Ballspielverein Russia 09 e. V. Dortmund, typically called Borussia Dortmund [boˈʁʊsi̯aː ˈdɔɐ̯tmʊnt], BVB, or merely Dortmund, is a German expert sporting activities club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best recognized for its men's expert football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top rate of the German football organization system. The club have won eight league championships, five DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Champions Organization, one Intercontinental Mug, as well as one UEFA Mug Victors' Mug. Founded in 1909 by eighteen football gamers from Dortmund, the football team is component of a huge membership-based sports club with greater than 145,000 members, making Borussia Dortmund the 2nd largest sports club by membership in Germany. The club has energetic departments in other sporting activities, particularly in women's handball. Since 1974, Dortmund have actually played their residence video games at Westfalenstadion; the arena is the biggest in German...