Post-Match Report
Ten BVB wins after going 2-0 down
The history of wild comebacks goes back to 1965. The match on 6 March 65 against Eintracht Braunschweig is a very special one and does not even fall within the group of the ten BVB victories after trailing 2-0, because it had an even stranger course of play. Franz Brungs gave Borussia a 1-0 lead, Lothar Emmerich equalised to make it 2-2, before Eintracht stormed to a 4-2 lead by the 67th minute. But Timo Konietzka (69), Hermann Straschitz from the penalty spot (72) and Konietzka again four minutes from time turned the game around to fire the Black & Yellows to a memorable 5-4 win.
22 May 1982
BVB 3–2 VfL Bochum
On Matchday 33 of the 1981/82 season, Borussia Dortmund were fighting to return to the international stage after a 16-year absence from European competition. But by half-time, Borussia looked to be out of the running for a place in the UEFA Cup: VfL Bochum led 2-0 after goals from Ulrich Bittorf and Wolfgang Patzke, and came very, very close to scoring a third towards the end of the first half and at the beginning of the second half. "We gave each other a lot of encouragement at half-time," said BVB striker Bernd Klotz after the game. He himself scored Dortmund's third headed goal of the match to spark wild celebrations in the 85th minute. Rolf Rüssmann (61) and Heinz-Werner Eggeling (69), who had been so disappointing for the club throughout the season, had previously pulled the two teams level. ‘The home side, who were all at sea early on, managed to seize control of a game it looked like they had no right to win," wrote kicker. The fitting headline read: "Crowbarring their way into the UEFA Cup."
21 August 1993
BVB 3-2 SC Freiburg
UEFA Cup finalists and title contenders Borussia Dortmund hosted newly promoted SC Freiburg. It should have been a clear-cut victory for the home team, but in fact the favourites found themselves 2-0 down after 56 minutes thanks to goals from Rodolfo Cardoso (from the penalty spot) and Maximilian Heidenreich. Just three minutes later, Karl-Heinz Riedle pulled BVB back to within a goal, before defensive players Michael Zorc (78) and Matthias Sammer (80) grabbed two goals in quick succession to keep the three points in Dortmund.
10 June 1995
MSV Duisburg 2–3 BVB
The whole region was dreaming of a first title since 1963. Ottmar Hitzfeld's team had had a magnificent season, but was on its last legs after a bruising series of injuries. On the penultimate day of the season, it looked like the silverware might be slipping out of the Black & Yellows' grasp. At half-time on Matchday 33, rivals Werder Bremen looked to be pulling away in the title race. BVB were trailing 1-0 at the Wedau after a goal from Ferenc Schmidt in the 20th minute. In the 51st minute, Thomas Puschmann even made it 2-0 for MSV. What happened next has a special place in the club history books: after a foul on Andy Möller, Michael Zorc stepped up to convert from the penalty spot to pull it back to 2-1. Defender Stefan Reuter then scored his two most important (out of a total of eleven) goals for BVB: he made it 2-2 in the 57th minute and then 3-2 in the 78th. One week later, Dortmund were celebrating their fourth German title win. And Duisburg were relegated partly due to throwing away a 2-0 lead.
2 November 2003
BVB 3–2 Hamburger SV
At a time when BVB were struggling with major financial problems, the then top club HSV always proved to be one of their favoured opponents. Even a 2-0 deficit was not an insurmountable hurdle. Within just four minutes, Jan Koller (64/66) and Ewerthon (68) scored to turn a 2-0 scoreline into 3-2.
29 March 2014
VfB Stuttgart 2–3 BVB
Stuttgart's Christian Gentner (9) and Martin Harnik (19) struck early on to shock Jürgen Klopp's team. But the Black & Yellows had Marco Reus, who scored a memorable hat-trick with goals in the 30th, 68th and 83rd minute to fire BVB to victory.
29 September 2018
Bayer Leverkusen 2–4 BVB
A 4-2 win after falling behind 2-0 – it's also been done away from home before. Leverkusen made the most of the chances that arose in the first half through Mitchell Weiser (9) and Jonathan Tah (39), while BVB never gave up, equalising through Jacob Bruun Larsen (65) and Reus (69) to make it 2-2. But it got even better: Paco Alcácer netted a late brace to make it 3-2 (85) and then 4-2 (90+4).
18 January 2020
FC Augsburg 3–5 BVB
The recently signed Erling Haaland made his debut as a substitute. Borussia initially missed several big scoring chances and were trailing from the 34th minute onwards when Florian Niederlechner converted a counterattack to make it 1-0 to the hosts. 19 seconds after the restart, Marco Richter made it 2-0, but Julian Brandt quickly got one back in the 49th minute. Augsburg's Niederlechner put his side back two goals in front, put BVB refuse d to give up: substitute Haaland (59) and Jadon Sancho (61) grabbed two goals in quick succession to make it 3-3. Haaland then gave Dortmund their first lead of the game in the 70th minute, making it 4-3, and the Norwegian extended the score to 5-3 with his third goal eleven minutes before the end.
8 January 2022
Eintracht Frankfurt 2–3 BVB
In front of an almost empty stadium (250 spectators) during the Coronavirus pandemic, the hosts took their first chance to take the lead against Dortmund, who had dominated up to that point, and doubled their lead through Raphael Borré in the 24th minute. Thomas Meunier and Donyell Malen both struck the post in the first half. It was not until the 71st minute that substitute Thorgan Hazard reduced the deficit to 2-1. Three minutes before the end, Jude Bellingham equalised, and in the 89th minute, Mo Dahoud netted the winning goal.
25 November 2023
BVB 4–2 Bor. M’gladbach
In front of a crowd of 81,365 fans at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK, the dominant away side took a 2-0 lead after not even half an hour through Rocco Reitz (13) and Manu Koné (28). But BVB fought back with force and turned the game around before half-time: Marcel Sabitzer (30), Niclas Füllkrug (32) and Jamie Gittens (45) scored to make it 3-2. The Black & Yellows were comfortably on top in the latter part of the first half and the early stages of the second, and should really have given themselves a greater cushion. Instead they had to sweat right until the end, before Donyell Malen put the game definitively beyond doubt with a goal seven minutes into stoppage time.
Compiled by Boris Rupert