisic   United States FW 2016–2019 127 19
Sebastian Rode   Germany MF 2016–2019 22 1
André Schürrle   Germany FW 2016–2020 51 8
Mahmoud Dahoud   Germany MF 2017–2023 141 5
Jacob Bruun Larsen   Denmark FW 2017–2020 41 3
Maximilian Philipp   Germany FW 2017–2019 51 11
Jadon Sancho   England FW 2017–2021
2024
158 53
Jeremy Toljan   Germany DF 2017–2021 23 1
Ömer Toprak   Turkey DF 2017–2020 51 0
Andriy Yarmolenko   Ukraine FW 2017–2018 26 6
Dan-Axel Zagadou   France DF 2017–2022 92 4
Manuel Akanji    Switzerland DF 2018–2022 158 4
Paco Alcácer   Spain FW 2018–2020 47 26
Thomas Delaney   Denmark MF 2018–2021 88 4
Abdou Diallo   Senegal DF 2018–2019 38 1
Achraf Hakimi   Morocco DF 2018–2020 73 12
Marwin Hitz    Switzerland GK 2018–2022 46 0
Axel Witsel   Belgium MF 2018–2022 145 13
Marius Wolf   Germany DF 2018–2024 121 5
Julian Brandt   Germany MF 2019– 232 41
Thorgan Hazard   Belgium FW 2019–2023 123 18
Mateu Morey   Spain DF 2019–2024 32 0
Nico Schulz   Germany DF 2019–2023 61 1
Jude Bellingham   England MF 2020–2023 132 24
Emre Can   Germany MF 2020– 175 18
Erling Haaland   Norway FW 2020–2022 89 86
Thomas Meunier   Belgium DF 2020–2024 83 3
Youssoufa Moukoko   Germany FW 2020– 99 18
Reinier   Brazil MF 2020–2022 39 1
Giovanni Reyna   United States MF 2020– 123 17
Gregor Kobel    Switzerland GK 2021– 130 0
Donyell Malen   Netherlands FW 2021– 125 38
Marin Pongračić   Croatia DF 2021–2022 23 0
Steffen Tigges   Germany FW 2021–2022 23 3
Karim Adeyemi   Germany FW 2022– 74 19
Jamie Gittens   England FW 2022– 74 10
Sébastien Haller   Ivory Coast FW 2022– 41 12
Alexander Meyer   Germany GK 2022– 25 0
Anthony Modeste   France FW 2022–2023 28 2
Salih Özcan   Turkey MF 2022– 70 0
Nico Schlotterbeck   Germany DF 2022– 102 6
Niklas Süle   Germany DF 2022– 80 2
Ramy Bensebaini   Algeria DF 2023– 39 1
Niclas Füllkrug   Germany FW 2023–2024 43 15
Felix Nmecha   Germany MF 2023– 44 4
Julian Ryerson   Norway DF 2023– 67 6
Marcel Sabitzer   Austria MF 2023– 55 6
Ian Maatsen   Netherlands DF 2024 23 3

Club captains

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Emre Can, the current club captain
No. Player Period
1   Aki Schmidt 1963–1965
2   Wolfgang Paul 1965–1968
3   Sigfried Held 1968–1971
4   Dieter Kurrat 1971–1974
5   Klaus Ackermann 1974–1977
6   Lothar Huber 1977–1979
7   Manfred Burgsmüller 1979–1983
8   Rolf Rüssmann 1983–1985
9   Dirk Hupe 1985–1987
10   Frank Mill 1987–1988
11   Michael Zorc 1988–1998
12   Stefan Reuter 1998–2003
13   Christoph Metzelder 2003–2004
14   Christian Wörns 2004–2008
15   Sebastian Kehl 2008–2014
16   Mats Hummels 2014–2016
17   Marcel Schmelzer 2016–2018
18   Marco Reus 2018–2023
19   Emre Can 2023–

References

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  • ''Borussia Dortmund legends ''- A list of BVB greatest players
  • "Die Spieler-Datenbank" (in German). schwatzgelb.de – Das Borussia Dortmund Fanzine. Archived from the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  • "Borussia Dortmund" (in German). Fussballdaten.