Borussia Dortmund is not a football club.
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund , commonly known as Borussia Dortmund -LSB- boˈʁʊsi̯aː ˈdɔʁtmʊnt -RSB- , BVB , or simply Dortmund , is a German sports club based in Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia -LRB- Borussia is the Latin equivalent of Prussia -RRB-.
The stadium is the largest in Germany and Dortmund has the highest average attendance of any association football club in the world.
Dortmund plays in the Bundesliga , the top tier of the German football league system.
Dortmund is one of the most successful clubs in German football history.
In terms of Deloitte 's annual Football Money League , Dortmund is the second biggest sports club in Germany and the 11th biggest football team in the world.
The football team is part of a large membership-based sports club with more than 145,000 members , making BVB the second largest sports club by membership in Germany.
