1996–97 Borussia Dortmund season

1996–97 season of Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund

1996–97 season

Manager

Ottmar Hitzfeld

Bundesliga

3rd

DFB-Pokal

First round

DFB-Supercup

Winners

UEFA Champions League

Winners

Top goalscorer

League:
Stéphane Chapuisat (13 goals)
All:
Stéphane Chapuisat (16 goals)

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

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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^[1]

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	Team v t e	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^[a]
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^[a]
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

Source: www.dfb.de
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ ^a ^b 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, as Mönchengladbach did not apply for this competition, Hamburg.

DFB-Pokal

SG Wattenscheid 09 v Borussia Dortmund

11 August 1996 Round 1	SG Wattenscheid 09	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Borussia Dortmund	Wattenscheid
	Ristau 42' Dikhtyar 50' Skok 69' Bläker 115'	Report	Zorc 14' Herrlich 75' Reuter 88'	Stadium: Lohrheidestadion Attendance: 9,600 Referee: Michael Malbranc (Hamburg)

DFB-Supercup

3 August 1996 (1996-08-03)

18:30 CEST

Borussia Dortmund	1–1 (a.e.t.)	1. FC Kaiserslautern
Wolters 66'	Report	Marschall 55'
Penalties
Reuter Möller Chapuisat But Zorc Weiland	4–3	Wagner Kuka Schäfer Ratinho Lutz Roos

Carl-Benz-Stadion, Mannheim

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Hans-Peter Best (Kämpfelbach-Bilfingen)

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	Team v t e	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

Source: UEFA

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

28 May 1997

20:30 CEST

Borussia Dortmund	3–1	Juventus
Riedle 29', 34' Ricken 71'	Report	Del Piero 65'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 59,000^[2]

Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary)

Kits

Home

Home CL

Away

Away CL

CL Final

References

^ "FootballSquads - Borussia Dortmund - 1996/97".
^ "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon, Switzerland: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.

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Men

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