Honour
Mats Hummels honoured for 500 BVB games
Prior to the Champions League home game against Atlético Madrid, BVB player Mats Hummels was honoured for making 500 competitive appearances in Black & Yellow. The defender reached the milestone in the quarter-final first leg in Madrid last week.
Amid great applause, Hans-Joachim Watzke, Chairman of the Board of Management, BVB Managing Director Carsten Cramer and Sporting Director Sebastian Kehl presented the long-serving Borussia player with flowers, a small trophy and a shirt with the number 500 on the back on the side of the pitch at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK prior to kick-off.
Hummels is only the second player after Michael Zorc (572 games) to reach the 500-appearance milestone for BVB. The 35-year-old, who played for the Black & Yellows from January 2008 to June 2016 and rejoined in July 2019, won the Bundesliga title in 2011 and 2012 and the DFB-Pokal in 2012 and 2021 with BVB. He has reached a final with Borussia Dortmund six times, which is a Black & Yellow record. Hummels has scored 37 goals for BVB in his career.