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.