2008–09 Borussia Dortmund season explained
During the 2008–09 German football season, Borussia Dortmund competed in the Bundesliga.
| Club: | Borussia Dortmund |
| Season: | 2008–09 |
| Manager: | Jürgen Klopp |
| League: | Bundesliga |
| League Result: | 6th |
| Season Topscorer: | Alexander Frei (12) |
| Cup1: | DFB-Pokal |
| Cup1 Result: | Round of 16 |
| Cup2: | UEFA Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | First round |
| Prevseason: | 2007–08 |
| Nextseason: | 2009–10 |
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Season summary
In Jürgen Klopp's first season in charge of Dortmund, they rose to 6th in the final table, but were 2 points shy of qualifying for the revamped UEFA Europa League. Notably, they were one of only two teams to go the league season unbeaten at home (the other being champions Wolfsburg).
Players
First-team squad
Squad at end of season[1]
Left club during season
Transfers
In
- Felipe Santana - Figueirense, 16 May, €2,000,000[2] [3]
- Mohamed Zidan - Hamburg, 17 August, €5,000,000 + Mladen Petrić[4] [5]
- Lee Young-pyo - Tottenham Hotspur, 27 August, undisclosed[6]
- Kevin-Prince Boateng - Tottenham Hotspur, 11 January, loan[7]
- Neven Subotić - Mainz, 4 June
- Tamás Hajnal - Karlsruhe, July, €1,300,000
- Patrick Owomoyela - Werder Bremen
- Christopher Kullmann - Magdeburg
- Damir Vrančić - Mainz
- Bajram Sadrijaj - TSG Thannhausen
Out
- Mladen Petrić - Hamburg, 17 August, part-exchange[8]
- Robert Kovač - Dinamo Zagreb, 29 January, €450,000[9]
- Delron Buckley - Mainz, January, loan
- Giovanni Federico - Karlsruhe, January, loan
- Antonio Rukavina - 1860 Munich, February, loan
- Diego Klimowicz - VfL Bochum, January
- Lukas Kruse - Augsburg, February
- Christopher Nöthe - Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, loan
- Markus Brzenska - MSV Duisburg, loan
- Christian Wörns - retired
- Philipp Degen - released (later joined Liverpool)
- Alexander Bade - released
- Sahr Senesie[10] - released
- Martin Amedick - Kaiserslautern
- Christian Eggert - FSV Frankfurt
- Marc-André Kruska - Club Brugge
Competitions
Bundesliga
See main article: 2008–09 Bundesliga.
League table
Notes and References
- Web site: FootballSquads - Borussia Dortmund - 2008/09.
- News: Dortmund swoop for Brazilian. Sky Sports. 16 May 2008. 7 June 2020.
- Web site: Abwehrspieler Felipe Santana kommt zum BVB. Borussia Dortmund Home Page. 16 May 2008. 7 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20160722212839/http://www.bvb.de/News/Uebersicht/Abwehrspieler-Felipe-Santana-kommt-zum-BVB. 22 July 2016. live.
- News: BVB Acquires Striker Mohamed Zidan . Borussia Dortmund official website . 17 August 2008 . 7 June 2020 .
- News: Hamburg swoop for Petric . Sky Sports . 17 August 2008 . 7 June 2020.
- News: Tottenham offload Lee to Dortmund. BBC Sport. 27 August 2008. 7 June 2020.
- News: Boateng leaves Spurs for Dortmund . 11 January 2009 . BBC Sport . 7 June 2020.
- News: HSV sign Mladen Petric . Hamburger SV official website . 17 August 2008 . 18 August 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080821080111/http://www.hsv.de/index.php?id=24132 . 21 August 2008.
- News: Robert Kovač u Dinamu . nk-dinamo.hr . 7 June 2020 . 8 September 2009 . Croatian.
- Senesie was born in Koindu, Sierra Leone, but also qualified to represent Germany internationally and represented them at U-20 and U-21 level.
