Nmecha and Schlotterbeck added – all BVB World Cup scorers | OneFootball

With his goal for 1-0, Felix Nmecha not only laid the foundation for what ultimately became an effortless 7-1 opening win for the German national team at the 2026 World Cup. Like club teammate Nico Schlotterbeck shortly afterward, he also joins the list of World Cup goalscorers who scored these goals while playing for Borussia Dortmund. Here is the full overview.

Recently, the DFB team had struggled in their World Cup openers, with the well-known result of being eliminated as early as the group stage. This time, they were determined not to allow themselves another false start against an opponent rated as particularly weak like Curacao.

After just six minutes, Felix Nmecha – like Nico Schlotterbeck in Germany’s starting lineup – gave his team the lead. It was his second goal in a Germany shirt after his debut strike against Hungary in 2024, and at the same time his first goal at a World Cup. Curacao did manage to equalize at first, but once again it was a Borussia Dortmund player who restored Germany’s lead.

After a corner from Nathaniel Brown, Nico Schlotterbeck rose well to head the ball home for 2-1. For Schlotterbeck, it was actually his first goal for the national team altogether, and naturally also his first goal at a World Cup. In the end, the team pushed the score to 7-1 and in all likelihood should already have avoided another exit after the group stage.

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Siggi Held was the first BVB World Cup goalscorer in 1966

So there are two new additions to Borussia Dortmund’s surprisingly short list of World Cup goalscorers.

Before the Second World War, no BVB player took part in a World Cup for Germany. The first World Cup participant who was playing for BVB at the time was Heinrich Kwiatkowski in 1954, who even went on to win the World Cup title. However, this was only as a backup goalkeeper without making an appearance – and inevitably without scoring.

Siggi Held became BVB’s first World Cup goalscorer when he made it 1-0 after fifteen minutes in the opening group match against Switzerland in 1966. The final score was 5-0, laying the foundation for the team’s later run to the final. In the third group match against Spain, Lothar Emmerich also scored, again for 1-0, with the match ending 2-1, which meant a second BVB World Cup goalscorer had been found.

After that, it took almost 30 years for another BVB player to score at a World Cup, which also reflects BVB’s position in German football at the time. At times only a second-division side in the 1970s, the club only began moving back toward the top at the start of the 1990s.

From 2014 onward, the list also included players who took part in the World Cup for associations other than the DFB, beginning with Sokratis, who scored for Greece in 2014.

The complete list is therefore as follows:

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