Because of the World Cup, BVB make surprise summer decision | OneFootball

After an unusually packed football calendar, Borussia Dortmund is drawing consequences for the summer. For the first time in years, BVB will forgo a training camp and instead opt for a gentler pre-season preparation.

Borussia Dortmund is fundamentally restructuring its preparations for the 2026/27 season. As reported by Ruhr Nachrichten, BVB will skip a traditional summer training camp for the first time in many years. Instead of traveling abroad as usual, most of the sporting preparation is set to take place at the club’s training center in Dortmund-Brackel.

The main reason for this unusual step is the extremely congested schedule. The upcoming World Cup means that numerous BVB professionals will hardly have any time to recover. Many internationals will not return from the tournament until mid to late July – in the most extreme case, directly after the final. Internally, the plan is therefore to grant these players several weeks off afterward, which further complicates preparations.

BVB Asia trip: marketing tour instead of traditional preparation

At the same time, the club still has an international trip on the agenda: Dortmund will embark on a marketing tour of Asia at the end of July. Friendly matches are planned in Tokyo and Osaka, but the clear focus is on global brand presence rather than fine-tuning on the sporting side. Whether all World Cup participants will be able to take part will depend largely on how far their national teams progress and the recovery periods that follow.

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For players not involved in the World Cup, however, this results in an unusually long summer break of nearly two months. According to information from Ruhr Nachrichten, the club had originally considered bridging this period with additional training sessions or friendly matches, but later abandoned those plans.

Overall, the pre-season presents BVB with major organizational challenges. Those in charge around head coach Niko Kovac are therefore deliberately opting for reduced travel in order to keep the strain on the players as low as possible. The new Bundesliga season begins at the end of August, with the first round of the DFB-Pokal already taking place a week earlier.

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