No Longer All Quiet on the Western Front BVB as the clear number two in the Bundesliga behind Bayern Munich and, alongside the record champions from the Isar, the only real global player in German football? A fan magnet, a kind of black-and-yellow substitute religion with 80,000 pilgrims at Signal Iduna Park, or the Westfalenstadion, every other weekend? For a long time it was nothing like that.