# 2021–22 Borussia Dortmund season

The 2021–22 season was the 113th season in the existence of Borussia Dortmund and the club's 46th consecutive season in the top flight of German football. In addition to the domestic league, Borussia Dortmund participated in this season's editions of the DFB-Pokal, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, as well as the DFL-Supercup as winners of the 2020–21 DFB-Pokal.
The season was the first since 2009–10 without Łukasz Piszczek, who departed to LKS Goczałkowice-Zdrój.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 31 January 2022
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 | SUI | Gregor Kobel |
| 2 | DF | ESP | Mateu Morey |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Soumaila Coulibaly |
| 7 | MF | USA | Giovanni Reyna |
| 8 | MF | GER | Mahmoud Dahoud |
| 9 | FW | NOR | Erling Haaland |
| 10 | MF | BEL | Thorgan Hazard |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marco Reus (captain) |
| 13 | DF | POR | Raphaël Guerreiro |
| 14 | DF | GER | Nico Schulz |
| 15 | DF | GER | Mats Hummels |
| 16 | DF | SUI | Manuel Akanji |
| 18 | FW | GER | Youssoufa Moukoko |
| 19 | MF | GER | Julian Brandt |
| 20 | MF | BRA | Reinier (on loan from Real Madrid) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | FW | NED | Donyell Malen |
| 22 | MF | ENG | Jude Bellingham |
| 23 | MF | GER | Emre Can |
| 24 | MF | BEL | Thomas Meunier |
| 25 | GK | GER | Luca Unbehaun |
| 27 | FW | GER | Steffen Tigges |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer |
| 30 | MF | GER | Felix Passlack |
| 32 | MF | GUI | Abdoulaye Kamara |
| 34 | DF | CRO | Marin Pongračić (on loan from VfL Wolfsburg) |
| 35 | GK | SUI | Marwin Hitz |
| 38 | GK | SUI | Roman Bürki |
| 39 | MF | GER | Marius Wolf |
| 40 | GK | GER | Stefan Drljača |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | GER | Ansgar Knauff (at Eintracht Frankfurt until 30 June 2023) |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 4 | DF | Soumaïla Coulibaly | Paris Saint-Germain U19 | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| 1 | GK | Gregor Kobel | VfB Stuttgart | €15,000,000 | 1 July 2021 |
| 32 | MF | Abdoulaye Kamara | Paris Saint-Germain | Free | 21 July 2021 |
| 21 | FW | Donyell Malen | PSV Eindhoven | €30,000,000 | 27 July 2021 |
| 34 | DF | Marin Pongračić | VfL Wolfsburg | Loan | 31 August 2021 |

### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| 15 | DF | Jeremy Toljan | Sassuolo | €3,500,000 | 1 July 2021 |
| 26 | DF | Łukasz Piszczek | LKS Goczałkowice-Zdrój | Free | 1 July 2021 |
| – | MF | Sergio Gomez | Anderlecht | €1,500,000 | 1 July 2021 |
| – | DF | Leonardo Balerdi | Marseille | €8,000,000 | 3 July 2021 |
| 7 | FW | Jadon Sancho | Manchester United | €85,000,000 | 23 July 2021 |
| 6 | MF | Thomas Delaney | Sevilla | €6,000,000 | 25 August 2021 |
| 36 | FW | Ansgar Knauff | Eintracht Frankfurt | Loan | 20 January 2022 |
| 37 | MF | Tobias Raschl | Greuther Fürth | Undisclosed | 31 January 2022 |

## Kits

| Home | Home alt. | Away | Away alt. | UCL Home | UCL Home alt. |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| 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 | 14 August 2021 | 14 May 2022 | Matchday 1 | 2nd | 34 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 85 | 52 | +33 | 064.71 |
| DFB-Pokal | 7 August 2021 | 18 January 2022 | First round | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 066.67 |
| DFL-Supercup | 17 August 2021 | 17 August 2021 | Final | Runners-up | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 000.00 |
| UEFA Champions League | 15 September 2021 | 7 December 2021 | Group stage | Group stage | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 050.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 17 February 2022 | 24 February 2022 | Knockout round play-offs | Knockout round play-offs | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 46 | 27 | 4 | 15 | 106 | 74 | +32 | 058.70 |
Source: Soccerway

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Bayern Munich (C) | 34 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 97 | 37 | +60 | 77 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 85 | 52 | +33 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 80 | 47 | +33 | 64 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | RB Leipzig | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 72 | 37 | +35 | 58 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Union Berlin | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 50 | 44 | +6 | 57 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
* ↑ Since the 2021–22 DFB-Pokal winners, RB Leipzig, 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 Conference League play-off 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 |
Source: DFB

#### 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | D | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | W | D | L | W | W | L | L | W | W |
| Position | 3 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 25 June 2021.

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

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2021.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | AJX | SPO | DOR | BES |
| 1 | Ajax | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5 | +15 | 18 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 4–2 | 4–0 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 9 | Advance to knockout phase | 1–5 | — | 3–1 | 4–0 |
| 3 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 9 | Transfer to Europa League | 1–3 | 1–0 | — | 5–0 |
| 4 | Beşiktaş | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 19 | −16 | 0 | | 1–2 | 1–4 | 1–2 | — |
* 1 2 Tied on head-to-head points. Head-to-head goal difference: Sporting CP +1, Borussia Dortmund −1.

### UEFA Europa League
#### Knockout phase
##### Knockout round play-offs

The knockout round play-offs draw was held on 13 December 2021.

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFB-Pokal | Champions League | Champions League | Europa League | Europa League | DFL-Supercup | DFL-Supercup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | GK | SUI | Gregor Kobel | 40 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | GK | GER | Luca Unbehaun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | SUI | Marwin Hitz | 6 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | GK | SUI | Roman Bürki | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | GK | GER | Stefan Drljača | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | ESP | Mateu Morey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | FRA | Soumaïla Coulibaly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | FRA | Dan-Axel Zagadou | 19 | 0 | 10+5 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | POR | Raphaël Guerreiro | 28 | 5 | 21+2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | GER | Nico Schulz | 24 | 0 | 9+7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Mats Hummels | 32 | 1 | 20+3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | SUI | Manuel Akanji | 36 | 1 | 25+1 | 1 | 2+1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | BEL | Thomas Meunier | 26 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | DF | GER | Felix Passlack | 15 | 1 | 5+5 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | CRO | Marin Pongračić | 23 | 0 | 9+8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | DF | GER | Tom Rothe | 2 | 1 | 1+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | GER | Lion Semić | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | DF | USA | Lennard Maloney | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | MF | USA | Giovanni Reyna | 13 | 2 | 6+4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | GER | Mahmoud Dahoud | 30 | 2 | 20+2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | BEL | Thorgan Hazard | 30 | 6 | 14+9 | 4 | 1+2 | 2 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | GER | Julian Brandt | 40 | 9 | 22+9 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | BRA | Reinier | 20 | 0 | 1+12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | ENG | Jude Bellingham | 44 | 6 | 32 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | GER | Emre Can | 29 | 5 | 20+5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | BEL | Axel Witsel | 40 | 2 | 22+6 | 2 | 2+1 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | MF | GUI | Abdoulaye Kamara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | MF | GER | Marius Wolf | 35 | 3 | 15+12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | NED | Immanuel Pherai | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | MF | GER | Antonios Papadopoulos | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | NOR | Erling Haaland | 30 | 29 | 21+3 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2+1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marco Reus | 41 | 13 | 29 | 9 | 2+1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | FW | GER | Youssoufa Moukoko | 22 | 2 | 1+15 | 2 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | FW | NED | Donyell Malen | 38 | 9 | 20+7 | 5 | 0+2 | 0 | 5+1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | GER | Steffen Tigges | 15 | 3 | 0+9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | FW | ENG | Jamie Bynoe-Gittens | 4 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | FW | CRO | Marco Pašalić | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | MF | DEN | Thomas Delaney | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | FW | GER | Ansgar Knauff | 9 | 0 | 0+5 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | MF | GER | Tobias Raschl | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 14 May 2022 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | Pos. | No. | Nat. | Player | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | Champions League | Europa League | DFL-Supercup | Total |
| 1 | FW | 9 | | Erling Haaland | 22 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| 2 | FW | 11 | | Marco Reus | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| 3 | MF | 19 | | Julian Brandt | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | FW | 21 | | Donyell Malen | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 5 | MF | 10 | | Thorgan Hazard | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | MF | 22 | | Jude Bellingham | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 | DF | 13 | | Raphaël Guerreiro | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 | MF | 23 | | Emre Can | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | FW | 27 | | Steffen Tigges | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | MF | 39 | | Marius Wolf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | MF | 7 | | Giovanni Reyna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | 8 | | Mahmoud Dahoud | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | FW | 18 | | Youssoufa Moukoko | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | DF | 24 | | Thomas Meunier | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | 28 | | Axel Witsel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | DF | 15 | | Mats Hummels | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | DF | 16 | | Manuel Akanji | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | DF | 30 | | Felix Passlack | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | DF | 36 | | Tom Rothe | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 85 | 6 | 10 | 4 | '1 | 106 |
Last updated: 14 May 2022