Borussia Dortmund vs Barcelona facts

Barcelona are on the verge of a first UEFA Champions League semi-final since 2019 as they travel to Borussia Dortmund holding a 4-0 advantage from the first leg.

Hansi Flick's side made it two wins from two against Dortmund this season with an emphatic display at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 9 April, Raphinha (25) opening the scoring with his competition-leading 12th goal of the season before a second-half double from former Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski (48 66) and a fourth from Lamine Yamal that made him, aged 17 years 270 days, the second youngest scorer in a Champions League quarter-final.

The Spanish side were 3-2 winners in Germany on their way to finishing second in the league phase, and reached the last eight for the second season in succession with a 4-1 aggregate victory against Benfica in the round of 16.

Runners-up in 2023/24, Dortmund were 3-2 aggregate winners against LOSC Lille in the last 16 and have won their last four two-legged Champions League ties, also beating Sporting CP 3-0 on aggregate in this season's knockout phase play-offs.

Previous meetings

Matches 6
Dortmund wins 0
Barcelona wins 4
Draws 2
Dortmund goals 4
Barcelona 13

1997 UEFA Super Cup
Barcelona 2-0 Dortmund
Dortmund 1-1 Barcelona
First-leg goals from Luis Enrique and Rivaldo, a penalty, earned UEFA Cup Winners' Cup holders Barcelona a 2-0 first-leg victory at the Camp Nou, Giovanni extending that advantage at the Westfalenstadion; a Jörg Heinrich goal was all Dortmund, then Champions League holders, could muster.

2019/20 Champions League group stage
Dortmund 0-0 Barcelona
Barcelona 3-1 Dortmund
Barcelona only left Dortmund with a point thanks to Marc-André ter Stegen's penalty save from Marco Reus but triumphed at the Camp Nou thanks to goals from Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann; Jadon Sancho's late consolation was Dortmund's sole reply.

2024/25 Champions League league phase
Dortmund 2-3 Barcelona
Ferran Torres scored twice after coming off the bench to earn Barcelona a victory which guaranteed their place in the knockout rounds. After a goalless first half, Raphinha's low drive gave the visitors a 53rd-minuted lead before Serhou Guirassy equalised from the penalty spot after being fouled by Pau Cubarsí (60). The Dortmund striker restored parity again three minutes after Torres' first of the evening, but with five minutes left the Barcelona forward raced onto Yamal's pass and beat Gregor Kobel for a second time.

Form guide

Borussia Dortmund

Record vs Spanish clubs: W12 D12 L18 F60 A69
Home record vs Spanish clubs: W9 D7 L4

Dortmund went down 5-2 at Real Madrid on Matchday 3 – a game in which they had led 2-0 – in a repeat of last season's final, which ended in a 2-0 defeat at Wembley.

The Matchday 6 loss against Barcelona was only the German club's third in their 20 home matches against Spanish visitors and only the second in the last 12 (W6 D4).

BVB beat Madrid's City rivals Atlético in last season's quarter-finals (1-2 a, 4-2 h), making their record in two-legged ties against Spanish clubs W7 L3.

That second-leg win is one of only four in Dortmund's last 18 matches against Liga clubs (D5 L9).

Dortmund's record in European Cup quarter-finals is W5 L5, last season's victory ending a run of three successive defeats.

Before beating Atleti in last season's second leg, Dortmund had lost five successive quarter-final matches; they have been defeated in six of the last eight.

Dortmund have won ten of their last 22 home European games (D8 L4), the 7-1 Matchday 2 defeat of Celtic their biggest home Champions League victory. They have won three of their six matches this season, the defeat by Barcelona ending a 14-game unbeaten home run that included ten wins.

European champions in 1997 and runners-up in 2013 and 2024, Dortmund have been eliminated in the last 16 in three of their last six Champions League campaigns.

Dortmund have won eight of the 19 UEFA competition ties in which they lost the first leg away from home, most recently against Atlético at this stage last season. The biggest margin they have overturned is a 2-0 setback, which they have managed once in three attempts, defeating Rangers on penalties in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup third round; they have lost both ties in which they went down 3-0 away, against Real Madrid in the 2013/14 Champions League quarter-finals (2-0 h) and Tottenham in the 2018/19 round of 16 (0-1 h).

Dortmund's record in UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W2 L2:
6-5 v Auxerre, 1992/93 UEFA Cup semi-final
3-1 v Rangers, 1999/2000 UEFA Cup third round
2-4 v Club Brugge, 2003/04 Champions League third qualifying round
3-4 v Udinese, 2008/09 UEFA Cup first round

Barcelona

Record vs German clubs: W37 D14 L20 F130 A90
Away record vs German clubs: W11 D13 L9

The first-leg win was Barça's third game against German opposition this season; they had beaten Bayern München 4-1 in Spain on Matchday 3 before their victory in Dortmund.

Barcelona were without a win in seven games against German opponents, losing six, before overcoming Bayern.

Barça's win at Dortmund on Matchday 6 was their 11th in their 33 away games against German clubs and just a third in the last 12 (D5 L4). They did, however, beat Juventus 3-1 in the 2015 Champions League final in Berlin.

Barcelona have won 14 of their 21 two-legged ties with German teams but have lost the last two, most recently a 3-4 aggregate defeat by Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2021/22 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals (1-1 a, 2-3 h).

Barcelona's record in European Cup quarter-finals is W15 L8, with six of those defeats coming in the past eight ties. They were eliminated by Paris Saint-Germain last season (3-2 a, 1-4 h).

A 2-8 defeat by Bayern in a one-off tie in 2019/20 was Barcelona's 13th successive Champions League quarter-final, a competition record. They had previously failed to reach the last eight in 2006/07.

After losing 2-1 at Monaco on Matchday 1 this season, subsequent wins at Crvena Zvezda (5-2), Dortmund and two at Benfica (5-4, 1-0) have made it 19 victories in Barcelona's last 41 away European matches (D10 L12).

Barcelona have won 38 of the 43 UEFA competition ties in which they won the first leg at home, although they have lost the last three, the last two after three-goal first-leg wins, against Roma in the 2017/18 quarter-finals (4-1 h, 0-3 a) and Liverpool in the following season's semi-finals (3-0 h, 0-4 a). They have won all five ties in which they won 4-0 in the home first leg, the last against Bayern in the quarter-finals of their victorious 2008/09 campaign (1-1 a).

Barcelona's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W5 L1:
5-4 v AZ Alkmaar, 1977/78 UEFA Cup second round
3-1 v Ipswich Town, 1977/78 UEFA Cup third round
4-1 v Anderlecht, 1978/79 European Cup Winners' Cup second round
5-4 v IFK Göteborg, 1985/86 European Cup semi-final
0-2 v Steaua Bucureşti, 1985/86 European Cup final
5-4 v Lech Poznań, 1988/89 European Cup Winners' Cup second round

Links and trivia

Flick replaced Niko Kovač as Bayern coach on 3 November 2019, going on to guide the team to a treble in his first season.

Kovač was Lewandowski's coach at Bayern from July 2018 to November 2019.

Lewandowski was a Dortmund player between 2010 and 2014, scoring 103 goals in 187 games. He won the Bundesliga in 2010/11 and 2011/12, adding the DFB-Pokal in the latter campaign, and scored ten times as BVB reached the 2012/13 Champions League final.

As Bayern coach Flick faced Borussia Dortmund five times between 2019 and 2021, winning all five including a 3-2 victory in the 2020 German Super Cup.

Lewandowski scored six goals against Dortmund in those five games under Flick including a hat-trick in a 4-2 home win on 6 March 2021.

Lewandowski has now played 28 games against Dortmund (W21 D1 L6), scoring 29 goals.

Have also played in Germany:
Marc-André ter Stegen (Borussia Mönchengladbach 2010–14)
Andreas Christensen (Borussia Mönchengladbach 2015–17)
Dani Olmo (Leipzig 2020–24)

Has played in Spain:
Yan Couto (Girona 2020/21 loan, 2022–24 loan)

Have played together:
Emre Can & Wojciech Szczęsny (Juventus 2018–20)
Felix Nmecha & Eric García (Manchester City 2018–21)
Marcel Sabitzer & Dani Olmo (Leipzig 2020–21)
Niklas Süle & Robert Lewandowski (Bayern 2017–22)
Marcel Sabitzer & Robert Lewandowski (Bayern 2021/22)
Pascal Gross & Ansu Fati (Brighton 2023/24)
Yan Couto & Pablo Torre (Girona 2023/24)
Felix Nmecha & Ferran Torres (Manchester City 2020–21)

International team-mates:
Waldemar Anton, Emre Can, Nico Schlotterbeck, Niklas Süle, Julian Brandt, Pascal Gross, Felix Nmecha, Karim Adeyemi, Maximilian Beier & Marc-André ter Stegen (Germany)
Yan Couto & Raphinha (Brazil)

Torres scored past Gregor Kobel in Spain's 4-1 UEFA Nations League win against Switzerland on 8 September.

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Dortmund

On Saturday Waldemar Anton's first Bundesliga goal since scoring for Stuttgart on 29 October 2022 earned Dortmund a 2-2 draw at leaders Bayern.

Dortmund have won only four of their last nine Bundesliga games (D1 L4).

BVB have lost seven of their last 14 league games (W5 D2); their 11 Bundesliga defeats in 2024/25 is their most for a season since 14 in 2014/15.

On 5 April Dortmund made it successive Bundesliga victories for only the second time this season with a 4-1 victory at Freiburg, Carney Chukwuemeka scoring his first goal for the club and Karim Adeyemi and Jamie Gittens also on target, the latter for the first time since 14 January.

Serhou Guirassy, who has 31 goals in 45 games for club and country this season, scored 12 in his last 19 matches.

On 22 February Niko Kovač recorded his first league win as Dortmund coach in his third game – a 6-0 defeat of Union Berlin in which Guirassy scored four times and Pascal Gross provided four assists.

Guirassy's hat-trick against Union was timed at eight minutes, the seventh fastest in Bundesliga history.

Marcel Sabitzer has been on the sidelines since 15 March due to a knee injury.

On 7 April Dortmund confirmed that Nico Schlotterbeck will miss the rest of the season with a meniscus tear in his left knee.

Barcelona

Barça are 24 games unbeaten in all competitions (W20 D4). An own goal gave them a 1-0 win at Leganés on Saturday to keep them four points clear in La Liga.

Hansi Flick's side had opened up that gap on 5 April despite being held to a 1-1 home draw by Real Betis.

Barça had won their previous nine Liga matches, and have 14 victories in their last 16 games in all competitions (D2).

Robert Lewandowski scored twice in a 4-1 home win against Girona on 30 March and has nine goals in his last 11 league appearances. The Pole's double in the first leg means he has 17 goals in 21 games in 2025 and 40 in 46 this season, more than any player in Europe's big five leagues and his most prolific campaign with Barcelona, surpassing his 33 in 2022/23.

Raphinha's goal against Dortmund was his 28th goal of the season; he scored ten in 2023/24. His 13 in La Liga is seven more than last season's tally.

Lamine Yamal struck his 14th club goal of the season in the first leg, double his tally of seven from the previous campaign.

Wojciech Szczęsny has kept 12 clean sheets in 22 games in all competitions.

Barcelona have scored 146 goals in 49 matches this season. They have scored five or more goals in 11 games and four in ten others.

On 2 April a Ferran Torres goal – his 16th of the season in all competitions, nine of them as a substitute – earned a 1-0 victory at Atlético de Madrid in the Copa del Rey semi-final second leg and a 5-4 aggregate triumph. Barcelona will play Real Madrid in the final in Seville on 26 April.

Alejandro Balde was replaced shortly before half-time on Saturday with a suspected hamstring injury.

Dani Olmo has been sidelined since 28 March with a muscle injury.

Marc Casadó injured his right knee in a 4-2 league win at Atleti on 16 March and is expected to be out for two months.

Marc Bernal (out since 27 August) and Marc-André ter Stegen (22 September) are not expected to play again this season after suffering serious knee injuries.

Andreas Christensen has not played since 17 August due Achilles and muscular injuries, although he was on the bench in the last three games.