List of Borussia Dortmund players

Michael Zorc made 572 first team appearances for Borussia Dortmund

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

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

Players

As of 5 November 2024

Bold signifies current Borussia Dortmund players.

  Spent their entire professional career with Borussia Dortmund.

List of Borussia Dortmund players with 20 or more appearances
Player Nationality Position Dortmund career Appearances Goals
August Lenz  Germany FW 1930–1949 49 32
Herbert Erdmann  Germany FW 1939–1940
1947–1950		 59 33
Pat Koschmieder  Germany DF 1939–1955 179 1
Heinrich Ruhmhofer  Germany DF 1943–1951 74 0
Alfred Preißler  Germany FW 1945–1950
1952–1959		 274 177
Friedel Ibel  Germany FW 1946–1952 58 6
Werner Erdmann  Germany FW 1947–1952 86 37
Erwin Halfen  Germany DF 1947–1953 106 1
Wilhelm Kronsbein  Germany GK 1947–1950 47 0
Max Michallek  Germany DF 1947–1960 326 20
Herbert Sandmann  Germany DF 1947–1949
1951–1960		 210 40
Erich Schanko  Germany MF 1947–1957 223 11
Edmond Kasperski  Germany FW 1948–1953 136 66
Günter Rau  Germany GK 1948–1959 74 0
Herbert Hammer  Germany DF 1949–1950 26 0
Rudi Schulz  Germany MF 1949–1950 31 10
Hans Flügel  Germany FW 1950–1957 129 49
Josef Linneweber  Germany FW 1950–1953 37 20
Alfred Mikuda  Germany DF 1950–1953 83 0
Kurt Sahm  Germany FW 1950–1951
1952–1953		 45 5
Friedrich Vogt  Germany GK 1950–1953 26 0
Erich Wieding  Germany DF 1950–1953 41 0
Ewald Wieschner  Germany FW 1950–1957 99 2
Alfred Niepieklo  Germany MF 1951–1960 201 125
Elwin Schlebrowski  Germany MF 1951–1960 206 16
Wilhelm Burgsmüller  Germany DF 1952–1964 289 1
Franz Farke  Germany FW 1952–1953 23 18
Heinz Kwiatkowski  Germany GK 1952–1965 340 0
Günther Falke  Germany DF 1953–1955 55 0
Helmut Kapitulski  Germany MF 1953–1957 94 21
Adolf Luckenbach  Germany MF 1953–1955 39 2
Alfred Kelbassa  Germany FW 1954–1963 218 124
Wolfgang Peters  Germany FW 1954–1963 236 26
Willi Schumacher  Germany MF 1954–1958 28 3
Theo Berning  Germany MF 1955–1960 49 13
Helmut Bracht  Germany MF 1955–1964 248 9
Aki Schmidt  Germany MF 1956–1968 331 91
Hans-Georg Dulz  Germany MF 1957–1959 39 13
Friedhelm Meyer  Germany DF 1957–1959 23 0
Hans Michel  Germany DF 1957–1960 36 1
Hans Cieslarczyk  Germany FW 1958–1962 39 7
Friedhelm Konietzka  Germany FW 1958–1965 196 155
Gerhard Cyliax  Germany DF 1959–1968 246 36
Lothar Geisler  Germany DF 1959–1967 144 1
Jürgen Schütz  Germany FW 1959–1963 214 143
Rolf Thiemann  Germany DF 1959–1962 45 1
Lothar Emmerich  Germany FW 1960–1969 249 148
Dieter Kurrat  Germany MF 1960–1974 382 21
Horst Steinkuhl  Germany MF 1960–1962 28 0
Wolfgang Paul  Germany DF 1961–1971 239 9
Wilhelm Sturm  Germany MF 1961–1971 286 23
Bernhard Wessel  Germany GK 1961–1969 134 0
Theodor Redder  Germany DF 1962–1969 143 2
Hans Tilkowski  Germany GK 1962–1967 99 0
Reinhold Wosab  Germany FW 1962–1971 275 94
Franz Brungs  Germany FW 1963–1965 70 31
Rudi Assauer  Germany DF 1964–1970 135 8
Friedhelm Groppe  Germany MF 1964–1969 44 0
Hermann Straschitz  Germany MF 1964–1966 30 5
Sigfried Held  Germany FW 1965–1971
1977–1979		 259 53
Stan Libuda  Germany FW 1965–1968 85 10
Jürgen Weber  Germany MF 1965–1968 20 4
Willi Neuberger  Germany DF 1966–1971 164 33
Gerd Peehs  Germany DF 1966–1973 205 7
Horst Trimhold  Germany MF 1966–1971 109 16
Klaus Brakelmann  Germany DF 1967–1971 50 0
Dietmar Erler  Germany FW 1968–1970 31 2
Klaus Günther  Germany GK 1968–1971 39 0
Werner Weist  Germany FW 1968–1971 79 37
Theo Bücker  Germany MF 1969–1973 129 40
Ferdinand Heidkamp  Germany DF 1969–1971 57 2
Alfred Kohlhäufl  Germany DF 1969–1970 23 1
Branko Rasovic  Montenegro DF 1969–1974 125 0
Theodor Rieländer  Germany MF 1969–1972 49 7
Jürgen Rynio  Germany GK 1969–1974 106 0
Hans-Joachim Andree  Germany DF 1970–1973 83 2
Manfred Ritschel  Germany FW 1970–1972 65 9
Dieter Weinkauff  Germany FW 1970–1972 55 16
Horst Bertram  Germany GK 1971–1983 258 0
Walter Hohnhausen  Germany FW 1971–1972 27 3
Siegfried Köstler  Germany FW 1971–1973 66 10
Werner Lorant  Germany MF 1971–1973 50 0
Reinhold Mathes  Germany DF 1971–1972 24 0
Dieter Mietz  Germany DF 1971–1972 35 0
Alfons Sikora  Germany FW 1971–1972 21 0
Jürgen Wilhelm  Germany FW 1971–1973 38 13
Horst Bertl  Germany FW 1972–1974 66 26
Karl-Heinz Brücken  Germany FW 1972–1974 30 11
Peter Czernotzky  Germany DF 1972–1974 68 4
Helmut Nerlinger  Germany DF 1972–1978 169 17
Klaus Ondera  Germany FW 1972–1973 30 6
Helmut Schmidt  Germany MF 1972–1974 57 3
Friedhelm Schwarze  Germany DF 1972–1977 98 3
Egwin Wolf  Germany MF 1972–1979 183 27
Wolfgang Berg  Germany DF 1973–1975 38 3
Hans-Werner Hartl  Germany FW 1973–1977 130 41
Willi Mumme  Germany FW 1973–1974 34 4
Burkhard Segler  Germany MF 1973–1979 200 54
Klaus Ackermann  Germany FW 1974–1979 118 11
Dieter Goldbach  Germany MF 1974–1975 28 4
Lothar Huber  Germany DF 1974–1986 372 50
Ernst Savkovic  Germany DF 1974–1976 58 0
Hans-Gerd Schildt  Germany FW 1974–1977 87 16
Zoltán Varga  Hungary FW 1974–1976 61 11
Mirko Votava  Germany MF 1974–1982 297 32
Hans-Joachim Wagner  Germany DF 1974–1983 244 13
Peter Geyer  Germany FW 1975–1981 216 48
Gerd Kasperski  Germany FW 1975–1977 37 17
Wolfgang Vöge  Germany FW 1975–1980 127 32
Manfred Burgsmüller  Germany FW 1976–1983 252 158
Erwin Kostedde  Germany FW 1976–1977 54 26
Willi Lippens  Netherlands FW 1976–1979 74 16
Herbert Meyer  Germany DF 1976–1980 90 2
Wolfgang Frank  Germany FW 1977–1980 39 14
Werner Schneider  Germany DF 1977–1981 139 7
Amand Theis  Germany DF 1977–1980 94 7
Herbert Hein  Germany DF 1978–1984 114 2
Eike Immel  Germany GK 1978–1986 280 0
Norbert Runge  Germany FW 1978–1980 24 5
Norbert Dörmann  Germany DF 1979–1981 38 1
Paul Holz  Germany MF 1979–1981 25 0
Meinolf Koch  Germany MF 1979–1986 157 12
Theo Schneider  Germany FW 1979–1982 54 8
Rüdiger Abramczik  Germany FW 1980–1983 102 34
Siegfried Bönighausen  Germany DF 1980–1983 50 2
Atli Eðvaldsson  Iceland FW 1980–1981 33 11
Erdal Keser  Turkey FW 1980–1984
1986–1987		 116 30
Rolf Rüssmann  Germany DF 1980–1985 161 18
Heinz-Werner Eggeling  Germany FW 1981–1984 32 3
Bernd Klotz  Germany FW 1981–1984 118 31
Ralf Loose  Germany DF 1981–1986 136 13
Franz-Josef Tenhagen  Germany MF 1981–1984 98 1
Michael Zorc  Germany MF 1981–1998 572 159
Michael Lusch  Germany MF 1982–1993 242 13
Marcel Răducanu  Romania MF 1982–1986 186 35
Ulrich Bittcher  Germany MF 1983–1987 92 4
Werner Dreßel  Germany FW 1983–1986 56 5
Bernd Storck  Germany DF 1983–1989 168 10
Ingo Anderbrügge  Germany MF 1984–1988 85 11
André Egli   Switzerland DF 1984–1985 33 6
Günter Kutowski  Germany DF 1984–1996 345 5
Frank Pagelsdorf  Germany MF 1984–1988 126 11
Wolfgang Schüler  Germany FW 1984–1988 65 16
Daniel Simmes  Germany FW 1984–1988 125 15
Jürgen Wegmann  Germany FW 1984–1986
1989–1992		 138 46
Horst Hrubesch  Germany FW 1985–1986 21 4
Dirk Hupe  Germany DF 1985–1989 110 10
Wolfgang de Beer  Germany GK 1986–2001 217 0
Norbert Dickel  Germany FW 1986–1990 108 50
Thomas Helmer  Germany DF 1986–1992 223 22
Frank Mill  Germany FW 1986–1994 227 66
Gerhard Kleppinger  Germany DF 1987–1988 43 1
Murdo MacLeod  Scotland MF 1987–1990 129 5
Günter Breitzke  Germany MF 1988–1992 101 21
Thomas Kroth  Germany MF 1988–1990 65 0
Andreas Möller  Germany MF 1988–1990
1994–2000		 301 88
Robert Nikolic  Germany DF 1988–1991 57 0
Michael Rummenigge  Germany MF 1988–1993 193 45
Martin Driller  Germany FW 1989–1991 49 6
Sergei Gorlukovich  Russia DF 1989–1992 53 2
Uwe Grauer  Germany DF 1989–1994 25 1
Michael Schulz  Germany DF 1989–1994 166 7
Stefan Sterath  Germany MF 1989–1991 21 1
Thomas Franck  Germany MF 1990–1996 125 4
Steffen Karl  Germany MF 1990–1993 87 5
Stefan Klos  Germany GK 1990–1998 339 0
Gerhard Poschner  Germany MF 1990–1994 136 14
Flemming Povlsen  Denmark FW 1990–1995 146 23
Peter Quallo  Germany DF 1990–1992 28 0
Stéphane Chapuisat   Switzerland FW 1991–1999 284 123
Knut Reinhardt  Germany MF 1991–1998 225 8
Bodo Schmidt  Germany DF 1991–1996 155 3
Stefan Reuter  Germany MF 1992–2004 421 15
Lothar Sippel  Germany MF 1992–1994 51 7
René Tretschok  Germany MF 1992–1997 85 11
Ned Zelic  Australia MF 1992–1995 56 1
Steffen Freund  Germany MF 1993–1998 161 6
Lars Ricken  Germany MF 1993–2008 407 69
Karl-Heinz Riedle  Germany FW 1993–1997 112 36
Matthias Sammer  Germany DF 1993–1998 153 23
Vladimir But  Russia MF 1994–2000 100 10
Júlio César  Brazil DF 1994–1998 116 10
Martin Kree  Germany DF 1994–1999 114 3
Patrik Berger  Czech Republic MF 1995–1996 36 4
Heiko Herrlich  Germany FW 1995–2004 183 56
Jürgen Kohler  Germany FW 1995–2002 250 18
Rubén Sosa  Uruguay FW 1995–1996 27 3
Ibrahim Tanko  Ghana FW 1995–2001 71 3
Wolfgang Feiersinger  Austria DF 1996–2000 83 0
Jörg Heinrich  Germany DF 1996–1998
2000–2003		 195 24
Jovan Kirovski  United States FW 1996–2000 29 2
Paul Lambert  Scotland MF 1996–1997 64 2
Paulo Sousa  Portugal MF 1996–1997 40 2
Christian Timm  Germany FW 1996–1999 20 0
Sergej Barbarez  Bosnia and Herzegovina FW 1998–2000 49 7
Karsten Baumann  Germany DF 1998–2000 46 0
Dedé  Brazil DF 1998–2011 398 13
Christian Nerlinger  Germany MF 1998–2001 73 4
Alfred Nijhuis  Netherlands DF 1998–2001 75 6
Bachirou Salou  Togo FW 1998–1999 29 6
Otto Addo  Ghana MF 1999–2005 98 16
Fredi Bobic  Germany FW 1999–2002 80 23
Evanílson  Brazil DF 1999–2005 170 4
Victor Ikpeba  Nigeria FW 1999–2002 37 4
Jens Lehmann  Germany GK 1999–2003 179 0
Giuseppe Reina  Germany FW 1999–2003 114 19
Miroslav Stević  Serbia MF 1999–2002 121 8
Christian Wörns  Germany DF 1999–2008 303 15
Christoph Metzelder  Germany DF 2000–2007 158 2
Sunday Oliseh  Nigeria MF 2000–2005 72 3
Márcio Amoroso  Brazil FW 2001–2004 89 43
Guy Demel  Ivory Coast DF 2001–2005 42 0
Ewerthon  Brazil FW 2001–2005 154 54
Jan Koller  Czech Republic FW 2001–2006 184 79
Florian Kringe  Germany MF 2001–2012 171 19
Ahmed Madouni  Algeria DF 2001–2005 82 3
Tomáš Rosický  Czech Republic MF 2001–2006 189 24
Jan-Derek Sørensen  Norway FW 2001–2002 34 1
Juan Fernández  Argentina DF 2002–2005 22 0
Torsten Frings  Germany MF 2002–2004 63 12
Sebastian Kehl  Germany MF 2002–2015 362 22
David Odonkor  Germany FW 2002–2006 90 3
Roman Weidenfeller  Germany GK 2002–2018 453 0
André Bergdölmo  Norway DF 2003–2005 37 0
Niclas Jensen  Denmark DF 2003–2005 53 2
Sahr Senesie  Germany FW 2003–2006 30 1
Guillaume Warmuz  France GK 2003–2005 29 0
Markus Brzenska  Germany DF 2004–2009 89 7
Salvatore Gambino  Germany FW 2004–2006 52 5
Marc-André Kruska  Germany MF 2004–2009 107 2
Delron Buckley  South Africa FW 2005–2009 70 1
Philipp Degen   Switzerland DF 2005–2008 75 1
Nuri Şahin  Turkey MF 2005–2011
2013–2018		 274 26
Ebi Smolarek  Poland FW 2005–2007 87 26
Martin Amedick  Germany DF 2006–2008 38 2
Alexander Frei   Switzerland FW 2006–2009 83 37
Steven Pienaar  South Africa MF 2006–2008 27 0
Tinga  Brazil MF 2006–2010 113 12
Nelson Valdez  Paraguay FW 2006–2010 126 18
Jakub Blaszczykowski  Poland FW 2007–2016 253 32
Giovanni Federico  Italy MF 2007–2009 36 6
Diego Klimowicz  Argentina FW 2007–2008 45 11
Robert Kovač  Croatia DF 2007–2009 34 0
Mladen Petrić  Croatia FW 2007–2008 36 18
Marc Ziegler  Germany GK 2007–2010 29 0
Tamás Hajnal  Hungary MF 2008–2011 58 8
Mats Hummels  Germany DF 2008–2016
2019–2024		 508 38
Lee Young-pyo  South Korea DF 2008–2009 22 0
Patrick Owomoyela  Germany DF 2008–2013 84 3
Antonio Rukavina  Serbia DF 2008–2009 25 0
Felipe Santana  Brazil DF 2008–2013 113 8
Marcel Schmelzer  Germany DF 2008–2022 367 7
Neven Subotić  Serbia DF 2008–2018 263 18
Mohamed Zidan  Egypt FW 2008–2012 73 15
Lucas Barrios  Paraguay FW 2009–2012 102 49
Sven Bender  Germany MF 2009–2017 224 4
Markus Feulner  Germany MF 2009–2011 20 0
Kevin Großkreutz  Germany DF 2009–2015 236 27
Antônio da Silva  Brazil MF 2010–2012 33 1
Mario Götze  Germany MF 2010–2013
2016–2020		 219 45
Shinji Kagawa  Japan MF 2010–2012
2014–2019		 216 60
Mitchell Langerak  Australia GK 2010–2015 35 0
Robert Lewandowski  Poland FW 2010–2014 187 103
Łukasz Piszczek  Poland DF 2010–2021 382 19
İlkay Gündoğan  Germany MF 2011–2016 157 15
Moritz Leitner  Germany MF 2011–2016 67 0
Ivan Perišić  Croatia MF 2011–2013 64 12
Oliver Kirch  Germany MF 2012–2015 30 1
Marco Reus  Germany MF 2012–2024 429 170
Julian Schieber  Germany FW 2012–2014 57 6
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang  Gabon FW 2013–2018 213 141
Erik Durm  Germany DF 2013–2018 97 2
Jonas Hofmann  Germany MF 2013–2015 59 5
Henrikh Mkhitaryan  Armenia MF 2013–2016 140 41
Sokratis Papastathopoulos  Greece DF 2013–2018 198 10
Matthias Ginter  Germany DF 2014–2017 102 4
Ciro Immobile  Italy FW 2014–2016 34 10
Miloš Jojić  Serbia MF 2014–2015 29 4
Adrián Ramos  Colombia FW 2014–2017 79 19
Roman Bürki   Switzerland GK 2015–2022 233 0
Gonzalo Castro  Germany MF 2015–2018 111 12
Julian Weigl  Germany MF 2015–2019 171 4
Marc Bartra  Spain DF 2016–2018 51 5
Ousmane Dembélé  France FW 2016–2017 50 10
Raphaël Guerreiro  Portugal DF 2016–2023 224 40
Felix Passlack  Germany DF 2016–2023 55 3
Christian Pulisic  United States FW 2016–2019 127 19
Sebastian Rode  Germany MF 2016–2019 22 1
André Schürrle  Germany FW 2016–2020 51 8
Mahmoud Dahoud  Germany MF 2017–2023 141 5
Jacob Bruun Larsen  Denmark FW 2017–2020 41 3
Maximilian Philipp  Germany FW 2017–2019 51 11
Jadon Sancho  England FW 2017–2021
2024		 158 53
Jeremy Toljan  Germany DF 2017–2021 23 1
Ömer Toprak  Turkey DF 2017–2020 51 0
Andriy Yarmolenko  Ukraine FW 2017–2018 26 6
Dan-Axel Zagadou  France DF 2017–2022 92 4
Manuel Akanji   Switzerland DF 2018–2022 158 4
Paco Alcácer  Spain FW 2018–2020 47 26
Thomas Delaney  Denmark MF 2018–2021 88 4
Abdou Diallo  Senegal DF 2018–2019 38 1
Achraf Hakimi  Morocco DF 2018–2020 73 12
Marwin Hitz   Switzerland GK 2018–2022 46 0
Axel Witsel  Belgium MF 2018–2022 145 13
Marius Wolf  Germany DF 2018–2024 121 5
Julian Brandt  Germany MF 2019– 231 41
Thorgan Hazard  Belgium FW 2019–2023 123 18
Mateu Morey  Spain DF 2019–2024 32 0
Nico Schulz  Germany DF 2019–2023 61 1
Jude Bellingham  England MF 2020–2023 132 24
Emre Can  Germany MF 2020– 174 18
Erling Haaland  Norway FW 2020–2022 89 86
Thomas Meunier  Belgium DF 2020–2024 83 3
Youssoufa Moukoko  Germany FW 2020– 99 18
Reinier  Brazil MF 2020–2022 39 1
Giovanni Reyna  United States MF 2020– 123 17
Gregor Kobel   Switzerland GK 2021– 130 0
Donyell Malen  Netherlands FW 2021– 124 38
Marin Pongračić  Croatia DF 2021–2022 23 0
Steffen Tigges  Germany FW 2021–2022 23 3
Karim Adeyemi  Germany FW 2022– 74 19
Jamie Gittens  England FW 2022– 73 10
Sébastien Haller  Ivory Coast FW 2022– 41 12
Alexander Meyer  Germany GK 2022– 24 0
Anthony Modeste  France FW 2022–2023 28 2
Salih Özcan  Turkey MF 2022– 70 0
Nico Schlotterbeck  Germany DF 2022– 101 6
Niklas Süle  Germany DF 2022– 80 2
Ramy Bensebaini  Algeria DF 2023– 39 1
Niclas Füllkrug  Germany FW 2023–2024 43 15
Felix Nmecha  Germany MF 2023– 43 4
Julian Ryerson  Norway DF 2023– 66 6
Marcel Sabitzer  Austria MF 2023– 54 6
Ian Maatsen  Netherlands DF 2024 23 3

Club captains

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

References

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