Football team

Borussia Dortmund Women

Club · Germany · Handball Bundesliga Frauen

«The Black and Yellows»

150 Matches

100 wins

5 draws

45 losses

4583–4181 Goals

+402 Difference

30.6 Scored per game

Form W W L W W L

Dortmund is a city that measures itself against one club. The handball department plays a quieter role in the same black and yellow, playing its matches at the Sporthalle Wellinghofen.

The women's team traces back to 1926, two years after Borussia Dortmund first set up a handball section, and it has spent the century since working in the shadow of the bigger ballgame next door. The German championship came in 2021, and it came without a single defeat across thirty matches. The German Cup arrived first in 1997, against TV Lützellinden, and returned in 2026 with a win over HSG Bensheim/Auerbach, while a European title followed in between, the EHF Challenge Cup taken in 2003.

Alina Grijseels captains the side now, a German international who left and came back, which in a squad built partly on returners — Kelly Vollebregt among them, back from the Netherlands scene in 2024 — says something about what the club still offers players who have already tried being elsewhere. In the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen, the matches that matter most come against SG BBM Bietigheim, Thüringer HC and TSV Hannover-Burgdorf, games the league calls a Spitzenspiel rather than anything sharper; handball in this city has never needed a derby name the way the football does.

It is still, at bottom, the section that grew out of a multi-sport club founded in 1909, handball added in 1924, the women following two years after that.

Latest results

All matches

5 Sep	EHF Champions League Women	Esbjerg Women H	24:33	L
2 Sep	Handball Bundesliga Frauen	Neckarsulmer Women H	35:33	W
29 Aug	Handball Bundesliga Frauen	Leipzig Women A	36:28	W
22 Aug	Super Cup Women	HSG Blomberg-Lippe Women A	24:26	L
25 Jul	Club Friendly Women	Buxtehuder SV Women H	36:22	W
22 Jul	Club Friendly Women	Solingen Women A	42:32	W

Standing

EHF Champions League Women

Group stage · Group A

#	Team	M	W	D	Goals	Pts
1	Esbjerg Women	1	1	0	0:24	2
2	Ferencváros Women	1	1	0	0:20	2
3	CSM București Women	1	1	0	0:29	2
4	Brest Bretagne Women	1	1	0	0:25	2
5	Sola Women	1	0	1	0:29	0
6	RK Krim Mercator Women	1	0	1	0:37	0
7	Borussia Dortmund Women	1	0	1	0:33	0
8	Budućnost Women	1	0	1	0:29	0