# 2018–19 Borussia Dortmund season

The 2018–19 Borussia Dortmund season was the 110th season in the football club's history and the 43rd consecutive and 52nd overall season in the top flight of German football, the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga Nord in 1976.
In addition to the domestic league, Borussia Dortmund also participated in the season's editions of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal, and the first-tier continental cup, the UEFA Champions League. This was the 45th season for Dortmund in the Signal Iduna Park, located in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The season covered a period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.
The season was the first since 2001–02 without Roman Weidenfeller, who retired after the 2017–18 season.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 31 January 2019
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | SUI | Roman Bürki |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Dan-Axel Zagadou |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Abdou Diallo |
| 5 | DF | MAR | Achraf Hakimi (on loan from Real Madrid) |
| 6 | MF | DEN | Thomas Delaney |
| 7 | MF | ENG | Jadon Sancho |
| 9 | FW | ESP | Paco Alcácer |
| 10 | MF | GER | Mario Götze |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marco Reus (captain) |
| 13 | DF | POR | Raphaël Guerreiro |
| 16 | DF | SUI | Manuel Akanji |
| 17 | MF | ESP | Sergio Gómez |
| 18 | DF | ARG | Leonardo Balerdi |
| 19 | MF | GER | Mahmoud Dahoud |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | FW | GER | Maximilian Philipp |
| 22 | MF | USA | Christian Pulisic (on loan from Chelsea) |
| 25 | GK | GER | Luca Unbehaun |
| 26 | DF | POL | Łukasz Piszczek (vice-captain) |
| 27 | FW | GER | Marius Wolf |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer |
| 31 | MF | GER | Patrick Osterhage |
| 33 | MF | GER | Julian Weigl |
| 34 | FW | DEN | Jacob Bruun Larsen |
| 35 | GK | SUI | Marwin Hitz |
| 36 | DF | TUR | Ömer Toprak |
| 37 | MF | GER | Tobias Raschl |
| 40 | GK | GER | Eric Oelschlägel |

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| # | Position | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 35 | GK | Marwin Hitz | Augsburg | Free | 19 May 2018 |
| 27 | FW | Marius Wolf | Eintracht Frankfurt | Undisclosed | 28 May 2018 |
| 6 | MF | Thomas Delaney | Werder Bremen | Undisclosed | 7 June 2018 |
| 40 | GK | Eric Oelschlägel | Werder Bremen | Undisclosed | 20 June 2018 |
| 4 | DF | Abdou Diallo | Mainz | Undisclosed | 26 June 2018 |
| 28 | MF | Axel Witsel | Tianjin Quanjian | Undisclosed | 6 August 2018 |
| 9 | FW | Paco Alcácer | Barcelona | Undisclosed | 23 November 2018 |
| 18 | DF | Leonardo Balerdi | Boca Juniors | Undisclosed | 14 January 2019 |

#### Loans in

| # | Position | Player | Loaned from | Date | Loan expires |
| 5 | DF | Achraf Hakimi | Real Madrid | 11 July 2018 | 30 June 2020 |
| 9 | FW | Paco Alcácer | Barcelona | 28 August 2018 | Exercised transfer option on 23 November 2018 |
| 22 | MF | Christian Pulisic | Chelsea | 2 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |

### Transfers out

| # | Position | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| 1 | GK | Roman Weidenfeller | n/a | Retired | 5 May 2018 |
| 35 | GK | Dominik Reimann | Holstein Kiel | Undisclosed | 31 May 2018 |
| 27 | MF | Gonzalo Castro | Stuttgart | Undisclosed | 29 June 2018 |
| 25 | DF | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | Arsenal | Undisclosed | 2 July 2018 |
| 24 | DF | Jan-Niklas Beste | Werder Bremen | Undisclosed | 4 July 2018 |
| 9 | FW | Andriy Yarmolenko | West Ham United | Undisclosed | 11 July 2018 |
| 37 | DF | Erik Durm | Huddersfield Town | Undisclosed | 13 July 2018 |
| 8 | MF | Nuri Şahin | Werder Bremen | Undisclosed | 31 August 2018 |
| 22 | MF | Christian Pulisic | Chelsea | €64,000,000 | 2 January 2019 |

#### Loans out

| # | Position | Player | Loaned to | Date | Loan expires |
| 30 | DF | Felix Passlack | Norwich City | 2 July 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 21 | FW | André Schürrle | Fulham | 25 July 2018 | 30 June 2020 |
| 18 | MF | Sebastian Rode | Frankfurt | 27 December 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 14 | FW | Alexander Isak | Willem II | 25 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| 32 | MF | Dženis Burnić | Dresden | 31 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| 23 | MF | Shinji Kagawa | Beşiktaş | 31 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| 15 | DF | Jeremy Toljan | Celtic | 31 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |

## Kits

| Home (League) | Home alt.1 (League) | Away 0 | Third 0 | Home (Cup+Europe) | Home alt.1 (Cup+Europe) | Goalkeeper 1 | Goalkeeper 2 |

## Friendly matches

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Bundesliga | 26 August 2018 | 18 May 2019 | Matchday 1 | 2nd | 34 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 81 | 44 | +37 | 067.65 |
| DFB-Pokal | 20 August 2018 | 5 February 2019 | First round | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 066.67 |
| Champions League | 18 September 2018 | 5 March 2019 | Group stage | Round of 16 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 45 | 29 | 9 | 7 | 99 | 56 | +43 | 064.44 |
Last updated: 25 May 2019 Source: Competitions

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Bayern Munich (C) | 34 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 88 | 32 | +56 | 78 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 81 | 44 | +37 | 76 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | RB Leipzig | 34 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 63 | 29 | +34 | 66 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 69 | 52 | +17 | 58 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 55 | 42 | +13 | 55 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
* ↑ Since the winners of the 2018–19 DFB-Pokal, Bayern Munich, qualified for the Champions League based on league position, the Europa League group stage spot was passed to the sixth-placed team, and the Europa League second qualifying round spot was passed to the seventh-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 25 May 2019. Source: Bundesliga

#### Results by round

| Round | 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | D | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | D | D | D | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | D | W | W |
| Position | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | DOR | ATM | BRU | MON |
| 1 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 4–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 |
| 2 | Atlético Madrid | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase | 2–0 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 | Transfer to Europa League | 0–1 | 0–0 | — | 1–1 |
| 4 | Monaco | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 14 | −12 | 1 | | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–4 | — |
* 1 2 Head-to-head goal difference: Borussia Dortmund +2, Atlético Madrid –2.

#### Knockout phase
##### Round of 16
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | Champions League | Champions League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | SUI | Roman Bürki | 40 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | SUI | Marwin Hitz | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | GER | Eric Oelschlägel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | FRA | Dan-Axel Zagadou | 22 | 2 | 15+2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Abdou Diallo | 38 | 1 | 27+1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | MAR | Achraf Hakimi | 28 | 3 | 19+2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4+1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | POR | Raphaël Guerreiro | 32 | 6 | 17+6 | 2 | 1+2 | 0 | 3+3 | 4 |
| 16 | DF | SUI | Manuel Akanji | 31 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | ARG | Leonardo Balerdi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | POL | Łukasz Piszczek | 26 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer | 13 | 0 | 6+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 36 | DF | TUR | Ömer Toprak | 14 | 0 | 1+8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | DEN | Thomas Delaney | 38 | 3 | 27+3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | ENG | Jadon Sancho | 43 | 13 | 26+8 | 12 | 0+2 | 0 | 5+2 | 1 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Mario Götze | 34 | 7 | 19+7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | ESP | Sergio Gómez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | GER | Mahmoud Dahoud | 22 | 1 | 7+7 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | USA | Christian Pulisic | 30 | 7 | 9+11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5+2 | 1 |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel | 43 | 6 | 32+1 | 4 | 1+2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 33 | MF | GER | Julian Weigl | 24 | 1 | 16+2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | ESP | Paco Alcácer | 32 | 19 | 11+15 | 18 | 0+1 | 0 | 4+1 | 1 |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marco Reus | 36 | 21 | 27 | 17 | 2+1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 20 | FW | GER | Maximilian Philipp | 23 | 2 | 9+9 | 1 | 1+2 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | GER | Marius Wolf | 22 | 1 | 10+6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 |
| 34 | FW | DEN | Jacob Bruun Larsen | 30 | 3 | 16+8 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+4 | 1 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | TUR | Nuri Şahin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | SWE | Alexander Isak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Jeremy Toljan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GER | Sebastian Rode | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | FW | GER | André Schürrle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Shinji Kagawa | 4 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | GER | Dženis Burnić | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 18 May 2019 Source: Competitions

#### Notes
### Goalscorers

| Rank | Pos | No. | Nat | Name | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | UEFA CL | Total |
| 1 | FW | 11 | | Marco Reus | 17 | 3 | 1 | 21 |
| 2 | FW | 9 | | Paco Alcácer | 18 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
| 3 | FW | 7 | | Jadon Sancho | 12 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| 4 | FW | 10 | | Mario Götze | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | MF | 22 | | Christian Pulisic | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | MF | 28 | | Axel Witsel | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | DF | 13 | | Raphaël Guerreiro | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 8 | DF | 5 | | Achraf Hakimi | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | MF | 6 | | Thomas Delaney | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | FW | 34 | | Jacob Bruun Larsen | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | DF | 2 | | Dan-Axel Zagadou | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | FW | 20 | | Maximilian Philipp | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | DF | 4 | | Abdou Diallo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | DF | 16 | | Manuel Akanji | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | MF | 19 | | Mahmoud Dahoud | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | DF | 26 | | Łukasz Piszczek | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | FW | 27 | | Marius Wolf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | MF | 33 | | Julian Weigl | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 81 | 8 | 10 | 99 |
Last updated: 18 May 2019