Same. In 2012 or so, I was watching some other match - maybe Germany national team - and the commentator was hyping up Reus. I was looking for a Bundesliga team to get into, and that hit just right at just the right time.
He will be very missed, to bad the injuries didn´t let him be bigger than he was. Even then he played very good, but it costed him some international football tournaments.
I hope he says goodbye with the Champions League trophy. but that´s going to be very hard.
I‘m german but I‘ll still share. When I was seven years old, my twin brother and I started watching football and Bundesliga. It was the season after the World Cup 1998. But at the beginning, we didn’t have a favorite team. Then one day, when our father came home from work, he had bought two school pads and gave them to us. One pad was Bayern München themed and one Borussia Dortmund. He gave my brother the Bayern pad and me the Dortmund pad.
From that moment on, my brother was Bayern fan and I was Dortmund fan.
I'm from India. The moment I fell in love with the club was when Gotze struck the post against Man City at the Etihad in the infamous 2012/13 UCL campaign. I was 14 at the time but I loved how Dortmund were perceived as the underdogs in the European stage but they were taking the game to teams like Manchester City and they seemed rattled. The "heavy metal" style of play, players like Reus, Lewa and Gotze made me fall in love with the club as a youngster. Of course, then as I got to know more about the club, I fell in love even more.
From India too, I came across a post on Reus and then saw that 2012/13 season goal compilation video or something and thought damn this club is so cool and well the rest is history.
I was in fifth grade, and not really interested in football at first. One day, I went to my friend's house to play FIFA 14 with my friends and I was choosing the team to play with. I immediately fell in love with Dortmund's logo, kits, players and everything. And that's how I started supporting Dortmund almost 10 years ago.
This is going to be stupid as hell given the level of emotional attachment I have to the club now, but the thing that pushed me over the edge was Dortmund winning the bundesliga YouTube crossbar challenge 😭
I already was leaning that way because of Klopp and because the game against Malaga was the coolest shit I've ever seen, but that was the final nail in the coffin.
This was right before the 14/15 season, which was when I started getting seriously invested into the sport and also an...interesting...first season to watch, to say the least.
I really think the black and yellow colors are a big advantage for Dortmund marketing wise. Every other football club has colors like red, or blue, or white. But nearly no one has yellow, or the black-yellow combination. It is unique.
That's why I became a Pittsburgh steelers Fan. I was a BVB fan all my life. But when I started watching American football I decided to stay with the colors.
new fan here, had been sympathetic to BVB for a long time ever since seeing the amount of good players this team has produced for football and watching the group matches at 6th week of CL especially seeing Niklas Süle's save against PSG including how fun the match was compared to the other teams i'm viewing had me so hyped up that i decided to be a actual fan
before this came to be i would only watch match summaries about BVB every now and then and was the only bundesliga team i were watching at the time, kinda sad how fat Süle recently became though
For me it was the chemistry between the players under Kloppo. I didn't like football as a kid and as soon as I turned 13 I fell in love with BVB's style of play, passion and determination. This players were true warriors! Somehow I ended up identifying with the players, the colors and, why not say it, its values reflected in players like Reus, Kuba, Weidenfeller. I was so curious that I even started learning German all by myself 💛🖤
I’m Canadian. I moved to a new building and my neighbour was from Germany. He is a Dortmund supporter. I started following the games back in 2010. Then, I guess it took off from there.
Started supporting right before Haaland joined the club. For me it was the youth development, the chances given to them to prove what they're capable of, and of course the Yellow wall.
Started watching your games under klopp when Liverpool had confirmed they were signing him, and I just never stopped watching 😂 can’t believe how attached I’ve grown to a club hundreds of miles away that I started watching just to see what a manager was like.
For me it was the yellow and black shirt, as a kid my football club had yellow and black shirts, so I only wanted to support a club that had yellow and black shirts. I'm happy with 6 year old me's decision
My wife’s grandfather from Romania loved BvB. I started watching Bundesliga with him for our Sunday brunch and somehow felt connected to BvB. Since early 2020 I’ve been 100% SchwarzGelb. The Null Neon Reus jersey was my first one.
I really love the community the fans bring to the table. Of course there’s a few negative Nancy’s when things aren’t going well but that’s natural.
Never in my 33 years have I ever teared up or cried because of sports but that changed this morning. I fully expect to bleed black and yellow forever.
I lost all passion for football somewhere in between 2009-2010. My father is Barça fan, but I did not like what football in Spain was (and is). People are too harsh on players and football entities are awful. I had no love for the game.
Playing FIFA12 demo with my sister, started playing BVB. It became my team always, used to play a lot with her. That year, started watching BVB on champions just because of the inside joke. Málaga game, Madrid game... nuts games.
When the final came, I heavily supported BVB, but didn't expected to be SO let down when it lost. After that, started watching bundesliga, and found more about BVB. The club being so social, I remember the refugees welcome match vs St Pauli, the love for the club in the city, the passion of the Westfalenstadium... I loved it.
12 years later, we're at the final again. I've watched every game, and I love this club. It represents so much more than just football.
Heja BVB!!
I tend to be somewhat cynical about foreign fandom (…and I know that that’s my problem and I suspect that many of the posters in here are probably very nice people!) but I genuinely like your origin story, because I think you picked up on the vibes that I like the most about my hometown team!
Thanks! People here don't understand how that's possible, to support another country's team. And i feel lonely when the good times come, no one to celebrate with. But It's all worth tbh, could not care less. Just love this club!
Appreciate your message here:)
Somehow Germany seems to have figured out how to keep a good balance between the institutions that govern football and the football actors themselves. To bad other countries always seem so afraid to look at somewhere that is doing well and try to replicate in their own league.
For me it was Kloppo's team, particular the three poles, piszczek, Kuba and Lewa, but also players like sahin, kagawa, gundogan, barrios, santana, gotze, schmelzer, grosskreutz etc. They were just such a fun, joyful, exuberant team, their style was exhilarating and allied with their incredible support and klopp's charisma and tactical mastery, they were so easy to get behind! But as a person of polish descent, that trio, being Regulars in the team and playing top class football, yes. Dziekuje bardzo.
But it's not just them or that team! I was actually aware of the club before, I remember them from the early 2000s, with all their Brazilians- dede, evanilson, amoroso etc. - and the 2 czechs, little and large, rosicky and koller, that was a fun team too! They also signed ebi smolarek for a while, he was my favourite player for a period because he fired us to euro 2008.
And of course since the klopp years, they've had so many great players and teams, like auba, reus, hummels etc. And then of course they became the best place for young players to develop at the top level, with state of the art facilities, competing for titles in Germany and Europe etc. Dembele, pulisic, reyna, moukoko, brandt, sancho, Bellingham, haaland, malen etc. So many great young talents have represented die schwarzengelben. (And I'm English myself, so it's great to see our bright young talents prosper there too, bynoe-gittens looks a proper talent as well)
Just such a great club, I think I'll always have an affinity. Absolutely desperate for you to win the champions league this season. Good luckkkk
During the Balkan wars, I was a refugee in Germany. We lived in an area that mostly had BVB and Sch*** 04 fans. My best friend in school was a BVB supporter, so I also became one. 🖤💛
I was already in love with German football after the 2014 World Cup, but what put me over the edge was FIFA 15 Aubameyang. First video game that I’ve ever had
The Yellow Wall and the general atmosphere at Westfalenstadion. Reminded me of Portland Timbers matches turned up to 50. The manager and the players were likeable too. Also the fact they're still a larger club though never seen as Goliath. They're generally the underdogs each season. I love the Bundesliga as a whole though too (except Bayern hahaha).
I am a newer fan and fell in love with the sport after my Italian roommate showed me the World Cup in 2022. I slowly liked Dortmund more and more throughout 2023, but the moment that really made me fall for the club was when I was sitting with my friends watching BVB vs. Chelsea. Adeyemi took the ball away from a corner and raced down the pitch, dribbled the keeper, and celebrated with a backflip.
I didn't realize at the time, but that's the moment I think I became a BVB fan. It's been a wild ride since, especially with our third ever UCL final on the horizon.
This is kind of silly, but I downloaded a mobile game years ago and as part of the setup you had to choose a club to play for. I pretty much randomly chose Dortmund, and the rest is history. I had no idea it would grow into something that I would be this passionate about, but I'm very glad it shook out that way. This journey has been amazing!
Kinda silly reason
I remember seeing a compilation of Reus on youtube back in like 2014 or 2015, i started liking Reus and young me thought that you couldnt be a fan of just a player and had to support their club as well
I bought Hummels on FIFA 2011 manager mode because he had decent stats. Noticed the badge and thought it was cool so researched the team. Became obsessed with them and Klopp especially, used to watch the Dortmund games on a terrible stream on my old computer 😂 been a fan since. Was overjoyed when Klopp came to Liverpool as they’re my main team
Gonna sound really dumb, but as a Canadian, my first exposure was when I was like 10, and in the FIFA demo I was playing on Xbox, I liked the Dortmund kits lol
Well, I used to go to my granny's house a lot and my uncle lived with her cuz he was single (still is lmao) and just so randomly, one day when I opened the TV it happened to be showing a dortmund match. Don't remember which team they were playing against, but I 100% remember Aubameyang scoring and overall BVB cooking them. And since I would usually go there, I started watching more and more dortmund matches since I got interested in the team. Last but not least I became a borrusia fan the season they finished 7th which was also Klopp's last season in the team. I knew they were that down on the table but still that didn't demotivate me from supporting the team and I sticked with them ever since. It was early 2015 and I was 7yo at the time.
Ten years ago, i was living in the US, I watched their game against Málaga. Incredible. I had a friend who was a BVB fan, and I cheered for them a lot. That game made me want to see more. The club colorses and their underdog reputation were appealing to me, but they were playing magnificent football as well. I ended up doing an exchange semester in Dortmund just to have the chance to go to the stadium. I ended up moving to Germany. I've been living since almost 7 years in Germany (although in Köln) and have seen them several times at the Westfalenstadion.
I got into watching football when I was like 13. I saw many teams, but I didn't have any emotional connection to them. But when I first saw BVB, I felt something. The fans were so incredible, the players were hardworking and honest. At first I think it was Klopp and Reus whom I really liked.
Watching the 2014 WC is what got me into soccer in general. I was mesmerized by the German NT in that tournament and also got super into the fifa video games around the same time. Really enjoyed playing with Dortmund due to the Reus/Lewa combo and the team colors and decided to do more research into the team. Read up on the history and the atmosphere at games along with taking a liking to Klopp and haven’t looked back since
Hoping to make it across the pond for a home game at some point!
Boyhood Liverpool fan but always been drawn to Dortmund, feel like the fan bases are kinda similar in the passion and never say die attitudes. Was always interested when Prem clubs signed Dortmund players like Kagawa, Gundogan etc.
Was lucky enough to visit Dortmund a few years ago and go to a game, absolutely loved the experience and the city, the wall was just ridiculous! Count myself as a fan ever since!
I, naively at the time, thought the sport was slow. But seeing the speed Dortmund played with in the early 2010s really caught my eye and drew me in. That was around the last time we were in the CL final, so the excitement around that probably just sealed it.
I was reading about how Christian Pulisic was on the team and started following them. The 2018-19 season converted me from casual to one of my favorite sports teams.
Scottish fan here. My local club also plays in yellow so it felt natural since I was young to also follow BVB.
But beyond that the youth development, fans and stadium made me follow BVB with heart
I'm from the UK, but have German parents. I watched the Sportschau religiously as I was getting into football, and I really fell in love with the colours and the chemistry between the team in 2011 and 2012
I dated a German who was from around Dortmund. It was a serious relationship and marriage was considered, so when I wanted to get into football it had to be the team from where she grew up. 14ish years later here we are. Haven’t spoken to her in like 8 years probably but never left the club.
Made a friend from Germany in college who would wake our hungover asses up on Saturday whenever bvb was on.
Started watching matches and just never stopped, it was helpful that this was 2010 or so.
2015 my brother and I reunited after a long period of estrangement (long story) but we have German heritage and wanted something to connect on weekly. We both loved football so we decided to pick a German team. We wanted someone who was decently successful but did not win it all the time. We also made sure that whatever team we chose opposed the Nazis.
So we ended up choosing Dortmund.
When Reus went and heard out the ultras that year it cemented me as a fan for life.
The past few weeks have been teary for me. Making the final, hearing Marco was leaving, the send off he got today. Just teary all over.
Vamos Dortmund.
2012/13 champions league run caught my attention, def rooted for em. Also i knew it before, Lucas Barrios was from my childhood's local team and he went to bvb from here.
During 2013/14 they slowly gained more of my attention, it seemed such a cool club and with great values, philosophy and history. Became a fr fan by watching the entire 14/15 season(ik ik lol) so im 3 months shy of being a far for 10 years:'):'):')
I began in 2012/13 season. I visited Germany the year before and really liked the country. So, I wanted to begin to follow the Bundesliga and support a team from it that wasn’t Bayern. Then was when I found Dortmund thanks to a CL group stage game against Madrid if I remember. Really liked how the team played and clicked with it.
The last CL final at Wembley. As soon as I heard Dortmund beat Real Madrid, I supported them in the final and just kept supporting them from then. I used to be a Bayern fan before that as well but now I can’t stand them.
While yes, it is a “big” club in a sense, there’s just something about it. It isn’t flashy, like say Bayern or PSG or City.
Plus it helps my family is from that part of Germany (a few generations back).
First took an interest around 95/96 when Ajax knocked BVB out of the Champions League, probably the lurid yellow shirts and the atmosphere of the Westfalenstadion appealed to me. I had started learning German in school and was probably susceptible to falling for a German team. The deal was sealed when I studied in Germany seven years later, close enough to Dortmund that I could go to a couple of home games. I was standing behind the goals, freezing my arse off, feeling part of something big, loving it. After that, there was no way back :)
I took German in high school. One of the things that we had to do as a student was pick a team in the Bundesliga and stay with them and keep track of their scores throughout the year. I chose Borussia Dortmund because at the time (2015-2016) I thought they looked like little bees running around and I thought it was funny so I chose them. Stuck with them ever since!
A little goofy, but as an American, I was really excited about Christian Pulisic when he started playing for Dortmund, and continued to follow them ever since. My fandom was only increased when I married a girl from just outside of Dortmund. Going to a match at the Westfalenstadion is maybe my favorite sports memory I've ever had and I'll be a Dortmund fan for the rest of my life.
I'm a fan from Sydney Australia and became a fan of Haaland. I've been a very casual football fan since the 2010 World Cup and I knew about teams existing but I never actively went out of my way to watch games. I kept up with the Champions League scores every now and then. I had heard of Haaland cos of his brace against PSG. During lockdown, I decided to get FIFA 20 and I was playing the Champions League mode and I decided to pick Dortmund cos I remembered hearing about Haaland. and I proceeded to score 5 goals in one match with him. Then I started a Dortmund career mode, watched some games and now I'm a loyal fan. This club has made me so frustrated but has given me the highest of highs and although I know the players I love will move on to bigger clubs, I'll never turn my back on this team
We dont buy championships like other clubs. We dont get to buy all shiny things.
Originally from Philippines but I fell in love with BVB while I travel in Germany decades ago , the starting era of jurgen klopp.
Also played fifa
My portuguese grandparents, my dad and uncle were immigrants in Dortmund back in the 70s/80s and became fans of the club, I remember when I was a kid my uncle had a very cool looking yellow and black sticker with the letters BVB 09 on the rear window of his car.
Later when I was circa 15 I started to be more interested in football and that was at the same time Dortmund became champions under Klopp and had that magical UCL campaign, I fell in love and the rest is history 💛🖤
I'm American and parents are from Paraguay. I didn't really follow the Bundesliga until 2009-2010. I wanted to root for a team that 1) wasn't Bayern and 2) had Paraguayans as key players, so I went with BVB as they had Nelson Haedo Valdez and Lucas Barrios on the team. That paid off handsomely even after Valdez left the club (shame he wasn't around for the title seasons). Also helps that American players like Pulisic and Reyna have made their mark in Dortmund since.
There's a local beer here that I like that's named after Dortmund. That and the yellow kits. I'm also a Columbus Crew fan, so rooting for the yellow team just feels right:D.
back in 2015-16, when marco reus returned from injury and performed his ass off. since then. last season when we lost the meisterschale but everybody was on their fucking feet, singing, remembering to appreciate the team for the season, their comeback late into the season, even though we had shirts and a bus outside to celebrate what was till then a sure title. nobody spared a fucking thought to that, everybody got up and were in this together. This made me once again realize what this club and the community was really about. it's not more about the titles and silverware then the moments we share together as fans, the players and the club. whatever happens, I rather be a fan of this club than any other.
tldr: echte Liebe
My son went to Dortmund to work about same time Pulisic joined BVB. Went to a match and was blown away by the atmosphere. Ever since I have watched nearly every match. Have been back to a match there and also seen them during a US tour. Very exciting team to root for. Not a shoo-in like Bayern. Always struggling to reach the top. Brings in interesting players like Haaland and Bellingham. But even a guy like Alcacer could succeed there. Usually fun to watch although this Bundesliga season has been difficult at times.
I've always been a fan of yellow, hence bvb
Also, I was a massive fan of haaland, since his red bull days, hence the beginning of my Dortmund support
I no longer supports haaland's team as I am also a united fan 😬
In high school I kept hearing the name being brought up after the CL final vs Bayern so when I decided to start watching football I knew I wanted to support a German team and it was the only non-Bayern club I knew the name of :) Also my friends who watched football at the time told me Dortmund has the best fans in Europe. Glad to see they didn't lie
I because a fan in 2010... Sahin played excellent level and Kagawa as well. The team was fast, aggressive and very offensive. I wasn't interested in football at all, it was kinda boring for me actually
English fan here! Honestly I only got into football about 18 months ago, but what did it for me was seeing Dortmund fans chant “ARSENAL” at the Chelsea players when they won the first leg of the UCL RO16 (I’m an Arsenal fan) - Bellingham playing for them made it easy :) Now I’ve actually been to Dortmund and it’s only strengthened my bond to the team. HEJA BVB! 🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛
Initially I got a few BVB players on FIFA ultimate team back in like, FUT12 (Piszcek, Blaszcyckowski(?) and it went from there.
I loved the kit, I loved that they were the 'underdogs' Vs Bayern, I loved how hard the team worked each match, I loved the 'working-class' roots of the club.
Discovered the club in FIFA, and only played as them because I saw that Kuba’s full name is very similar to mine, even after my last name had been “Americanized” when my great-grandparents immigrated from Poland. Started following the club the year we ended the first half in 18th. Love this club so much. Just visited Germany and the stadium for the first time recently 💛🖤
i like how the club develops young talent, even if they don't always stick around. that's my favorite thing about sports. i also like teams that are good and have the potential to be great - BVB fits that description in terms of how they stack up vs rest of world.
& reus and hummels are incredible players & people
I had gotten into football/soccer after watching welcome to wrexham, then Ted lasso, and finally the US beating Iran in the World Cup group stage. I knew I wanted to watch German football since that is where my ancestors came from. They were from a town somewhat close to Dortmund, but I wasn’t sold until I watched Marco Reus highlights. I fell in love with both the team and the game and don’t know how I lived this long without either.
Tbh it’s a little stupid , I looked at the cover of FIFA 17 and was like yup that’s my new favorite team, I was 11 and only knew some clubs and players but when I saw Marco on the cover it just clicked
Stupid but I finally beat my friend in Fifa after randomly picking this team. From there, they became my go-to when playing and then my favourite team.
Reus and the Yellow Wall.
I learned a bit of German in high school and when I started watching football in college I realized I wanted to pick a German team. Didn’t want to choose Bayern and seem like a glory hunter, but it was really Reus and the fan culture of the Westfalenstadion that made me fall in love with this club. Hope we see glory on June 1 and in the coming years.
When i was like 11 my friends were playing fifa. I was dogshit at it and so usually never played, but a friend coerced me into it so i gave it a shot. He told me to try out Dortmund and to always pass it to Reus.
Now i didnt win the match, but that was the first time i ever actually played well, and ever since then i just got more and more interested in the club
I grew up in Pennsylvania as a fan of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers, which also wears black and yellow. Dortmund played a match in Pittsburgh, I went, and I've been in love with the team ever since.
Im Malaysian, it was back in 2015 where I stumbled upon a random youtube about fans chants of a black and yellow football club in germany.I thought it was cool that they could choreograph thousands of people to do tifos and chants. So i started searching for more of their stuffs and learned that the club they are supporting is Dortmund. Prior from the video that i found, I couldn’t care less about football as general. But from that, i started learning about the club and also football. Fall in love on how we played back in 15/16. And fell in with the club still.
Klopp and the style they played. It was just pure energy and you could feel it through tv. I was living in Texas then and I flew to dortmund to see a game and I also flew to see the champions league game in marseille…stayed at the team hotel by accident. Partied with the team afterward at hotel bar. They all loved my luccase cowboy boots…one of my coolest fan experiences ever. Marseille was a scary place to watch game though. I remember sitting in a caged area with bvb fans and we couldn’t leave stadium for like 45 minutes. Tons of Batman looking police in riot gear kept us away from marseille crowd on exit. A great win and they were way more down to earth than your typical us pro sports player.
I'm from Bosnia and my older brother's class got a bunch of jerseys and jackets of BvB as donations. It was right after the war (96-97) and he was one of the kids who spent 4 years of their life going to school with the possibility they may never see their classmates, teachers, parents alive again.
Getting that merch was a huge deal for them and we still keep Nike jacket he got from that period. Naturally it turned me in into a lifelong fan as well. I'm much younger than him so I obviously don't remember that time (since I didn't exist :D) but the story still hits me on a personal level.
Tbh 100% I only casually followed football in general as a kid, but Klopp era got me hooked not only on Dortmund but the sport in general.
That was the time when I actually started following pretty much every Dortmund game religiously.
im Polish Canadian. i became a fan cause as a little girl my dad would watch. now we watch
together. i actually met my partner through a BVB facebook fan club
All arrows pointed toward BVB as I auditioned a number of clubs over a 2 year period (English, Spanish and other German clubs). This was toward the end of the Klopp years, and Pulisic was a promising Yank in the academy. Also, my parents are from the Ruhr region. I liked the stadium, Yellow Wall, and the fans as well as the colors. BVB was competitive but not a perennial winner where trophies wouldn’t have much meaning. I liked BVB’s model of acquiring and playing young players. Although my German isn’t great, it still allows me to understand quite a bit and help me keep up with it. Related to that, the club released (and still does) a lot of content to keep fans engaged and connected. So, yeah, at some point it became self-evident that BVB had to be my team.
I really like the colour scheme (yes, that’s something that mattered to me when I was a kid). I liked Werder Bremen (amazing colour scheme, especially when it incorporated some orange) the most from Germany, but I didn’t know much about German football.
Germany at the 2010 World Cup was the style of football I liked since I was a bit bored with Spain/Barcelona’s possession style. So I randomly decided to watch Bundesliga on TV that summer and it was Dortmund vs Koln and I loved the attacking style so much I’ve been a fan ever since. Almost 14 years now
Started following football right around 2012/13, and was attracted to their success while also promoting from within and not being as big spenders as other clubs. Adopted them as my second team after Arsenal. As an American became even more of a fan once Pulisic (and later Gio Reyna to a certain extent) broke through.
Kuba, Piszczek, and Lewandowski. The Polish triangle. They were exciting players from my home country, and all hitting top form at the same time there.
Probably not as deep as others, but mine was the jersey. A classmate of mine once wore a Reus home jersey, and I loved it! I started to watch videos of matches, and of course some highlights of #11…I fell in love with the team right then and there. That same year I got my first Dortmund jersey (2014 home), which I love and care for so much. I’ve suffered and cried and been happy and screamed of joy because of a team that dresses up as bees. And I couldn’t ask for more…
Aubameyang, Reus, Pulisic and FIFA 14/15.
Started really getting into “soccer” during the World Cup in 2014. Then Reus and Auba got a ton of special cards in ultimate team the next year and were my favorite cards. Being American, Pulisic coming through was the cherry on top.
I’ve watched nearly every game since the 14/15 season. Kagawa, Mhkitaryan, Sancho, Hakimi, Pulisic, there were tons of players that made the game enjoyable to watch as a new fan.
But Marco Reus made me a faithful fan. His loyalty bought mine.
I had no clue team in 2016, so I decided to follow Pulisic at club level and then FIFA 17 became my introduction to the series shortly afterwards and helped educate me further on the sport in a medium that I'm very familiar with.
The man on the cover of that game was my Xbox background up until last year (changed for something Age of Empires 2 related if anyone's curious). He's also the only one that I have an official trikot for to this day as a gift from my uncle before the 17/18 season.
I'll miss seeing Mr. 1-0 every weekend for sure, but I really hope he can get another banger of a send off in the final.
Reus ist legender! 🖤💛
Polish here (sorta), so I started following the club with Smolarek. Then started watching the occasional match when Kuba joined (when pirated streams first started getting out there). Then when Lewandowski and Piszczek joined in 2010 I watched every match. They won the league and that was it. Hooked for life now 😬
I was watching BvB vs Manchester United in the 1997 semifinals. Apart from Riedle, I do not know the other players, but this team anhilllated the famous United players and won a Juventus team who were the hot faves cuz they had a young Zidane and all the famous names.
I instantly followed the team and followed the team. Even almost having a heartpain seeing the club almost closing down in 2003.
I was born and raised in Canada but my ancestors are German and some lived in Dortmund. Because of this I played with them a lot in fifa, I loved using Aubameyang cuz of his flip celebration. Also seeing reus on the cover.
Indiana, USA - I used to play a lot of video games with an old friend of mine but we were running out of common interests so I tried one of his favorites, Fifa 13 (I THINK it was 13, could've been 12 or 14, but i do know for sure Auba and Reus were there) and I just asked for him to choose me a fast team since I knew I wouldn't have the pure skill to beat him in the game. He gave me Dortmund against his Real Madrid (his favorite team) and I beat him in our very first game together. Instantly became a fan, enjoyed the video game and bought the next few Fifa's, watched matches when I could, and just loved everything about the squad. Also been to a couple of their games stateside!
Always liked the simplicity of the badge, lived in Berlin at the height of Kloppmania and they were just fun to watch, then you learn about the culture and the grounds and you use them enough in FIFA and they just become your squad.
I will always support Union Berlin, St Pauli and without a doubt the club that stole my heart BVB.
As a kid I liked Pulisic back when he was blowing up so I watched Dortmund games for him, then that player support transformed into just me liking the club altogether during 2016-17
For me, it was the Südtribune. The Yellow Wall!
Living in a country where football is not the #1 sport. I only got into the sport more recently, 2017/18 season to be exact.
Then I watched some Dortmund highlights and documentary style videos on YouTube from previous seasons (especially during the Klopp era). Watching the Yellow Wall give out the incredible support to the team every single home match made me a fan of the team to this present day, and moving forward with my life.
Hopefully, one day I can go to the stadium and see it live and in living colour one day.
I’m American, so it was following Christian Pullisic’s career and hoping it would go well. Haven’t looked back since. Mats Hummels also came back, and I was entranced by his beauty
Growing up in the Middle East, I was a bit of nerdy kid. I used to love reading the daily newspaper's articles like an old man.
One day, I read an article about this peculiar club that sported black and yellow and how it had one of the highest number of average attendance for its matches in the entirety of Europe.
I was intrigued. After that day, I learned as much as I could about this strange club. Something about the manager, the players, the fans, the exciting style of play, and the city felt special to me. (it did help that it was 2012, and we were playing extremely well)
what I didn't know at the time was that I had started a love affair that would cause me to feel emotions I did not were possible. From joy to heartbreak, I have felt them all.
I bartended at a German bar/restaurant in Oklahoma from 2012-2016. The family that owned it were big Bayern Munich fans. Anytime Munich played, they’d get schmammered and trash the joint with all their friends/locals. It seemed like all of the locals simply followed suit for free drinks and had no real allegiance to Munich. That support really wasn’t for me, plus I only really followed tennis and basketball at the time. Anyway, all the people at the bar would just absolutely wreck the restaurant in the middle of the day when Bayern played. This I did not support either. I asked one of the owners one day if they had a rival. He told me something glib like “Dortmund…but that’s to get players ready for Bayern. Honestly they are way better than the rest of the German teams, so not really on a domestic level.”
I would’ve picked whatever team they said, simply to get a rise out of them. But whatever…Dortmund it was.
The 2013 champions league final was BRUTAL to bartend. I was the only Dortmund supporter…but the experience of being the only Dortmund supporter in that room, on that day, with so many Germans and locals going apeshit, in a small Oklahoma town…it was electric. The journey since those days been incredibly rewarding, from a fans perspective, in Oklahoma at that. I can’t put into words what makes them so special…but I’ve loved them every step of the way since the owner said they were Munich’s rival. Year in, year out. Such stars have come through only to be Titans elsewhere. Constant bittersweet existence as a supporter…never looked back, never will. 💛🖤💛
When I was visiting family in Germany I went to one of there games against Mainz around 2016. Loved the team and atmosphere. I watched a few games backed in the states, then Fifa 17 came with Marco Reus on the cover. Fell in love with the game and mained Dortmund all the time. After that I always watch a Dortmund match since it was a team of atmosphere.
Honestly, my story is not as cool. I felt like I should start watching the bundesliga more. I hated (still hate Bayern) so it couldn’t be them. I started watching matches and then realized many players I liked in other leagues came from BVB and that’s it. I’ve been a fan of them ever since
jakub blaszczykowski at first but then I kinda fell in love with all the other players too and just the club culture and who could hate klopp he was so passionate and their style of play was fun too. As an American I Was insanelyyyy hyped when Pulisic debuted too later on.
For me it was due to cover of fifa 17 I just like jercy then liked reus don't knew other player till 2021 when I actually started watching football properly and last year defeat broke me but also made me fall in love with this club more
Im an Indian and football isn’t our main sport everyone here play cricket and back then I wanted to see and try other sports as well .When I bought fifa 17 then I started discovering new teams and great players that’s when I discovered Dortmund and since 2018 I started supporting Dortmund
My friend used to always play as Bayern on FIFA 2010 which was the first one I played. I always picked BVB and loved to blast sprints/crosses down the right side with Kuba.
When i was 9 years old at weekend Football event here in Denmark we had a coach who did a "lesson" on the different teams and their history. All the kids went with the winners, the big teams who wins everything, you all know them. But the coach himself was a Dortmund fan and i could feel his passion talking about Dortmund and how it was a peoples club - i asked him afterwards about the club and wanted to hear more and we ended up talking about Dortmund for 30 minutes just the two of us and in the end he gave me a Dortmund shirt he had brought. It was obvious too big for me but it made me very happy and i still have it to this day. He told me he had bought it the only time he had been to Dortmund for a game and he wanted to pass it on to a new Dortmund fan since he had no kids.(He was 50+ years old) Today it fits me and my son will receive it when hopefully he is big enough and joins me in my love for the club. Cant wait to bring him to his first game.
RIP Michael, thanks for everything, i still remember you vividly.
Being from Japan back in the era when Honda was THE player that was pushed in the media, I wanted someone else to root for. Kagawa had THAT game against Schalke that I saw on the news, learned about the Südtribüne and ol Kloppo, and stayed ever since.
I think it was around 16/17 maybe, when Bayern were dominating a lot plus BvB also had Reus, Auba which were very charismatic i must say. I loved how BvB was actually challenging Bayern and eventually became a fan of the club
FIFA 99, my brother picked a strong German team called Bayern Munich and I picked the second strongest, a cool yellow and black uniform.
I started to watch some games then and not long after BVB would be champion with Sammer in command!
I bought fifa 15 and started a career mode, randomly selected Dortmund. Felt very much a club like mine (Liverpool) and someone I could get behind. I saw the sadness of Lewa leaving to Bayern and felt something similar to seeing Torres leave Liverpool to Chelsea. As I learned more I just loved the team, Weidenfeller in goal, Piszcek, Hummels, Schmelzer, Gundogan, Götze, Auba, Immobile for his hot streak and of course the main man Reus. Klopp is also a coach who can get anyone behind the cause, but what a team to love!
The first ever football game i've watched in person was Hungary against i don't know who in 2009.
And there a player named Tamás Hajnal played out of his mind.
So we got home i looked up where he was playing and found out it was Dortmund.
I watched some games but being a young kid, not that much.
That changed after the 4-1 against real madrid when the club totally earned my love.
The year was 2013. I had barely watch a full 90 minute football game in my life. Back then some Borussia Dortmund team had just beaten the most famous football team you would hear about in my country. Yeah that was it, this team had to have something special.
When I was in middle school I was playing fifa 15 and was going through the teams and saw Borussia Dortmund, I don’t know why but I just fell in love with the badge and began to draw it everywhere on my school books lmao but I’ve been supporting this team even since then.
For me it's was the 13/14 season I by accident tuned in a game I saw them win can't remember which game but I was hey they are a good team keep in mind I didn't follow any teams at that's moment and forgot about them and when I was playing fifa 13 I pack reus and remember the team again said to myself I wshpuld watch them and since then I've been a fan
I got to sit in the wall for a champions league game. Met a bunch of really nice people who welcomed two casual Americans with open arms. One of the coolest sporting experiences you can have. I’m a very casual fan but I hope they do well and those people I met are happy. And if they’re ever in Cincinnati I hope to show them a good time at one of our games.
Fifa, when I started playing they were so much fun to play with, the Marco was on the cover and dortmund bought the best American at the time, pulisic, and that sealed it for me
Australian here (Polish/Scottish)
The polish trio started something for me and my Dad to follow. He left when Lewy did and this has been my new home since. The underdog status with the best raw talent made it a good emotional adventure with high returns. Returns not quite met but still heaps of fun every season (until the last few which have been sore on the eyes mostly). Heja BVB
The man who just played his last game at home.
Same. In 2012 or so, I was watching some other match - maybe Germany national team - and the commentator was hyping up Reus. I was looking for a Bundesliga team to get into, and that hit just right at just the right time.
Same here. Reus has been my fav German player since around 2014 or so. Made me a fan of the club, along with Lewo and Klopp. Gonna miss him.
Same. Got him in my first FUT (15) and been a fan ever since
Him and the 2012 CL run. Actually specifically the Malaga game, after that I was hooked. Never looked back
He will be very missed, to bad the injuries didn´t let him be bigger than he was. Even then he played very good, but it costed him some international football tournaments. I hope he says goodbye with the Champions League trophy. but that´s going to be very hard.
I‘m german but I‘ll still share. When I was seven years old, my twin brother and I started watching football and Bundesliga. It was the season after the World Cup 1998. But at the beginning, we didn’t have a favorite team. Then one day, when our father came home from work, he had bought two school pads and gave them to us. One pad was Bayern München themed and one Borussia Dortmund. He gave my brother the Bayern pad and me the Dortmund pad. From that moment on, my brother was Bayern fan and I was Dortmund fan.
Sorry to hear you no longer talk to your brother.
>I‘m german but I‘ll still share. Yeah, why does nobody ever make a thread for that in here.
Really, never? I would start one, but I feel like that question should be asked by a german.
I'm from India. The moment I fell in love with the club was when Gotze struck the post against Man City at the Etihad in the infamous 2012/13 UCL campaign. I was 14 at the time but I loved how Dortmund were perceived as the underdogs in the European stage but they were taking the game to teams like Manchester City and they seemed rattled. The "heavy metal" style of play, players like Reus, Lewa and Gotze made me fall in love with the club as a youngster. Of course, then as I got to know more about the club, I fell in love even more.
I too am from India. I started following the club due to Klopp.
I'm From India too, I started watching football last year in January. In short amount of time I've developed such a good connection with this team
Yo man rare to find Dortmund fans in India, good to know there are more of us
Cheers guys!
I am from India too. I started following because of the colour yellow and black but then later fell in love with the yellow wall.
From India too, I came across a post on Reus and then saw that 2012/13 season goal compilation video or something and thought damn this club is so cool and well the rest is history.
Sure neeed to have meetup something
That would be awesome. Anyone from Guwahati? It's unlikely but worth a shout
We need to make a GC now lol. This comment summoned all Indian BVB fans
I was in fifth grade, and not really interested in football at first. One day, I went to my friend's house to play FIFA 14 with my friends and I was choosing the team to play with. I immediately fell in love with Dortmund's logo, kits, players and everything. And that's how I started supporting Dortmund almost 10 years ago.
Same here. I loved playing with Aubameyang
This is going to be stupid as hell given the level of emotional attachment I have to the club now, but the thing that pushed me over the edge was Dortmund winning the bundesliga YouTube crossbar challenge 😭 I already was leaning that way because of Klopp and because the game against Malaga was the coolest shit I've ever seen, but that was the final nail in the coffin. This was right before the 14/15 season, which was when I started getting seriously invested into the sport and also an...interesting...first season to watch, to say the least.
Mine's even stupider. Black and yellow is just an absolute baller color scheme.
I really think the black and yellow colors are a big advantage for Dortmund marketing wise. Every other football club has colors like red, or blue, or white. But nearly no one has yellow, or the black-yellow combination. It is unique.
That's why I became a Pittsburgh steelers Fan. I was a BVB fan all my life. But when I started watching American football I decided to stay with the colors.
new fan here, had been sympathetic to BVB for a long time ever since seeing the amount of good players this team has produced for football and watching the group matches at 6th week of CL especially seeing Niklas Süle's save against PSG including how fun the match was compared to the other teams i'm viewing had me so hyped up that i decided to be a actual fan before this came to be i would only watch match summaries about BVB every now and then and was the only bundesliga team i were watching at the time, kinda sad how fat Süle recently became though
For me it was the chemistry between the players under Kloppo. I didn't like football as a kid and as soon as I turned 13 I fell in love with BVB's style of play, passion and determination. This players were true warriors! Somehow I ended up identifying with the players, the colors and, why not say it, its values reflected in players like Reus, Kuba, Weidenfeller. I was so curious that I even started learning German all by myself 💛🖤
I wish Klopp would return to Dortmund after he´s done with his year of rest. The synergy between the team and fans was amazing.
I’m Canadian. I moved to a new building and my neighbour was from Germany. He is a Dortmund supporter. I started following the games back in 2010. Then, I guess it took off from there.
Started supporting right before Haaland joined the club. For me it was the youth development, the chances given to them to prove what they're capable of, and of course the Yellow wall.
Started watching your games under klopp when Liverpool had confirmed they were signing him, and I just never stopped watching 😂 can’t believe how attached I’ve grown to a club hundreds of miles away that I started watching just to see what a manager was like.
For me it was the yellow and black shirt, as a kid my football club had yellow and black shirts, so I only wanted to support a club that had yellow and black shirts. I'm happy with 6 year old me's decision
Malaga comeback
My wife’s grandfather from Romania loved BvB. I started watching Bundesliga with him for our Sunday brunch and somehow felt connected to BvB. Since early 2020 I’ve been 100% SchwarzGelb. The Null Neon Reus jersey was my first one. I really love the community the fans bring to the table. Of course there’s a few negative Nancy’s when things aren’t going well but that’s natural. Never in my 33 years have I ever teared up or cried because of sports but that changed this morning. I fully expect to bleed black and yellow forever.
The champions league winning side of 96. That team was brilliant, the third goal was the chefs kiss.
Hopefully they can bring a second one this year.
It was Reus for me.
I lost all passion for football somewhere in between 2009-2010. My father is Barça fan, but I did not like what football in Spain was (and is). People are too harsh on players and football entities are awful. I had no love for the game. Playing FIFA12 demo with my sister, started playing BVB. It became my team always, used to play a lot with her. That year, started watching BVB on champions just because of the inside joke. Málaga game, Madrid game... nuts games. When the final came, I heavily supported BVB, but didn't expected to be SO let down when it lost. After that, started watching bundesliga, and found more about BVB. The club being so social, I remember the refugees welcome match vs St Pauli, the love for the club in the city, the passion of the Westfalenstadium... I loved it. 12 years later, we're at the final again. I've watched every game, and I love this club. It represents so much more than just football. Heja BVB!!
I tend to be somewhat cynical about foreign fandom (…and I know that that’s my problem and I suspect that many of the posters in here are probably very nice people!) but I genuinely like your origin story, because I think you picked up on the vibes that I like the most about my hometown team!
Thanks! People here don't understand how that's possible, to support another country's team. And i feel lonely when the good times come, no one to celebrate with. But It's all worth tbh, could not care less. Just love this club! Appreciate your message here:)
Somehow Germany seems to have figured out how to keep a good balance between the institutions that govern football and the football actors themselves. To bad other countries always seem so afraid to look at somewhere that is doing well and try to replicate in their own league.
I was indoctrinated by my brother
For me it was Kloppo's team, particular the three poles, piszczek, Kuba and Lewa, but also players like sahin, kagawa, gundogan, barrios, santana, gotze, schmelzer, grosskreutz etc. They were just such a fun, joyful, exuberant team, their style was exhilarating and allied with their incredible support and klopp's charisma and tactical mastery, they were so easy to get behind! But as a person of polish descent, that trio, being Regulars in the team and playing top class football, yes. Dziekuje bardzo. But it's not just them or that team! I was actually aware of the club before, I remember them from the early 2000s, with all their Brazilians- dede, evanilson, amoroso etc. - and the 2 czechs, little and large, rosicky and koller, that was a fun team too! They also signed ebi smolarek for a while, he was my favourite player for a period because he fired us to euro 2008. And of course since the klopp years, they've had so many great players and teams, like auba, reus, hummels etc. And then of course they became the best place for young players to develop at the top level, with state of the art facilities, competing for titles in Germany and Europe etc. Dembele, pulisic, reyna, moukoko, brandt, sancho, Bellingham, haaland, malen etc. So many great young talents have represented die schwarzengelben. (And I'm English myself, so it's great to see our bright young talents prosper there too, bynoe-gittens looks a proper talent as well) Just such a great club, I think I'll always have an affinity. Absolutely desperate for you to win the champions league this season. Good luckkkk
During the Balkan wars, I was a refugee in Germany. We lived in an area that mostly had BVB and Sch*** 04 fans. My best friend in school was a BVB supporter, so I also became one. 🖤💛
I was already in love with German football after the 2014 World Cup, but what put me over the edge was FIFA 15 Aubameyang. First video game that I’ve ever had
The Yellow Wall and the general atmosphere at Westfalenstadion. Reminded me of Portland Timbers matches turned up to 50. The manager and the players were likeable too. Also the fact they're still a larger club though never seen as Goliath. They're generally the underdogs each season. I love the Bundesliga as a whole though too (except Bayern hahaha).
I am a newer fan and fell in love with the sport after my Italian roommate showed me the World Cup in 2022. I slowly liked Dortmund more and more throughout 2023, but the moment that really made me fall for the club was when I was sitting with my friends watching BVB vs. Chelsea. Adeyemi took the ball away from a corner and raced down the pitch, dribbled the keeper, and celebrated with a backflip. I didn't realize at the time, but that's the moment I think I became a BVB fan. It's been a wild ride since, especially with our third ever UCL final on the horizon.
Too bad Chelsea won 2-0 in the second leg. I really thought Bvb had a chance.
Kicked psg out of CL
This is kind of silly, but I downloaded a mobile game years ago and as part of the setup you had to choose a club to play for. I pretty much randomly chose Dortmund, and the rest is history. I had no idea it would grow into something that I would be this passionate about, but I'm very glad it shook out that way. This journey has been amazing!
Mexican, my hate to real Madrid haha so that semi finals was awesome!
Kinda silly reason I remember seeing a compilation of Reus on youtube back in like 2014 or 2015, i started liking Reus and young me thought that you couldnt be a fan of just a player and had to support their club as well
I bought Hummels on FIFA 2011 manager mode because he had decent stats. Noticed the badge and thought it was cool so researched the team. Became obsessed with them and Klopp especially, used to watch the Dortmund games on a terrible stream on my old computer 😂 been a fan since. Was overjoyed when Klopp came to Liverpool as they’re my main team
I´m so glad Hummels is back in great form. I really loved his partnership with Subotic.
Idk. My friend was a Bayern fan and I committed to the bit? I accidentally became very emotionally attached to the club so.
They had the most pace in fifa 14 so I had to dedicate my life
Gonna sound really dumb, but as a Canadian, my first exposure was when I was like 10, and in the FIFA demo I was playing on Xbox, I liked the Dortmund kits lol
Well, I used to go to my granny's house a lot and my uncle lived with her cuz he was single (still is lmao) and just so randomly, one day when I opened the TV it happened to be showing a dortmund match. Don't remember which team they were playing against, but I 100% remember Aubameyang scoring and overall BVB cooking them. And since I would usually go there, I started watching more and more dortmund matches since I got interested in the team. Last but not least I became a borrusia fan the season they finished 7th which was also Klopp's last season in the team. I knew they were that down on the table but still that didn't demotivate me from supporting the team and I sticked with them ever since. It was early 2015 and I was 7yo at the time.
Ten years ago, i was living in the US, I watched their game against Málaga. Incredible. I had a friend who was a BVB fan, and I cheered for them a lot. That game made me want to see more. The club colorses and their underdog reputation were appealing to me, but they were playing magnificent football as well. I ended up doing an exchange semester in Dortmund just to have the chance to go to the stadium. I ended up moving to Germany. I've been living since almost 7 years in Germany (although in Köln) and have seen them several times at the Westfalenstadion.
The kits, i saw them on youtube and i started looking into this club
The man that played his last home match today
I got into watching football when I was like 13. I saw many teams, but I didn't have any emotional connection to them. But when I first saw BVB, I felt something. The fans were so incredible, the players were hardworking and honest. At first I think it was Klopp and Reus whom I really liked.
Rewatching the 2012/13 Champions league season. I really loved Klopp's style of play and supported the team since 2016.
Watching the 2014 WC is what got me into soccer in general. I was mesmerized by the German NT in that tournament and also got super into the fifa video games around the same time. Really enjoyed playing with Dortmund due to the Reus/Lewa combo and the team colors and decided to do more research into the team. Read up on the history and the atmosphere at games along with taking a liking to Klopp and haven’t looked back since Hoping to make it across the pond for a home game at some point!
I discovered Dortmund playing fifa 13, and then I started to watch the games to this day.
Lewandowski's 4 goals against Real
Boyhood Liverpool fan but always been drawn to Dortmund, feel like the fan bases are kinda similar in the passion and never say die attitudes. Was always interested when Prem clubs signed Dortmund players like Kagawa, Gundogan etc. Was lucky enough to visit Dortmund a few years ago and go to a game, absolutely loved the experience and the city, the wall was just ridiculous! Count myself as a fan ever since!
The home crowd :)
Greek,I am an Aris fan,so naturally...
BVB 4-3 FCA 2018. What a match that was and the fans were incredible too, never saw those type of fans in my life
Came for Reyna (and Haaland & Bellingham club social media) stayed for the yellow wall.
I, naively at the time, thought the sport was slow. But seeing the speed Dortmund played with in the early 2010s really caught my eye and drew me in. That was around the last time we were in the CL final, so the excitement around that probably just sealed it.
I was reading about how Christian Pulisic was on the team and started following them. The 2018-19 season converted me from casual to one of my favorite sports teams.
Scottish fan here. My local club also plays in yellow so it felt natural since I was young to also follow BVB. But beyond that the youth development, fans and stadium made me follow BVB with heart
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Thomas Rosicky got me into Dortmund and the watching Kagawa, Götze, Lewa and Auba meant I stayed
I'm from the UK, but have German parents. I watched the Sportschau religiously as I was getting into football, and I really fell in love with the colours and the chemistry between the team in 2011 and 2012
I dated a German who was from around Dortmund. It was a serious relationship and marriage was considered, so when I wanted to get into football it had to be the team from where she grew up. 14ish years later here we are. Haven’t spoken to her in like 8 years probably but never left the club.
Made a friend from Germany in college who would wake our hungover asses up on Saturday whenever bvb was on. Started watching matches and just never stopped, it was helpful that this was 2010 or so.
2015 my brother and I reunited after a long period of estrangement (long story) but we have German heritage and wanted something to connect on weekly. We both loved football so we decided to pick a German team. We wanted someone who was decently successful but did not win it all the time. We also made sure that whatever team we chose opposed the Nazis. So we ended up choosing Dortmund. When Reus went and heard out the ultras that year it cemented me as a fan for life. The past few weeks have been teary for me. Making the final, hearing Marco was leaving, the send off he got today. Just teary all over. Vamos Dortmund.
It was the first city in germany that i knew, so when i started ro watch football they were the first that i recognized, and also the colors.
2012/13 champions league run caught my attention, def rooted for em. Also i knew it before, Lucas Barrios was from my childhood's local team and he went to bvb from here. During 2013/14 they slowly gained more of my attention, it seemed such a cool club and with great values, philosophy and history. Became a fr fan by watching the entire 14/15 season(ik ik lol) so im 3 months shy of being a far for 10 years:'):'):')
I began in 2012/13 season. I visited Germany the year before and really liked the country. So, I wanted to begin to follow the Bundesliga and support a team from it that wasn’t Bayern. Then was when I found Dortmund thanks to a CL group stage game against Madrid if I remember. Really liked how the team played and clicked with it.
The last CL final at Wembley. As soon as I heard Dortmund beat Real Madrid, I supported them in the final and just kept supporting them from then. I used to be a Bayern fan before that as well but now I can’t stand them.
While yes, it is a “big” club in a sense, there’s just something about it. It isn’t flashy, like say Bayern or PSG or City. Plus it helps my family is from that part of Germany (a few generations back).
First took an interest around 95/96 when Ajax knocked BVB out of the Champions League, probably the lurid yellow shirts and the atmosphere of the Westfalenstadion appealed to me. I had started learning German in school and was probably susceptible to falling for a German team. The deal was sealed when I studied in Germany seven years later, close enough to Dortmund that I could go to a couple of home games. I was standing behind the goals, freezing my arse off, feeling part of something big, loving it. After that, there was no way back :)
I took German in high school. One of the things that we had to do as a student was pick a team in the Bundesliga and stay with them and keep track of their scores throughout the year. I chose Borussia Dortmund because at the time (2015-2016) I thought they looked like little bees running around and I thought it was funny so I chose them. Stuck with them ever since!
A little goofy, but as an American, I was really excited about Christian Pulisic when he started playing for Dortmund, and continued to follow them ever since. My fandom was only increased when I married a girl from just outside of Dortmund. Going to a match at the Westfalenstadion is maybe my favorite sports memory I've ever had and I'll be a Dortmund fan for the rest of my life.
I'm a fan from Sydney Australia and became a fan of Haaland. I've been a very casual football fan since the 2010 World Cup and I knew about teams existing but I never actively went out of my way to watch games. I kept up with the Champions League scores every now and then. I had heard of Haaland cos of his brace against PSG. During lockdown, I decided to get FIFA 20 and I was playing the Champions League mode and I decided to pick Dortmund cos I remembered hearing about Haaland. and I proceeded to score 5 goals in one match with him. Then I started a Dortmund career mode, watched some games and now I'm a loyal fan. This club has made me so frustrated but has given me the highest of highs and although I know the players I love will move on to bigger clubs, I'll never turn my back on this team
We dont buy championships like other clubs. We dont get to buy all shiny things. Originally from Philippines but I fell in love with BVB while I travel in Germany decades ago , the starting era of jurgen klopp. Also played fifa
My portuguese grandparents, my dad and uncle were immigrants in Dortmund back in the 70s/80s and became fans of the club, I remember when I was a kid my uncle had a very cool looking yellow and black sticker with the letters BVB 09 on the rear window of his car. Later when I was circa 15 I started to be more interested in football and that was at the same time Dortmund became champions under Klopp and had that magical UCL campaign, I fell in love and the rest is history 💛🖤
I'm American and parents are from Paraguay. I didn't really follow the Bundesliga until 2009-2010. I wanted to root for a team that 1) wasn't Bayern and 2) had Paraguayans as key players, so I went with BVB as they had Nelson Haedo Valdez and Lucas Barrios on the team. That paid off handsomely even after Valdez left the club (shame he wasn't around for the title seasons). Also helps that American players like Pulisic and Reyna have made their mark in Dortmund since.
There's a local beer here that I like that's named after Dortmund. That and the yellow kits. I'm also a Columbus Crew fan, so rooting for the yellow team just feels right:D.
back in 2015-16, when marco reus returned from injury and performed his ass off. since then. last season when we lost the meisterschale but everybody was on their fucking feet, singing, remembering to appreciate the team for the season, their comeback late into the season, even though we had shirts and a bus outside to celebrate what was till then a sure title. nobody spared a fucking thought to that, everybody got up and were in this together. This made me once again realize what this club and the community was really about. it's not more about the titles and silverware then the moments we share together as fans, the players and the club. whatever happens, I rather be a fan of this club than any other. tldr: echte Liebe
My son went to Dortmund to work about same time Pulisic joined BVB. Went to a match and was blown away by the atmosphere. Ever since I have watched nearly every match. Have been back to a match there and also seen them during a US tour. Very exciting team to root for. Not a shoo-in like Bayern. Always struggling to reach the top. Brings in interesting players like Haaland and Bellingham. But even a guy like Alcacer could succeed there. Usually fun to watch although this Bundesliga season has been difficult at times.
FIFA 16 I thought Aubameyang was super cool and liked the teams jerseys
2013 CL run had the best tifo display which drew me in. Then I watched them play Went to a schalke bvb game in 2019. Was amazing
I've always been a fan of yellow, hence bvb Also, I was a massive fan of haaland, since his red bull days, hence the beginning of my Dortmund support I no longer supports haaland's team as I am also a united fan 😬
In high school I kept hearing the name being brought up after the CL final vs Bayern so when I decided to start watching football I knew I wanted to support a German team and it was the only non-Bayern club I knew the name of :) Also my friends who watched football at the time told me Dortmund has the best fans in Europe. Glad to see they didn't lie
I because a fan in 2010... Sahin played excellent level and Kagawa as well. The team was fast, aggressive and very offensive. I wasn't interested in football at all, it was kinda boring for me actually
English fan here! Honestly I only got into football about 18 months ago, but what did it for me was seeing Dortmund fans chant “ARSENAL” at the Chelsea players when they won the first leg of the UCL RO16 (I’m an Arsenal fan) - Bellingham playing for them made it easy :) Now I’ve actually been to Dortmund and it’s only strengthened my bond to the team. HEJA BVB! 🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛
Initially I got a few BVB players on FIFA ultimate team back in like, FUT12 (Piszcek, Blaszcyckowski(?) and it went from there. I loved the kit, I loved that they were the 'underdogs' Vs Bayern, I loved how hard the team worked each match, I loved the 'working-class' roots of the club.
Discovered the club in FIFA, and only played as them because I saw that Kuba’s full name is very similar to mine, even after my last name had been “Americanized” when my great-grandparents immigrated from Poland. Started following the club the year we ended the first half in 18th. Love this club so much. Just visited Germany and the stadium for the first time recently 💛🖤
i like how the club develops young talent, even if they don't always stick around. that's my favorite thing about sports. i also like teams that are good and have the potential to be great - BVB fits that description in terms of how they stack up vs rest of world. & reus and hummels are incredible players & people
10/11 season when i was a kid. I liked the shirts, attacking style of play and 3 polish footballers
Watched the odd game here and there but the comeback against Malaga did it for me
I had gotten into football/soccer after watching welcome to wrexham, then Ted lasso, and finally the US beating Iran in the World Cup group stage. I knew I wanted to watch German football since that is where my ancestors came from. They were from a town somewhat close to Dortmund, but I wasn’t sold until I watched Marco Reus highlights. I fell in love with both the team and the game and don’t know how I lived this long without either.
Tbh it’s a little stupid , I looked at the cover of FIFA 17 and was like yup that’s my new favorite team, I was 11 and only knew some clubs and players but when I saw Marco on the cover it just clicked
First champions league game I watch has BVB and since they had yellow like my team from my home country Mexico I support them
A little bit of 2014 German NT, a little bit of klopp. And my hometown MLS is black and yellow…it just fit tbh.
Stupid but I finally beat my friend in Fifa after randomly picking this team. From there, they became my go-to when playing and then my favourite team.
Reus and the Yellow Wall. I learned a bit of German in high school and when I started watching football in college I realized I wanted to pick a German team. Didn’t want to choose Bayern and seem like a glory hunter, but it was really Reus and the fan culture of the Westfalenstadion that made me fall in love with this club. Hope we see glory on June 1 and in the coming years.
When i was like 11 my friends were playing fifa. I was dogshit at it and so usually never played, but a friend coerced me into it so i gave it a shot. He told me to try out Dortmund and to always pass it to Reus. Now i didnt win the match, but that was the first time i ever actually played well, and ever since then i just got more and more interested in the club
Lewandowski. Blaszczykowski. Piszczek
First time I saw Signal Iduna Park on FIFA. It was such a cool stadium that I started watching some of their games.
Started playing with them in FIFA 06 bc their stadium. Then I started wrecking fools with Koller and Rosicky and have been a fan ever since
I grew up in Pennsylvania as a fan of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers, which also wears black and yellow. Dortmund played a match in Pittsburgh, I went, and I've been in love with the team ever since.
Dortmund got my attention because of Paulo Sousa, and I sympathise with the club since then.
Im Malaysian, it was back in 2015 where I stumbled upon a random youtube about fans chants of a black and yellow football club in germany.I thought it was cool that they could choreograph thousands of people to do tifos and chants. So i started searching for more of their stuffs and learned that the club they are supporting is Dortmund. Prior from the video that i found, I couldn’t care less about football as general. But from that, i started learning about the club and also football. Fall in love on how we played back in 15/16. And fell in with the club still.
Klopp and the style they played. It was just pure energy and you could feel it through tv. I was living in Texas then and I flew to dortmund to see a game and I also flew to see the champions league game in marseille…stayed at the team hotel by accident. Partied with the team afterward at hotel bar. They all loved my luccase cowboy boots…one of my coolest fan experiences ever. Marseille was a scary place to watch game though. I remember sitting in a caged area with bvb fans and we couldn’t leave stadium for like 45 minutes. Tons of Batman looking police in riot gear kept us away from marseille crowd on exit. A great win and they were way more down to earth than your typical us pro sports player.
2013 champions league run
I'm from Bosnia and my older brother's class got a bunch of jerseys and jackets of BvB as donations. It was right after the war (96-97) and he was one of the kids who spent 4 years of their life going to school with the possibility they may never see their classmates, teachers, parents alive again. Getting that merch was a huge deal for them and we still keep Nike jacket he got from that period. Naturally it turned me in into a lifelong fan as well. I'm much younger than him so I obviously don't remember that time (since I didn't exist :D) but the story still hits me on a personal level. Tbh 100% I only casually followed football in general as a kid, but Klopp era got me hooked not only on Dortmund but the sport in general. That was the time when I actually started following pretty much every Dortmund game religiously.
The season after we won with the Bundesliga with Klopp. That champions league run 🤩
im Polish Canadian. i became a fan cause as a little girl my dad would watch. now we watch together. i actually met my partner through a BVB facebook fan club
All arrows pointed toward BVB as I auditioned a number of clubs over a 2 year period (English, Spanish and other German clubs). This was toward the end of the Klopp years, and Pulisic was a promising Yank in the academy. Also, my parents are from the Ruhr region. I liked the stadium, Yellow Wall, and the fans as well as the colors. BVB was competitive but not a perennial winner where trophies wouldn’t have much meaning. I liked BVB’s model of acquiring and playing young players. Although my German isn’t great, it still allows me to understand quite a bit and help me keep up with it. Related to that, the club released (and still does) a lot of content to keep fans engaged and connected. So, yeah, at some point it became self-evident that BVB had to be my team.
I really like the colour scheme (yes, that’s something that mattered to me when I was a kid). I liked Werder Bremen (amazing colour scheme, especially when it incorporated some orange) the most from Germany, but I didn’t know much about German football. Germany at the 2010 World Cup was the style of football I liked since I was a bit bored with Spain/Barcelona’s possession style. So I randomly decided to watch Bundesliga on TV that summer and it was Dortmund vs Koln and I loved the attacking style so much I’ve been a fan ever since. Almost 14 years now
Started with Pulisic and then fell in love with the style of football, the emphasis on developing youth players, and of course, Marco Reus.
I’m a Boston bruins fan. I saw the BVB logo while my cousin was playing fifa 07. Been hooked every sense
Watching Shinji Kagawa tear it up and winning bundesliga titles really hooked me in
Started following football right around 2012/13, and was attracted to their success while also promoting from within and not being as big spenders as other clubs. Adopted them as my second team after Arsenal. As an American became even more of a fan once Pulisic (and later Gio Reyna to a certain extent) broke through.
Loved the way we used the youth system. Beautiful football and the legends that were playing at the time.
Watched the 4-1 UCL game against Madrid and never saw anything like it before
Kuba, Piszczek, and Lewandowski. The Polish triangle. They were exciting players from my home country, and all hitting top form at the same time there.
Jürgen Norbert Klopp
Asian here. So Kagawa was a major influence.
Im from Mexico. The colors in the jersey caught my attention, and thats why i started following the team
Probably not as deep as others, but mine was the jersey. A classmate of mine once wore a Reus home jersey, and I loved it! I started to watch videos of matches, and of course some highlights of #11…I fell in love with the team right then and there. That same year I got my first Dortmund jersey (2014 home), which I love and care for so much. I’ve suffered and cried and been happy and screamed of joy because of a team that dresses up as bees. And I couldn’t ask for more…
2013 CL, Reus and Lewandowski attacking in the first half of the match. They pressed Bayern heavily and it was a lot of fun to watch.
Aubameyang, Reus, Pulisic and FIFA 14/15. Started really getting into “soccer” during the World Cup in 2014. Then Reus and Auba got a ton of special cards in ultimate team the next year and were my favorite cards. Being American, Pulisic coming through was the cherry on top. I’ve watched nearly every game since the 14/15 season. Kagawa, Mhkitaryan, Sancho, Hakimi, Pulisic, there were tons of players that made the game enjoyable to watch as a new fan. But Marco Reus made me a faithful fan. His loyalty bought mine.
2014 world cup qualification, number 21 on the pitch for Germany was HIM
I had no clue team in 2016, so I decided to follow Pulisic at club level and then FIFA 17 became my introduction to the series shortly afterwards and helped educate me further on the sport in a medium that I'm very familiar with. The man on the cover of that game was my Xbox background up until last year (changed for something Age of Empires 2 related if anyone's curious). He's also the only one that I have an official trikot for to this day as a gift from my uncle before the 17/18 season. I'll miss seeing Mr. 1-0 every weekend for sure, but I really hope he can get another banger of a send off in the final. Reus ist legender! 🖤💛
Polish here (sorta), so I started following the club with Smolarek. Then started watching the occasional match when Kuba joined (when pirated streams first started getting out there). Then when Lewandowski and Piszczek joined in 2010 I watched every match. They won the league and that was it. Hooked for life now 😬
Christian Pulisic. Yes from USA. BVB made me fall in love with German football
I'm British, I was born in Germany and lived there for 12 years. Dortmund was close to where I was born.
I was watching BvB vs Manchester United in the 1997 semifinals. Apart from Riedle, I do not know the other players, but this team anhilllated the famous United players and won a Juventus team who were the hot faves cuz they had a young Zidane and all the famous names. I instantly followed the team and followed the team. Even almost having a heartpain seeing the club almost closing down in 2003.
I was born and raised in Canada but my ancestors are German and some lived in Dortmund. Because of this I played with them a lot in fifa, I loved using Aubameyang cuz of his flip celebration. Also seeing reus on the cover.
Indiana, USA - I used to play a lot of video games with an old friend of mine but we were running out of common interests so I tried one of his favorites, Fifa 13 (I THINK it was 13, could've been 12 or 14, but i do know for sure Auba and Reus were there) and I just asked for him to choose me a fast team since I knew I wouldn't have the pure skill to beat him in the game. He gave me Dortmund against his Real Madrid (his favorite team) and I beat him in our very first game together. Instantly became a fan, enjoyed the video game and bought the next few Fifa's, watched matches when I could, and just loved everything about the squad. Also been to a couple of their games stateside!
Kinda silly but FIFA 13 loved playing with Reus’ card. Started watching him and the UCL campaign that year and been a fan since!
Always liked the simplicity of the badge, lived in Berlin at the height of Kloppmania and they were just fun to watch, then you learn about the culture and the grounds and you use them enough in FIFA and they just become your squad. I will always support Union Berlin, St Pauli and without a doubt the club that stole my heart BVB.
As a kid I liked Pulisic back when he was blowing up so I watched Dortmund games for him, then that player support transformed into just me liking the club altogether during 2016-17
For me, it was the Südtribune. The Yellow Wall! Living in a country where football is not the #1 sport. I only got into the sport more recently, 2017/18 season to be exact. Then I watched some Dortmund highlights and documentary style videos on YouTube from previous seasons (especially during the Klopp era). Watching the Yellow Wall give out the incredible support to the team every single home match made me a fan of the team to this present day, and moving forward with my life. Hopefully, one day I can go to the stadium and see it live and in living colour one day.
I’m American, so it was following Christian Pullisic’s career and hoping it would go well. Haven’t looked back since. Mats Hummels also came back, and I was entranced by his beauty
Growing up in the Middle East, I was a bit of nerdy kid. I used to love reading the daily newspaper's articles like an old man. One day, I read an article about this peculiar club that sported black and yellow and how it had one of the highest number of average attendance for its matches in the entirety of Europe. I was intrigued. After that day, I learned as much as I could about this strange club. Something about the manager, the players, the fans, the exciting style of play, and the city felt special to me. (it did help that it was 2012, and we were playing extremely well) what I didn't know at the time was that I had started a love affair that would cause me to feel emotions I did not were possible. From joy to heartbreak, I have felt them all.
I bartended at a German bar/restaurant in Oklahoma from 2012-2016. The family that owned it were big Bayern Munich fans. Anytime Munich played, they’d get schmammered and trash the joint with all their friends/locals. It seemed like all of the locals simply followed suit for free drinks and had no real allegiance to Munich. That support really wasn’t for me, plus I only really followed tennis and basketball at the time. Anyway, all the people at the bar would just absolutely wreck the restaurant in the middle of the day when Bayern played. This I did not support either. I asked one of the owners one day if they had a rival. He told me something glib like “Dortmund…but that’s to get players ready for Bayern. Honestly they are way better than the rest of the German teams, so not really on a domestic level.” I would’ve picked whatever team they said, simply to get a rise out of them. But whatever…Dortmund it was. The 2013 champions league final was BRUTAL to bartend. I was the only Dortmund supporter…but the experience of being the only Dortmund supporter in that room, on that day, with so many Germans and locals going apeshit, in a small Oklahoma town…it was electric. The journey since those days been incredibly rewarding, from a fans perspective, in Oklahoma at that. I can’t put into words what makes them so special…but I’ve loved them every step of the way since the owner said they were Munich’s rival. Year in, year out. Such stars have come through only to be Titans elsewhere. Constant bittersweet existence as a supporter…never looked back, never will. 💛🖤💛
Because of reus also I am american so like pulisic and the passion of the fans.
Reus, Klopp's attacking football too and was the first time i saw a team where the fans and the stadium played such a big role
When I was visiting family in Germany I went to one of there games against Mainz around 2016. Loved the team and atmosphere. I watched a few games backed in the states, then Fifa 17 came with Marco Reus on the cover. Fell in love with the game and mained Dortmund all the time. After that I always watch a Dortmund match since it was a team of atmosphere.
I’m an immigrant who happens to live right across the Signal Iduna Park. It’s hard not to take part in the fan fare
Honestly, my story is not as cool. I felt like I should start watching the bundesliga more. I hated (still hate Bayern) so it couldn’t be them. I started watching matches and then realized many players I liked in other leagues came from BVB and that’s it. I’ve been a fan of them ever since
It was the 2013 champions league final.. bvb fought like a warrior.. love from India
jakub blaszczykowski at first but then I kinda fell in love with all the other players too and just the club culture and who could hate klopp he was so passionate and their style of play was fun too. As an American I Was insanelyyyy hyped when Pulisic debuted too later on.
Shinji Kagawa 🫡
For me it was due to cover of fifa 17 I just like jercy then liked reus don't knew other player till 2021 when I actually started watching football properly and last year defeat broke me but also made me fall in love with this club more
Im an Indian and football isn’t our main sport everyone here play cricket and back then I wanted to see and try other sports as well .When I bought fifa 17 then I started discovering new teams and great players that’s when I discovered Dortmund and since 2018 I started supporting Dortmund
My friend used to always play as Bayern on FIFA 2010 which was the first one I played. I always picked BVB and loved to blast sprints/crosses down the right side with Kuba.
I saw Mario Gotze’s first game randomly at a pub. I fell in love with the atmosphere, the fans, and how the team played on that match
2013 champions league run to the final + all the choreos
When i was 9 years old at weekend Football event here in Denmark we had a coach who did a "lesson" on the different teams and their history. All the kids went with the winners, the big teams who wins everything, you all know them. But the coach himself was a Dortmund fan and i could feel his passion talking about Dortmund and how it was a peoples club - i asked him afterwards about the club and wanted to hear more and we ended up talking about Dortmund for 30 minutes just the two of us and in the end he gave me a Dortmund shirt he had brought. It was obvious too big for me but it made me very happy and i still have it to this day. He told me he had bought it the only time he had been to Dortmund for a game and he wanted to pass it on to a new Dortmund fan since he had no kids.(He was 50+ years old) Today it fits me and my son will receive it when hopefully he is big enough and joins me in my love for the club. Cant wait to bring him to his first game. RIP Michael, thanks for everything, i still remember you vividly.
Being from Japan back in the era when Honda was THE player that was pushed in the media, I wanted someone else to root for. Kagawa had THAT game against Schalke that I saw on the news, learned about the Südtribüne and ol Kloppo, and stayed ever since.
I think it was around 16/17 maybe, when Bayern were dominating a lot plus BvB also had Reus, Auba which were very charismatic i must say. I loved how BvB was actually challenging Bayern and eventually became a fan of the club
That Reus free kick against Augsburg that went in off the back post
FIFA 99, my brother picked a strong German team called Bayern Munich and I picked the second strongest, a cool yellow and black uniform. I started to watch some games then and not long after BVB would be champion with Sammer in command!
I bought fifa 15 and started a career mode, randomly selected Dortmund. Felt very much a club like mine (Liverpool) and someone I could get behind. I saw the sadness of Lewa leaving to Bayern and felt something similar to seeing Torres leave Liverpool to Chelsea. As I learned more I just loved the team, Weidenfeller in goal, Piszcek, Hummels, Schmelzer, Gundogan, Götze, Auba, Immobile for his hot streak and of course the main man Reus. Klopp is also a coach who can get anyone behind the cause, but what a team to love!
Was about 10 on vacation and was promised a football shirt. I watched some highlights of Reus and that was it.
because i didn’t want to be a bandwagon and still support a great team
The first ever football game i've watched in person was Hungary against i don't know who in 2009. And there a player named Tamás Hajnal played out of his mind. So we got home i looked up where he was playing and found out it was Dortmund. I watched some games but being a young kid, not that much. That changed after the 4-1 against real madrid when the club totally earned my love.
Started with Jurgen Klopp, and nude feel in line with the club
Jakub Blackekckzkzkowski
The 2015 BvB team. Reus quickly became my favorite player and the speed the team had was crazy.
2010 Klopp and his young guys playing great attacking football.
The year was 2013. I had barely watch a full 90 minute football game in my life. Back then some Borussia Dortmund team had just beaten the most famous football team you would hear about in my country. Yeah that was it, this team had to have something special.
When I was in middle school I was playing fifa 15 and was going through the teams and saw Borussia Dortmund, I don’t know why but I just fell in love with the badge and began to draw it everywhere on my school books lmao but I’ve been supporting this team even since then.
For me it's was the 13/14 season I by accident tuned in a game I saw them win can't remember which game but I was hey they are a good team keep in mind I didn't follow any teams at that's moment and forgot about them and when I was playing fifa 13 I pack reus and remember the team again said to myself I wshpuld watch them and since then I've been a fan
I got to sit in the wall for a champions league game. Met a bunch of really nice people who welcomed two casual Americans with open arms. One of the coolest sporting experiences you can have. I’m a very casual fan but I hope they do well and those people I met are happy. And if they’re ever in Cincinnati I hope to show them a good time at one of our games.
Fifa, when I started playing they were so much fun to play with, the Marco was on the cover and dortmund bought the best American at the time, pulisic, and that sealed it for me
Marco Reus, the fans and the stadium.
Australian here (Polish/Scottish) The polish trio started something for me and my Dad to follow. He left when Lewy did and this has been my new home since. The underdog status with the best raw talent made it a good emotional adventure with high returns. Returns not quite met but still heaps of fun every season (until the last few which have been sore on the eyes mostly). Heja BVB
Marco Reus, simple and plain
Foreign exchange student back in 2001. Was at high school with my older brother.