# 2011–12 Borussia Dortmund season

The 2011–12 Borussia Dortmund season began on 23 July 2011 with a Revierderby loss against Schalke 04 in the DFL-Supercup. It ended with Dortmund completing the league and cup double with Bayern Munich as runners-up.

## Transfers
### Summer 2011

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | GER | Julian Koch (loan return from MSV Duisburg) |
| 7 | MF | GER | Moritz Leitner (loan return from FC Augsburg) |
| 14 | MF | CRO | Ivan Perišić (from Club Brugge) |
| 21 | MF | GER | İlkay Gündoğan (from 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| 24 | DF | GER | Chris Löwe (from Chemnitzer FC) |
| 31 | MF | GER | Marvin Bakalorz (from Borussia Dortmund II) |
| 36 | MF | GER | Mario Vrančić (from Borussia Dortmund II) |
| - | MF | AUS | Mustafa Amini (from Central Coast Mariners) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | GER | Lasse Sobiech (on loan to FC St. Pauli) |
| 8 | MF | TUR | Nuri Şahin (to Real Madrid) |
| 11 | FW | BUL | Dimitar Rangelov (on loan to Energie Cottbus) |
| 14 | MF | GER | Markus Feulner (to 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| 17 | DF | BRA | Dedê (to Eskişehirspor) |
| 28 | FW | GER | Daniel Ginczek (on loan to VfL Bochum) |
| 39 | FW | GER | Marco Stiepermann (on loan to Alemannia Aachen) |
| — | MF | AUS | Mustafa Amini (on loan to Central Coast Mariners) |

### Winter 2011–12

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | FW | EGY | Mohamed Zidan (to Mainz 05) |
| 13 | FW | FRA | Damien Le Tallec (to Nantes) |
| 28 | DF | GER | Marc Hornschuh (on loan to FC Ingolstadt) |

## Statistics
### Goals and appearances

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | UEFA Champions League | UEFA Champions League | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | DFL-Supercup | DFL-Supercup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | GER | Roman Weidenfeller (vice-captain) | 42 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | GER | Julian Koch | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | SRB | Neven Subotić | 33 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | GER | Sebastian Kehl (captain) | 38 | 3 | 27 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | GER | Florian Kringe | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | GER | Moritz Leitner | 23 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Antônio da Silva | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | POL | Robert Lewandowski | 46 | 30 | 34 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | GER | Mario Götze | 26 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | CRO | Ivan Perišić | 40 | 9 | 28 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Mats Hummels | 45 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | MF | POL | Jakub Błaszczykowski | 39 | 7 | 29 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | PAR | Lucas Barrios | 25 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | GER | Kevin Großkreutz | 42 | 8 | 31 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | GK | AUS | Mitchell Langerak | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | GER | İlkay Gündoğan | 35 | 4 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | GER | Sven Bender | 31 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Shinji Kagawa | 42 | 16 | 31 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | GER | Chris Löwe | 11 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | GER | Patrick Owomoyela | 12 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | POL | Łukasz Piszczek | 44 | 4 | 32 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | DF | BRA | Felipe Santana | 17 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer | 36 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | MF | GER | Marvin Bakalorz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | MF | GER | Mario Vrančić | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | GK | GER | Johannes Focher | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players sold or loaned out after the start of the season: ||||||||||||||
| 10 | FW | EGY | Mohamed Zidan | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | FRA | Damien Le Tallec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | GER | Marc Hornschuh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Borussia Dortmund (C) | 34 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 80 | 25 | +55 | 81 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Bayern Munich | 34 | 23 | 4 | 7 | 77 | 22 | +55 | 73 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Schalke 04 | 34 | 20 | 4 | 10 | 74 | 44 | +30 | 64 | Qualification to Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 49 | 24 | +25 | 60 | Qualification to Champions League play-off round |
| 5 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 52 | 44 | +8 | 54 | Qualification to Europa League group stage |
* ↑ The 2011–12 DFB-Pokal champions (Borussia Dortmund) and runners-up (Bayern Munich) qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, thus the three Europa League places were distributed through league positions.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 5 May 2012. Source: Competitive matches

#### Results by matchday

| Matchday | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | H | A |
| Result | W | L | W | D | L | L | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | W |
| Position | 3 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Points | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 34 | 37 | 40 | 43 | 46 | 49 | 52 | 55 | 56 | 59 | 62 | 63 | 66 | 69 | 72 | 75 | 78 | 81 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Champions League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Arsenal | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 11 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 2 | Marseille | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | Olympiacos | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 9 | Transfer to Europa League |
| 4 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 4 | |