Buy Borussia Dortmund tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into the largest standing terrace in European football. Signal Iduna Park holds 81,365 for Bundesliga matches, of which 24,454 stand on the Südtribüne, and roughly 55,000 of the total are locked up in season cards before a single match ticket goes on sale. What is left over is what the rest of us compete for.
Thousands trust 1BoxOffice
This page is written for supporters who want to be in the ground rather than reading about it. Below you will find what seats at Signal Iduna Park actually cost on the resale market, which stand suits which kind of matchday, how the club's ballot system works and why it leaves so many people outside and what to expect when Borussia Dortmund travel to the Veltins-Arena or the Allianz Arena.
The 2026/27 calendar has a headline nobody in the Ruhr needs explaining. The Revierderby returns to the Bundesliga for the first time since March 2023 after Schalke's promotion, with the away leg on matchday twelve in early December and the home leg at Signal Iduna Park on 10 April 2027. Niko Kovač begins the campaign as Bundesliga runners-up, opening at home to Hamburger SV and facing Bayern in the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup on 22 August.
Dortmund's ticketing system is a queue with several gates and most people never reach the front. Season card holders are served first, then members in a priority window, then general sale if anything survives. For fixtures the club classes as high demand, general sale is replaced entirely by a ballot in which supporters register interest and a random selection are invited to buy a single ticket. Registering is free. Winning is not something you can plan a trip around.
The secondary market exists because that structure produces predictable leftovers. A season card holder is working the Saturday of the Frankfurt fixture. A family of four books for the derby in September and finds by April that only two can travel. A supporter in the Südtribüne misses six matches a season for reasons that have nothing to do with football. Those places are already paid for and somebody has to use them.
Timing is the other advantage. Club sales open roughly four to six weeks before a match, which suits people who live in North Rhine-Westphalia and works badly for anyone booking flights from Manchester, Dublin or Dubai. A marketplace lets you decide in October what you want to watch in December, see several sellers holding stock in the same block and buy three seats together rather than accepting three singles scattered across the Osttribüne. For travelling supporters that certainty is worth more than the difference from face value.
1BoxOffice has been trading live event inventory since 2006, which puts close to two decades of completed transactions behind the listings on this page. In resale the risk is rarely the price. It is whether the barcode in your inbox opens a turnstile on the day. Sellers are verified before their stock goes live, and every confirmed order is backed by a guarantee that pays out at 150% if something fails.
The practical result is that you can shop with the information you actually need. Listings carry block and tier so you know where you will be standing or sitting, quantities are grouped so a group of four is not broken up at checkout and the delivery method is stated before you pay rather than discovered a week later. Support runs through the same channel that took the order.
Dortmund draw the highest average league attendance of any football club in the world, and they have done for most of the past two decades. The European record was set in 2011/12 at an average of 80,588 across seventeen home matches. With around 218,000 club members and 55,000 season cards against a capacity of 81,365, roughly 26,000 places reach open sale in a normal week.
Within that permanent near-sell-out, prices move on which fixture it is and which competition it falls under. These are the drivers that separate a routine February listing from one that trades at several times what the club charged.
The useful conclusion is that Dortmund matchdays are not uniformly difficult. A Wednesday against a mid-table side in February behaves very differently from the derby, and buyers who watch the market for a fortnight before an ordinary league fixture generally do better than those who buy the week the fixture list drops.
Face value at Dortmund is among the lowest in elite European football and the club has defended that position through repeated supporter campaigns. Bundesliga home tickets run from roughly €19 for a place on the Südtribüne terrace to around €80 for the better seated positions, with concessions and member discounts applied on top. Standing on the Yellow Wall costs less than a decent lunch in the city centre, which is exactly the point the club and its supporters have been making for years.
Resale pricing for Borussia Dortmund tickets reflects what a seat is worth to the last person willing to buy it rather than what the club decided to charge. For a standard league fixture the gap can be modest. For the derby, Der Klassiker or a Champions League knockout tie, the same seat trades at a multiple of face value because supply is fixed at 81,365 and the audience is not.
The bands below cover typical resale ranges for 2026/27 in pounds. Use them to plan rather than as a quotation. Where you land inside a band depends on stand, tier, how far ahead you buy and how many seats you need together.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga (standard fixtures) | £60 – £250 |
| Bundesliga (high-demand fixtures) | £130 – £750+ |
| DFB-Pokal | £35 – £190 |
| Champions League (league phase) | £90 – £480+ |
| Champions League (knockout rounds) | £150 – £880+ |
| Hospitality / VIP | £290 – £3,000+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Yes. Membership costs around €62 a year for adults and is not a requirement for most fixtures. What it buys is a priority window of a day or two ahead of general sale, discounted stadium tours and museum entry and a place in the ballot pool for the matches the club restricts. What it does not buy is a guaranteed seat, and with roughly 218,000 members the priority window is competitive rather than comfortable.
The club also runs its own resale platform, the BVB-Zweitmarkt, where season card holders list places they cannot use at face value plus a service fee. It is a well-designed system and it works, with one significant limitation: it only opens once the day-ticket presale has sold out, and it is heavily used by people already inside the club's ecosystem. For a supporter in another country trying to fix a date three months out, it is not a plan.
That is the gap the wider resale market fills. Anyone who has watched the ballot process from abroad understands the problem, which is that you cannot book a flight to Dortmund on the strength of a lottery entry. Buying a confirmed place through a verified marketplace converts an application into a fixed arrangement. Members who missed out on the derby use the same route, and there is no stigma attached to it in the Südtribüne queue.
Dortmund sell more season cards than any club in Germany, roughly 55,000 of them, and the waiting list behind that number has run to around 50,000 names and been closed for long stretches because turnover is so low. A Dauerkarte here is not a purchase so much as a position in a community, and holders keep them through house moves, job changes and generations. Standing places on the Südtribüne are the hardest of all to prise loose.
That immovability is precisely what feeds the resale market. A holder who cannot attend six or seven of seventeen home fixtures has a strong incentive to pass those places on, and only some of that flow goes through the club's own exchange. The rest reaches wider marketplaces, which is why individual seats in long-held season card blocks appear on resale platforms in the fortnight before a match.
| Season Card Area | Typical Annual Range (GBP) | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Südtribüne standing (Yellow Wall) | £190 – £250 | All seventeen home league fixtures, standing terrace |
| Nordtribüne standing | £200 – £270 | Seventeen league matches, standing, opposite end from the Südkurve |
| Lower tier seated behind the goal | £350 – £520 | Seventeen league matches, seated, close to the terraces |
| Ost- and Westtribüne seated | £520 – £820 | Seventeen league matches, elevated side view along the pitch |
| Premium and business seating | £1,600 – £4,500+ | League matches plus lounge access and catering |
Signal Iduna Park is four separate roofed grandstands rather than a continuous bowl, which gives it a squarer, more enclosed feel than most modern grounds. The Ost- and Westtribüne run the length of the pitch. The Nord- and Südtribüne sit behind the goals. Understanding which is which decides what kind of afternoon you get, because the difference between the south terrace and the west stand is not a matter of degree.
| Stand / Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Südtribüne (Yellow Wall) | Atmosphere above all else | Lower-priced | 24,454 standing places, the largest terrace in European football. Almost entirely season card holders. Converts to seating for UEFA fixtures, which is why the ground shrinks to 66,099 in Europe. |
| Nordtribüne | Vocal support with more availability | Lower to mid-range | Standing and seated sections behind the opposite goal. Loud, well organised and far easier to get into than the south terrace. The visiting section occupies a central portion of this stand. |
| Osttribüne (east side) | Balanced view at fair value | Mid-range | Runs the length of the pitch opposite the main stand. The upper tier gives a full read of the shape while keeping you close enough to hear the Südtribüne working. |
| Westtribüne (west, main stand) | Halfway-line comfort and facilities | Premium | Houses the benches, media positions and the business seating. Central blocks here are the most requested seated area in the ground. |
| Upper tier corners | Groups and better-value entry | Lower-priced | Steep and high with a panoramic view. Where blocks of three or more seats together tend to last longest on resale. |
| Lower tier alongside the Südtribüne | Yellow Wall noise from a seat | Mid-range | The compromise option. You get the full volume of the south terrace without committing to ninety minutes on your feet in a crowd of 24,000. |
Dortmund travel in numbers that few clubs in Europe can match, and away allocations at most Bundesliga grounds are filled long before general sale. Standing terraces survive in visiting sections at the majority of German stadiums, prices are lower than the home equivalent and the away following tends to be the noisiest part of the ground. The 2026/27 calendar includes trips to Gelsenkirchen, Munich, Hamburg and Cologne, all of which sell out immediately.
Allocations are set by the host club within German league guidelines rather than by one fixed national rule, so the detail changes ground to ground and competition to competition. Here is what applies across most of the away calendar.
| Away Matchday Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Allocation size | German clubs generally work to around 10% of capacity for visiting supporters, though the figure actually released varies by fixture, by competition and by the security assessment. Expect a larger allocation for cup and European ties than for a routine league Saturday. |
| Section type | Most host grounds place visiting fans in a designated corner or end, usually with a standing terrace alongside seated blocks. Segregation begins at the outer perimeter rather than inside the bowl. |
| Access requirements | Germany has no national supporter card comparable to the Italian Tessera del Tifoso. Photo ID matching the name on the ticket can be requested for higher-risk fixtures, so carry a passport for the Revierderby and for Der Klassiker. |
| Transport | Almost every Bundesliga ground sits on a local rail or tram line, and matchday tickets frequently include travel on the host city's network. Inclusion varies by club, so check the listing notes before assuming it. |
| Timing | Away sections open earlier and empty later than the home stands, and visiting supporters can be held back for 15 to 30 minutes after high-risk fixtures. Factor that into any train home or flight the same evening. |
The right place at Signal Iduna Park depends far less on budget than on what you want the afternoon to be. Someone bringing two children to their first German match and someone who has flown in specifically to stand on the Yellow Wall should be looking at opposite ends of the ground.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | Südtribüne, or the Nordtribüne if the south terrace is unavailable | The Yellow Wall is the reason most neutrals come to Dortmund at all. If it is closed to you, the north terrace delivers a version of the same experience with far better availability. |
| Best view of the game | Upper Osttribüne, central blocks | High enough along the side to read Kovač's structure and pressing triggers, close enough that the Südtribüne's noise still lands on you. The most balanced vantage point in the ground. |
| Family-friendly | Seated blocks in the Westtribüne or the quieter east upper tier | Seated throughout, straightforward concourse access and a safe distance from the terraces. Better for anyone who may need to leave and return during the match. |
| Premium experience | Business seating or a lounge package in the west stand | Padded seating near the halfway line, catering either side of the match and entry through a dedicated gate rather than the general concourse. |
| Better-value option | Standing on the Nordtribüne or an upper corner seat | The lowest resale bands in the building. Terrace places in the north stand routinely cost a fraction of a seat with a comparable view of the pitch. |
The ground opened on 2 April 1974, built for 32.7 million Deutsche Marks because Dortmund had been awarded matches at that summer's World Cup and the old Stadion Rote Erde could not host them. What the city got was unusual for its era: four independent stands with no running track, no shallow bowl and no corners, so every spectator sat or stood directly behind a touchline or a goal. Half a century of expansions in 1992, 1995, 1997 and again between 2000 and 2003 filled in the corners and raised capacity from 54,000 to today's 81,365, but the essential geometry never changed.
The Südtribüne is what the ground is known for and the numbers explain why. It holds 24,454 standing spectators in a single tier, the largest terrace in European football, and it is steeper and closer to the pitch than anything comparable. On a Friday night with a full house, the visual effect of 24,000 people moving in time behind one goal is among the most photographed sights in German football. The name Die Gelbe Wand, the Yellow Wall, is descriptive rather than promotional.
What visitors underestimate is how organised it is. The terrace is run by supporter groups who plan choreographies weeks ahead, distribute materials before kick-off and lead the singing from capos positioned on the fence. Nothing about the noise is spontaneous, which is why it sustains through goalless first halves and periods when the team is losing. You can see the full stand layout on the Signal Iduna Park seating plan before deciding where to buy.
The European version of the ground is a different building. UEFA competition rules require all-seater configuration, so the Südtribüne is fitted with seats and capacity falls from 81,365 to 66,099. That is a reduction of more than 15,000 places on a Champions League night, and it is the main reason European listings are scarcer and dearer than league ones for exactly the same fixture quality.
Getting there is simple and nearly everyone uses the tram. The U45 and U46 lines run from Dortmund Hauptbahnhof to Westfalenhallen in a few minutes, leaving a walk of roughly five minutes to the turnstiles, and a dedicated Stadion stop operates on matchdays. Regional trains serve the Signal-Iduna-Park station directly. A taxi from the main station costs in the region of €15 and takes about ten minutes, though matchday traffic makes the tram faster in practice.
The area around the ground has more life than most German stadium districts because the Westfalenhallen complex and the Strobels bar sit within sight of the turnstiles. Supporters gather there and around the Borsigplatz, the square in the north of the city where the club was founded in 1909 and where title celebrations still end up. The Borusseum, the club museum, occupies the north-east corner of the stadium and stadium tours run in English on non-matchdays. The Signal Iduna Park venue guide covers what else the ground hosts across the year.
Two practical points catch people out. The stadium is cashless, so food, drink and merchandise need a contactless card rather than euros. And the standing areas fill from the front, which means a Südtribüne or Nordtribüne place is not a reserved spot but an entitlement to a block. Arriving forty minutes before kick-off and expecting a view from halfway down the terrace is optimistic.
Dortmund run a premium programme across the west stand and the upper corners, from a comfortable seat with a meal beforehand through to private boxes with dedicated hosting. For fixtures where the ballot has closed and general listings have thinned, hospitality is frequently the only route with genuine availability, because that inventory is held separately and sold into a different market.
What you get is guaranteed entry, a padded seat in a good position, catering either side of the match and an entrance that avoids the general concourse. For a business trip or a milestone occasion it usually earns the difference. For someone whose whole reason for coming is to stand on the Yellow Wall, it does not, and the terrace costs a small fraction as much.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Business seat | Padded seating in a premium block, lounge access before the match and at half-time, light catering and a dedicated entrance | £290 – £620 |
| Lounge package | Central seating in the west stand, buffet dining before kick-off, complimentary bar and post-match access | £550 – £1,200 |
| Premium club seating | Halfway-line position, à la carte dining, dedicated host and parking where available | £1,000 – £2,000 |
| Private box | Enclosed box for a group, private catering and bar, external seating and a separate entrance | £2,200 – £8,500+ per box |
| European night packages | Champions League equivalents of the above, priced by round and opponent | £450 – £3,000+ |
Buying through a resale marketplace is simple once you know which two details matter. The block number tells you where you will actually be, standing or seated. The delivery method tells you when the ticket reaches you. Everything else is administration.
Step1
Pick your fixture
Choose the match from the fixture lists on this page. Check the date carefully, because Bundesliga kick-off times are confirmed only a few weeks ahead and a Saturday afternoon can become a Friday evening.
Step2
Set up your account
You can create an account in under a minute. Doing it before you start browsing means checkout will not time out on a fixture where listings are moving fast.
Step3
Decide standing or seated
This is the fork in the road at Dortmund. Terrace places on the Nord- or Südtribüne mean ninety minutes on your feet in a dense crowd. Seated blocks give you a fixed position and a clearer view of the pitch.
Step4
Compare listings
Several sellers usually hold stock in the same block at different prices. Filter by quantity first so you are only weighing up listings that can actually keep your group together.
Step5
Confirm the venue
Home fixtures are at Signal Iduna Park. Away fixtures are at the host club's ground and the venue appears on every listing. This matters most for cup ties, where the draw decides where the match is played.
Step6
Read the listing notes
Notes flag restricted views, seats that may not be adjacent, age restrictions on terrace places and whether local transport is included. Two minutes here prevents a problem at the turnstile.
Step7
Complete secure checkout
Enter your payment details on the encrypted checkout page and confirm. An order reference and confirmation email arrive immediately, and the 150% guarantee applies from that point.
Step8
Follow the delivery
Use track order to monitor progress. Digital tickets for Bundesliga fixtures often release close to matchday, which is routine rather than a warning sign.
If anything about the order looks wrong when it lands, raise it immediately rather than at the ground. Support can reissue or replace with days in hand and can do very little twenty minutes before kick-off.
Dortmund home matches do not all behave the same way. Some hold a steady price for weeks and soften slightly at the end. Others empty out early and only climb. Telling them apart is the most useful thing a buyer can learn about this ground.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Revierderby against Schalke 04 | Back in the Bundesliga for the first time since March 2023, with the Signal Iduna Park leg on matchday twenty-nine in April 2027. Three years of pent-up demand across the Ruhr, and nothing else Dortmund sell this season will be harder to reach. |
| Der Klassiker against Bayern Munich | The fixture with the largest television and international audience in German football. Bayern visit on matchday twenty-five in early March, and listings for it thin out months rather than weeks ahead. |
| Champions League knockout ties | Capacity drops to 66,099 for UEFA fixtures because the terraces are seated. Fewer places, a continental audience and the possibility that it is the last European night of the season. |
| RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen | The clubs most likely to contest the places immediately behind Bayern. Leipzig's ownership model also guarantees a charged reception from the Südtribüne, which raises the occasion beyond the football. |
| Season opener and final matchday | Hamburger SV visit on the opening weekend with everything still possible. The closing fixture carries whatever remains at stake, which in a title race is a great deal. |
German football has moved decisively to digital ticketing and Dortmund are no exception. Most orders now arrive electronically, though the exact route depends on what the seller holds and which competition the fixture sits in. Every listing states its delivery method before you buy.
Whichever route applies, read the listing notes before you commit. They set out the delivery method, the expected timing and any ID requirement, and they are the difference between walking straight in and standing outside.
Turnstiles open two hours before kick-off for Bundesliga matches and there is a real reason to use that window at this ground. Terrace places are unreserved, so where you end up on the Südtribüne or Nordtribüne is decided by when you walk in. Supporters who want to be anywhere near the front of the south terrace are through the gates well over an hour early, and the difference between that and arriving at ten to three is enormous.
The build-up is worth the early start in its own right. Trams from the Hauptbahnhof fill steadily through the afternoon, Strobels and the surrounding bars are busy from lunchtime and the Südtribüne begins assembling its display long before the teams appear. Arriving late means missing the part of a Dortmund matchday that most people came for.
For a standard league fixture the ticket is all you need. For matches classed as higher risk, including the Revierderby and Der Klassiker, stewards may check that photo identification matches the name on the ticket. Carry a passport or national ID card for those dates rather than assuming the check will not happen.
Digital tickets are now the norm, so charge your phone before you leave and download the ticket into your wallet rather than relying on the stadium network. Mobile data around the ground degrades sharply when 81,000 people arrive within the same hour, and a ticket inside an email you cannot open is not a ticket. Take a screenshot as a backup where the format allows it.
Bags larger than A4 format are refused at Signal Iduna Park, with a depth limit of around 15cm applied at the outer perimeter rather than at the turnstile itself. Storage near the ground is limited and fills quickly, so the sensible approach is to bring nothing bigger than a small shoulder bag or to leave bags at your hotel.
Prohibited items follow the standard German list: no bottles, cans, glass, flares, laser pointers, large flags on poles, professional cameras with detachable lenses or anything usable as a projectile. Umbrellas with pointed tips are turned away. The ground is cashless throughout, so a contactless card matters considerably more than carrying euros.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund |
| Founded | 19 December 1909 |
| Nicknames | Die Schwarzgelben (The Black and Yellows), Die Borussen, BVB |
| Stadium | Signal Iduna Park (81,365 domestic, 66,099 for UEFA fixtures) |
| Head coach | Niko Kovač |
| Captain | Emre Can (vice-captain Nico Schlotterbeck) |
| League | Bundesliga (18 clubs, 34 matchdays) |
| Club membership | Approximately 218,000, second only to Bayern Munich in Germany |
Few clubs in Europe carry their origins as visibly as this one. Dortmund were founded in a working-class quarter by young men defying a local priest, nearly went out of business twice and won a European Cup in between. The Südtribüne's relationship with the club makes far more sense once you know where it came from.
The founding story is not decoration. Borussia emerged from the Trinity parish in the north of Dortmund, in a district built around the Borsig steelworks, and the priest who ran the existing church sports group opposed the split so firmly that the founders had to meet in a pub to do it. That industrial, faintly rebellious identity survived every subsequent change in the club's fortunes. The championships of 1956 and 1957 arrived under Helmut Schneider with a side built largely from the region, and the 1963 title, won weeks before the Bundesliga replaced the old regional structure, secured the club's place among the founder members.
The 1966 win over Liverpool in Glasgow was a genuine landmark, the first time a German club had won a European competition, and it should have been a platform. Instead the club slid, and by 1972 Dortmund were a second-division side. The strange consequence is that the Westfalenstadion, built for the 1974 World Cup and designed for a club of ambition, opened while its tenants were outside the top flight. Those years shaped the supporter culture as much as the successful ones did, because the crowds kept coming to a ground that was too big for the team playing in it.
The Hitzfeld years turned Dortmund from a well-supported German club into a European one. The 1997 final in the Olympiastadion in Munich remains the defining night, partly because Juventus were the holders and heavy favourites, and partly because Ricken's chip from twenty-five yards, twenty seconds after entering the pitch as a substitute, is one of the goals German football tells its children about. The Intercontinental Cup followed in Tokyo. What came after was the harder lesson: aggressive spending to sustain that level pushed the club to the edge of insolvency by 2005, and survival required creditors to accept a restructuring and supporters to accept years of austerity.
Klopp's arrival in 2008 produced the modern identity: young, aggressive, counter-pressing football played in front of a terrace that had found its voice again. The 2012 double side, with Lewandowski, Götze, Reus and Hummels, is remembered in Germany as one of the most watchable teams of the century, and losing the 2013 final to Bayern at Wembley was the beginning of a long pattern in which Dortmund develop players and richer clubs buy them. The final-day collapse against Mainz in 2023 ranks among the cruellest afternoons in the club's Bundesliga history. The response, a run to the 2024 Champions League final from a fifth-place league finish, demonstrated the other side of the same character.
| Legend | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Zorc | Midfielder, later sporting director | Spent his entire playing career at Dortmund and then ran the football side of the club for two decades as sporting director. Almost every signing of the Klopp era passed through his judgement, which makes him arguably the most influential figure in the club's modern history. | Club record 463 Bundesliga appearances, two league titles, the 1997 Champions League as captain |
| Lars Ricken | Forward, later managing director | Came off the bench in the 1997 Champions League final and lobbed Angelo Peruzzi from twenty-five yards with his first touch, seconds after arriving. Spent his whole career at the club and later returned to run it. | 301 appearances, 1997 Champions League, 2002 Bundesliga title |
| Matthias Sammer | Sweeper, later head coach | The last German to win the Ballon d'Or as a player and the driving intelligence behind the 1995, 1996 and 1997 sides. Returned as coach and delivered a further Bundesliga title in 2002. | 1996 Ballon d'Or, two league titles as a player, 1997 Champions League, 2002 title as coach |
| Karl-Heinz Riedle | Striker | Scored twice inside the opening half-hour of the 1997 Champions League final and effectively decided it before Ricken's third. A penalty-box finisher of the old school in a side full of technicians. | Two goals in the 1997 final, 1995 and 1996 Bundesliga titles |
| Jürgen Kohler | Centre-back | Arrived from Juventus in 1995 and gave the title-winning sides a defensive certainty they had lacked. Beat his former club in the 1997 final, which is remembered in Dortmund as its own kind of justice. | 1997 Champions League, two Bundesliga titles, 1990 World Cup winner |
| Roman Weidenfeller | Goalkeeper | Sixteen years at the club, most of them as first choice, spanning the near-insolvency and the Klopp titles. Became the emotional link between the supporters and the dressing room during the recovery years. | 453 appearances, two Bundesliga titles, the 2012 double, 2014 World Cup winner |
| Marco Reus | Attacking midfielder and captain | Turned down wealthier clubs repeatedly to stay in his home city across twelve seasons, through injuries that cost him two major tournaments. Lifted the 2021 DFB-Pokal as captain and left in 2024 having become the emotional centre of the modern club. | More than 400 appearances, 2017 and 2021 DFB-Pokal, club record for goal involvements in the Klopp era and after |
| Robert Lewandowski | Striker | Arrived from Lech Poznań as a raw finisher and left four years later as one of the most complete centre-forwards in Europe, including four goals in a Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid. | 103 goals in 187 appearances, two Bundesliga titles, the 2012 double |
Dortmund's trophy record is the second deepest in German football and includes honours no other German club reached first. The counts below reflect the position going into 2026/27.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| German championships (1956, 1957, 1963, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2011, 2012) | 8 |
| DFB-Pokal | 5 |
| German Super Cup (now the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup) | 6 |
| UEFA Champions League | 1 |
| European Cup Winners' Cup | 1 |
| Intercontinental Cup | 1 |
The 1966 Cup Winners' Cup carries weight beyond its place in the list, because it was the first European trophy won by any German club. The number 12 shirt is not issued to a player and is set aside for the supporters, which tells you most of what you need to know about how this club sees the people on the terrace.
Dortmund's rivalries divide cleanly. One is geographic and unforgiving, one is about power and resentment and the European ones are grudges built over three decades of knockout football. All of them shift ticket prices, and one of them returns to the calendar this season after a three-year absence.
The Revierderby is the fixture that defines both clubs and it is back. Dortmund and Schalke sit about thirty kilometres apart in the Ruhr, an industrial region where the two cities competed for the same coal, the same steel and the same workers long before they competed for points. The rivalry is genuinely hostile in a way Der Klassiker is not, with a history of banned away allocations, heavy policing and results that supporters recite decades later. Schalke's relegation in 2023 removed the fixture from the Bundesliga for three seasons, and their promotion under Miron Muslić brings it back. The away leg falls on matchday twelve in early December 2026 at the Veltins-Arena, and Signal Iduna Park hosts the return on matchday twenty-nine over the weekend of 9 to 11 April 2027. Expect it to be the hardest ticket of the season by some distance.
Der Klassiker is the fixture German football exports, and for Dortmund it is a rivalry with a specific grievance attached. The two clubs contested the 2013 Champions League final at Wembley, which Bayern won late, and then Bayern spent the following decade signing Dortmund's best players: Götze, Lewandowski, Hummels and later others. The 2023 title race, decided on the final afternoon when Dortmund could only draw at home with Mainz, added a wound that has not closed. Bayern come to Signal Iduna Park on matchday twenty-five in early March 2027, with the away leg in Munich over the Halloween weekend at the end of October.
The newest antagonism and the one driven most by principle. Leipzig's corporate ownership sits awkwardly against Germany's 50+1 tradition, and the Südtribüne has been among the loudest objectors since the club reached the Bundesliga in 2016, with banners, boycotts and protest actions that have drawn national coverage. On the pitch the fixture matters because Leipzig are consistently among the sides contesting the Champions League places directly behind Bayern. The combination of sporting stakes and ideological hostility makes it one of the more charged dates in the calendar.
No club has crossed Dortmund's path in Europe more consequentially. Real Madrid knocked them out at the semi-final stage in 1998, twelve months after Dortmund had won the trophy, and went on to lift it themselves. Fifteen years later the debt was repaid in the most emphatic terms available. Robert Lewandowski scored four goals in the first leg of the 2013 semi-final at Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund won 4-1 on the night and held on across the tie to reach Wembley. Madrid had the last word in 2024, beating Dortmund 2-0 in the final at the same stadium in the match this club had spent eleven years working back towards. Few European fixtures carry that much accumulated history for a Ruhr crowd.
The rivalry is short but it produced a night the club has never surpassed. Juventus arrived at the 1997 Champions League final in Munich as holders and clear favourites, with Zidane, Del Piero and Vieri, and lost 3-1 to a Dortmund side containing three former Juventus players. Riedle scored twice, Ricken added the third from the halfway line region seconds after coming on, and the result reset how German football saw itself in Europe. The clubs have met since, including a round of sixteen tie in 2015 that Juventus won comfortably, but 1997 is the fixture that matters.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Marco Rose's single season in charge produced a second-place finish behind Bayern but never seriously threatened them. Erling Haaland's final campaign at the club was disrupted by injury before his move to Manchester City, and the domestic cup ended early. Europe was the low point, with elimination from the Champions League group stage followed by a knockout play-off exit in the Europa League. Rose left by mutual agreement at the end of it. |
| 2022/23 | The season Dortmund should have won the league. Under Edin Terzić they finished level on 71 points with Bayern and lost the title on goal difference, having gone into the final afternoon needing only to beat Mainz at home and drawing 2-2 after missing a penalty. Chelsea knocked them out of the Champions League in the round of sixteen and RB Leipzig ended the DFB-Pokal run. Jude Bellingham left for Real Madrid that summer. |
| 2023/24 | A strange, split season. Dortmund finished fifth in the Bundesliga on 63 points, a distant domestic campaign, and simultaneously reached the Champions League final for the first time in eleven years. They beat PSV, Atlético Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain on the way to Wembley before losing 2-0 to Real Madrid on 1 June 2024. The league position still delivered European football the following season because of Germany's expanded coefficient allocation. |
| 2024/25 | Three head coaches in one campaign. Nuri Şahin succeeded Edin Terzić and was dismissed in January after four straight defeats to open the calendar year, with Niko Kovač appointed in February and lifting the side from eleventh to a fourth-place finish on 57 points. Serhou Guirassy scored 21 league goals, second only to Harry Kane. In Europe, Dortmund reached the Champions League quarter-finals and were beaten by Barcelona despite winning the second leg 3-1 at home. |
| 2025/26 | Kovač's first full season restored order. Dortmund finished as Bundesliga runners-up behind a Bayern side that won the domestic double, competitive for long stretches without ever quite closing the gap. Both cup routes ended early, with a DFB-Pokal exit to Kaiserslautern in December and a Champions League knockout play-off defeat to Atalanta in February after a difficult league phase. Guirassy again finished as leading scorer across all competitions. |
Kovač enters a second full season with a squad reshaped by departures. Julian Brandt and Salih Özcan left when their contracts expired and Niklas Süle retired, while Joane Gadou, Joey Veerman, Konstantinos Karetsas and Giannis Konstantelias have come in. Values below are approximate market valuations converted to pounds and move with form, age and contract length.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gregor Kobel | Goalkeeper | 31m |
| 3 | Waldemar Anton | Centre-back | 17m |
| 4 | Nico Schlotterbeck (vice-captain) | Centre-back | 44m |
| 5 | Ramy Bensebaini | Left-back | 13m |
| 7 | Jobe Bellingham | Midfielder | 35m |
| 8 | Felix Nmecha | Midfielder | 35m |
| 9 | Serhou Guirassy | Striker | 35m |
| 14 | Maximilian Beier | Forward | 22m |
| 17 | Carney Chukwuemeka | Midfielder | 17m |
| 19 | Konstantinos Karetsas | Attacking midfielder | 26m |
| 20 | Marcel Sabitzer | Midfielder | 9m |
| 21 | Fábio Silva | Forward | 18m |
| 22 | Joane Gadou | Centre-back | 13m |
| 23 | Emre Can (captain) | Defensive midfielder | 5m |
| 24 | Daniel Svensson | Left-back | 13m |
| 25 | Joey Veerman | Midfielder | 17m |
| 26 | Julian Ryerson | Right-back | 17m |
For the Revierderby, Der Klassiker or a Champions League knockout tie, buy as early as you can, because listings thin out months ahead and prices only travel upwards. For a routine Bundesliga fixture, watching the market for two or three weeks before committing usually finds better value.
It is difficult, because the Südtribüne is almost entirely held by season card holders and its places rarely reach open sale. The Nordtribüne terrace behind the opposite goal delivers a comparable standing experience with far better availability, and the lower blocks alongside the south stand carry most of the same noise.
UEFA competition rules require an all-seater configuration, so the standing terraces are fitted with seats and capacity falls from 81,365 to 66,099. Losing more than 15,000 places against a continental audience is why European listings are consistently scarcer and dearer than league ones.
Most Bundesliga tickets are digital now and release close to matchday, so delivery a few days before kick-off is routine rather than a warning sign. Postal and collection orders need more lead time, and every listing states its delivery method before you commit.
Standing tickets give you entry to a block rather than a specific spot, so position is decided by when you walk through the turnstile. Anyone wanting to be near the front should be inside well over an hour before kick-off, because the terraces fill from the front backwards.
1BoxOffice is a verified marketplace that has been connecting supporters with live event seats since 2006, and every order carries a 150% money-back guarantee. Whether you are chasing the derby in April, Bayern in March or a first look at the Yellow Wall on an ordinary Saturday, compare the listings above and secure your place while the block you want still has stock. Dortmund is waiting.
Sources: Borussia Dortmund official club website (bvb.de), the Deutsche Fußball Liga and Bundesliga.com for fixture lists, captaincy and competition data.
Our benefits
We provide our customers with top-tier resources, infrastructure and support.
Join NowWe have been online helping fans for more than 20+ years.
We use high levels of data encryption here and do not share your data with any third party vendors!
All tickets are guaranteed to be delivered on time so you don’t miss the events!
Your tickets are guaranteed no matter what.
Providing your audience with a secure and reliable experience.
Ensuring clear communication and collaboration.
74
751+
965+
20+