1996–97 Borussia Dortmund season

Borussia Dortmund

1996–97 season

Manager

Ottmar Hitzfeld

Bundesliga

3rd

Champions League

Winners

← 1995–96

1997–98 →

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

Season 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

Dortmund came in 3rd in the Bundesliga.

Champions League

Dortmund won the UEFA Champions League.

Kits

Home

Home CL

Away

Away CL

CL Final

References

↑ http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/ger/1996-1997/bundes/dortmund.htm

Borussia Dortmund

Information	Club Players Managers Matches Seasons

Teams	Borussia Dortmund Borussia Dortmund II Borussia Dortmund Youth

Home stadium	Westfalenstadion Stadion Rote Erde Weisse Wiese

Related articles	Revierderby Der Klassiker

Other	Superleague Formula team Goool.de

Borussia Dortmund seasons

First team	1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Reserve team	2012–13

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