How the Borussia Dortmund history timeline works

Each card is a Borussia Dortmund milestone: championships, cup wins, European nights, stadium openings, star signings and a brush with bankruptcy. You place them by year. A short line under each title tells you what happened. You begin with one moment on the line, its year visible. Put each new card into a gap. Pick the right spot and the year shows; get it wrong and it moves to its true spot and costs one of three lives.

Dortmund's story includes titles from before the Bundesliga existed, a European first for German football, a golden spell of league and continental success, near financial ruin and a revival built on pressing and young talent. The modern cards come thick and fast. Strikers who came and went are easy to mix up. Back-to-back titles and cup wins have similar descriptions, so check the opponent.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Club founded Young men break away to start the club
First German championship National title won for the first time
German championship retained Back-to-back national crown
Last German championship before the Bundesliga Final title of the old national play-off era
DFB-Pokal won against Alemannia Aachen German cup lifted
Cup Winners' Cup won against Liverpool First European trophy for a German club
Westfalenstadion opened New stadium built for the World Cup
DFB-Pokal won against Werder Bremen German cup reclaimed in a rout
Ottmar Hitzfeld appointed manager Coach arrives to build a title side
Bundesliga title under Hitzfeld First German championship of the modern era
Bundesliga title retained Back-to-back German championship
Champions League won against Juventus European Cup lifted in Munich
Intercontinental Cup won against Cruzeiro World club title claimed in Tokyo
Bundesliga title under Matthias Sammer German championship for the former captain
Near-bankruptcy financial crisis Club narrowly avoids insolvency
Jürgen Klopp appointed manager Charismatic coach takes charge
Signing of Robert Lewandowski Polish striker arrives from Lech Poznań
Bundesliga title under Klopp German championship reclaimed
League and cup double Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal in one season
Champions League final defeat at Wembley All-German final lost to Bayern Munich
Jürgen Klopp departure Manager leaves after seven seasons
DFB-Pokal won against Eintracht Frankfurt German cup lifted in Berlin
DFL-Supercup won against Bayern Munich Season-opening trophy claimed
Signing of Erling Haaland Norwegian striker joins from Salzburg
DFB-Pokal won against RB Leipzig German cup won in a Berlin final
Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid Beaten at Wembley in the European final