1996–97 Borussia Dortmund season

During the 1996–97 German football season, Borussia Dortmund competed in the German Bundesliga.

Sason summary

Dortmund failed to win a third straight Bundesliga title and finished the season in third, eight points off champions Bayern Munich, but made up for the league disappointment by winning the Champions League for the first time in their history, defeating a Juventus side featuring the likes of Zinedine Zidane, Didier Deschamps and Christian Vieri at the Olympiastadion in Munich.

Squad

Squad at end of season^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Stefan Klos 2 DF Knut Reinhardt 3 DF René Schneider 4 MF Steffen Freund 5 DF Júlio César 6 DF Matthias Sammer 7 DF Stefan Reuter 8 MF Michael Zorc 9 FW Stéphane Chapuisat 10 MF Andreas Möller 11 FW Heiko Herrlich 12 GK Wolfgang de Beer 13 FW Karl-Heinz Riedle

No. Position Player 14 MF Paul Lambert 15 DF Jürgen Kohler 16 DF Martin Kree 17 MF Jörg Heinrich 18 MF Lars Ricken 19 MF Paulo Sousa 21 FW Christian Timm 22 FW Ibrahim Tanko 23 MF René Tretschok 26 MF Frank Riethmann 27 DF Wolfgang Feiersinger 29 MF Vladimir But 30 FW Jovan Kirovski

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 20 DF Günter Kutowski (to Rot-Weiss Essen)

No. Position Player 21 MF Carsten Wolters (to Duisburg)

Results

Bundesliga

They came 3rd in the bundesliga

Champions League

They won the champions league

Kits

Home

Home CL

Away

Away CL

CL Final

References