What is Borussia Mönchengladbach?
{{Infobox Football club |clubname=Borussia Mönchengladbach |current= |fullname=Borussia VfL 1900<br />Mönchengladbach e.V. |nickname= |founded=1900 |ground=[[Borussia-Park]],<br />[[Mönchengladbach]] |capacity=54,067 |chairman=[[Rolf Königs]] |manager=[[Lucien Favre]] |captain= Filip Daems |league=[[German Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] |season=[[German Bundesliga 2010/11|2010/11]] |position=[[German Bundesliga|Bundesliga]], 16th }} '''Borussia V.f.L. 1900 Mönchengladbach''' is a [[Association football|football]] club which plays in the [[German Bundesliga]]. Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 40,000 members and is the sixth largest club in Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.borussia.de/wir-sind-borussia-herzlich-willkommen.html|title=Wir sind Borussia. Herzlich willkommen. - Borussia Mönchengladbach|website=www.borussia.de|access-date=2019-02-13|archive-date=2020-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330171036/http://www.borussia.de/de/dietmar_danner,115870,0.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==History== ===Early History=== [[File:Borussia Mönchengladbach 1900 ad018d2313.jpg|thumb|The players in 1900]]The club was founded in 1900 by players from the football club SV Germania. The name Borussia is the Latin form of Prussia. Mönchengladbach was at this time part of Prussia. In 1914 the club bought an area where later the Bökelbergstadion was built. The first success was the Westdeutsche Meisterschaft in 1920. During the time of the Third Reich Heinz Ditgens became the first Borussia player who played for Germany. He was part of the 1936 Olympic team. Till the beginning of the 1960s the club had many up and downs. ===1960 till today=== The first important honour was the win of the German Cup in 1960 when they beat Karlsruher SC 3:2. But their results were not good enough to play in the new German Bundesliga. In the 1965/66 season they played for the first time in the Bundesliga. The same year Bayern München was promoted. In the 1970s these two teams doninated the league. 1970s were the golden age of Borussia