2008–09 Borussia Dortmund season

During the 2008–09 German football season, Borussia Dortmund competed in the Bundesliga.

Season summary
In Jürgen Klopp's first season in charge of Dortmund, they rose to 6th in the final table, but were 2 points shy of qualifying for the revamped UEFA Europa League. Notably, they were one of only two teams to go the league season unbeaten at home (the other being champions Wolfsburg).

First-team squad

 * Squad at end of season

In

 * Felipe Santana - Figueirense, 16 May, €2,000,000
 * Mohamed Zidan - Hamburg, 17 August, €5,000,000 + Mladen Petrić
 * Lee Young-pyo - Tottenham Hotspur, 27 August, undisclosed
 * Kevin-Prince Boateng - Tottenham Hotspur, 11 January, loan
 * Neven Subotić - Mainz, 4 June
 * Tamás Hajnal - Karlsruhe, July, €1,300,000
 * Patrick Owomoyela - Werder Bremen
 * Christopher Kullmann - Magdeburg
 * Damir Vrančić - Mainz
 * Bajram Sadrijaj - TSG Thannhausen

Out

 * Mladen Petrić - Hamburg, 17 August, part-exchange
 * Robert Kovač - Dinamo Zagreb, 29 January, €450,000
 * Delron Buckley - Mainz, January, loan
 * Giovanni Federico - Karlsruhe, January, loan
 * Antonio Rukavina - 1860 Munich, February, loan
 * Diego Klimowicz - VfL Bochum, January
 * Lukas Kruse - Augsburg, February
 * Christopher Nöthe - Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, loan
 * Markus Brzenska - MSV Duisburg, loan
 * Christian Wörns - retired
 * Philipp Degen - released (later joined Liverpool)
 * Alexander Bade - released
 * Sahr Senesie - released
 * Martin Amedick - Kaiserslautern
 * Christian Eggert - FSV Frankfurt
 * Marc-André Kruska - Club Brugge