Best season start for BVB in eight years – unbeaten run continues | OneFootball

The 1:0 victory over VfL Wolfsburg on Sunday evening was the third win in the fourth match for Borussia Dortmund in the still young Bundesliga season 2025/26. It was also the eighth consecutive home win against the Wolves. But even more important: The currently achieved 10 points represent the best season start in eight years for the notoriously weak Borussia in the first half of the season.

After the turbulent 3:3 draw at the start against FC St. Pauli, garnished with a red card for Filippo Mane and two late equalizers, the following three matches were won. The BVB did not really shine either in the 3:0 victory over 1. FC Union Berlin or in the 2:0 in Heidenheim, even the performance in the third consecutive win was seen by the press as nothing more than a "decent" performance.

Nevertheless, the BVB remains not only unbeaten this season, but even unbeaten in twelve consecutive matches across seasons. Of the last eight matches of the 204/25 season, Borussia Dortmund had won seven, only dropping points in the draw against FC Bayern Munich. With this final sprint, they managed to qualify for the Champions League at the last minute. Now the four matches of the new season are added and it can be stated that the BVB has been extremely difficult to defeat under Niko Kovac in recent months and currently not at all for a large part of the Bundesliga.

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Most successful BVB start since Peter Bosz

The three victories and one draw also represent the best start to a new season in eight years. After four matchdays, the BVB's yield in recent years looked like this:

A perfect start to the new season with four wins from the first four matches was last achieved by the BVB in the 2015/16 season, just as the Jürgen Klopp era had ended. His successor Thomas Tuchel was still 10 points behind the champions FC Bayern Munich at the end of the season.

Since 2017/18, the BVB had not achieved at least double-digit points after four matchdays. The coach of the Borussians at that time was Peter Bosz, who started brilliantly with the BVB, crashed just as quickly and had to leave again in December after taking office. In the end, the BVB finished fourth that season with 55 points under Peter Stöger as Bosz's successor, narrowly qualifying for the Champions League just like the previous season.

Now at BVB, hopes are high to shape the first half of the season more successfully based on the current yield than in recent years.

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