2008–09 Borussia Dortmund season

During the 2008–09 German football season, Borussia Dortmund competed in the Bundesliga.

Borussia Dortmund
2008–09 season
ManagerJürgen Klopp
Bundesliga6th
DFB-PokalRound of 16
UEFA CupFirst round
Top goalscorerLeague:

All:
Alexander Frei (12)

Season summary

In Jürgen Klopp's first season in charge of Dortmund, they rose to 6th in the final table, but were 2 points shy of qualifying for the revamped UEFA Europa League. Notably, they were one of only two teams to go the league season unbeaten at home (the other being champions Wolfsburg).

Kit

Dortmund's kit was manufactured by Nike and sponsored by German chemical company Evonik.

Players

First-team squad
Squad at end of season[1]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  GER Roman Weidenfeller
3 DF  KOR Lee Young-pyo
4 DF  SRB Neven Subotić
5 MF  GER Sebastian Kehl (captain)
6 MF  GER Florian Kringe
7 MF  BRA Tinga
9 FW  PAR Nelson Valdez
10 FW  EGY Mohamed Zidan
13 FW   SUI Alexander Frei
15 DF  GER Mats Hummels (on loan from Bayern Munich)
16 MF  POL Jakub Błaszczykowski
17 DF  BRA Dedê
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 GK  GER Marc Ziegler
22 MF  GER Kevin-Prince Boateng (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur)
23 MF  TUR Nuri Şahin
24 DF  GER Daniel Gordon[notes 1]
25 DF  GER Patrick Owomoyela
27 DF  BRA Felipe Santana
29 DF  GER Marcel Schmelzer
30 MF  HUN Tamás Hajnal
32 DF  GER Uwe Hünemeier
34 FW  GER Bajram Sadrijaj
36 MF  GER Yasin Öztekin
39 FW  GER Christopher Kullmann
42 MF  BIH Damir Vrančić

Left club during season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
8 MF  GER Giovanni Federico (on loan to Karlsruhe)
10 FW  CRO Mladen Petrić[notes 2] (to Hamburg)
11 MF  RSA Delron Buckley (on loan to Mainz)
14 DF  SRB Antonio Rukavina (on loan to 1860 Munich)
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW  ARG Diego Klimowicz (to VfL Bochum)
21 DF  CRO Robert Kovač[notes 3] (to Dinamo Zagreb)
22 MF  GER Marc-André Kruska (to Club Brugge)
31 GK  GER Lukas Kruse (to Augsburg)

Transfers

In

Out
gollark: I think you're confusing a bunch of things right now. Or possibly just two things, many worlds and extra spatial dimensions.
gollark: "We"?
gollark: ???
gollark: Things which extend into those instead of just having a constant fixed position in said new spatial dimension are also not going to somehow stop being subject to time, unless the laws of physics privilege it somehow, which would be really weird.
gollark: For one thing, if you add extra spatial dimensions to our universe on top of the existing 3, it isn't suddenly going to gain multiverses or something; ignoring all the complex physics things I'm not aware of which are probably sensitive to this, it will just be another direction in which you can move, perpendicular to the other 3.

References
  1. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/ger/2008-2009/bundes/dortmund.htm
  2. "Dortmund swoop for Brazilian". Sky Sports. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  3. "Abwehrspieler Felipe Santana kommt zum BVB". Borussia Dortmund Home Page. 16 May 2008. Archived from the original on 22 July 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  4. "BVB Acquires Striker Mohamed Zidan". Borussia Dortmund official website. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  5. "Hamburg swoop for Petric". Sky Sports. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  6. "Tottenham offload Lee to Dortmund". BBC Sport. 27 August 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  7. "Boateng leaves Spurs for Dortmund". BBC Sport. 11 January 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  8. "HSV sign Mladen Petric". Hamburger SV official website. 17 August 2008. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2008.
  9. "Robert Kovač u Dinamu" (in Croatian). nk-dinamo.hr. 7 June 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2009.

Notes
  1. Gordon was born in Dortmund, Germany, but also qualifies to represent Jamaica internationally and would make his international debut for Jamaica in June 2013.
  2. Petrić was born in Brčko, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), but also qualified to represent Croatia internationally and made his international debut for Croatia in November 2001.
  3. Kovač was born in Berlin, Germany, but also qualified to represent Croatia internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Croatia in 1999.
  4. Senesie was born in Koindu, Sierra Leone, but also qualified to represent Germany internationally and represented them at U-20 and U-21 level.
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