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It’s hot. Unbearably hot. The tropical heat on this 19 May 1986 at the Westfalenstadion is what I remember most. We trail 0-2 on aggregate against Fortuna Köln. If we don’t turn this around, Borussia Dortmund go down…

Schalke and Bayern saved Dortmund — the haters say. And it’s true. Near-insolvency, the stock market fiasco, the Haaland release clause and Bellingham for 103 million.

Sammer, Watzke, Kehl, Terzić, Reus, Ricken — the men who turned BVB from near-bankruptcy into a half-billion-euro club. And those who paid the price.

0-12 against Gladbach. CL final 2013: Robben’s dagger in the 89th minute. Title race 2023: Mainz and the final two minutes. Six managers in six years.

Champions League 1997. DFB-Pokal 2021: 4-1 against Leipzig. The road to Wembley 2024. The Haaland era. Bellingham as the royal transfer. And Kovač as the 2025/26 stabiliser.

Aubameyang — 98 goals, then a graceless exit. Sancho — suspended, loaned, sold. And the men who nearly ruined BVB: Niebaum and Homm.

Sébastien Haller: testicular cancer ten days after his transfer. Marco Reus: 54 injuries, no league title. The 2017 bus bombing and its aftermath.

The birth of the BVB cult, the dark years, the near-bankruptcy of 2005, the Klopp revolution — and how the club became a half-billion-euro enterprise.

First German European cup winner (1966). The Yellow Wall in numbers. Why the logo features a lion. Reus’s free-beer farewell for 80,000. And the BVB share as a lesson in patience.

“It’s still nil-nil.” — Michael Zorc before the 1993 UEFA Cup final. “First we had no luck — and then bad luck came along too.” The best BVB quotes.

Akte BVB is for lovers and haters of the Borussen alike. History becomes legend, legend becomes myth. And myth becomes cult.

238,100 members. 8× champions. Signal Iduna Park, 81,360 seats. BVB share since 2000. KGaA structure. Management and financial data.