# 1996–97 Borussia Dortmund season

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

## Season summary

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

## Squad

    Squad at end of season
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 | Stefan Klos |
| 2 | DF | GER | Knut Reinhardt |
| 3 | DF | GER | René Schneider |
| 4 | MF | GER | Steffen Freund |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Júlio César |
| 6 | DF | GER | Matthias Sammer |
| 7 | DF | GER | Stefan Reuter |
| 8 | MF | GER | Michael Zorc |
| 9 | FW | SUI | Stéphane Chapuisat |
| 10 | MF | GER | Andreas Möller |
| 11 | FW | GER | Heiko Herrlich |
| 12 | GK | GER | Wolfgang de Beer |
| 13 | FW | GER | Karl-Heinz Riedle |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | MF | SCO | Paul Lambert |
| 15 | DF | GER | Jürgen Kohler |
| 16 | DF | GER | Martin Kree |
| 17 | MF | GER | Jörg Heinrich |
| 18 | MF | GER | Lars Ricken |
| 19 | MF | POR | Paulo Sousa |
| 21 | FW | GER | Christian Timm |
| 23 | MF | GER | René Tretschok |
| 26 | MF | GER | Frank Riethmann |
| 27 | DF | AUT | Wolfgang Feiersinger |
| 28 | FW | GHA | Ibrahim Tanko |
| 29 | MF | RUS | Vladimir But |
| 30 | FW | USA | Jovan Kirovski |

### Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | DF | GER | Günter Kutowski (to Rot-Weiss Essen) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | MF | GER | Carsten Wolters (to Duisburg) |

## Competitions
### Bundesliga

Dortmund came in 3rd in the Bundesliga.

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Bayern Munich (C) | 34 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 68 | 34 | +34 | 71 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 69 | 41 | +28 | 69 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 63 | 41 | +22 | 63 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 4 | VfB Stuttgart | 34 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 78 | 40 | +38 | 61 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 5 | VfL Bochum | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 54 | 51 | +3 | 53 | Qualification to UEFA Cup first round |
* 1 2 Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 won their respective European competitions in this season, so they qualified as title holders. As a consequence, the original UEFA Cup places of Dortmund and Stuttgart, who qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as domestic cup winners, were awarded to Karlsruhe and 1860 Munich; the Intertoto Cup berths of Karlsruhe and 1860 were handed to Köln and Hamburg, as Mönchengladbach did not apply for this competition.

### DFB-Supercup

| Borussia Dortmund | 1. FC Kaiserslautern |
| GK | 1 | Stefan Klos |
| SW | 6 | Matthias Sammer | 91' |
| CB | 15 | Jürgen Kohler | 60' |
| CB | 17 | Jörg Heinrich |
| DM | 21 | Carsten Wolters |
| RM | 7 | Stefan Reuter |
| CM | 8 | Michael Zorc (c) |
| CM | 10 | Andreas Möller |
| LM | 24 | Dennis Weiland |
| CF | 9 | Stéphane Chapuisat |
| CF | 18 | Lars Ricken | 71' |
| Substitutes: ||
| DF | 20 | Günter Kutowski | 60' |
| MF | 29 | Vladimir But | 71' |
| MF | 27 | Dennis Vogt | 91' |
| Manager: ||
| Ottmar Hitzfeld ||
| GK | 1 | Andreas Reinke |
| SW | 6 | Andreas Brehme | 99' |
| CB | 24 | Harry Koch |
| CB | 20 | Roger Lutz |
| RWB | 2 | Frank Greiner |
| LWB | 8 | Martin Wagner |
| CM | 4 | Axel Roos |
| CM | 19 | Oliver Schäfer |
| CM | 7 | Uwe Wegmann | 91' |
| CF | 11 | Olaf Marschall (c) | 91' |
| CF | 9 | Pavel Kuka |
| Substitutes: ||
| MF | 17 | Ratinho | 91' |
| FW | 18 | Jürgen Rische | 91' |
| MF | 12 | Andreas Broß | 99' |
| Manager: ||
| Otto Rehhagel ||

### UEFA Champions League

Dortmund won the UEFA Champions League.

### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Atlético Madrid | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 13 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | +6 | 13 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Widzew Łódź | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 4 | |
| 4 | Steaua București | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 4 | |
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 2–1 | Widzew Łódź |
| Steaua București | 0–3 | Borussia Dortmund |
| Atlético Madrid | 0–1 | Borussia Dortmund |
| Borussia Dortmund | 1–2 | Atlético Madrid |
| Widzew Łódź | 2–2 | Borussia Dortmund |
| Borussia Dortmund | 5–3 | Steaua București |

### Knockout stage
#### Quarter-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Borussia Dortmund | 4–1 | Auxerre | 3–1 | 1–0 |

#### Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Borussia Dortmund | 2–0 | Manchester United | 1–0 | 1–0 |

#### Final
## Kits

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