Borussia Dortmund Trivia
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50 free Borussia Dortmund trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Borussia Dortmund were founded on 19 December 1909 by eighteen young men in the back room of a pub called Zum Wildschütz, with the parish priest blocked at the door and the club name borrowed from a local beer. From that start came eight German championships, the 1966 Cup Winners' Cup, the 1997 Champions League won in Bayern's own stadium, and the biggest home crowds in world football in front of the Yellow Wall. This quiz covers the founders and their first blue-and-white kit, the three Alfredos of the 1950s, the first ever Bundesliga goal, the Westfalenstadion that Cologne's World Cup money paid for, Hitzfeld and Sammer, Riedle and Ricken in Munich, the stock-market flotation, the near-bankruptcy of 2005, Klopp's record 81 points and the 5-2 cup final, Wembley 2013, the Monaco night, Tuchel, Favre, Terzic, Bellingham's fee, the Rheinmetall row, Moukoko's records and the 12-0 nobody wants to remember. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for the pub.
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Q 01Borussia Dortmund was founded in defiance of a local what?
Priest
Priest: the chaplain who ran their church youth club disapproved of football, and when he came to break up the founding meeting, the players blocked him at the door.
Q 02Which coach led Borussia Dortmund to the Champions League title in 1997?
Ottmar Hitzfeld
Ottmar Hitzfeld: at the height of his success he gave up the coaching job straight after the final and moved upstairs to become the club's sporting director.
Q 03Club lore says Dortmund's founders borrowed the name Borussia from a local what?
Brewery
Brewery: the story goes that an advert for Borussia beer hung on the wall of the room where the club was founded, though the word itself is Latin for Prussia.
Q 04Who scored a hat-trick as a substitute on his Borussia Dortmund debut in January 2020?
Erling Haaland
Erling Haaland: he came off the bench at Augsburg with Dortmund losing 3-1 and scored three times to turn the match into a 5-3 win.
Q 05Which club is Dortmund's opponent in the Revierderby?
Schalke 04
Schalke 04: the Gelsenkirchen club won 14 of the pair's 16 league meetings between 1936 and 1944, before Dortmund beat them in the 1947 Westphalian final and the balance of power began to shift.
Q 06When Dortmund retained the German title in 1957, what was identical to the 1956 final?
The line-up
The line-up: the coach sent out exactly the same eleven men who had won the title a year earlier, and they beat Hamburg 4-1.
Q 07Dortmund's 1950s forwards Preißler, Kelbassa and Niepieklo shared which nickname?
The three Alfredos
The three Alfredos: all three forwards were called Alfred, and with them in attack Dortmund won the German championship in 1956 and again in 1957.
Q 08Which Dortmund player scored the first ever Bundesliga goal in 1963?
Friedhelm Konietzka
Friedhelm Konietzka: he scored in the first minute at Werder Bremen, yet no film or photograph of the league's first goal exists, and Dortmund went on to lose 3-2.
Q 09Which English club did Dortmund beat 2–1 in the 1966 Cup Winners' Cup final?
Liverpool
Liverpool: in extra time Reinhard Libuda's long lob came back off the woodwork, hit defender Ron Yeats and went in, giving a German club its first European trophy.
Q 10Dortmund got the Westfalenstadion built by replacing which city as a 1974 World Cup host?
Cologne
Cologne: its own stadium rebuild proved too expensive, so Dortmund stepped in and, with federal and state money, put up a cheap prefabricated ground instead.
Q 11Which club did Dortmund beat in a third decisive playoff to avoid relegation in 1986?
Fortuna Köln
Fortuna Köln: Dortmund were moments from relegation until Jürgen Wegmann scored in stoppage time of the second leg, forcing a decider that they won 8-0.
Q 12Which striker scored twice in the 1989 DFB-Pokal final and later became Dortmund's stadium announcer?
Norbert Dickel
Norbert Dickel: he played the final on a badly damaged knee, scored two of the four goals, and has been sung about ever since as the Hero of Berlin.
Q 13Who beat Dortmund 6–1 on aggregate in the 1993 UEFA Cup final?
Juventus
Juventus: Dortmund got their revenge four years later, beating the same club 3-1 when the two met again in the Champions League final.
Q 21Which rival lent a near-bankrupt Borussia Dortmund €2 million to help pay its players?
Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich: the loan helped keep Dortmund afloat when the club could not pay its players, and about a decade later the two met in a Champions League final.
Q 22What has Dortmund's Westfalenstadion been called since an insurance company bought its naming rights?
Signal Iduna Park
Signal Iduna Park: the deal began in December 2005 to help pay down the club's debts, yet on European nights UEFA's sponsor rules turn it into 'BVB Stadion Dortmund'.
Q 23Whom did Jürgen Klopp replace as Dortmund manager in 2008?
Thomas Doll
Q 14Which Borussia Dortmund player won the Ballon d'Or in 1996?
Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer: the sweeper won it in the year of Dortmund's second straight title, then came back as coach and won the league with the club again in 2002.
Q 15In which stadium did Dortmund win the 1997 Champions League final?
The Olympiastadion, Munich
The Olympiastadion, Munich: Dortmund faced holders whose midfield included Zinedine Zidane and Didier Deschamps, and still led 2-0 after 34 minutes on the way to a 3-1 win.
Q 16Who scored Dortmund's first two goals in the 1997 Champions League final?
Karl-Heinz Riedle
Karl-Heinz Riedle: he struck twice in five first-half minutes, eight years after scoring against Dortmund for Werder Bremen in the 1989 German cup final.
Q 17Which Dortmund-born substitute scored with his first touch in the 1997 Champions League final?
Lars Ricken
Lars Ricken: just 16 seconds after coming on, the 20-year-old chipped the goalkeeper from more than 20 yards out to settle the final at 3-1.
Q 18Beating Cruzeiro in Tokyo in 1997 won Dortmund which trophy?
Intercontinental Cup
The Intercontinental Cup: the yearly meeting of the champions of Europe and South America crowned Dortmund world club champions, six months after their European triumph.
Q 19What distinction did Borussia Dortmund gain in October 2000?
First publicly traded German club
First publicly traded German club: the shares went on sale at 11 euros each, but heavy spending followed and by 2005 the club stood on the brink of insolvency.
Q 20Which Dutch club beat Dortmund in the 2002 UEFA Cup final?
Feyenoord
Feyenoord: the final happened to be played in the Dutch club's own stadium in Rotterdam, and Dortmund defender Jürgen Kohler was sent off in the last match of his career.
Thomas Doll: he had saved the club from relegation a year earlier, then resigned within weeks of taking a 13th-placed side all the way to the German cup final.
Q 24Which playmaker left Dortmund's record-breaking 2012 champions for Manchester United that summer?
Shinji Kagawa
Shinji Kagawa: he left a side that had just set a Bundesliga record of 81 points, and two years later he was back in Dortmund.
Q 25Whose hat-trick beat Bayern 5-2 in the 2012 DFB-Pokal final to seal Dortmund's first double?
Robert Lewandowski
Robert Lewandowski: his three goals completed the club's first league and cup double, and two years later he joined the team he had just beaten on a free transfer.
Q 26Why does Dortmund wear two stars above its crest?
For five Bundesliga titles
For five Bundesliga titles: the league's star scheme counts only championships won since the Bundesliga began in 1963, so Dortmund's three earlier German titles earn nothing.
Q 27Whom did Dortmund beat 4–1 at home in the 2013 Champions League semi-final first leg?
Real Madrid
Real Madrid: a single Dortmund striker scored all four goals, something nobody had done before in a Champions League semi-final.
Q 28Where was the 2013 all-German Champions League final that Dortmund lost 2–1?
Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium: Dortmund had levelled from the penalty spot, only for Arjen Robben to win it for their German rivals in the 89th minute.
Q 29Who replaced Jürgen Klopp when he left Borussia Dortmund after seven years in 2015?
Thomas Tuchel
Thomas Tuchel: Dortmund named him just four days after Klopp said he was going, and he stayed two seasons, winning the German cup in his last match.
Q 30Whose stoppage-time winner at Anfield knocked Dortmund out of the 2016 Europa League, 5-4 on aggregate?
Dejan Lovren
Dejan Lovren: Dortmund had led 2-0 after nine minutes and 3-1 with half an hour left, against a side coached by their own former manager, Jürgen Klopp.