As defending champions, Dortmund attained the Champions League semi-closing in 1998. The team was missing crucial gamers from the beginning of your season after they performed Serious Madrid while in the 1998 semi-closing.[imprecise] Sammer's vocation was shortened by injury and only played three initial group video games following the 1997 Champio

Ottmar Hitzfeld may be the club's most successful mentor, owning received both equally the Bundesliga and Supercup two times. In 1997, Dortmund had waited for continental achievement for more than 30 a long time; Hitzfeld crowned his time period with an unanticipated triumph and gained the Champions League. Dortmund won the Intercontinental Cup in