How did Borussia Dortmund receive 1 Billion Euros in the last 2 decades?

Borussia Dortmund's amazing feat of earning 1 Billion from selling their player over the last 2 decades and also their scouting skills show tremendously.

Borussia Dortmund is one of the top-level clubs that always fight for the trophy, but in the last 2 decades, they just won one league title under their name and finished 2nd on five occasions in the Bundesliga. They came very close to winning their 2nd league title in 2022/2023, but in the last match, they could not handle the pressure to get the extra two points they needed and came 2nd in the Bundesliga by goal difference.

They have sold so many superstars and are known for making superstars, which is why they achieved a 1Billion euros in sales in the last 2 decades. The scouts of Dortmund are one of the best in whole football club history because they pick the most exciting player at a very young age and later they become superstars just like Jude Bellingham, Erling Haaland, Jadon Sancho and many more on the list.

SeasonBiggest saleFeeTotal sales
2023/24Jude Bellingham€103m€103m
2022/23Erling Haaland€60M€78.7M
2021/22Jadon Sancho€85M€108.25M
2020/21Omer Toprak€4M€5.5M
2019/20Abdou Diallo€32M€132.25M
2018/19Christian Pulisic€64M€114.2M
2017/18Ousmane Dembele€140M€275.95M
2016/17Henrikh Mkhitaryan€42M€111M
2015/16Ciro Immobile€11M€42.55M
2014/15Julian Schieber€2.5M€4.8M
2013/14Mario Gotze€37M€47.38M
2012/13Shinji Kagawa€16M€34M
2011/12Nuri Sahin€10M€12.14M
2010/11Nelson Valdez€3.5M€4.3M
2009/10Alex Frei€4.25M€6.35M
2008/09Mladen Petric€7.3M€12.3M
2007/08Ebi Smolarek€4.5M€5.28M
2006/07Tomas Rosicky€10M€16.95M
2005/06Ewerthon€3.5M€4.25M
2004/05Torsten Frings€9.25M€10.15M
2003/04Jens Lehmann€3.5M€3.7M
2002/03Victor Ikpeba€1M€1.55M
2001/02Evanilson€15M€19.15M
2000/01Sergej Barbarez€1.8M€2.3M
Total€1.15b (Approx)
*All figures are taken from Transfermarkt/Goals unless stated otherwise

This list clearly tells how Dortmund does its business and how they are so profitable club even when Covid hit a high for every club. However, if they want to gain revenue as a club and stature for themselves, they need to win major trophies and compete with big teams, which they failed to do recently, especially since Sancho and Haaland have gone.

Jude Bellingham is their latest mega sale as Real Madrid signed him for around 103 million euros + add-ons, which can go up to 25+ million Euros, which will give Dortmund more money to sing some new exciting talent.

Ousmane Dembele is their most profitable sale, as Barcelona brought him for around 140 million euros that, broke the record in the 2017 summer transfer in La Liga, but all that money came from the Neymar deal as he was the one who left the club for around 222 million euro dollars in 2017 and to replace him Barcelona came up with Dembele who not able to live up to his name and kept getting injured in most of the season.

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