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Borussia Dortmund enjoyed their finest hour in the Champions League in 1997 when they beat defending champions Juventus 3-1 in the Munich final to become the fifth different winner of the tournament in as many seasons.
In their 15th season in the revamped competition, Dortmund have qualified as runners-up behind group-winners Barcelona in a group which had another former champion Internazionale.
Dortmund fell to a 0-4 aggregate defeat against Tottenham Hostpur at this stage of the competition last season. As BVB prepare to take on French champions Paris St. Germain in the Round of 16 of this season's competition, let us have a look at 5 memorable Champions League games involving Borussia Dortmund:
#1 1996-97 Final, Juventus 1:3 Borussia Dortmund
Having qualified from a group containing Atletico Madrid, Widzew Łódź and Steaua București, Dortmund beat French side Auxerre 4-1 on aggregate to set up a semifinal against Manchester United.
A pair of 1-0 victories in each leg took Dortmund to their first Champions League final, where defending champions Juventus lay in wait.
Dortmund started as the underdogs in the Munich final despite having beaten the Bianconeri in the group stage of the competition in the previous season. After dominating the opening exchanges, Dortmund took the lead at the half-hour mark when an unmarked Karl-Heinze Riedle slotted the ball past Juve keeper Angelo Peruzzi from close range.
Five minutes later it was 2-0 Dortmund, Riedle the goalscorer once again.
The defending champions sought an immediate riposte and almost pulled one back when Zinedine Zidane beat the Dortmund custodian Stefan Klos, but he couldn't beat the woodwork. Following a disallowed goal by Christian Vieri, halftime substitute Alessandro del Piero halved the arrears on the night midway through the second half.
Despite an intense spell of pressure from Juventus, the equaliser was not forthcoming. Instead it was Dortmund who put the game to bed when substitute Lars Ricken, with his first touch of the ball, produced an audacious 30-yard chip over a stunned Peruzzi.
In an interview ahead of Dortmund's Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 2013, Ricken admitted that he had spent the first 70 minutes of the game thinking about the very goal he would go on to score.
"I watched the first 70 minutes from the bench, and I noticed that [Angelo] Peruzzi was often standing too far from his goal," the homegrown hero recalled. "I came into the match with that in mind, thinking 'Peruzzi is too far out of goal, Peruzzi is too far out of goal'."
#2 2012-13 Semi-final 1st leg, Borussia Dortmund 4:1 Real Madrid
Barely 24 hours after Barcelona fell to a 0-4 defeat to Bayern Munich in the first leg of the first semifinal in 2012-13, Real Madrid suffered a similar fate against another German opposition - Borussia Dortmund - in the first leg of the other semifinal.
A Robert Lewandowski inspired masterclass meant that Dortmund extended their perfect home record in Europe for the season to 6-0. The record 9-time former winners Madrid fell to a deflating 1-4 defeat on the night.
A minute after Mario Gotze's shot was saved by Diego Lopez, Gotze turned provider as he teed up Lewandowski to open the scoring. Dortmund bossed the midfield and looked the likelier side to score, but Mats Hummels' error led to Ronaldo scoring his 50th goal of the competition.
Five minutes after the break, Dortmund were back in front, with the Gotze-Lewandowski combination hurting Madrid for the second time in the game. Soon it was 3-1 for Dortmund; Lewandowski exhibited immaculate control by receiving a mishit cross from Marcel Schmelzer, beat Pepe and calmly slotted the ball past Lopez to become the first player to score a Champions League hat-trick against Madrid.
It was to get worse still for the Spanish visitors. When Xabi Alonso felled Reus in the Madrid penalty box, Lewandowski stepped up to make it 4-1 on the night to etch his name in the history books as the first player to score a quadruple in a Champions League semifinal.
#3 2012-13 Final, Bayern Munich 2:1 Borussia Dortmund
Having thwarted the possibility of an all-Spanish Champions League final, with Bayern beating Barcelona 7-0 and Dortmund seeing off Real Madrid 4-3 on aggregate, the stage was set for the first all-German Champions League final at the Wembley Stadium in 2013.
A year on from losing in a penalty shootout in the Munich final against Chelsea, Bayern were determined to start off proceedings on the front foot. But they found an inspired Dortmund a hard nut to crack; the first half ended goalless as either keeper pulled off regulation saves to keep their respective teams in the contest.
Parity was broken at the hour mark when Arjen Robben rounded Robert Wiedenfeller and teed up Mario Mandzukic for the simplest of tap-ins. The lead proved short-lived though as seven minutes later, Ilkay Gundogan made it 1-1 on the night with a coolly taken penalty past Manuel Neuer.
Bayern remained the more likely team to score as Neven Subotic blocked a goal-bound effort from Thomas Muller off the line and Robben failed to tap in the rebound. And so it proved as extra time loomed; Robben beat Wiedenfeller and scored the decisive goal of the night.
Bayern hung on for the win and would later become the first German team to score the treble of league, domestic Cup and European Cup. But Dortmund more than played their part in one of the most entertaining finals of the Champions League era.
#4 2016-17 Group Stage, Borussia Dortmund 8:4 Legia Warszawa
In the highest-scoring Champions League game in history, Borussia Dortmund beat Polish side 8-4 at home in the 2016-17 group-stage edition of the competition. It marked the first instance of a team scoring 4 goals in a Champions League game and ending on the losing side.
BVB scored three goals in response to Legia's 10th minute opener before surging to a 5-2 lead at the half-hour mark. On a night of records, there were 8 different scorers in a Champions League game for the very first time as Dortmund emulated Liverpool, Monaco, and Real Madrid by scoring 8 goals in a game.
There was little inkling of the events on the night when Aleksandar Prijovic opened the scoring for the visitors after 10 minutes. Seven minutes later, Shinji Kagawa restored parity for the home side - which only opened the floodgates through which BVB burst through to overwhelm their Polish visitors.
Dortmund's 14 goals in 2 games against Legia marked a record goal haul against an opponent in a Champions League season.
#5 2019-20 Group stage, Borussia Dortmund 3:2 Internazionale
In a tough group containing fellow former Champions League winners Barcelona and Internazionale, Dortmund were teetering on the brink against their Italian visitors in the Matchday 4 clash of the 2019-20 edition of the competition.
Having lost 0-2 at Internazionale on Matchday 3, BVB started on the wrong foot as goals from Lautaro Martinez and Matias Vecino gave the Nerazzurri a 2-0 halftime lead at Signal Iduna Park.
However, in a rousing comeback, Dortmund scored three unanswered goals in the second half to keep their qualification hopes alive. Mario Gotze teed up Achraf Hakimi to half the arrears on the night. 13 minutes later, a poor throw-in by Internazionale in their own half led to Julian Brandt stealing the ball and scoring the equaliser past Samir Handanovic.
The comeback was duly completed in the 77th minute when Hakimi collected Jadon Sancho's pass and beat Handanovic for the second time in the game. Internazionale returned empty-handed to the San Siro on a night when they could have taken all three points.
The loss meant that Inter had lost a Champions League game for the first time after leading by two goals, and their away losing streak in the competition extended to 4 games. The 2009-10 winners eventually ended third in their group to drop down to the Europa League.
