Borussia Dortmund visits the Metropolitano this Wednesday. Atlético’s rival in the Champions League quarterfinals, fans will read the abbreviation BVB in many situations, which appears, for example, on the club’s own shield. Why BVB, which does not seem to directly evoke Borussia Dortmund? In reality, we must go further, to the official and full name of the entity: Ballspielverein Borussia 09 eV Dortmund. There you can sense the BVB with which we often refer to the yellow team.
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The Bundesliga website itself explains in detail what the club’s name means in Spanish:
- Ballspielverein = ball game club
- Borussia = Prusia
- 09 = because it was founded in 1909
- eV = refers to its legal entity, a registered association
- Dortmund = the team city
The acronym BVB, pronounced be-fao-be, is based on the first two words: Ballspielverein (separated into Ballspiel and Verein) and Borussia. These types of abbreviations are very common in Germany. For example, there are VfB Stuttgart, for Verein für Bewegungspiele (club for physical games); VfL Wolfsburg, for Verein für Leibesübungen (physical exercise club); TSG Hoffenheim, for Turn-und Sportgemeinschaft Hoffenheim (gymnastics and sports club); or FC Bayern for Fußballclub (football club)
In this specific case, we might say that it is BV (and not BSV, as the full name might also have been abbreviated) Borussia, which comes from the Latin name of the former region of Prussia: BVB.
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