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Die Fohlen – Five-time Bundesliga champions from Mönchengladbach.
Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, better known as Borussia Mönchengladbach and colloquially known as just Gladbach, is a professional football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The club plays in the Bundesliga, the top flight of German football. Nicknamed Die Fohlen (The Foals), the club has won five league titles, three DFB-Pokals and two UEFA Cup titles.
Quick Facts
- Founded
- 1900
- League
- Bundesliga
- Nickname
- Die Fohlen (The Foals)
- Major honors
- 5 league titles
- 3 DFB-Pokals
- 2 UEFA Cup titles
- Current stadium
- Borussia-Park (since 2004)
- Previous stadium
- Bökelbergstadion (1919–2004)
Lore & Background
Borussia Mönchengladbach was founded in 1900, with its name derived from a Latinised form of Prussia, which was a popular name for German clubs in the former Kingdom of Prussia. The team joined the Bundesliga in 1965 and saw the majority of its success in the 1970s, where, under the guidance of Hennes Weisweiler and then Udo Lattek, a young squad with a fast, aggressive playing style was formed. During this period, Mönchengladbach won the Bundesliga five times, the UEFA Cup twice and reached a European Cup final in 1977.
Since 2004, Borussia Mönchengladbach have played at Borussia-Park, having previously played at the Bökelbergstadion since 1919. Based on membership, they are the fifth-largest club in Germany with over 75,000 members in 2016 and 93,000 as of 2021. The club's main rivals are 1. FC Köln, against whom they contest the Rhine derby. Their secondary rivals include Borussia Dortmund, Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer Leverkusen.
Reader's Guide
The club was officially founded on 1 August 1900, when the footballers reformed into the Fussball Club Borussia 1900 within the Marianische Jünglings-Kongregation Mönchengladbach Eicken. Borussia was the second dedicated football club in the city of Mönchengladbach, after FC Mönchengladbach (founded 1894). The team initially played in black and white, changing to blue and yellow vertical stripes in 1909. Borussia joined the Bundesliga in 1965.
Did You Know?
- The club's name Borussia is Latin for 'Prussia', chosen because Mönchengladbach was located in the western provinces awarded to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815.
- Borussia Mönchengladbach's nickname 'Die Fohlen' (The Foals) reflects the young squad that brought success in the 1970s.
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