Borussia achieved promotion again the following season, thanks to second place in the final table and two wins in the playoffs for promotion against the 1. FC Nürnberg team. Willem's women started the season well, setting a high-scoring record with 5-2 wins against FC Twente Enschede on 29 November 2007 and SC Heerenveen on 7 February 2008. BVB was hopelessly defeated against the team of future world champions around Bobby Charlton and George Best. In addition to sixth place in the final ranking, the semi-finals of the DFB Cup were reached, which BVB lost 1:3 to the eventual winner Fortuna Düsseldorf. This was followed in 1972 by 17th place with 20 points and thus 36 years after promotion to the top division, relegation to the Regionalliga West. Consequentially, Borussia Dortmund was fourteenth in the table in 1968, and a year later, when they were sixteenth, relegation was only prevented on the last day of the game when BVB won 3-0 against Kickers Offenbach in the Rote Erde. In the quarterfinals against Atlético Madrid (1:1 in Madrid, 1:0 in Dortmund) and in the semifinals against defending champions West Ham United (2:1 in London, 3:1 at home), Borussia won, making BVB the third German team made that reached a European Cup final.

In the end, with 59 points, he ranked third in the team's internal scorer list behind Michael Nanchoff (61 points) and the outstanding Darren Mattocks (93 points), but was able to get ahead of future Thai national player Anthony Ampaipitakwong (11 assists) in assists. prevail in first place. It played 0-0 twice and won 1-0. It only reached the game for third place, which it lost to defending champions Czechoslovakia on penalties. Under him, the club reached seventh place the following year, and BVB were eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup by Glasgow Rangers. The following year, BVB remained mediocre; under coach Uli Maslo, the club finished the 1978/79 season in twelfth place. A year later, after finishing 13th in the table, the top performers Wosab, Neuberger, Weist and Held were sold. He's been on the pitch four times this season. After a temporary high in the 1969/70 season, when the club came fifth, "the big sell-off" began as a consequence of the financial bottleneck that had occurred. At the same time, only players of mediocre quality were bought and hardly any good players came up from Borussia's traditionally strong youth team.

Before and during the 1976/77 season, BVB signed important new players such as Ente Lippens and Manni Burgsmüller and reached a safe eighth place. Player of the game: Chris Pontius (MLS All-Stars / DC Rauball became president again, and Gerd Niebaum, who took over as president in 1986, was appointed as vice president. Under him, Honduras was defeated 6-0 in March 2017, but in Panama only achieved a 1:1. With him the botanist Johann Adam Reum came to Tharandt, who immediately began to create what is now the world's oldest forest botanical garden. However, even after the club's own site on Brackeler Straße was sold, there were still around 100% missing 1.3 million marks to grant the license for the newly created 2nd Bundesliga, which had to be procured in a variety of ways. The club ended up so indebted with 8.3 million marks that the Dortmund district court on January 22nd. October 1984 had to appoint an emergency board. Equally important for the future of professional football in Dortmund was the opening of the Westfalenstadion, which was built on the west side of the Rote Erde for the 1974 World Cup. This first victory for a German team in the European Cup was celebrated in Dortmund the following day with a motorcade through the city center. An official FIFA World Cup anthem was composed by Herbert Grönemeyer together with the duo Amadou & Mariam and, in the German version, was entitled Time for something to turn.

The club celebrated its greatest triumph to date when it became the first German European Cup winner in the European Cup Winners' Cup. The 2008 ASEAN Championship ultimately became the biggest success for Vietnam. In the end, BVB couldn't get past fourth place despite scoring 73 goals. The change at the top of the club to Walter Kliemt in the winter of 1967/68 had changed little in the internal structures of BVB, and spectators were absent due to the sporting failures. ↑ In the statistics for the Columbus Cup, only the games on the 12th and 15th are included in the cup, in the statistics of the Italian federation Archived copy (Memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive) the game on June 19th is also counted. In March 1979, the lawyer Reinhard Rauball became president of Borussia, who brought BVB, which had faltered due to a lack of success and a lack of spectators, back into calmer waters. Due to a home defeat against the eventual champions 1860 Munich on the penultimate matchday of the 1966 season – possibly due to the pressures from the European Cup – BVB missed the championship and was only runner-up. At the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil, the USA played the group games with Germany, Portugal and Ghana and, as runners-up, were able to qualify again for the round of 16, where they lost 2-1 to Belgium after extra time.