1996–97 Borussia Dortmund season

Borussia Dortmund
1996–97 season
ManagerOttmar Hitzfeld
Bundesliga3rd
DFB-PokalFirst round
DFB-SupercupWinners
UEFA Champions LeagueWinners
Top goalscorerLeague:
Stéphane Chapuisat (13 goals)

All:
Stéphane Chapuisat (16 goals)

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; some limited exceptions apply. 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; some limited exceptions apply. 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 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:
  1. ^ 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 Hamburg, as Mönchengladbach did not apply for this competition.

DFB-Pokal

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

Borussia Dortmund1–1 (a.e.t.)1. FC Kaiserslautern
Wolters 66' Report Marschall 55'
Penalties
4–3
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Hans-Peter Best (Kämpfelbach-Bilfingen)
Borussia Dortmund
1. FC Kaiserslautern
GK 1 Germany Stefan Klos
SW 6 Germany Matthias Sammer downward-facing red arrow 91'
CB 15 Germany Jürgen Kohler downward-facing red arrow 60'
CB 17 Germany Jörg Heinrich
DM 21 Germany Carsten Wolters
RM 7 Germany Stefan Reuter
CM 8 Germany Michael Zorc (c)
CM 10 Germany Andreas Möller
LM 24 Germany Dennis Weiland
CF 9 Switzerland Stéphane Chapuisat
CF 18 Germany Lars Ricken downward-facing red arrow 71'
Substitutes:
DF 20 Germany Günter Kutowski upward-facing green arrow 60'
MF 29 Russia Vladimir But upward-facing green arrow 71'
MF 27 Germany Dennis Vogt upward-facing green arrow 91'
Manager:
Germany Ottmar Hitzfeld
GK 1 Germany Andreas Reinke
SW 6 Germany Andreas Brehme downward-facing red arrow 99'
CB 24 Germany Harry Koch
CB 20 Germany Roger Lutz
RWB 2 Germany Frank Greiner
LWB 8 Germany Martin Wagner
CM 4 Germany Axel Roos
CM 19 Germany Oliver Schäfer
CM 7 Germany Uwe Wegmann downward-facing red arrow 91'
CF 11 Germany Olaf Marschall (c) downward-facing red arrow 91'
CF 9 Czech Republic Pavel Kuka
Substitutes:
MF 17 Brazil Ratinho upward-facing green arrow 91'
FW 18 Germany Jürgen Rische upward-facing green arrow 91'
MF 12 Germany Andreas Broß upward-facing green arrow 99'
Manager:
Germany Otto Rehhagel

UEFA Champions League

Dortmund won the UEFA Champions League.

Group stage

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Spain Atlético Madrid 6 4 1 1 12 4 +8 13 Advance to knockout stage
2 Germany Borussia Dortmund 6 4 1 1 14 8 +6 13
3 Poland Widzew Łódź 6 1 1 4 6 10 −4 4
4 Romania Steaua București 6 1 1 4 5 15 −10 4
Source: UEFA
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Borussia Dortmund Germany 2–1 Poland Widzew Łódź
Steaua București Romania 0–3 Germany Borussia Dortmund
Atlético Madrid Spain 0–1 Germany Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund Germany 1–2 Spain Atlético Madrid
Widzew Łódź Poland 2–2 Germany Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund Germany 5–3 Romania Steaua București

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund Germany 4–1 France Auxerre 3–1 1–0

Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund Germany 2–0 England Manchester United 1–0 1–0

Final

Borussia Dortmund Germany3–1Italy Juventus
Report
Attendance: 59,000[2]

Kits

Home
Home CL
Away
Away CL
CL Final

References

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