# 2017–18 Borussia Dortmund season

The 2017–18 Borussia Dortmund season was the 109th season in the football club's history and 42nd consecutive and 51st 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 this season's editions of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal, and the first-tier continental cup, the UEFA Champions League. Dortmund were the reigning DFB-Pokal champions, and therefore also participated in the German super cup, the DFL-Supercup. This was the 44th season for Dortmund in the Signal Iduna Park, located in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The season covered a period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

## Kit information

Supplier: Puma / Sponsor: Evonik Industries
| Home | Home alt. | Home alt 2. | Away | Away alt. | Away alt 2. | Third | Europe + Cup |

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 31 January 2018
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 |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Dan-Axel Zagadou |
| 7 | MF | ENG | Jadon Sancho |
| 8 | MF | TUR | Nuri Şahin |
| 9 | FW | UKR | Andriy Yarmolenko |
| 10 | MF | GER | Mario Götze |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marco Reus (vice-captain) |
| 13 | DF | POR | Raphaël Guerreiro |
| 14 | FW | SWE | Alexander Isak |
| 15 | DF | GER | Jeremy Toljan |
| 16 | DF | SUI | Manuel Akanji |
| 18 | MF | GER | Sebastian Rode |
| 19 | MF | GER | Mahmoud Dahoud |
| 20 | FW | GER | Maximilian Philipp |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | FW | GER | André Schürrle |
| 22 | MF | USA | Christian Pulisic |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Shinji Kagawa |
| 25 | DF | GRE | Sokratis Papastathopoulos (3rd captain) |
| 26 | DF | POL | Łukasz Piszczek |
| 27 | MF | GER | Gonzalo Castro |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer (captain) |
| 33 | MF | GER | Julian Weigl |
| 34 | MF | ESP | Sergio Gómez |
| 35 | GK | GER | Dominik Reimann |
| 36 | DF | TUR | Ömer Toprak |
| 37 | DF | GER | Erik Durm |
| 38 | GK | SUI | Roman Bürki |
| 44 | FW | BEL | Michy Batshuayi (on loan from Chelsea) |

### Transfers
#### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Age | From | Type | Window | Ends | Fee | Source |
| 36 | DF | Ömer Toprak | 27 | Bayer Leverkusen | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | €12M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 19 | MF | Mahmoud Dahoud | 21 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | €12M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2 | DF | Dan-Axel Zagadou | 18 | Paris Saint-Germain | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | Free transfer | Borussia Dortmund |
| 20 | MF | Maximilian Philipp | 23 | SC Freiburg | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | €20M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 9 | FW | Andriy Yarmolenko | 28 | Dynamo Kyiv | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | €30M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 15 | DF | Jeremy Toljan | 22 | 1899 Hoffenheim | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | €7M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 7 | FW | Jadon Sancho | 17 | Manchester City | Transfer | Summer | 2020 | €8M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 16 | DF | Manuel Akanji | 22 | Basel | Transfer | Winter | 2022 | €21.5M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 34 | FW | Sergio Gómez | 17 | Barcelona B | Transfer | Winter | 2021 | €3M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 44 | FW | Michy Batshuayi | 24 | Chelsea | Loan | Winter | 2018 | €1.5M | Borussia Dortmund |

#### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Age | To | Type | Window | Ends | Fee | Source |
| 6 | DF | Sven Bender | 28 | Bayer Leverkusen | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | €13M | Borussia Dortmund |
| 9 | MF | Emre Mor | 20 | Celta Vigo | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | €13M | Celta de Vigo |
| 28 | DF | Matthias Ginter | 23 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | €17M | Borussia Mönchengladbach Archived 2017-08-04 at the Wayback Machine |
| 7 | FW | Ousmane Dembélé | 20 | Barcelona | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | €105M | FC Barcelona |
| 30 | DF | Felix Passlack | 19 | 1899 Hoffenheim | Loan | Summer | 2019 | | 1899 Hoffenheim |
| 17 | FW | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | 28 | Arsenal | Transfer | Winter | 2022 | €63.75M | Arsenal |
| 5 | DF | Marc Bartra | 27 | Real Betis | Transfer | Winter | 2023 | €10.5M | Real Betis |
| 4 | DF | Neven Subotić | 29 | Saint-Étienne | Transfer | Winter | 2019 | Free transfer | Saint-Étienne |
| 34 | FW | Jacob Bruun Larsen | 19 | VfB Stuttgart | Loan | Winter | 2018 | | VfB Stuttgart |

## 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 | 19 August 2017 | 12 May 2018 | Matchday 1 | 4th | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 64 | 47 | +17 | 044.12 |
| DFB-Pokal | 12 August 2017 | 20 December 2017 | First round | Round of 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 066.67 |
| DFL-Supercup | 5 August 2017 | 5 August 2017 | Final | Runners-up | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 000.00 |
| Champions League | 13 September 2017 | 6 December 2017 | Group stage | Group stage | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 000.00 |
| Europa League | 15 February 2018 | 15 March 2018 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | +0 | 025.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 48 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 88 | 69 | +19 | 037.50 |
Last updated: 21 May 2018 Source: Competitions

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Schalke 04 | 34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 53 | 37 | +16 | 63 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 3 | 1899 Hoffenheim | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 66 | 48 | +18 | 55 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Borussia Dortmund | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 64 | 47 | +17 | 55 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 58 | 44 | +14 | 55 | Qualification for the Europa League group stage |
| 6 | RB Leipzig | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 57 | 53 | +4 | 53 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 21 May 2018. 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | L | D | L | L | L | D | D | L | W | W | D | D | D | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | L | W | L | W | D | L | L |
| Position | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | TOT | RMA | DOR | APO |
| 1 | Tottenham Hotspur | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | +11 | 16 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 3–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 13 | Advance to knockout phase | 1–1 | — | 3–2 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 2 | Transfer to Europa League | 1–2 | 1–3 | — | 1–1 |
| 4 | APOEL | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 17 | −15 | 2 | | 0–3 | 0–6 | 1–1 | — |
* 1 2 Head-to-head results: APOEL 1–1 Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Dortmund 1–1 APOEL (tied on head-to-head results, ranked on total goal difference).

### UEFA Europa League
#### 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 | 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 | GER | Roman Weidenfeller | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | GER | Dominik Reimann | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | GK | SUI | Roman Bürki | 46 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | DF | FRA | Dan-Axel Zagadou | 16 | 1 | 6+5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | POR | Raphaël Guerreiro | 14 | 2 | 5+3 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | GER | Jeremy Toljan | 23 | 1 | 13+3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | SUI | Manuel Akanji | 10 | 0 | 9+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | GER | Jan-Niklas Beste | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | GRE | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | 43 | 3 | 28+2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | DF | POL | Łukasz Piszczek | 30 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | GER | Marcel Schmelzer | 26 | 1 | 16+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | DF | TUR | Ömer Toprak | 36 | 0 | 22+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | GER | Erik Durm | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | TUR | Nuri Şahin | 24 | 2 | 13+4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | GER | Mario Götze | 32 | 2 | 19+4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | GER | Sebastian Rode | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | GER | Mahmoud Dahoud | 34 | 0 | 11+12 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | USA | Christian Pulisic | 41 | 5 | 26+5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Shinji Kagawa | 26 | 6 | 12+6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | GER | Gonzalo Castro | 28 | 1 | 16+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 1 | 1+2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | MF | GER | Julian Weigl | 32 | 1 | 19+5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | ESP | Sergio Gómez | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | FW | ENG | Jadon Sancho | 11 | 1 | 6+5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | UKR | Andriy Yarmolenko | 26 | 6 | 13+5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | GER | Marco Reus | 14 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | FW | SWE | Alexander Isak | 12 | 1 | 1+4 | 0 | 2+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | FW | GER | Maximilian Philipp | 28 | 9 | 15+5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 21 | FW | GER | André Schürrle | 25 | 3 | 10+7 | 1 | 1+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | FW | BEL | Michy Batshuayi | 14 | 9 | 9+1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | DF | SRB | Neven Subotić | 5 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ESP | Marc Bartra | 20 | 4 | 9+3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | FRA | Ousmane Dembélé | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | FW | GAB | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | 24 | 21 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 30 | MF | GER | Felix Passlack | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | DEN | Jacob Larsen | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 27 May 2017 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

    As of 5 May 2018
| Rank | Position | Name | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFL-Supercup | Champions League | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | FW | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | 13 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 21 |
| 2 | FW | Maximilian Philipp | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | FW | Michy Batshuayi | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | MF | Shinji Kagawa | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | MF | Marco Reus | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | FW | Andriy Yarmolenko | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 | MF | Christian Pulisic | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | DF | Marc Bartra | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | DF | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | MF | André Schürrle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | DF | Raphaël Guerreiro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | Mario Götze | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | Nuri Şahin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | DF | Marcel Schmelzer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | DF | Jeremy Toljan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | DF | Dan-Axel Zagadou | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | Gonzalo Castro | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | Jadon Sancho | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | Julian Weigl | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | FW | Alexander Isak | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | Total | Total | 63 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 87 |

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Bundesliga | DFB-Pokal | DFL-Supercup | Champions League | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | 38 | GK | | Roman Bürki | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
Last updated: 5 May 2018