Club Brugge vs Borussia Dortmund facts

Club Brugge return to the UEFA Champions League with a home game against Borussia Dortmund, the third time the teams have been paired together in the last seven seasons.

The Belgian champions are featuring in the competition for the sixth time in seven seasons – although they missed out in 2023/24 – and are looking to build on their 2022/23 campaign, when they reached the knockout rounds for the first time.

Dortmund reached a third European Cup final last season – losing a second decider at Wembley, this time against Real Madrid – and are in the competition proper for the ninth successive season, reaching the knockout stages in five of the last six.

Previous meetings

Matches 8
Club Brugge wins 2
Dortmund wins 5
Draws 1
Club Brugge goals 8
Dortmund goals 13

2020/21 UEFA Champions League group stage
Club Brugge 0-3 Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Club Brugge
Erling Haaland did much of the damage as Dortmund eased to two comfortable victories, scoring twice (18, 32) in Belgium on Matchday 3 after Thorgan Hazard's 14th-minute opener. The Norwegian also struck twice in Germany on Matchday 4, his goals (18, 60) sandwiching Jadon Sancho's 45th-minute effort.

2018/19 UEFA Champions League group stage
Club Brugge 0-1 Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund 0-0 Club Brugge
Dortmund's Christian Pulišić scored the only goal of the two games between the clubs in 2018 in the 85th minute in Belgium on Matchday 1.

2003/04 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
Club Brugge 2-1 Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund 2-1 Club Brugge (aet, 2-4 pens)
The Belgian side progressed to the group stage despite conceding with four minutes left of the second leg in Germany, converting all four of their kicks in the subsequent shoot-out to go through with Márcio Amoroso and André Bergdølmo missing Dortmund's first two penalties.

1987/88 UEFA Cup third round
Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Club Brugge
Club Brugge 5-0 Borussia Dortmund (aet)
Dortmund appeared to have seized control of the tie with a 3-0 first-leg success in West Germany – only for the Belgian side to score three times themselves in the return to force extra time. There goals from Franky Van der Elst and Leo Van der Elst (no relation), the latter completing his hat-trick, sealed a spectacular comeback.

Form guide

Club Brugge

Record vs German clubs: W10 D7 L16 F31 A46
Home record vs German clubs: W9 D2 L6

This is Club Brugge's first game against a German club since a 0-0 draw at Bayer Leverkusen on Matchday 6 of the 2022/23 Champions League.

A 2-1 victory at Leipzig on Matchday 2 of the 2021/22 Champions League and a 1-0 win against Leverkusen the following season have made it two wins in Club Brugge's last four games against German clubs (D1 L1). Before beating Leipzig Club Brugge had won only one of their previous 13 fixtures against German clubs, home and away (D3 L9).

Club Brugge had lost four successive games at home to German visitors before beating Leverkusen in 2022. They won seven of their first eight home matches against Bundesliga clubs, losing one, but that Leverkusen success is one of only two victories in the subsequent nine (D2 L5).

This is Club Brugge's 11th Champions League group stage campaign – one short of Anderlecht's Belgian record.

The most recent of those came in 2022/23, a club-record fifth in succession, and one to remember as the Belgian side claimed 11 points to finish second in Group B behind Porto and reach the knockout stages for the first time. Benfica proved too strong in the round of 16, however, winning 2-0 in Bruges and 5-1 in Lisbon.

They have won three of their last 20 home matches in the Champions League proper (D6 L11).

European Cup runners-up to Liverpool in 1978, Club Brugge spent 2023/24 in the UEFA Europa Conference League, coming through three qualifying rounds to reach the group stage. Wins in five of their six games gave them first place in their section and direct passage to the round of 16, where they beat Molde 4-2 on aggregate; PAOK were overcome 3-0 on aggregate in the last eight but Fiorentina proved too strong in the semi-finals, winning 4-3 over two legs.

Club Brugge were unbeaten at home in Europe last season (W6 D3).

Champions of Belgium for the 19th time in 2023/24 – their fourth title in five years – Club Brugge appointed Nicky Hayen as their permanent head coach in June. He had succeeded Ronny Deila on a temporary basis in March, leading the club to their league success.

Dortmund

Record vs Belgian clubs: W8 D2 L4 F21 A13
Away record vs Belgian clubs: W4 D0 L3

Dortmund have not faced a team from Belgium since those 2020 games against Club Brugge.

BVB have won their last four games in Belgium, having been beaten in each of their first three matches in the country. They have kept a clean sheet in each of those victories; in contrast, the three defeats featured one goal scored and eight conceded.

Dortmund are in the Champions League proper for the 19th time overall and the ninth successive season. All but two of their last 11 campaigns have now extended into the knockout rounds.

In 2023/24, Edin Terzić's team finished first in Group F ahead of Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and Newcastle before beating PSV Eindhoven (3-1 aggregate) and Atlético de Madrid (5-4 agg) to set up a reunion with Paris in the last four. BVB won 1-0 both home and away to reach a third European Cup final, but Real Madrid proved too strong at Wembley, running out 2-0 winners.

Last season's wins at Newcastle (2-0), Milan (3-1) and Paris (1-0) have made it 11 victories in BVB's last 35 European away matches (D7 L17), all those wins coming in their last 27 (D3 L13).

European champions in 1997 and runners-up to Bayern München in the 2013 final at Wembley, Dortmund have been eliminated in the last 16 in three of their last six Champions League campaigns.

BVB finished fifth in the Bundesliga in 2023/24, 27 points behind champions Leverkusen. It was their lowest league placing since finishing seventh in 2014/15.

Nuri Şahin replaced Terzić as coach in the summer.

Links and trivia

Has played in Belgium:
Julien Duranville (Anderlecht 2022/23)

Have played together:
Simon Mignolet & Emre Can (Liverpool 2014–18)
Hugo Siquet & Nico Schlotterbeck (Freiburg 2022)

International team-mates:
Ardon Jashari & Gregor Kobel (Switzerland)

Latest news

Club Brugge

Club Brugge have won four of their first seven league games of the season, losing two. They were 3-0 victors at Kortrijk on Saturday.

Hans Vanaken scored twice, his first league goals since 10 March.

Nineteen-year-old substitute Chemsdine Talbi was also on target, his first senior goal for Club Brugge.

Nicky Hayen's side were beaten in three of their first four games of the season in all competitions – drawing the other – but have won the last four.

A 1-0 home victory against Antwerp on 18 August preceded a 2-1 success at Dender and a 3-0 derby win at home to Cercle Brugge.

Andreas Skov Olsen is Club Brugge's top scorer in the league this season on three goals.

Champions Club Brugge lost 1-2 against cup winners Union Saint-Gilloise in the Belgian Super Cup at their Jan Breydel Stadium home on 20 July. It was their 21st appearance in the fixture and just their fourth defeat.

Club Brugge will be at home to third division Belisia Bilzen in the last 32 of the Belgian Cup at the end of October.

Christos Tzolis was on target as Greece earned a 2-0 UEFA Nations League victory in the Republic of Ireland on 10 September.

Maxim De Cuyper had to be taken off with a hamstring problem in Belgium's 3-1 win at home to Israel on 6 September but played 90 minutes on Saturday.

Casper Nielsen has not played since August due to a muscle injury.

Dortmund

BVB have two wins and a draw from the first three games in this season's Bundesliga. They were 4-2 winners at home to Heidenheim on Friday.

Karim Adeyemi scored twice; he managed three Bundesliga goals in the whole of 2023/24.

Donyell Malen also got his first goal of the season and Emre Can his second with a late penalty. Can's last five Dortmund goals have all been spot kicks.

Thanks to two goals from substitute Jamie Gittens, Dortmund won 2-0 against Eintracht Frankfurt on 24 August before a goalless draw in Bremen one week later. Nico Schlotterbeck was sent off in Bremen.

Dortmund were 4-1 winners at fourth-tier Phönix Lübeck in the German Cup first round on 17 August, new signing Waldemar Anton scoring an early goal on his debut. Julien Duranville got his first BVB goal on his German Cup debut.

Duranville made his Belgium debut as a late substitute in a 3-1 UEFA Nations League win against Israel on 6 September.

On 9 September Marcel Sabitzer was on target for Austria in a 2-1 loss in Norway.

Adeyemi scored twice for Germany in a 5-1 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying win against Israel on 4 September. Six days later he hit a hat-trick in a 10-1 success in Estonia.

New signing Serhou Guirassy started against Heidenheim to make his BVB debut after recovering from a knee injury suffered on international duty with Guinea in early June.

Yan Couto missed the Bremen game with a knock and also had to withdraw from the Brazil squad during the September international break but returned as a substitute on Friday.

Giovanni Reyna suffered a groin problem in training with the Unites States national side and missed Friday's win.

Alexander Meyer signed a contract extension until 2026 over the summer.