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1963–64 Borussia Dortmund season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4571332 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1963–64 Borussia Dortmund season was the first season in the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund. After winning the 1963 German football championship, they could not defend their title and ended up 4th in the inaugural Bundesliga season. In the European Cup they closely missed the final after losing the semi-final against Internazionale.

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Note: Results are given with Borussia Dortmund score listed first.

European Cup

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Note: Results are given with Borussia Dortmund score listed first.

DFB-Pokal

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Note: Results are given with Borussia Dortmund score listed first.

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“1963–64 Borussia Dortmund season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Borussia, Dortmund and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1963–64 Borussia Dortmund season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.